Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1928, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, AUGUST Q¢ 23, 1908 > Do e Text of Gov. Smith’s Sp _— | Charges G. 0.P. With Class Control. and the indi- man. The « 1 economy is as ba hat_gencral business pros s and that it can exist onl or Republican administration When ' the Republican party came into power in 1921 it definitely prom- ation o he machinery nent and abolition or col unnecessary and overlap- A committce was ap- It prepared a The pian was 1t remains s of Republican structure of Government is was in 1921, It is fully tne system which existed | New York State before we secured ! constitutionai amendment e which ¢ ore thar es, conn d board each respc contrast with control the wage earner Lih(‘rl‘\- Me vidual Freedom. He Tells Throng. - dent acted as chairman. plan of rearganization filed in fhe archives e, & ves worse thir as bad as o5 vears st came Government to contin pendent to o £3.400,000 vidual law Wit %ords, and ses of bar it Chamb: mseives witl ad the d s n mad n of the Gover s advocated by the cham ministration spokesm ‘We have given an e istration,’ that has been_repeated so of hat some peo- to_ believe without ~ the proof. I assert that there is € nent’s de become convinced that that it cannot "It is governm against the people A sharp line lieve that a special ob; cern and governmer of the peopl the people > proot. d conception Points to Increase in Federal Appropriations. s exist epara ect class should be the of the X who appropriation bilis the United President of TR adménistration. The for Executive _de the President and Vice ¢ increased more than 10 under President Coolidge. gures for expenditure as dis- from appropriations tell the Aside from interest on the which has been reduced b; of bonds or by refinanct interest rate, the actual ex- for government: activities r end 1928 50 more than in first year defenders of the administra- answer that taxes have been re- find themselves in a,similar The total taxes collected are X r2 than in the first year the ‘Coolidge administration. While d servant Dominant today is the element which procl raent itsel z the political theorie resident ent v element of benevo- that a mate- existence of excuse for It makes the con- | at, not people, but It ass the lent oligarchy. rial prosperity S nditures during the political inequality cern of the governm material things Cites Record I the Against Reaction. tio “I have fought this spirit in my own | d tate. 1 have had tp fight it and t beat it in order to place upon statute books every o sive, humane laws for whose enactment | 1aX rates have been reduced and some I assumed responsibility in my legisla- | war-u e taxes abandoned, the Govern- tive and g@eculive carcer. I s ] know | ment actually took from the p«oplv»ln how to fight it in the Nation | income taxes $383,000,000 more during “It is a fallacy that there is incon- the last fiscal year than during the first sistency between progressive measures | year of the Coolidg adminitstration protecting the rights of the people, ir n these reductions in tax rates | cluding the poor and the weak, and a And even the have been brought about primarily be- just regard for the rights of legitimate | cause business, great Therefore, | ted t the administration has commit- or small ¢ Government to appropriations while I emphasize my belief that legiti- | 2uthorized, but not made. amounting mate business promotes the national | approximately to one billion dollars, welfare, let me warn the forces of cor-| Which is an obligation that is being ruption and favoritism that Democratic passed on to succeeding administra- victory means that they will be rele- tions. I wish to focus the public atten- | gated to the rear and the front seats | tion on these fundamental facts and will be occupied by the friends of equal | figures when it is fed with picturesque epportunity. { trifles about petty economies, such as Likewise, Government policy should ~eliminating stripes from mail bags and spring from the deliberate action of an ; extinguishing electric lights in the| formed electorate. Of ail men, I|offices at night | have reason to believe that the people “With this has gone a governmental | can and Jo grasp the problems of the | Dolicy of refusal to make necessary ex- Government. Against the opposition of | penditures for purposes which would | the self-seeker and the partisan, again | have eflected a real economy. The and again I have seen legislation won | Postmaster General states that there by the pressure of popular demand, | Was a large annual waste in the hand- exerted after the people had had an of mail, resulting from lack of mod- honest, frank and complete explanation and equipment. Scarcely of the issues. Great questions of & larg the country has adequate nance, the issuance of millions of | quarters for the transaction of Federal oliars of bonds for public projects, the | busin The Government pays rent | complete reconstruction of the machin- | in the city of Washington alone of more | erv of the State governm than one million dollars annually, It tution of an executive b the Government is are but a few of the complicated ques- itals of twenty million dollars tions which I myself have at Trus economy would electorate. Every cit be effected erection of Federal Jearned the nature of buildings, espe in the numerous hand and appreciated that the State’s tances where sites acquired many business is his busines ago have been left vacant because ministretion did not desire to | hat direct contact with the ad, stion, ire I propose to continue in this campaign. | flave these expenditures appear in the g budget. It is not economy to retuse to $346.000,00 President Coolidge’ | the il | our people. anded the undated of its members b appointment Would Restore | Commission to Control. “I shall restore this commission to the high level upon which President | Wilson place in order that, proper | manned. it may produce the facts that will enable us o ascertain how we may | increase the purchasing power of every- | body’s income or wages by the adjust- | ment of tho | the result of lo their face are necessary “Pay no attention to the Republican paganda, and accept my assurance leader of our party. that Demo- | cratic tariff legislation will be honest |1t will play no favorites. It will do | justice to every element in the Nation “The Constitution provides that treaties with foreign powers must ratified by a vote of two-thirds of th Senate. This is a legal recognition of {the truth that in our foreign relations | we must rise above party policies and act as a united Nation. Any foreign extortionate and un- approval of a very large majority of ‘Therefore, no ice was ever rendered by a than by Woodrow Wilson when he struck at the methods of sacret diplo- macy. Today we have close relations vital to our commercial standing, with every other nation, I regard it, therefore, as a paramount duty to Keep alive the interest of our people in these questions, and to advise the electorate as to facts and policles. Through a long line of distinguished Secretaries of State, Republican and Democratic alike, this country had as- sumed a position of world leadership in the endeavor to outlaw war and substi- tute reason for force. At the end of President Wilson's administration we enjoyed not only the friendship but the respectful admiration of the peoples of the world. Today we see unmistakable idences of a widespread distrust of us and unfriendiiness to us, particu- bors “I especially stress the necessity for the restoration of cordial relations with Latin America, and I take my text from a great Republican Sccretary of Elibu Root, who said: ‘Wc consider that the independence and equal rights of the smallest end weak- ber of the famlly of nations ve as much respect as those of greal empires. We pretend to no privilege or power that we do eely concede to each one of the f T am elected, in the conduct of e spend money and to have our soldiers the Nation's affairs S strive to make the Nation's living in barracks which the chief of | true reflection of staff of the Army recently stated were | Because I believe in indec and below the standard for party of Jefferson, C the meanest type of housing permitted 2on. my administration anywhere, And the wise, properly | in liberty under the law—iiberty that | limed construction of needed public im- | means freedom to the individual 1o, provements v substantially tend follow his own will so long as he does | of unemployment not harm his nelghbor; the same high Promises Reorganizatio pose in our conduct as a Na- | of Gevernment Activities, actustes the conduct of the | ugr she people con and woman; t t. 1 sh tunity which lays the | o &' holesome fami solidation 1p the outlook the bet- | I 08208 es of our children, g expend; the relief m of eland and W be rooted to mission me to do 1 the aid of the Congre eorganization and con- governmental activities basix and institute the 1 comes from prudent hall aid programs for of unemployment, recogniz- man and soc real 1 Places Dishonesty Biame on Republicans. h That pr -5 L0 carr e tariff declaration of our plat- To be sure, the Republican party attempt in the campaign to mis- nt Democratic attitude to the The Democratie party does not der my leadership will not, ad- udden or drastic o~ which paign partiall Americ ican republics. Hits Present Policy in Nicaraguan Affairs. The present acministration has been false 10 that declaration of one of its greatest party leaders. The situation in Nicaragua fairly exemplifies our de parture from this high standard. The administration has intervened in an | election dispute between two conflicting factions, sent our troops into Nica- ragua, maintained them there for years and this without the consent of Con- gress. To settle this internal dispute our Marines have died and of Nicaraguan by our Mari with Congre Without consul the administration tered on this long continued occupa- tion of the territory of & supposedly ndly nation by our armed troop “To 1o declaration of dur platform do I more heartily commit myself than the for the abolition of the pr t the President of entering agreements for the settlement | ternal disputes in Latin American coun- the agreements have by the Senate, as prov Constitution of the United personally declare what 1 declares. Interference in the nternal affalrs of Latin Ameri- can countiies must cease’ and 1 spe- {eiheally pledge myself to follow this declaration with regard to Mexico as be | policy must have its roots deep in the | and world | larly among our Latin American neigh- | hundreds | in turn 'have been killed | in Latin reason for it constitute other imperialistic | which { justify | threaten lessen otherwise Ues the America and this speciou: he basis upon m to policies _ which and materially which ht Itilateral trea- coun world peace effectivene in Removal of Cau |of War Held Necessary “The re: schedules which are now | rolling and which upon | : | DON | tion has signally failed | milita people of | peace and | dom from American however { behave to decent fri self-respec | “In1921 or the li |of battles | more than | without pa | process of | the ‘ staggering | them formation For seven istration has followed effective. upon land sels of war | ment, other mac the destruy to .assume of which t cal alliancs ubstitute | terminatiol “The Pr has two ¢ bodied in one hand the people faithfully dent of th best of my abllity preserve al outlaw from a more substa toilling masses of millions of dollars that are v every into engines of destruction. | poisonous conferenc » spect to prohibition. hand reaching up to Heaven ¢ of this country that y of war must come endeavor to re- war, and in this Republican _administra- I am neither nor jingo. 1 believe that the this’ country wish to live in amity with the world, Free- entangling alilances is a fixed policy. It does not mean hat gre one another with the endliness and fair play ting men and women the n ame that show to one another ther d a treaty mitation of the co: fon hips ant battle cruisets of 10.000 tons. It was approved arty dispute as a start of the removing from the backs of the world the the hundreds of ung from wasteful trans- Wwas neg ¢ burden of year for years the Republican admin- it with nothing No limitation has b armaments, submar ves- of under 10,000 tons displace- gases or any of the chinery devised by man for ction of human life their fair share of responsi- | bility for the administration of a world hey are a part without politi- e with any foreign nation. 1 pledge myself to a resumption of a real endeavor to make the outlawry of wa effective by removing its causes and to conciliation, | arbitration and judicial de- | ihe methods of 0. esident of the United St onstitutional_duties with The first is em- his oath of office. If, with on the Bible and the other I promise 1 will of Presi- and to the protect and ates office States execute the he United t nations should not | n placed | In this | respect our diplomacy has been futile “I believe the American people desire | re- 1 1 \ | t 1 l resident, at the Assembly chamber of the State Capitol, at Albany, N. Y. P, and A. Photo. | zreat; widespread country. They at in rural, sparsely settled districts | people would' develop different desires and customs from those in densely pop- ulated sectior !be a nation united on mat there had to be tion in local laws to allow local habits the Democratic platform in 1884 an- nced: ‘We oppose sumptuary laws which vex the citizens and interfere { with individual liberty, | this reason_that toed the Volstead act In accordance with this Democratic principle come from an amendment th 1o truly national a dif for different to the Vol- ew | and and that if we were to|to Main street nta- | his trade. and it was for | G Woodrow Wilson ve- | ecbnomic body some immediate relief would | no | unquestionable public interest.’ The country is an economic whole. If the buying power of agriculture is im- paired, the farmer makes fewer trips The shop owner suf- fers because he has lost a large part of The manufacturer who sup- plies him likewise suffers, as does the It was for this reason that | Wage-earner, because the manufacturer is compelled to curtail his production And the banker cannot collect his debts or safely extend further credit. This ntry cannot be a healthy, strong if one of its members, s0 fundamentally important as agricul- ture, is sick almost to the point of eco- death The normal market among the stead law giving a scientific definition | farmers of this country for the products |of the alcoholic content of an intoxi- cating beve e | 1s_admittedly inaccurate | tific. | to fix its own standard of alcoholic con- | tent, subject always to the proviso that that standard could not exceed t | maximum fixed by the Congress 1 believe, more that there should | be submitted to the people the ques- tlon of some change in the provisions of the eighteenth amendment. Cer ainly no one foresaw when the amend- ment was ratified the conditions which exist today of bootlegging, corruption and open violation of the law in all {parts of the country “The people themselves should, after | this eight vears of trial, be permitted |to say whether existing conditions should be rectified “I personally belleve ment in the pd unscie | | | | | | in an amend- eighteenth amendment which would give to each individu | | State itself, only after approval by | & referendum popular vote of its people. | the right wholly within its borders to | import, manufacture or cause to be | manufactured and sell alcoholic bever- { ages, the sale to be made only by the | State itself and not for consumption in | any public place “We may well learn from the experi- |ence of other nations. neighbors have gone far in this manner o solve this problem by thie method of {sale made by the state itself and not by private individuals, There is no question here of the | return_of loon. When I stated | that the saloon and ought to be a | defunct institution in this country' I meant it I mean it today. er advocate nor approve any which directly | return of the saloon | Would Preserve | Jaw defend the Constitution of the United | Benefit of Federal Laws. States,' Itve up to I shall | pledge honest ol sions of t all laws en laws whether 1 corruption which cau hibition three-four political laws, and | political pork burrel stamp out will not extst presided ov “The se posed upon the mend 1o the he ent squarely @ parties called shall we you o endeavor eenth amendment administrator ward ticlans without regard to Clvil & Opinion 1 shall degree ute the may be t that oath to the la: the very limit ex our platform ‘to make an to enforce thy and all othe 1 C su provi- mstitution and thereto,” he Feder acted pul likes them not. The in enforcement activities sed a former Republican pro- o state that dry agents were named by poli ervice e or of the heelers ths that prohibition is the I will ruthle Such conditions cannot and under any administration er by me. cond constitutional du President 15 ‘to ris Congress such measures as judge necessary and expedi- upon prohibition _cuts cross the two great political There are thousands of so ts and drys' in each. The cight- | new | iy | Stch change would preserve for the dry a crime. It would preserve for the dry ‘The present. definition | port market, - | able figures Each State would then be allowed | tural of industry is $10,000,000,000. Our ex- according to latest aval is, exclusive of agricul products, ‘approximately $1,600,- 000,000. These large figures furnish striking indication of the serious blow to national prospegity as a whole which is struck when the buying power of the farmer is paralyzed “When, therefore, I say that I am in accord with our platform declaration that the solution of this problem must be a prime and immediate concern of | the Democratic administration I make | 1 ‘will | done | economic tates the benefit of a national | of the flow law that would continue to make inter- | through the banking system, it ate shipment of intoxicating beverages | Jogic, bad economics and an a | States Federal enforcement of prohibi- | | tion within their own borders | permit o citizens of other It would States & within the borders of those out the old evil of the saloon Such s method would re-establish | respect for law and terminate the agi- | tation which has injected discord into [ the ranks of the great political parties, which should be standing for the ac- complishment of fundamental programs for the Nation. - I may fairly say, even to those who disagree with me, that the olution 1 offer is one based upon the historic policy of the Democratie party to assure to each State its completc tight of local self-government, 1 be- ates with- | President docs not make the | carefully limited and controlled method | - He does his best to execute them |of effectuating the popular will wholly | Presents No Substitute. Our Canadian | Which no class appeal. I am stating a propo- sition as vital to the welfare of busi- ness as of agriculture “With the exception of the adminis trations of Cleveland and Wilson, the Government of this country has been in Republican hands for half a_cen- tury. For nearly eight years the Presi- dent and Congress have been Republi- | can. What has been done to solve this problem? Many promises were made which have never been fulfilled. Ce tainly the promise of relief by tariff has not been fulfilled. “The tariff is ineffective on commo- dities of which there is exportable sur plus without controlled sale of the sur- plus. Our platform points the way to make the tariff effective for crops of we produce a surplus. There has been Government interference with Iaws of supply and demand to benefit industry, commerce and finance. It has been one-sided, because business industry and finance would have been helped more if proper attention had been given to the condition of agricul- ture. Nothing of substance has been to bring this basic part of national life into conformity with the or indirectly permits the | economic system that has been set up | by law. Government should interfere as little as possible with business. Bui if it does interfere with one phase of life, be it by tariff, by as- sistance to merchant marine, by ¢ of money and capi is andon- ment of Government responsibility to say that as to agriculture alone the overnment should not aid. olds Administration Twice a Republican Congress has passed legislation only to have it ve- toed by a President of their own party, and whether the veto of that specific measure was right or wrong it disputed that no adequate substitute was ever recommended to the Congress by the President and that no construe- tive plan of relief was ever formulated by any leader of the Republican party in place of the plan which its Congre passed and its President vetoed. Only caustic criticlsm and bitter denuncia- tion we leaders in to answer the be offered by Jefferson, or Jackson, or | Nation:wide appeal for a sane endeavor | Cleveland, or Wilson, 1f those [ Jeaders were with us “Publicity agents | administration ha great of the written ° S0 many platform of my party is silent upon any | articles on our general prosperity that question o sonally be change, # gress in tional duty ‘necess be for ary the t change in the lay. 1 per- lieve that there should be nd I shall advise the Con ccordance with my constitu- 1 derm will resentis v of whatever changes or expedient” It people und the 1o then | | they have prevented the average man | from having o proper appreciation of | the degree of distress existing today | nmong farmers and stock ralsers. From | 1910 to the present time the farm debt increased by the striking sum of | ten billions of dollars, or from | Republican | ing to meet this crisis. “Co-operat co-ordinated and warehousing of surplus farm products i essential, just as co-ordi- nated, co-operative control of the flow of capital was found necessary to the regulation of our country’s finances. To accomplish financial stability the Fed- eral Reserve system was calied into be- g by a Democratic administration The question for agriculture is complex. market- our | is un- | e provoked in the minds of the | lieve it is a solution which would today | Republican portation and terminal handling means lowering of cost. which in turn reflects itself in the form of increased purchas- ing power through reduction in the cost of every-day necessities of lite. | “Nor do railroads exhaust means of | transportation. 1 belleve in encourag- ing the construction and use of modern highways to carry the short haul of small bulk commodities and to aid in effective marketing of farm products. “Of great importance and still in a| highly undeveloped state are our trans- | portation routes by waterways. Com- modities of great bulk. where the freight cost is a large part of the cost to the | ultimate consumer, are among the least | profitable to raflroads to carry, and {lend themselves most readily to water { transportation | “Certain areas of our country are | deeply interested in_opening up a di- { rect route from the Middle West to the sea by way of the Great Lakes and ad- jacent waterways. Controversy has | eech Acceplting the Democratic Nomination for President Dry Law Change to Canadian Plan Urged. InjunctionsinLabhor Disputes Hit as Le- gal Absurdities. ple use more wood th: other on h, 15 therefore m the forest than dependent on ation, srisen over the relative merits of the St. Lawrence toute or the all-American oute. As Governor of New b 1) have heretofore expressed a preference for the all-American route, basing my view on engineers' reports made to me. The correctness of these also of those favoring the St. Law route has been challenged. As Presi- dent of the United States, therefore, it | would be my clear duty to restudy this question impartially upon engineers' re- ports above question. When the results of | such a study are given to Congress 1 | am entirely willing to abide by the deci- fon_of Congress. “With the development of inland waterways goes the control of floods thereon. The Mississippi flood of last year brought home to the Nation the imperative need for a_national policy of flood control. The last two admin- istrations waited for this calamity and for universal demand that something be done instead of taking leadership in this important work. Forethought, courage and leadership and knowledge of what real, ultimate economy means | would have done much to prevent this | calamity, with its ensuing waste and misery. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of first aid and relief. In the last Congress the Reid-Jones bill laid down sound lines for the solu- tion of this great problem. The policy thus initiated for the Mississippi must be carried through. The money actu- ally_appropriated for food relief is too small to make even a start. Too much time has been spent in squabbling cver who shall pay the bili. Waterways and Flood Control Linked. “The Mississippi River and its tribu- taries constitute a great network of waterways flowing through a large number “of- States. Much more than | flood control is involved. Fullest de- velopment of the Mississippi River and its tributaries as arteries of commerce should be the goal “Wide possibilities for public good are latent in what remains of our nat- ural resources. I pledge myself to a progressive, liberal conservation policy | based upon the same principles to which I have given my support in the State ot New York, and to fight against self- ish aggression in this field wherever it appears and irrespective of whom it may involve. No nation in history has been more careless about the conserva- tion of natural resources than has ours. e denuded our forests. We have slow to reclaim lands for develop- ment, and have allowed to run to waste or have given to private exploitation our public waters, with their great po- tential power for the development of electrical energy. “The value of this heritage can best be tpeasured when we consider the re- cent disclosures of the methods em- | ployed by private monopolies to wrest | our remaining water powers from pub- lic control. “No more dishonest or unpatriotic propaganda has ever been seen in this | country than that disclosed by the i ! vestigation into the methods of certain utility corporations. Private corpora- tions to gain control of public resources have procured the writing of text books for the public schools; have subsidized | lecturers pretending to give to the | country their own honest and unbiased | advice: have employed as their agents | former public officials, and have en- | deavored to mislead public opinion by the retention of the services of leaders {of the community in various parts of the country. Highly paid lobby penetrated into every State and into the legislative halls of the Nation itself “As_ against propaganda, it is the duty of the Democratic party to set up truth. The ownership of some of these great water powers is in the Nation, of others in the several States, These | sources of water power must remain forever under public ownership | control. Where they are owned by the | Federal Government they should re- main under Federal control they are owned by an individual State they should be unter the control of | that State, or where they are owned | by States jontly they should be under i(h(‘ control of those States. | | Declares Against | Water Power Monopol “Wherever the development, the Gov- | ernment agency, State or Federal, as ‘lhv case may be, must retain through contractual agreement with the dis- | tributing companies the right to provide fair and reasonable rates to the ulti- mate consumer, and the similar right to insist upon fair and equal distribu | tion of the power. This can be secured |only by the absolute retention.by the | people of the ownership of the power | | plant at the place of generation. { Government—Federal, State, or the authority representing joint States- must_control the switch that turns on or off the power so greedily sought by certain private groups without the least regard for the public good “I shall carry iimo Federal admini:- | tration the same policy which ‘I have | maintained against heavy odds in my jown State. Under no circumstances { should private monopoly be permitted | to capitalize for rate-making purposes water power sites that are the property {of the people themselves, It is to me | unthinkable that the Government of the the accuracy of which must be | s | nd Where | by owning and controlling the site and | The | At the s wasteful of tion of our fore “The of « | recreation sho | 1 also pledge | continuing tion program the establishm tion and State pal | of New Yor | e Grover Cleveland who fi made our national forest and conserva- tion policy into a great public question. Theodore Roosevelt, followed in his foot- | steps. What these two men began m: be continued and carried fo “The American people con: | structure of many componen One of its foundations is labor. | reasonable contentment those toil with the conditions which they live and work is 1 ba {of the on's well be | fare of our country, ther governmental concern for the legitin interests of labor. “The Democratic party has alw recognized this fact, and under | Administration of Woodrow Wilson large body of progressive legislation for the protection of those laboring in in- dustry was enacted. Our piatform con tinues that tradition of the party. W declare for the principle of collect bargaining. which alone can put laborer upon a basis of fair equality with the employer: for the human pr | ciple that labor is not a commodity; | for fair treatment to Government and Pederal employes, and for specific and immediate attention to the serious prob- lems of unemployment. as have of a rk sy of under T an esse s Scores Injunctions n Industrial Disputes. “From these premises it was inevi- table that our platform should further recognize grave abuscs in the i of injunetions in labor dispute threaten the very principle of co bargaining. Chief Justice Taft stated that government of th: between capital and labor by tion was an absurdi! Justice Holmes and Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court unite in an opin- fon which describes the restraints on labor imposed by a Federal injunction as a reminder of involuntary servitude. “Dissatisfaction and social unrest have grown from these abuses, and un- doubtedly legislation must be framed to meet just causes for complaint in regard to the unwarranted issuance of injunctions. “Tne judiciary committee of the United States Senate has aiready in progress a careful study of this situa- | tion. T promise full co-operation to the | end that a definite remedy by law be | brought forth to end the existing evils |and preserve the constitutional guar- imnros of individual liberty, free assem- | blage and speech and the hts of | peaceful persuasion. i 1 shall continue my sympathetic in« | terest in the advancement of progres- | sive legislation for the protection and advancement of orking men and Promotion of proper care of | | women. maternity, infancy and childhood and the encouragement of those scientific activities of the National Government which advance the safeguards of public health are so fundamental as to need | no expression from me other than my | record as legislator and as governor. “None can question ¥y respect for and co-operation with the Civil Service nor my interest in proper compensation for Government service. I believe in that true equality of women that opens to them without restriction all avenues opportunity for which they can qualify in business, in Government serv ice and in politics. Aid to Veterans Held National Debt. “I have a full appreciation of what this country ‘owes to our veteran sol- diers. I know that when the country called, the veteran came promp! | When the veteran in distress calls to the country. the country should be equally prompt. Red tape and techni- calities “and _autocratic _bureaucrac should be brushed aside when the timi comes for a grateful American people | to recognize the debt to the men who offered themselves in our hour of need. “During all of our national life the freedom of entry to the country has been extended to the millions who de- sired to take advantage of the freedom and the opportunities offered by Amer- | ica. The rugged qualities of our immi- | grants have helped to develop our coun- | try and their children have take {)lnn“ high in the annals of Am hisi “Every race ha tion to the bet While I stand squar declaration that the Immigration must be preserved force and effect, I am heart of removing from the | the “ha provision " families, and I am opposed to th ciple of restriction based upon ures of immigrant populat in & census 38 vears old fcan made its contribu- Americ ;v tain nationalities, and is an fey. It is in no way essen tinuance of the r in our platform “While this is and not of men | striction advos Government ws do Any plan devised must also be co-ordi- | United States or any State thereof will nated with the other phases of our | Rermit either direct or indirect aliena- business institutions. Our platform de- | Hon of water power sites. four The 1920 economic syster husiness upheaval and pop- | well as the ot Latin American coun- was rec- dual - dividua This princiy tries passage of themselves. We must have Th | tives in character and outstand abilt tures National and Stat determine whether leglsla- { billion ta fourteen billion dollars these | value of farm property between back as the The been Underwood tariff bill. Our plat mistakable Jan ic pa ands maintenance of legith id # high standard of labor, Both anie of the ol Democr he %00 can time realm strictly tors the Republic the Demo in ald Wik ul writing Larifl Jaw most il dr cent thie tor ACtu grant of Ame the coun condi- Fordney 1 have & Campalg & M u montl My th Stary ung t his am University, w wn party the prac Woodio 1 & remedy and 1 e : of prospe millions depends In the year available show U o5 of the'd per cen H arned 40 p Apa ice of legislative Wison pointed the 1t provided for the intenance of a non wdicial, fact-finding tigate and Congre required try und saf of Amerl ration Lions th function tated by former the work of the A over o the ts. To bricg way ! 3000 corpor cer, ation lou which eould sctually he Presidon ariff duties id indu; tandard d i i wixlon com and it cal obli as | been publiel it that as heen | pecial 15 & malte Deelares Farmer Untouched by prospe neve it not eqy osperity | menibers of i on # and i aeates of uched tne iives of the' Lhis about it und bly W Monros tained, bul not dling with the countr mall demand and overelgnty Doctrine must be A pretext for purely local concerns which, even though they be overelgn and entitied to receive respect for thelr And 1 shall certainly do nomy power o bring about concerted metion between and all the Latin Ameri- th respeet Lo nny Step | Which it mnay ever be necessary 1o tike o di enponsibilities to | civilization placed upon w o 1 Amerd with thie thing Rep Demoerat) fort to 1 tion (renties 1 minbstration of the ¢ terrent { by the nition preted main- of ail that L the full pthis country as muy b Doctrine il effect the vith respect extended o our ol the who contend . administia o Latin relations 1 um not thal every bud and everything d. 1 approve the ef and extend the arbitin tated under the ad Prestdent Wilson. But o those treaties as de 15 materially impaired reservations asserted by various of the right o wage defensive those reservations are inter the light of Prestdent Cool d. Detending his 1es h aunced on April 25, 19 | doctiine (hat the person and property {of i Cilizen are a part of the national | domain when abroad. 1 do not lisk American people would ap i pre doctiine which would give (o | Germuny, or France, or England, or any other country, the right (o regard a cltizen of that country or the prop- erty of a citizen of thal eountry ity ated within the borders of the United Atates a part of the national domain of the foreign country. Our unwar- usetulne of wir . in e e even the { med- | changes “1 will liet Carter this which claring widely reg crime” i forcement scenes of perjury cust | sistinig their hiap and consequen curcely b wiitten y amendier propheti T belie | ot wehie present fathers o | throughou | and | them by i oa way | prohuniior law, "Tod ton laws for for n wor shall be In a recently calied to my country onih reverenee worry all luw made the r Law tate hook wons for It my be and Origin notice, dames . lers of the bar of of the condition law s made de widely practiced and garded as innocent to be u ¢ paints out that in the en of such w law ‘trinl perjury and subornation juries find - uhundant rendering ueguittal or disagreement, contrary o and he concludes: Per Al s thint general vegard for law are impaired, u mibschibel of which can Umaied.” These words, chighteently 1, were of the | wrote when mduet the ore the the Volstead ituation toduy temperance, We temperance under the em. The mothers and young men and women this land know the anxiety which has been brought o thelr children's use of liguor which was unknown before 11 believe in reverence for iy disregard of (he prohibl 1 insidiously sapplig respect 1 vabse, therefore, what 1 A i o of our ve in have b protoundly believe o be a groat moral [ dswue tnvolving the righteousness of our | national « our childs Jefferson | Complex 1 “The rel tearless principles record that rauted intervention in internal affalrs’ foresaw the onduct and the proteetion of en's morals Foresaw 8. Activities medy, as I have stialed, 1s the application of Jeffersonian Jefiggson and hia followers lex activities of ths become | |and 1925 decreased by twenty billions { dollars, This depression made itselt felt in an enormous increase of bank | fallures i the agricultural districts, In 1927 there were #30 bank fatlures, with Jotal IabUities of more than $270,000,- 200, almost entirely in the agricuitural {octions, ns against 49 sueh failures { during the lnst yeur of President Wil- | ROn's ddministration | "The report of November of wospecial commitive the Associas Hon of Land Grant Colleges and Unie | versities state Tncomes from farming hee 1920 have ot been sufficient to pay & fwir return on the carrent value of cupltal wied and @ fail wige for the farmer's labor, ar (o pormit fuvm people to malntain o standard of Bving com- | parable with other groups of like ahil [y, The Business Mon’s Commbssion on Agriculture sald, i November, 1929 Blnce the war the prices of farm prod ucts hive pereisted noan wneconomic i unfavorable adiustment W the gen oale of pricen of other goods and e and Cthe dlsparity between urbnn and farm eomes e empha tred (he disparity e standards of 1y Ing i the rural and wiban popolations The value of farm land and farm Property decreased heavily in the poat Wir deflation.' and Clarge mmbers of farmers have lost all (heb property in this process. 17, 192 o folds Agriculture v Essentially Publie. “Wo have nol merely & problem of helping the farmer, While agrioulture 15 one of the most individualised and independent of enterprises, still, as the report of the business men'a commission points out. ‘agriculture is essentially & public function, affected with a clear | | | ufter | have clares for the development of co-opera- tive marketing and an earnest endeavor to solve the problem of the distribution | lation of the flow of the Colorads River | ROMINation is th of the cost of dealing with crop sur- pluses over the marketed unit of the crop whose producers are benefited by such assistance. Only remain to be devised stitute action for inaction and friendli- ness for hostility In my adminisira- ton of the government of my State whenever 1 was confronted with w prob- lem of thix character I called into con- ference those best equipped on the par teular subject i hand, T shall follow that course with regurd to agriculture Parmers and farm leaders with such constructive ald as will come from sound evonomists and fair-minded leaders of finance and business must work out the detwil. There are varying plans for the attainment of the end which 13 to be accomplished. Such plans should be subjected at once to searching, able and faiw-minded analysis, because the Intorests of all require that the solution shall be economically sound 1t 1 am elected, I shall immediately clection ask leaders of the type I named, lrrespective of party, to enter upon this task. I shall join with them i the discharge of thelr duties during the coming Winter, and present o Congress immediately upon its con- yening (he solution recommended by the body of men best fitted (o render this signal service to the Nation 1 ahull support the aetivities of this body until a satistactory law 13 placed upon the statute books. Distribution Held Outstanding Problem. “Adequags distribution is necessary to I propose o sub- | | the mechanics | | energy generated from as an ineldent to the regu- “Blectr | water powe al Is the common heritage of all the States | through which the river flows. The benefits growing from such development should be equitably distributed among | the States having right of ownership. | The duty of the Federal Government i | confined to navigation 1 am of the, opinton that the best results would flow { rom the setting up of a Colorado River | | authority, representative equally of wll | | the States concerned. The develop- ment should be by the States throv the ngency of this authority by treaty 1 by Congress It will be the policy of my adminis- tration, while Aning Government ownership and control, to develop method . I operation for Muscle Shoals which will reclaim for the Government | some fair revenue from the enormous | expenditure already made for its de- velopment and which is now a com- plete waste, In this way the original Peace-time purpose of the construction of this plant will be achieved. The Nation Will be reimbursed. agriculture will be benefited by the cheap produc- tion of nitrates for fertilizer, and the surplus power will be distributed to the | peaple. | Survey of Publio | Resources Is Favored | \ “The remaining public natural re- sources now under control of the Fed- | eral Government must be administered In the interests of all of the people. | “Likewise a complete survey and | study of the remaining undeveloped | publio resources of land, coal, oil and | other minerals in groatly needed and | | bring & er return to production Increased ®fiiclency of ralrdad trans- should be undertaken, “The United States, because its peo- B serve the Nation. To me one of greatest elements of satisfaction ir fact that I owe it no one man or set of men, 1 complete honesty make the that my nomina was brought abo by no promise given or implied by me or any one in my behalf. I will not be influenced in appointments by the ques- ton of a person’s wet or dry attitude, by whether he is rich or poor, whether he comes from the North, South or West, or by what church he atter in the worship of God. The sole stand ard of my appointments will be the same as they have been in my governor- pinte,dty of the man woman and his or her ability 0 glve me the greatest possible aid in devoted se to the people “In this § paign. Dur with vice 1 enter upon the cam ts progress 1 shail talk at length on many of the issues to which I have re d in this acceptance dress, as well as other importar tions, T shall endeavor to conduct campaign on the high plan the tntelligence of our city “Victory simply for achieving it is empty satisfied of our succe: because 1 am sure we therefore sure that our victory means progress for our Nation. I am con- vinced of the wisdom of our platform. I pledge a complete devation to the welfare of our country and our people 1 place that welfare above every other consideration. and I wm satisfiod that our party is in a position to promote it To that end I here and now declare to my fellow countrymen, from one end of the United States to the other, that 1 will dedicate mvself with all the and energy that T possess to the of our great Republic,” this that befit: ens the sake of I am entirely in November, are right, and