The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 22, 1928, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE An Appeal for Fair Play! By H. C. Hansbrough © To My North Dakota Friends:-- The Fargo Forum has refused to publish a letter of mine answering their vicious uncalled for and unfair attacks on me; they have refused to allow me advertising space in which to reply; therefore I am compelled to take ad- vertising space in other papers to reply to an attack in the Fargo Forum. What sort of a newspaper is it that will attack a man behind the protection of a newspaper monopoly and then will not give him an opportunity to reply, even when he is willing to pay for the space? The Forum is supporting Hoover! They do not want his record known. The reason is clear. If you know the record of Herbert Hoover, Smith will carry this state. Save the Presidency, a national necessity, Carry North Dakota for Smith. Save the farmers and the farms! To the Editor of the Fargo (N. D.) Forum: I am wondering if you have ever examined ‘the official record in regard to Mr. Hoover and wheat during as well as after the war. I fear you have not done so, else you.would have refrained from making an attack upon me in your editorial of October 13th. } I therefore cite you to the Congressional Record of June 12, 1928, pages 11093-11103 inclusive, for statements out of his own mouth and the dates thereof. Lest your time is too great- ly taken up in trying to elect Mr. Hoover to the: Presidency, I herewith ask you to read a synopsis of the matter in question. On May 8, 1917, when wheat was selling on the open mar- ket in this country at $3 a bushel, he testified before a Senate Committee as follows: ' “We would say to the elevators, we want you to pay $1.50 for this wheat; that the Government through the banks or otherwise will arrange to loan to you the money to pay that $1.50 a bushel and thereby relieve you of the necessity of going to the Chicago option market to protect yourselves.” Later in the month of May, i917, when fourteen grain dealers of St. Louis wired him as to the price his London Wheat Export company would pay for a large consignment of wheat, he answered: “Am advised from New York the company will take some wheat at $1.80 St. Louis and $1.75 Kansas City.” So determined was Mr. Hoover to fix an unchangeable price for wheat below the open market price that he appealed to Presi- dent Wilson asking authority to keep the price down. In his letter to the President he said on July 11, 1917: “I might point out to you that if any of you gen- tlemen (the Wilson cabinet) or myself had the single buying agency with a four months supply of wheat be- hind us. . . we could probably drop the price of wheat in this country to 75 cents a bushel.” It was this act of Mr. Hoover that served to alarm the Wil- son administration. So at once the President formed a strat- egy board of farm experts with a view to arriving at a mini- mum price, leaving open a higher demand price in the interest of the producer. Hence it was that the board recommended the basic minimum price of $2.20 a bushel, afterward adopted by Congress. : Mr. Hoover did not desist in the program of the London company; he wanted a fixed low price guaranteed by the Gov- ernment, but the law compelled him now to recognize $2.20 as the MINIMUM price. True to his British training of twenty- three years he was still an imperialist, and it was then that he set out by devious methods to make $2.20 the MAXIMUM price. To this end he called a meeting of a few big grain dealers at Washington who agreed with him. Thus, by the deliberate mis- use of the licensing clause of the food law, Mr. Hoover sic- ceeded in putting his plan over by making $2.20 a- bushel the Hear Senator Hansbrough in radio evening, Oct. 24, 6:30 P. m. October 18; 1928. fixed MAXIMUM instead of the MINIMUM price ‘established’ by law. For this he should have been sent back to London where he is popular. ; But the crowning act of Mr. Hoover’ as the “friend of the American farmer” was after the war was over. On April 3, 1919, five months subsequent to the Armistice, he wired George N. Peek, a farm group leader; in part as follows: “There is sufficient food for all until next: har- vest, if ships are available to take two or three times as long a journey to the cheaper and more remote mar- kets than the United States. Further, the tendency of prices in the United States would be downward as a result of the competition of these remote markets.” ‘Now as to the matter of Hoover concessions in Latin- America and elsewhere, as charged in the monograph from which I quoted in my Minneapolis speech, I repeat that in the Ywammi, Moochang, Oroya, Lakeview and Star Mining Group, that Theodore Jesse Hoover has become chairman of the board of these properties in place of Herbert Hoover; that the inter- ests still remain in the Hoover family. That in Mexico Mr. Hoover was formerly a director in Santa Gertrudis, Ltd., a $10,- 000,000 English concern, and Camp Bird, Ltd., its parent, in which he was also a director, controls and operates through va- rious subsidiaries large gold and silver mining properties, in- cluding 600 acres in Hidalgo, 1,364 acres in Puebla and 733 acres in Zacatecas, Corroborative of my charges against Mr. Hoover as an un- fit candidate for the Presidency, there is new and conclusive evidence. For example, the following letter just received from a reputable citizen of Minnesota: Senator H. C. Hansbrough, West Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota. My dear Senator: : Agreeable to the talk we had at the Saturday Lunch Club I am glad to repeat in writing what I said there on the floor. I am an alumnus of the University of Min- nesota. I attended the several Alumni meetings held on the campus in June, 1928. On that occasion some 300 people were in attendance. The program committee of- fered a silver cup to the graduate who had come the greatest distance to attend the meeting. The prize was won by a mining engineer of the University of Minnesota class of 1917, Mr. Allen Calhoun. Mr. Calhoun was called upon for some remarks and said he came from Burma, India, where he was working 4n the largest silver and lead mine in the world. He said, “I am working for Mr. Hoover and I hope you will make him President of the United States.” T have been told that the mine is the Burma Consolidated and it employs 5 or 6 — thousand men. You will recall, Senator, that when I made the statement at the Saturday Lunch Club I asked if there was anyone present who also heard Mr. Calhoun make his remarks and that Carl W. Lewis said he was there, and he said that I had report- ed the matter correctly. Sincerely Yours, (Signed) C. H. CHALMERS, Chairman, Hennepin County Democratic Committee 1234 Central Avenue, N. E., Minneapolis, Minn. In conclusion, Mr. Eidtor, | advise you, for your own sake, to be careful about Mr. Raskob’s so-called “repudiation” of me, lest, having gotten your feet in the glue as to Hoover and. wheat, as you have, you may take the chance of getting in all _ over, body, boots and breeches. Also I am wondering if itis going. to be necessary for me to buy another page of the Forum in order to get the truth be- fore the people. In passing, permit me to say further that the attitude of thes Hoover pores amen is so Ease saat share 3 as ag to e a series 0: peeches. you le n. si H. CH HANSBROUGH Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 15, 1928. Minneapolis, Minnesota. z October 15, 1928. ‘ oe OTE: The above was sent to the Forum. It declined to publish’ *printed another editorial, October 17th, assailing me. . I then asked space in its columns in which to justify my position. Its _ space for that purpose. Hence the appearance of my reply in other papers. H. C. HANSBROUGH (Paid Political Advertisement) MONDAY. 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