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[Music] so [Music] in november you will elect the next president of the united states the next occupant of the white house the chief executive we choose for the next four years must be a man who like abraham lincoln believes a government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth based on promise and performance let's look at the roosevelt record a record which the new deal candidate offers for re-election extravagance drop restriction and unbalanced budget and the biggest next governor landon in his acceptance speech ably summed up that record judged by the things that make us a nation of families the new deal has fallen far short of success the proof of this is in the record their record shows that in 1933 the primary need was jobs for the unemployed the record shows that in 1936 the primary need is still jobs for the unemployed the time has come to stop this fumbling with recovery american initiative is not a commodity to be delivered in pound packages to a governmental bureau it's a vital force in the life of our nation and it must be free we must from incessant governmental intimidation and hostility we must be freed from excessive expenditures and crippling taxation we must be freed from the effects of an arbitrary and uncertain monetary policy and through a vigorous enforcement of antitrust laws we must be freed from private monopolistic control [Applause] the supreme effort of the new deal was the nra ushered in with blaring bands big parades and all the enthusiasm of war against an enemy [Music] yet the nra at its best was the greatest monopoly the world has ever seen a monopoly which reached out and crushed many a small businessman in the talons of the blue eagle for the blue eagle turned out to be the predatory vulture of the new deal [Music] another typical new deal policy is that which affected our great textile industry it was a policy which opened american markets to a flood of cheap foreign goods goods made by cooley prison and child labor it enabled aliens reaching across the seas with an invisible hand to close the gates of american mills president gardner of the nationa mills expressed the employer's view when american wage levels are brought into competition with the japanese wage schedule unemployment follows for the american workers and now a textile worker i think that we fellow workers ought to stick together and if we make american goods will we ought to buy americans congresswoman rogers urges a fight against ruin caused by the new deal you're fighting for a great cause manufacturers daily are closing their nails they are ruined by japanese competition plus the processing tax if the president does not act he has the power to act congress must act we must save work for 11 million people in the cotton industry they have a right to demand it we must keep people from the relief role they need work women i appeal to you to help keep our ruinous japanese competition we're going to win our fight help us do it half of these articles were made in japan they look and are cheaper than american made goods they were made by workers earning 20 cents a day american workers cannot compete with such cheap labor four years should have proved this even to the new deal [Music] not content with interfering with industry the new deal turned its attention to the farmer through the aaa it began its program of scarcity of destruction the destruction of livestock and crops never before in human history had a government encouraged its people to destroy prospective surpluses to place themselves at the mercy of the elements [Music] chicago's teaming stockyards were emptied by a new deal shortage created to force housewives to pay higher prices for food millions of pigs were destroyed under the aaa making the cost of pork and bacon almost prohibited every housewife knows that the cost of living under the new deal has increased 18 the new deal offers the american housewife only one choice at market pay more or let your family go hungry secretary of agriculture wallace and his assistant under secretary rex for tugwell the men responsible for the farm policy are typical new deal officials having failed in their attempt to dictate to nature they now are busy blaming it for the failure of their plans drought has become their alibi for the disaster which has overtaken our farmers and our nation yet the new deal encouraged the disuse of more and more land lying idle this land became more than ever the plaything of the winds the dust storms which rob it of life-giving soil reaching the doctrine of abandonment the agricultural advisors of the new deal urged families whose fathers rested a living from the great plains to give up their homes to move away leaving behind them a great american desert and to top it off the new deal while preaching scarcity at home opened wide the gates to imports from abroad under the new deal america for the first time became dependent on foreign countries for an important part of her food supply the american market was delivered to aliens by an administration which paid american farmers to curtail their own crops wheat once america's golden grain has become an import crop instead of furnishing income to our own farmers foreign nations under agreements made with the new deal are pouring millions of bushels of grain into the united states into a market from which american farmers have been barred by their own government through crop restrictions no less serious is the foreign competition in our dairy industry a competition in which the new deal favors the foreigner against the american farmer canadian trade agreements alone are pouring into this country a flood of dairy products that spell ruin for many american dairy farms [Music] what a contrast to governor landon's policy taking care of american farmers first our farmers our farmers are entitled to all of the whole market they can supply without injustice to the consumer we propose we propose a policy that protects them in this right but the new deals program of scarcity does not apply to the spending of billions it expanded established agencies created bureaus on bureaus commissions on commissions exhausting the alphabet to create jobs for new deal job seekers [Music] our government expenses instead of being reduced 25 percent have been increased 72 percent an endless stream of checks has poured out of washington to pay for the new deal follies they even have a machine down in washington now so they can turn out checks and job lots and save the officials writers cram the money behind the checks is your money paid by you in taxes in everything you buy and the only thing the new deal has been able to figure out is ways of spending it faster farley ising the nation the new deal proved the sky was the limit when it came to mixing politics and pilots relentless prosecution of air mail contracts forced army pilots to fly the mail over unfamiliar routes the result was tragedy the loss of 13 lives the administration not only played politics with pilots lives it played politics with human misery and here is the proof signed by a new dealer [Music] governor landon striking at the very heart of the problem gives the american view we we would consider it base beyond words to make loyalty or service to party a condition upon which the needy unemployed might obtain help those who use public funds to build their political machines forfeit all right to political considerations from true americans [Applause] and let me emphasize this while we propose to follow a policy of economy and government expenditures those who need relief will get it we will not take our economies out of the allotments to the unemployed we will take them out of the hides of the political exploiters [Applause] boondoggling has become the new deal past time and here are a few of the things you paid for in four years an expensive monkey house in arkansas erected with all the comforts of home [Music] a 19 000 dog house in memphis with all the latest luxuries for canine boondoglers including some shower baths relief going to the dogs and the dogs are expected to enjoy their baths as much as these [Music] more than a million for dramatics and dancing with the taxpayers paying the piper [Music] and seventeen thousand dollars was allotted in yonkers new york to do away with ragweed near a dog house perhaps so the dogs wouldn't get hay fever why the projects include everything from the love life of a cow to the sex life of a bullfrog they even counted lamp posts in one city [Music] and last but not least come those two biggest boondoggles from maine to vladimir this is the passo macquarie project in maine on which five million dollars was spent before congress made it the forgotten village of 1936 even a new deal congress wouldn't vote more funds for this project despite the snapping of the executive whip [Music] while down in florida after months of work the florida canal left a huge gash cutting the state in two more than five million dollars were poured into the big ditch before it was abandoned [Music] what can america do to end the wasteful reign of the boondoglers colonel frank knox republican candidate for vice president points the way i charge the present administration with delaying recovery in the united states and in the world i charge the present administration with responsibility for the 10 million still unemployed the president has recently told the american people that they have a rendezvous with destiny as i understand the terms a rendezvous is a date what is this rendezvous under present conditions the most likely ron deville is with a receiver for the treasury [Applause] so people know that with the election of a new administration next november the damned up forces of recovery will burst forth in a magnificent prosperity as governor l smith has expressed it the american people do not want a dictator not even if they could get a good one the american people want recovery not rhetoric they want economy not waste they want work not relief they want cooperation among the partners in production not industrial strife they want order in economic life not an occasional breathing spell they want dignity and government not a merry-go-round which way shall we go the answer is in your hands i know what it'll be next november you will choose the american way at this coming election america stands at the crossroads it is the greatest crisis in our history since another republican abraham lincoln saved the union our representative government is based on three pillars congress in which the new dealers have abdicated to roosevelt [Music] the chief executive in the white house and the supreme court of the united states the citadel of liberty as guardian of the constitution it has ruled out eight of ten major new deal measures keystones of the attempt to change our form of government [Music] in spite of these adverse decisions the president sworn to preserve protect and defend the constitution wrote the new deal has misled millions like termites new deal parasites bore from within to curtail our liberties [Music] the new deal has even mortgaged the future it is spending billions today with a promise to pay tomorrow the promise of men who have broken every promise on money they made in 1932 they promised a sound currency to be preserved at all hazards your children your children's children the future of every baby now playing in an american home is handicapped by new deal dance upon youth the new deal has laid the heavy hand of debt driving many from home [Music] the republican party the party of lincoln the great emancipator today offers governor alfred landon as a leader of the people and for the people he is a typical american a family man whose interests like yours and mine are centered in the home who seeks to provide a better america for us and our children he has promised you a return to constitutional government with full opportunity for life liberty and the pursuit of happiness his word is his bond he keeps his promises landon's presidential campaign special has been received with tremendous enthusiasm at every stop ovations that prove the american people are looking to landon to free them from the burden of the new deal such receptions indicate the rising tide of sentiment throughout the nation for the candidate he is winning country and city alike by his campaign to restore the government to the american people in nebraska he lashed new deal spending there are many things that we want government to do there are many things that government should do but i believe that a man can be a liberal without being a spencer in iowa landon urges the voters to inform themselves on the issues i hope the people are going to read the magazines in the newspapers and listen to the political addresses on the radios as they have never done before and then go and vote as true americans that they all are [Applause] at his birthplace west middlesex pennsylvania landon proves a hero to his old hometown here he's leaving church with his great aunt at buffalo new york in his wind-up speech of his first campaign swing governor landon assailed the new deal tax bill on corporation surpluses as having the following effect it is making harder and harder the re-employment of many of those at present out of work and it is jeopardizing the job of every man and woman who today is working for a business corporation this is the most cockeyed piece of tax legislation ever imposed in a modern country [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] if you want a real recovery if you want industry to expand if you want to see the sparks fly again forging a greater america if you want jobs not relief if you want to see more men marching happily back to work if you want real wages not a dole if you want to see america again lead the world in progress and prosperity restoring our country to its rightful place is the greatest republic the world has ever known vote for the champions of true americanism landon and not [Music] you