So what do Economic Royalists look like? Do they where capes and masks? Or is it, the suit of Respectability and Credibility that they are more likely to don. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny for freedom, not subjection and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike. In their blindness they forget what the Flag and the Constitution stand for.
In vain they seek to hide behind the Flag and the Constitution. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. T he election of 1932 was the people's mandate to end it. The collapse of 1929 showed up the despotism for what it was.
FDR WELL I POKE TO HIRI FREE
For too many of us life was no longer free liberty no longer real men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.Īgainst economic tyranny such as this, the American citizen could appeal only to the organized power of Government.
A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor-other people's lives. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction.įor too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over Government itself. Even honest and progressive-minded men of wealth, aware of their obligation to their generation, could never know just where they fitted into this dynastic scheme of things. They were no more free than the worker or the farmer.
There was no place among this royalty for our many thousands of small business men and merchants who sought to make a worthy use of the American system of initiative and profit. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital-all undreamed of by the fathers- the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. What is FDR talking about? Who are the Kings and Queens of our Economy?ĭemocratic National Convention (June 27, 1936)įor out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. Huh, Royalists? we have no "Royalty" in America, unless you count Celebrities and Sports Stars.
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