Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1928, Page 6

) BORAH'SBALTIMORE| TALK HITS SMITH Senator to Speak in Boston Tomorrow After Praising Hoover in Maryland. B the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, November 1.—The usu- ally Republican State of Massachuset claimed in the present campaign by Democrats, was the objective today of Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, who will speak in Boston tomorrow eve- ning. Last night he spoke in behalf of Her- bert Hoover before an enthusia dience of 15.000. Probably the crowd and the most vociferol tion of his ca Tecep- greeted_the h here. The dem- onswak appearance ranged from a before his ress to boos and hissix from all sections of the armory whe ever he mentioned the names of Gov. Smith, Senator Joe T. Robinson, John J. Raskob and Tammany Hall. Tammany Disparaged. A cheering demonstration of several minutes followed the Senator’s declara- tion that “to tran Tammany Hall from New York to hington would be a national disaster Mr. Borah said he regarded the alignment of the prohibition issue in the election as “not between the Re- publicans and Democrats, but between those who believe in the Constitution and those who do not.” When he said that Gov. Smith had declared the law would be enforced upon his election a number in the crowd cried out “He «Smith) will never get to the White House.” Charging the governor with having “changed his views” on the protective tariff from describing it four years ago as a “robbery of the American people” o supporting it in his Louisville speech, he Senator characterized the tariff as a barrier for the American workman against the industrial development now progressing in Europe. Central American Relations. .. If Hoover is elected the Senator pre- dicted that “a new era” would be established in the relations between the United States and the Central Ameri- can nations, Replying to the eriticisms of Gov. Smith, in his Baltimore speech, of the Central American policy of the Cool- idge administration and the Republican party, the Idahoan said that his party's presidential nominee “was pledged to the policy of peaceful settlement of con- troversies between this country and Cen- tral American nations as set forth in the platform adopted by the Kansas City convention.” ‘The Senator spoke over a nation-wide ¥adio hook-up from the same platform ‘where the Democratic candidate deliv- ered his campaign address last Monday. “A better understanding already has been established,” declared Mr. Borah, who is the chairman of the powerful Senate foreign relations committee and has consistently opposed this country’s intervention in Central America. “Am- bassador Morrow has done nothing less than a marvelous piece of work with reference to Mexico. In my opinion a similar policy and a similar program would avail just as effectually with ref- erence to Central American countries. “We Want Peace,” Senator Says. “We want peace with these countries,” e continued, “we do not and should not dnvade their territory. I am one of those who believe that any controversy ‘which may arise between ourselves and these smaller countries can be settled by pacific means and with sovereignty and their sovereign rights.” Assailing Gov. Smith for his claim in the Baltimore speech that ‘“as Mr. Hoover was to carry out the politices of Mr. Coolidge, there could be no hope for a change, unless he (Smith) was elected,” the Senator declared that the Democratic standard bearer had “given us to understand that he would carry out the foreign policy of Mr. Wilson if wVictorious on November 6. “I am here to say,” Mr. Borah said, ¥that if Gov. Smith carries out Mr. Wil- son’s policy with reference to Central America, he will carry out Mr. Cool- ddge’s policy. “There is not ohe iota of difference between the policies of these two ad- ministrations with reference to Central America,” he added. “There is no party politics in this question. Both ad- ministrations have pursued practically the same program. “To illustrate, we went to Nicaragua 4n the closing months of Mr. Taft’s ad- ministration. We landed our Marines and took possession of the White House &t Managua and stationed our Marines there. While we were there we nego- tiated a treaty with Nicaragua. I op- posed that treaty. * * * The treaty was defeated. When Mr. Wilson came into power he sent the same treaty back to the Senate for ratification. He indorsed the policy and indorsed the principles upon which it was negotiated and it was under his administration that this treaty was finally ratified. Mr. Wilson kept the Marines in Nicaragua every hour of his eight years of administration, Policy Not Partisan. “Gov. Smith complains of this matter bf holding elections in these countries. ‘We supervised an election in Nicaragua and in Santo Domingo under Mr. Wil- son’s administration. The first time that we ever supervised an election in the history of the United States in Cen- tral America was under Mr. Wilson's edministration. * * * We followed prac- tically a similar program under his ad- gministration in Haiti. “It is true that Mr. Coolidge sent troops to Nicaragua. It is equally true that I opposed sending them; but it also is true that I equally opposed send- ing them to Nicaragua in the first place. Gov. Smith quotes me as critizing Mr. Coolidge’s policy. I differed with Mr. ‘Wilson just the same as I differed with Mr. Coolidge. * * * ButIhavenever been able to discover the slightest dif- derence in the policies of the two admin- dstrations with respect to Central Amer-~ fea. “Nothing could be more futile in the Face of our history for the last 20 years than to claim that our policy in Central ‘America is a partisan policy. It has been a national policy, and, right or wrong, wise or unwise, it has been the policy of all of our administra- tions for the last 20 years. I am frank zince Go' nith mentioned my name as being a =::tic. I have disagrecd with the policy from the Sxginnirg” FORMéé GOVERNOR HITS SIMMONS IN TARBORO Dlorrison Hopes for Chance to Campaign Against Opponent of Gov. Smith. PBr the Associated Press. TARBORO, N. C., Nausmher 1.—For- fmer Gov. Cameron Morrison, now Dem- peratic national committeeman, issued a statement today attacking Senator F. M. Simmons, who has been opposing the gandidacy of Gov. Alfred Smith, Demo- gratie presidential nominee. “ywo years from now, he will run #gain,” Morrison said, alluding to Sen- afor Simmons’ announced intention to be a candidate to succeed himself. “% hope that he may live to make d his announced candidacy and that mmy live to take the stump in this State in apology to the memory of Wance and of Aycock and to the Kitch- ens, living and dead, political leaders in this State, for having helped four times to elect F. M. Simmons, and to help ortn Carolina find a man worthy of ta high traditions to represent it in the United Staies Senate.” By 7S [ 23 NEWARK, N. J., Ilovember 1 (#).— Gov. Smith’s prepared speech last night follows: I shall take for my text this evening a statement by the immortal Lincoln which since its utterance has been heard around the world: {all of the time, all of the people some | of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” Before I take up the text, however, let me make answer to some of the things said by Gov. Hughes in his Massachusetts speech. Why didn't Gov. Hughes - take this nomination? He is the only one who is making any fight. What are we up | against? ~The same old thing that we| have been suffering from for eight, years—a candidate for the office of the presidency of the United States who is unable to talk for himself? Who has become the official spokesman? It looks to me like it is Gov. Hughes. And it | further looks to me as though he is trying to becloud the issues in a vain attempt to set his own candidate right before the people and to question my position. In the city of Denver I clearly out- lined my position on water power. It lis as follows: “I regard water power as the last | areat, God-given resource that has not {been ' wrested from the people of this country for private profit or for private ! gain, and I have declared for the Na- tion’ the policy which I declared for the State of New York—that these water powers ought to remain in the control of the Nation if they belong to the Nation, or the State if they belong to the State, or jointly where the own- ership is in more than one State. And !I believe the agency, whether it be State or Government, should not only own the site but should own and build and operate the powerhouse. It is the only way that you can guarantee equit- able distribution of the power and fair and reasonable prices to the ultimate consumer, and this is because of the Government's power to contract. The whole thing is contained in the sen- tence: The Government must keep its hands on the switch that turns on or off the power.” Put Question to Hoover. I have made myself perfectly clear. The man who has not made himself clear is Mr. Hoover. And I now ask Mr. Hughes to ask Mr. Hoover the question that he asked me. On the prohibition question, which Mr. Hughes refers to as a sham battle, I have also made myself perfectly clear. Here again he is trying to be- cloud the issue. I know very well that the President of the United States can- not amend the Constitution. - And_Gov. Hughes knows that I know that. What I said I would do was that I would accept the position of leadership of the American people on this question by coming out and telling them the truth about it, laying it before them, and let them decide it themselves— the only way it ever can be decided. During the whole canpaign Mr, Hoover has not made a single sugges- tion about it, except to refer to it as a noble experiment, Mr. Hughes himself said that he was not satisfied with it. Let me ask the candidate whom he is working so hard for whether or not he is satisfied with it, and, if not, what he proposes to do about it. I also want to serve notice on Mr. Hughes that, so far as I am con- cerned, I am running my own cam- paign. He has got all he can do to run Mr. Hoover’s. And it is entirely un- necessary for to comment on my attitude to the tariff by speaking about what happened in the past. He him- self has publicly said that I know something about politics. He has also said that we cannot take the tariff out of politics. If he is right in both statements, I am the man who ought to handle it in the interest of the work- ing men and the business men of this country. Asks Hughes to Speak. As long as Mr. Hoover seems to be unable to do it and is compelled to rely upon Mr. Hughes to make his cam- paign for him, he owes it to Mr. Hoover and to the Republican party to make the campaign constructively, and tell us, so long as Mr. Hoover is unable to do it, where his candidate stands qn the issues. Now let us devote our attention to the text I just read. ‘The Republican record of the last seven and a half years and the Repub- lican conduct of this campaign suggest this text to me as most appropriate. At each approaching election the Re- publican party professes its great love and devotion to the workingman an holds itself out to be his great friend. . Let us see how far the record of the last seven and a half years and the record of this campaign disclose an attempt to fool the workingman. In the city of Newark a short time ago the Republican candidate made a special bid for the support of labor when in the very opening of his ad- dress he said the following: “Real wages and standards of living of our labor have improved more dur- ing the past seven and a half years of Republican rule than during similar period in the history of this or of any other country.” I challenge that statement, and I submit in fairness to the workingmen of this country that the present com- paratively high scale of wages and standards of living were set during the war under the administration of Wood- row Wilson. It is entirely beside the point to argue what brought this con- dition about; it is sufficient to say that that is when it happened. Mr. Hoover knows this just as well as I know it and just as well as you know it. Difference of Million. He further made the statement that when the Republican party came into power in 1921 there were five or six million unemployed upon our streets. He uses figures carelessly. There is a big difference between five and six million. There is a difference of one million, but that seems to be of small consequence to Mr. Hoover. The fact is that Mr. Hoover was chairman of the President’s conference on employ- ment in 1921, and in his report to the President of the United States, dealing with this same period, he said that the decline in industrial employment was less than three million, and expressed his confidence that 2,750,000 was the maximum figure. He raises the figure of unemployed in 1921 from around 12,450,000 to 6,000,000 for the purpose of campaign argument. In the course of his speech Mr. Hoover sald that unemployment was, in part, cured by means of immediate institution of public works. This statement I deny, and I do so because the Republican Administration in an effort to secure credit for econ- ramy in the administration of the Gov- ernment seriously neglected all public works. . In my speeci “n Missouri only a few weeks ago I showed that in almost every large city in this country land purchased as far back as 15 years ago tpon which to erect public buildings is | still standing idle, and up to this day | that statement has not been contra- | dicted. Further on in his speech Mr. Hoover said that last Winter there were ap- proximately 1,800,000 men idle, and claims. -hat this is an accurate survey made by the Department of Labor. Four Million Idle. ‘What are the facts? A statement was made upon the floor of the United States Senate by Senator Wagner of New York, based upon that very report, that over four million men were out of work and that statement up to this time has not been successfully chal- lenged. It has in substance been ac- cepted by every one who has made a study of the problem and has been con- firmed by reports of charity and relief organizations in various parts of the country. Let us bear in mind that the Re- publican candidate was chairman of “You can fool some of the people of his commission, but what he failed d data with regard to the average wages THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, Harding, and from that conference came three- distinct recommendations requiring legislation, not a single one of which was enacted into law. Indeed, the Republican candidate in his Newark speech again recommends one of the proposals set forth in the original report to do was to tell the workingman that as far back as 1921 this same recom- mendation was put forth by him, but he never did anything about it since | then. Last Winter a Democratic member of the Secnate offered bills to carry into | effect the recommendations on unem- ployment made by Mr. Hoover's com- mission, but the Republican administra- tion ignored them. Further on in his speech he speaks about building p: s and recom- mends that these be carried on in such vay as to take up the slack in o sional unemployment. The Republican party had a chance to do this in the period when he admits that 1,800,000 were out of employment and, instead of doing it, they preferred to make a false showing of economy and allow im- portant and necessary building projects, to which they were committed but for which they had made no appropriation, to go over to succeeding administrations. Favors Public Work. I favor the adoption of a Govern- ment program to prevent the suffering and enormous losses of unemployment. To that end the Department of Labor should be given the necessary appropri- ations and charged with the duty of collecting accurate and comprehensive information on employment in impor- tant industries I favor the adoption after study of a scientific plan whereby during pe 5 of unemployment appropriations shall be made available for the construction of necessary public work. I also favor an immediate and thorough study of the modern methods of industry, to the end that a construc- tive solution may be arrived at to al sorb and utilize the surplus hus labor released by the increasing use of machinery. The difference between 1,800,000 and 4,000,000 men out of work may mean but little to Mr. Hoover, but it means a great deal to the army of the unem- ployed and their dependents. Mr. Hoover is most generous in his use of statistics, but no amount of statistics will support the family of a man who is out of work. Take statistics into a butcher or grocer shop and see how far you will get with them. In the course of the speeches so far made by the Republican candidate he has claimed credit for the Republican party for e*erything of betterment that has occurrid in this country in the last seven an¢ a half years, even to the in- crease in the number of children in our public #chools, to the number of additicgtal miles of electric wire laid through the country, the number of miles of highways although they. are built by the States, and the improve- ments in our educational system, al- though the Federal Government has nothing to do with it. I do not know just why he referred to_education in his speech, or how he believes that is calculated to help his candidacy. Record on Education. My record as Governor of New York shows that there has been no greater friend to the cause of public educa- tion than I have been. During my ad- ministration the. appropriations from State funds for public education rose from $9,000,000 in 1918 to $86,000,000 in_1928. Public elementary and high school facilities were extended, generous ap- propriations made for agricultural col- leges, and salaries to teachers increased to_meet th higher cost of living. I went further than the Republican party was willing to go when I made a strenuous effort to improve con- ditions in the rural schools, only to be met by Republican opposition sufficient- ly strong in a hostile legislature to de- feat the progosah The Republican national committce to my way of thinking goes the very limit when they spend ‘large amounts of money in newspaper advertising in an attempt to lead the American la- borer to believe that everybody owns an automobile and that everybody lives or chicken dinners and that everybody is wearing silk socks. The bureau of labor statistics is on record as declaring that it requires a sum of well over $2,000 a year to pro- vide a fair standard of living for a family of five people. The National In- dustrial Conference Board made up of employers presents to us the followinz in the United States. Average Wages Quoted. In the printing and publishing busi- ness it runs from $1,873 a year in New York down to $1,115 in Ohio. In food products the wage runs from $1,700 a year in New York to $933 a year in Michigan. In lumber and its products it runs from $1,630 a year in New York to $1,241 in Massachusetts, In metal industries it runs from $1,615 in Ohio down to $1,357 a year in New Jersey. In December of last year both Mr. Hoover and President Coolidge declared that the average wage in all manu- facturing industries of the country was $1,280 a year or approximately $4.00 o day. At the same time they made that statement, they failed to point out that the Bureau of Labor Statistics fixed $2,000 a year as the cost of a fair stand- ard of living for a family of five people. The purpose of the advertisement, put out at great cost to the Republican na- tional committee, is nothing more nor less than an attempt to fool the Amer- ican workingman. My attention was recently called to a circular put in the pay envelopes of workingmen here in New Jersey, which to my way of thinking is the most despicable kind of political propaganda so far devised. It shows a picture of an American workingman’s home with a huge wall built around it described as the tariff wall. Figure depicting forelgn countries are seen prying loose the great stones of the tariff walls and they are crushing through the roof of the American workingman's home. His wife is fleeing from danger with her children and he is lying prostrate on the ground. In the printed matter the workingman is told that the envelope contains from 2 to 10 times as much as he would receive for doing the same work in Europe, and while it bears no imprint to indicate where it comes from, I am reliably informed that large quantities of these circulars were paid for and sent out by the Republican na- tional committee to be put in the pay envelopes of American workingmen. Ridicules Propaganda. I can think of no more ridiculous performance, It is an insult to the in- telligence of the great army of workers of our country. It is a foolish attempt to make them believe that the object and purpose of the Democratic party under my leadership is to destroy their homes, drive their wives and children into the strects and leave them help- less. 1 have been the governor of the State of New York for eight years. During this time I have not only had the united support of labor but a generous support of business men. If that had not been so, it would have been im- possible for me to have been elected Governor of New York in the year that the Republican candidate for President carried that State by nearly 700,000 plurality. The Republican party goes so far in its effort to fool the American work- ingmen as to try to lead them to be- lieve that my elévation to the most cx- alted position in the world means that I am to turn my back upon them, that I am to forget their support in the record, read the plank in the Demo- cratic platform, look over my speech on the tariff delivered in Kentucky, will be compelled to come to the con= clusion that that circular is put out| the Republican party, using the em- ployer as its agent only for the pur- pose of fooling him. Threaten Employes. I hold in my hand another circular, signed with the name of a concern soliciting support for Mr. Hoover and threatening disaster to the employes of the company in the event of my elec- tion. It makes predictions which, on the face of the record, could never come to pass. It is dishonest, and the merchants or business men responsi- ble for promulgating it are not what could be said, in the strictest sense of , to be good citizens of this ‘rican system of gov- ernment is not what we suppose it to be if men can ride into public office under false pretenses and in the light of false statements. In a democracy, above all other things, the truth must prevail. To my way of thinking, the time is well past in this country when you can coerce and intimidate the American working- man. The sin of it all is that this coercion and intimidation comes from a party that in the last seven years, under the guise of being the friend of the rank and file of the American people, has been engaged in promoting the welfare and the interests of special privilege, even to the point of alienat- ing the ofl reserves of the country destined to protect the home of the workingman by maintaining a great arm of the national defense in time of trouble. Just before election Mr. Hoover and the Republican party behind him pro- fess a great interest in the welfare of labor. Let us see how far they exerted themselves in the interest of labor when they were in a position to do something to help the workers in the coal mines. Mr. Hoover himself was a member of a commission appointed to investigate the coal problem, - That commission brought in a series of recommendations. The Republican administration did nothing about them. Several of them were afterward introduced by Demo- cratic Senators. And they all went down to defeat. The sum total of the whole operation was that Mr. Hoover himself attempted to deal with this problem—we have a report of a com- mission of which he was a leading mem- ber—but nothing was ever done about it, and, according to the candidate’s speech of acceptance, the coal industry today is in a class with the textile and the agricultural industries—it is stag- nant, and we heve a_condition of acute unemployment and distress in the coal reglons. Let me read to you a part of the plank devoted to labor in the Repub- lican platform of this year: “We believe that injunctions in labor disputes have in some instances been abused and have given rise to a serious question for legislation.” Try to Fool Workers. ‘This, to my way of thinking, is a glaring example of attempting to fool the workingman. This sentence ap- pears in the platform under the title of “Labor,” and is followed by the words: “The Republican party pledges itself to continue its efforts to maintain this present standard of living and high wage scale.” I cannot escape the conclusion that the matter about injunctions was put into the platform without a study of what it really meant or where it really belonged. Somebody must have said, “We have to say something about in- junctions. Let us slip in a few words about it.” No pledge is made to pass the legislation. It is a matter of record that the Republican party has had eight years in which to cure the abuses by legislation, and not only did they not cure them, but a Republican Attorney General was one of the worst offenders in this regard and was guilty of as gress an abuse as can be found, when he himself—the attorney of all the people of the United States—ap- plied for and secured from the court certain injunctions which merited and received widespread condemnation. If the Democratic party is intrusted with power under my leadership, you have my assurance that a definite rem- edy by law will be brought forth to end the existing evils and preserve the con- stitutional guarantees of individual lib- erty, free assemblage and speech and the rights of peaceful persuasion. When we speak about workingmen, let us not forget workingwomen. An interesting sidelight on the campaign is the attitude of what is known as the National Woman's Party, an organiza- tion of women seeking an amendment to the Federal Constitution that would prevent the States from enacting laws for the protection of women in industry. ‘The effect of this amendment to the Constitution would he to make it im- possible for any State to enact laws for the protection of the health and welfare of women in industry not equally applicable to men. Under my leadership the State of New York pro- vided a 48-hour week for women. It prohibited night work of women in in- dustrial establishments. It prohibited the employment of women in ous occupations. It required rest rooms in factories and mercantile buildings, and many contributions by law to the health and comfort of women in industry. All of this progressive and forward-loaking legislation applicable to women would be endangered if we attempted to tam- per with the Federal Constitution along the lines desired by the National Wom- an’s Party. Favors Women’s Rights. ‘When one of the representatives of this organization questioned me over a year ago about my attitude to this pro- posed amendment to the Constitution I told her in unmistakable language that I was unalterably opposed to it. I frankly told her that before I would subscribe to any theory of this kind I would see the corner stone of the Capi- tol at Albany crumble into dust be- neath my feet. I have always in my own State fa- vored legislation that would remove all unjust discrimination against women so far as property rights or prlvilefes are concerned, and I amended the civil service rules so as to give them absolute equality in examinations for public office. So far as the Nation is concerned, I favor the equality of women with men in all political governmental matters, and I favor an equal wage for equal service, whether rendered by a man or a woman. ‘The Republican candidate is non- committal on the amendment proposed by the National Woman's Party. The Republican vice presidential candidate has declared in favor of it. In fact, as @ Senator, he introduced the resolu- tion for the amendment to the Consti- tution two years ago. ‘The secretary of the National Wom- an’s Party sends out the word that the grealest hope in this election for equal rights lies with the election of Mr. Hoover and Senator Curtis. I make particular mention of this because I regard it as fooling the people. All of the large women’s organizations in this country are against this amendment. I admit that the words “equal rights” have a certain catch to them. But bear in mind, when the women's equal rights association say that I am opposed to their amendment, what they really say is that I am opposed to women being sweated, underpaid or given work be- yond a woman's strength; that I am op- posed to a breakdown of the strength and vitality of the future mothers of the race. A strong, healthy, vigorous motherhood is a great national asset, and I am for conserving and not for undermining that t, ‘To help accomplish that, I favor ade- quate nEpmprleons for the Women’s and Children’s Bureau of the Federal Department of Labor. past, that I am to be untrue in the presidency to every tradition that has characterized my public life for a quarter of a century. the President’s conference on unem- ployment during the teun of President Any American workingman who will analyze that circular, study my p ’ ublic | stated - tiat not one single Position on Tariff. At Touisville, Ky, speaking on the tariff, I made as clear as the noonday sun the Democratic attitude. I definitely thing under danger- | § D. ©; THURSDAY, a Democratic administration would hap- pen to the tariff that would take a sin- gle five-cent piece out of the weekly pay cnvelope of the American workingman or would in any way interfere with or injure business, large or small. I made that so clear and definite that the Re- publican party managers were thrown into a panic. They were afraid that they had lost their timeworn argument, and one of the Republican spokesmen went so far as to say that the Demo- cratic members of Congress would not sustain my position. That they will is evidenced by the fact that 90 per cent of the Democratic Senators and candidates for both houses of Congress have over their signatures declared that, if elected, they will follow the principle and policy set down by me in my Louisville speech. Unless the American workingman is prepared to challenge my honesty and the honest intent of my party he will be unable to pay attention to the false alarm raised by the Republican party for the purpose of fooling him. No- thing to my way of thinking 1s as stupld as trying to convince the American workingman that the Democratic pa under my leadership is going to inter- fere with his prosperity. He knows that my tariff proposals will increase the prosperity of this coun- try. Not a single Republican has dared to criticise my plan to stop log-rolling, to take the tariff out of politics and to treat it as a business proposition, in the interest of the business man, the work- ingman and the farmer. The only thing they could do was to raise the cry that my party in Congress would not stand behind me on it; and my party in Con- gress has rallied behind me almost to a man and left the orators with nothing. ‘There is no greater cause for pros- perity to the workingman than pros- perity among the people who buy what the workingman makes. The farmers of this country are 30 per cent of the population. If the buying power of the farm is destroyed that means, as I have said, fewer trips to the stores on Main street. If the farmer buys less the merchant buys less from the manufacturer and the manufacturer has to cut down his force of working- men, Discusses Farm Aid. Prosperity, therefore, for the one- third of the American people who live on the farm, means prosperity for all the people of the country; and distress among the farmers necessarily means distress for business and for working- men. And the Republican party con- cedes that the farmers of this country today are in dire distress. ‘The desperate plight of agriculture in this country is dealing a heavy blow to the Republican forces. For the first time during my public career the Re- publican party is driven to desperation in an attempt to hold the farmer vote of the country. To do it after eight years of broken promises, after eight years of betrayal, after eight years of false promise, they have their chief orator traveling through the agricul- tural West and Northwest and making statements on behalf of the Republican candidate, which they hope will fool the farmer. Let me taken some of them up. First, Senator Borah is busy explaining to the American farmer that Mr. Hoover is his friend, because during the war and immediately thereafter, as food adminis- trator, he so conducted his office as to keep up the price of farm products. The fact is that I read a cablegram from Mr. Hoover to one of the farm leaders in ‘which Mr. Hoover claimed that he was keeping the prices down. What is the use of attempting to fool the farmer, why have a prominent Republican state that he kept prices up when the candi- date himself says that he kept them down? Mr. Hoover is to_speak at St. Louis on Friday night. I ask him to make the statement definitely to the American farmer that he kept up the price of farm products during the war. I ask him further whether he will deny that such a cablegram ever came from him. Nobody can dispose of the question_as quickly as he can himself, and, if he fails to make disposition of the question, the American farmer can make up his mind that the Repub- lican spokesmen are fooling him. In his speech of acceptance, as a means of relief to the farmer from the distress that he finds himself in, he has promised them cheaper transportation by the construction of inland water- ways. ‘This in itself is commendable. The Democratic party is equally com- mitted to the improvement of our in- land waterways. But to afford it as a | not a cure, | Hoover suggest it to Presid-ut Coolidge NOVEMBER 1T, 1928. means of relief for the acute and imme- diate distress of agriculture is in effect to dodge the question and is, to my way of thinking, an attempt to fool the farmer: It is something which will take years to do and, because of the Re- publican neglect in the last eight years, there has not even been a plan pro- vided for it. Claims Figures Padded. Figures have been used to fool the farmer when he is told that he is being protected by the tariff wall from three billion dollars’ worth of imported farm products when, as a matter of fact, the real figure is $500,000,000. To get to the bigger figure they added silk and other things not usua.y comprehended within the term “agriculture” and not produced in this country, and which the farmer himself in many cases must buy and pay for. ‘That’s trying to fool the farmer. An- other measure of relief offered is the creation of stabilization corporations. Everybody who knows naything about the farm problem knows that that is If it is, why did not Mr. in the last four years as an alternative for the farm relief bills that he vetoed? ‘The Republican party is trying to fool the wife of the farmer by putting forth rosy statements about improved condi- tions on the farm, the introduction of Jabor-saving devices and the modern- ization of the countryside. Alongside of that statement must be read the facts: A million people a year are be- ing driven from the farm; bank failures in the agricultural districts are grow- ing at an alarming rate, The Republi- can platform itself speaks of the dire distress of the farmer. What is to be gained by trying to lead a man in dire financial distress into the belief that his wife is securing greater comforts ai_home? Republican orators throughout the country are busily engaged in an effort to try to make the farmer believe that Mr. Hoover is his great friend; that he is a great statistician; that he is a great engineer; and that he will find some way of relieving them. The Re- publican” party has been eight years promising relief and has failed to give it. Don’t take that from me alone. Take it from one of the great expo- nents of the farmer’s cause, one of the Republicans in the United States Sen- ate, who, in season and out of season has labored ceaselessly and fearlessly in their behalf. I will quote from Sen- ator Norris of Nebraska: “The Republican national platform, four years ago, promised relief, and four years before that they were going to put ihe farmer on a profitable basis. We have fed the farmer on promises, but we have never given him a taste of fulfillment. And now, for the third time, the Republican platform presents to the farmer some more promises.” Special Session Urged. A< an indication of the desperation of the Republican party on the farm question, Gov. McMullen of Nebraska hurried to Washington and urged the Republican candidate that he should make a promise to call the Congress in to special session in order to handle the farm question. The story of these con- ferences is an interesting sidelight on the Republican candidate.. They must have begged him to say something, any- thing to make some appeal to the far- mer. ‘They must have pleaded for just a few kind words. Then word came from the headquarters of Mr. Hoover that the extra session was discussed, but no decision was arrived at. Immediately thereafter Senator Borah went into conference with the Republican candi- date and, following the conference, Mr. Hoover ylelded. He spoke a kind word. He actually got himself to the point of saying “extra session.” Aside from the fact that this seems to be a surrender for the purpose of securing votes, what would be accom- plished at an extra session of Congress in view of Mr. Hoover’s well known op- position to the underlying principle be- hind the remedy for farm depression? He has refused to accept the principle of the control of the exportable surplus, without -which control there can be no adequate relief. He and his advisers on farm relief are in effect saying to the farmers of this country: “We have given you nothing in eight years but broken promises. Forget the past; give us a renewal of power on the sixth of November; we will give you prompt ac- tion but no relief.” As Senator Norris sald, speaking to the farmers of the country: TEXT OF GOVERNOR SMITHS SPEECH IN NEWARK l “I want to say to them, as I look at it, if you still believe what you have been advocating you haven't a leg to stand on unless you come out in this great contest and support Gov. Smith. I am tired of promises.” I have no doubt that the talk of the extra session will be regarded by the farmers of the country as one more promise that will produce no results. Favors Immigration Bars. One of the most vicious and persist- ent attempts to fool the American peo- ple is the constant repetition by the Republican orators of the false and baseless statement that I propose to let down the immigsation bars in this country. Tonight § want to nail it fllnally. ‘The Democratic platform de- clares: “Laws which limit immigration must be_preserved in full force and effect.” I stand squarely on that declara- tion. I shall do nothing to impair or weaken those laws. ‘There's nothing indefinite about that. I said that in my acceptance speech and have never varied from it. Any man who says that I propose to let down the immigration bars is not only trying to fool the people, but is doing it will- fully and dishonestly. The Republican candidate and all the orators of his party are certainly trying to fool the American public on the questien of prohibition. Senator Borah calls it the paramount issue. He believes that there is nothing in the country today that is as important as keeping the eighteenth amendment and the Voistead act just as they are on the statute book. On the other hand, Gov. Hughes believes that prohibition 15 not a part of the campaign at all. He says that it is a sham battle. By that he means that there is nothing to it. The candidate himself refers to it as a noble experiment. He says it must be worked out constructively, but he does not say how. They are trying to fool not only the wets and the drys, but also that great American public that does not line up in either group, those millions of God- fearing men and women who believe, as I do, that there should be law enforce- ment, that there should be an end to ROBINSON NEARS END OF HIS TOUR Will Make Seven Speeches in Three States by Saturday, Then Go Home. By the Assoclated Press. EN ROUTE WITH SENATOR ROB- INSON TO FORT WAYNE, Ind, No- vember 1.—With a hit-and-run cam- paign in Indiana today, in Ohio tomor- row and West Virginia Saturday and the Nation-wide tour of Senator Joe T Robinson, Democratic vice presidential nominee, will have come to its end. He will board & fast train early Sun- day morning for his home at Little Rock, Ark., to participate in a home- coming rally arranged by the folks he grew up with, and to settle down until telegraph wires and radio bring him the tidings of the people’s decision. As part of the homecoming rally at Little Rock, Senator Robinson will speak briefly over the radio, but he expeg‘s to use that occasion only to thank the thousands of folks in more than three fourths of the States for their welcome when he visited them, and to urge all to remember their duty of going to the ballot box. ‘The nominee’s last speech will be given in Clarksburg, W. Va., Saturday. He speaks in Huntington, Wabash, Logansport and Fort Wayne, Ind., to- day, and in_Lima and Dayton, Ohio, tomorrow. On the trip home he will make no speeches. His hedule calls for his arrival in Cincinnati early Sun- day morning, in St. Louis late that afternoon and in Little Rock early Monday morning, but he plans to re- main secluded in his private car during the trip. The homecoming demonstra- tion in Arkansas will take place in the evening. MITCHELL URGES official corruption and bootlegging, that real temperance and real respect for law should be restored. I have spoken my mind on this subject to g$he Amer- ican people in all parts of this country. ‘The American people will not rest con- tent with the disgraceful conditions that exist in every State in this Union today. I have set before them a plan to restore to the people of the several States the right to regulate their own affairs. That rests upon the funda- mental Democratic principle of States’ rights. I have not hesitated to say how I want to work this prohibition question out constructively, and I am confident that the American people will stand be- hind me in my effort to cure these evils which today are undermining and sapping that respect for law which must be the foundation of our democracy. I have so much confidence in the in- telligence, the common sense and the good judgment of the rank and file of the American people that I am satisfied all of these attempts to deceive will fall to the ground and the overwhelm- ing majority of the American people will find comfort, relief and satisfac- tion in the clear-cut, well defined, honestly spoken words of the Demo- cratic platform. With that belief firmly fixed in my mind I look forward on the sixth of November to an overpowering victory for the Democratic ticket. LOWDEN REMAINS SILENT. Declines to Make Statement on Presidency ‘“Before the Election.” OREGON, Il., November 1 (®).— Frank O. Lowden, former Republican Governor of Illinois, who has refrained from entering into the presidential campaign, last night a short statement from his Sinnissippi Farm, indicating he would not take any part in the contest. “I do not contemplate making any statement with reference to the presi- dency before the election,” the state- ment read. His only previous action since the Republican convention at Kansas City has been to suggest that Hoover elabo- rate ideas on farm relief. ELECTION OF SMITH Suspended Army Air Service Aide Asserts G. 0. P. Is “Symbol of Dishonesty.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 1—Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, suspended assistant chief of the Army Air Service, criticized prohibition, the Republican party and Herbert Hoover in a speech prepared for delivery today and urged the election of Gov. Alfred E. Smith as President. The Republican party, he said, “has become the symbol for conservatism monopoly, selfishness and dishonesty in Government.” Gov. Smith believes in “a liberal pol- icy of common sense, honesty and law enforcement,” Gen. Mitchell said. “This desire to amend the prohibition law is sponsored by responsible, think- ing people, who see in prohibition as it exists simply a monstrous system that defeats its own object,” he.coatinued. “The eighteenth amendment,” he de- clared, “has been a dismal failure.” “The Republican party is the Prohi- bition party. Most of its members drink, but because they think they can get more votes they adopt the {ypo- critical attitude of favoring the cont: uance of this terrible condition into which a few zealots plunged us.” Gen. Mitchell charged Hoover with monopolizing aeronautical authority as Secretary of Commerce. POLITICAL ROW FATAL. Policeman Shot by Former Mayor of Town. SHARPSBURG, N. C., November 1 (#).—An argument over politics is held to have caused the shooting and fatal injury of Blaine Farmer, a policeman, last night by his brother-in-law, T. W. 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