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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nWhen I talk to you here today about Republicans, I am talking about\nthe party that gets most of its campaign funds from Wall Street. I am\ntalking to you about the party that gave us the phony boom of the\n1920's and the Hoover depression that followed. I am talking to\nyou about the party that gave us the Republican Eightieth Congress.\nThe Republican Party today is controlled by silent and cunning\nmen who have a dangerous lust for power and privilege. These men\nare now reaching out for control of the country and its resources.\nIt is your votes which will decide whether or not they have their.\nway. That is why I have come here today.\nI want you to know the facts.\nI repeat: The most reactionary elements in the country today\nare backing the Republican Party in its effort to take over your.\ngovernment on election day.\nIf they succeed, I predict that they will try to turn back the\nclock to the day when the West was an economic colony of Wall\nStreet.\nOn election day this year, your choice will not be merely between\npolitical parties. You will be choosing a way of life for the years\nahead. This is a fateful election. On it will depend your standard\nof living and the economic independence of your community.\nYou can choose to be governed by Republican puppets of big\nbusiness--the same breed that gave you the worst depression in our\nhistory.\nOr you can choose to be go verned by Democratic servants of\nthe people, who are pledged to work for the increasing welfare of\nthe people.\nSome of you may feel that I am attacking the leaders of the\nRepublican Party pretty sharply. I am. I have good reasons for it--\nreasons like the obstacles placed in the way of conservation of our\nnatural resources; reasons like the housing conditions in this\ncountry; reasons like the high cost of living; reasons that are\nclose to your hearts, and to mine.\nYou people out here have been thinking about these problems.\nYou have a right to know what your Government is going to do about\nthem.\nLet's go into them. Let's see where the Republicans stand on\nthese vital issues, and where the Democratic Party stands.\nWe all know that the housing situation in this country is a\nnational disgrace. It is almost unbelievable that we should have\nmade SO little progress in providing decent housing conditions for\nmillions of American families.\nFrom the first day of the Republican Eightieth Congress,\nthere was a housing bill before it which would meet the problem.\nThat bill was a full-scale program to provide housing for all our\npeople and not just for those who can pay high prices. But the\nRepublicans refused to act.\nThe situation became more and more desperate. Veterans' groups,\nlabor groups, mayors of cities, governors of states, pleaded with the\nRepublicans to pass the housing bill. They still did nothing.\nThe Republican stand on housing was clearly exposed last July,\nwhen I called the Congress into special session and demanded again\nthat they enact housing legislation. The bill was ready. It had\nbeen studied and discussed a thousand times. It was supposed to be\nnon-partisan."
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