Since then I have been called upon many times in public speeches to uphold our own economic system. and even defend our republican form of government. There is no question in the mind of anybody in these days of depression. unemployment. hardship. and suffering. but that there is something wrong in our own economic system. which fails to provide adequate security for American -wage earners. I believe for the last 40 years. since 1893. that our wage earners have been the best paid. the best housed. the best fed. the best clothed. and the most contented in the world. and if we let down our immigration barriers tens of millions of foreigners would try to come into this country of ours. but. at the same time. it must be apparent that there are abuses and evils in our own economic system which should be eliminated. My answer to all the charges made by communists. socialists. and pink intellectuals against our economic system as being oppressive to the workingmen and being full of abuses and injustices and our form of government corrupt and rotten. and democracy a failure. is that the American people still have that capacity. intelligence. and patriotism to solve all of their political and economic problems for the best interests of all Americans. as they have done in the past. and which we propose to do in the future. without the help of communism. socialism. or any form of foreign dictatorship. Nevertheless. we can not continue to be blind to the fact that millions of American wage earners are suffering today. due to the defects of our own economic system. and they win continue to suffer unless we make some modification and some necessary adjustments in our highpowered massproduction system.
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