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will of the American people. Roosevelt represents in his own person the accomplishment of these things by the Democratic party in the State of New York over a period of years - more years than he, himself, has been Governor. What the Democrats have done, what Roosevelt endorses, what Roosevelt will do in the United States is ....” Then I ran through the roster of tenement house laws, widows' pensions, abolition of child labor, the regulation of the hours of labor of women in factories, workmen's compensation laws and their amendment to include industrial diseases, factory inspection, public employment offices and their honorable conduct, and so forth and so on.

Then I went into the new problem - rather, not new, but newly-recognized by the state - of unemployment and how to deal with it. I went into the items that Roosevelt had proposed to correct it and that could be done. This was the first time that I had ever used the word “security,” but I remember saying, “What the people of the United States want is security - security of life; security of opportunity to earn a living; security to plan their lives,” and so forth. I got wild, thrilled applause. I think I didn't speak more than fifteen minutes, because I tried to keep it short. I got interrupted by applause at a great many items. I got wild applause, cheers, so on and so forth at