Franklin D. Roosevelt - Campaign Address

In Roosevelts Campaign Address, he speaks of the success and prosperity of how the current governement (1936) was doing and how well the economy was doing because of the strength of the government in society. He spoke of every facet of economy saying "Are you in industry? Industrial earnings, industrail profits are the highest in four, six, or even seven years! Bankruptcies are at a new low. Your Government takes some credit for that." He made sure that at every chance, the current government was seen as hero for leading the country out of such a horrible depression. He argued that high finance and people with the wealth in society were dangerous to the rest of the society because they aimed shape the society in a hierarchy with themselves sitting on the top. He also believed the group called "high finance" aimed to take the power of popular governement and discredit the work done by the government. He felt that huge corporations which had monopolies over buisnesses were stealing the wealth of the country and the government had to pump money back into the society for money to generate again. He believed that when it came down to it in this time the government was an almighty hero, while the wealthy were selfish enemies to the society as a whole.