Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1930, Page 11

WATSON PRAISES HOOVER'S RECORD Republican Leader Broad- casts Legislative Review in Forum. (Continued From Tenth Page.) Following the recommendation of the ded to revise fl so as to preserve to the American farmer a larger share of his market right at home, and at the same time to maintain that home market at power by giving 1o an industries, suffering from un- employment beca of foreign cheap Iabor competition, adequate tariff rates of pauper labor n world con- ecessary wages America varied 26 tates they n the aver- In 19 wages in the same varied 86 per cent States they were 240 per cent higher than in the lowest European countries. | Therefore, if we were to execute the policy to which both political parties | scemed committed in the last campaign | —namely, t American labor was en- | titled to farifl protecton equalizing the | difference in wages at home and abi the nec:: of upward revis stries suffering from competition was obvious in Foreign Labor Poured In. e changed conditz tation of chy products from abroad began t the country and thus aided about the condition certain American tries, which in fact began five yea The evidence | now be found in hundreds rial plants that in that time | have either closed down or slowed down | in all parts of the countrv. This condi- | tion did not produce general attention | or cause Nation-wide injury until last year because new and growing indus- | tries, such as the motor, radio, and air- plane manufacture, were able to absorb the slack. The extent of this displace= | ment of American labor is not fully re= Yealed by the official figures on impor- | tation because they are based on foreign Valuations and in many instances on | under-valuation, and yet the result was none the less effective and none the less | disastrous, and these immense importa- | tions, produced by cheap labor in for- eign countries, so wrought upon our in- | dustrial and financial structure that the | crash in the stock market last October | shook it from dome to foundation and from center to circumference The second change was that Ameri- €an industrialists have since the World | War invested three billion dollars in | industries competing with our own in foreign cheap labor markets, thereby adding American management efficiency to cheap labor as a growing menace to the American standard of wages and living. This fact chiefly accounts for the strength of the opposition to in- creased industrial rates in the new tar- iff law. Neither the American farmer Tor factory can flourish in unequal com- petition with that foreign cheapness in | production secured through the sacrifice | of human values, unless we are willing, | which we are rot, to level down our | standards of life for the masses to those of foreign lands. | Nevertheless, the new tariff law is chiefly in its rates a farm relief meas- | ure. Of the officially estimated in- creases in customs collections aggregat- ing $106,426,769 under the new tariff law, $72,181314 falls on agricultural i the compensatory rates rial products made from the TaW materials thus affected in price. bringing nemployment in Hoover's Main Objective. President Hoover spoke in the last campaign of the abolition of poverty as the objective of an enlightened civili- zation. Our highest achievement in America has not been that we have be- come the richest country in the world, but that here wealth is more widely diffused, th in any other country; that the masses of Americans enjoy a standard of living beyond the dreams of any other land or time. If we could diffuse these living standards through- out the world without sacrificing our own standards would be a duty gladly performed, but so long as so much of the remainder of the world sists in a system of cheapened pro- duction through the cheapening of the Worker, we must protect our standards #gainst destructive competition with the product of such standards or else &ink to the world level. We cannot thus advance toward the solution of the problems of poverty, but would, as An- drew Jackson once declared in opposing the disastr policy his party mnow ioposes, “make paupers of ourselves.” e Republican party believes that the ‘American worker is entitled not to charity or a dole, but to that full op- portunity for employment upon which all progress in measures of social jus- tice must rest In this belief, a Republican majority In Congress has passed, and President Hoover has signed, a tariff law which ¥l in due time vindicate itself, as all other protective tariff measures have in the past, by the restoration of nor- mal. prosperous conditions in the United Btates. Foreign powers, most of them With higher tariffs than our own, which have protested against the new tariff Jaw will discover that the restoration of rosperity in the United States will elp and not hurt the rest of the world and that it will promote and not dimin- ish foreign trade. Flexible Provision. The special wish of President Hoover Was met in the new flexible tariff pro- vision, under which the President and the Tariff Commission are authorized, under a showing of facts, to adjust any inequities in the new ta first time in our £quarely placed tariff-mal fic,” fact-finding basis. When con- se which justify either the the increasing of given tariff Tates, our Gov is now in a po- sition to promptly meet the situation Without resorting to a general tariff re- vision, which always is disturbing to trade and disquieting to business, Un- doubtedly the unprecedented delay in enacting the new tariff law, due to a factional and partisan oppowtion, to- gether with a stock market panic which the uncertainty produced by this delay helped to precipitate, were the prime causes of that temporary period of de- pression we are now sharing with the whole world. The turn now is upward and the political calamity howlers, who pin_their hopes to the continuance of national adversity, are destined to have their fond ‘expectations blasted. We are still incomparably the richest and most prosperous Nation in the world, obperating under the same economic pol- icies in" accordance with which we achieved that enviable position and with a national genius capable of sur- mounting every obstacle. Nothing short of an abandonment of the principles and policies which have given this Na- tion industrial supremacy and finan- cial primacy can halt that progress. Foreign Policy. ‘The American people believe in the policy of adequate national defense. Ardently as we desire peace, strongly as we deprecate war, we are practical enough to know that in the world as it is, not as we wish it were, national de- fenselessness is national suicide. We de- sire no armament for offense. Our ter- ritory and resources are sufficient to We covet nothing belonging nations except their friendship \and respect. We believe in a mutual re- duction of armaments because by such = policy we reduce not only the finan- cial burden of government, but also the @anger of war, withous decreasing our {the debt incur lremm power should war be forced upon us. We involve ourselves in I no dangerous international commitment when we agree with other military and naval powers to limit our own naval construction to the extent to which they agree *5 limit theirs. This is the | spirit, as take i, of the London naval treaty proposed by the President as the result of the conference at London and which is now under comsideration by the Senate. Any canferencé of this character has some clements of give and tske. In all three f the nations pri~ _ally " involved—England, Japan an the United States—there are able ar consclentious naval and other ex perts who believe that their respectiv countries are getting the worst of it | BY the terms of this treaty. It is a fair conclusion from such differences of opinion that no nation is being worsted, {but that, on the contrary, in so far as | all three nations are securing the guar- !anty that they are not to be outbuilt | beyond the parity basis agreed upon, all {get the best of nder the London | treaty the United States will regain a| ! parity lost under the operations of the | Washington treaty. We are to add { stantially to our cruiser strength settlement of this question will remove a point of international controversy and possible misunderstanding. 1 as a landmark of progress toward world |amity in the record of the Hoover ad- ministration. It is surprising to note | that some, though by -no means all, {those who cry loudly that this treat; Tepresents a sacrifice of national intel ests join thei | 40 foreign nations ,with higher tariffs | than our own in the demand that for- the most or war, | Other Achievements. f Another contribution to better inter- national feeling was the settlement of the last of our foreign debts growing posed of justly and generously to our | European ‘debtors, but we rejected the | | policy of repudiation advocated both | * here and abroad. The money lent to! { Europe came out of the pockets of the | American_people. There was no_good | reason why they should have paid all| ed in saving the allies | from defeat. especially in view of the fact that, alone among the allied and associated powers, our Nation received no indemnities and acquired no terri- tory. The Hoover administration stood for the sound policy of equitable settl ment, and this has been effected. Economic Depression. With our enormous and unprece dented expansion of private credit, due to time purchases, it had been generally predicted that in case of any halt in| industry, or any serious financial dis- turbance, our credit structure would come crashing to the ground in an un-| precedented panic. No heavier blow was ever struck at a nation's economic nd financial structure than the stock market crash of Jast Autumn. T am not on this occasion undertaking to discuss the causes of this panic; they were i ternational as well as national in char- acter and cannot by any stretch of the imagination fairly be attributed to any fault of the Hoover administration. But for the prompt and statesman- like course of President Hoover this panic “would have produced conse- quences far more disastrous than have been experienced. He quickly assembled the leaders of industry and with them mapped out a program of activity, pub- lic and private, which has served to al- leviate the situation to a marked degree. | The public buildings program was ex- tended to more than a haif billion dol- lars, affecting all parts of the country. State and local officials were encour- aged to expand, rather than contract, public construction. Great industrial corporations_agreed to build at a time when slowing down would have been the usual course. Employment has thus been guaranteed to hundreds of thou- sands of people who otherwise might have been unemployed, while private and public construction has secured the benefit of lower costs through de- creased_commodity prices. The Federal aid of seventy-five mil- llon dollars in road construction has been a further stimulus to employment, besides adding to the Nation's industrial' equipment. Complaint is made of lib- eral Federal participation in road con- struction. No better contribution to the Nation’s material and cultural progress can be made than through the binding together of all parts of our country with a network of modern highways, which would have been impossibie to anything like the extent rapidly achieved in re- cent years without the encouragement and assistance given through our na- tional highway policy ; President Hoover believes that, in the of | voices to those of some | effected. | of 1920 American taxpayers, chiefly the 929 | eign peoples be permitted to effect an|burden of $160,000.000 annually. n countries | economic invasion of our markets which |is the fifth tax reduction by the party while in the United | would impair that vigor of our indus-|now in power, in the aggregate reliev- trial and agricultural structure which is | ing the taxpavers of the country of a | fundamental factor in ade- | burden quate national defense in either peace | more lismall or moderate incomes of ta THE EVENING. STAR, WASHIN | first thing to do is to get the facts. Many of the problems confronting us re in_violent dispute chiefly because here is disagreement as to existing conditions. It is all too common a | failing to make the facts suit theories, | rather than make theories adjust them- {selves to facts. This belief is the in- | spiration of the appointment by Presi- dent Hoover of commissions, notably the Law Enforce- ment Commission. As a result of the | findings of this commission certain | legislation already has been enacted as |a result. The duty of enforcing the prohibition law has been transferred rom the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice, where it natu- rally belongs. In districts with con- gested calendars judges have been provided. Trial without jury in certain prohibition cases has been authorized. agencies for preventing the smuggling of liquor, narcotics, aliens and mer- additional chandise over the border will be con- | solidated for the saké of increased effi- ciency, under a bill proposed by the administration. _The _construction of two additional Pederal prisons to re- lieve overcrowding and of additional jails for minor offenders has been pro- vided for. The President's Child Wel- fare Commission tudies in a field of special o the mothers of the land. Tax Reduction. With all the expansion of national activities Federal tax reduction has been Under the tax reduction act interest smaller ones, have been relieved of a of in we $1,986,000,000. our income have relieved More and tax legisia- those of tion I read the other day the statement of ia well known American author who has .developed an acute disgust for American ‘nstitutions and a corresponding admira- tion "‘P,nm of the World War. They were dis- | tion for the institutions of countries in | which he does not choose to live, in which he declared that America was oligarchy of the rich.” It seems strange that in a Nation so governed we have more and more relieved the smaller income tax payer until no one without a comfortable income pays any income tax whatsoever, and have pro- ‘taxes which re- an increasing per- centage of taxes as their incomes in- crease. It seems strange that in a \country dominated by an oligarchy of 'wealth we regulate through public ['bodies the earning returns of great transportation companies and public | tilities while permitting the indivi- Hd.ml and smaller enterprise to secure whatever rate of return upon their in- vestments possible to them. Merchant Marine. Under the policies of the present national administration we are realizing a dream of many of us which long seemed impossible of realization in the creation of a merchant marine cor- responding in size to our coast line and commerce. America has a domestic coast line equal in length to that of Europe from Archangel to the Black Sea, and yet for years we saw our merchant marine diminish until the sight of the American flag in a for- eign port was a strange and unfamiliar one. During the World War_ the lack of a merchant marine cost the people of America, especially our farmers, many times more than the sums pro- posed n previous years as subventions to create ocean-going commercial fleets. Foreign mail contracts under the pres ent administration have been increased by five and a half million dollars, mak- ing possible the construction of 40 great vessels which will ply the oceans under the American flag, contributors to na- tional prosperity in time of peace, to national defense in case of war. ‘Within the past few days the enact- ment of a rivers and harbors bill carry ing extended appropriations marks the beginning of the realization of the Hoover policy of developing internal waterways, supplementing our existing transportation development in railways, electric lines and highways. These ap- propriations look forward to a great inland waterways system which will ultimately make ocean ports of our Great Lakes cities and furnish cheap transportation to our This is the beginning of & permanent policy requiring years for its complete execution, but which will have the most profound effect upon the development of our interior States. Together with the tariff, this great project carries on the “American system” of Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln, both of whom stressed public projects of internal de- velopment as a proper accompaniment to the doctrine of protection, Other Measures. solution of any national problem the | N T can but. briefly mention other meas- ures of public importance which are the -l;)DAY. o g8 whife as T new certain_ fact-finding | Federal | Various | is making extensive | This | interior States. ! operation since the inauguration of President Hoover. We have placed the Radio Commission upon a permanent basis, and have made progress in lay- ing down the lines of development for this mighty instrumentality for the ins struction and the entertainment of the American millions. We have remedied the long delay in reapportionment by more equitably distributing representa- tion in Congress and the electoral col- lege upon the basis of existing popula- tion. We have completed a census re- vealing the steady growth of our popu- lation, despite the decrease in immigra- tion under restrictive laws. We have placed in the Department of Agriculture the power to license dealers in perish- able farm products so as to eliminate | fraud. We have made further pro- sfon for our disabled soldiers in line with a policy unparalleled for gener- osity elsewhere on earth, and which holds it to be the duty of the Nation to save its defenders from hardship or want, to protect those who in time of need protected us, and in so doing have passed practically every measure de- manded by the American Legion. We have reorganized the, Federal Power Commission with three members who can give all their time to questions of hydroelectric development, instead of permitting this to be the incidental work of already overburdened cabinet | officers. We have made appropriations for the beginning of the work on Boulder Dam, which will confer large benefits on an important group of States. We have established a Bureau of Narcotics in the Treasury Depart- ment to better control the illicit traffic in_habit-forming drugs. President Hoover has named a com- mission to investigate the administra- tion and conservation of the public domain, looking forward to vesing | more power over public lands to the | several States. The Interior Depart- ment has taken steps toward the con- servation of oil. All agencies dealing with the affairs of veterans have been consolidated. Our prison parole and | Probation system have been reorganized, I have mentioned only matters of | major importance. But for lack of | time, many other constructive measures | of legislation and administration might be added to the catalog of things per- formed for the public good during the | 16 months which have succeeded the | inauguration of President Hoover, | Suffice it to say that measures that might well distinguish years of legisla- tive enactment have been crowded into a few months, and yet up to the pri ent time they have not been properly appraised by the American people largely because of the adverse economic condition which‘ so depresses a large part of our people. As time goes on, however, and these achievements of the administration and of Congress have been given an opportunity to manifest themselves in our American business and soclal life, the people will rightly estimate this successful record and give | to this administration a high place for successfully conducting the great affairs of our Nation in & time of perplexity and doubt. Regrets “Age of Criticism.” In conclusion, let me say that we live in an age of criticism, when all too little thought is given to the service of Government, all too much to the faults of Government. When we look within ourselves and realize that perfection does not seem to be the law of Nature, we should not expect perfection in the body politic. If just a little of the thought and effort devoted to criticism tof public men and public measures, much of it based on misinformation, were spent on cultivating some appre- ciation of the good in our Government, in our institutions and in our public servants, we might acquire a more just and rational view of the work going on at Washington. It is easy enough to pick flaws, to find fault, to sneer and to defame. It takes some knowledge and some thought to fairly appraise the work constantly being done in Washing- ton in the interests of the American people. It is true that such work has no news value; it is not sensational. The orderly, industrious, useful citizen who goes about doing his duty and help- ing make a better world, seldom gets into the headlines; let him make a slip and he immediately attracts attention. So it is in Washington. It is only when something happens which easily lends itself to criticism that the public is likely to know much about it. But it should be remembered that news is the vnusual, and the usual in Washington is the faithful performance by public | men of the duties committed to them. President Hoover is perhaps the hardest worked man in the country. Coming to the greatest post in Christendom with a world-wide reputa- tion for wisdom, efficiency, humani- tarlanism and a genuine desire to serve his fellow-man, his administration is disappointing only to those who have prepared to and who want to be disappointed. He is near mid-stream BESTERDAY... 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The effect o these poli- cies upon public weifare hyve not vet had time to manifest the.elves, but they are as certaip to do so i the im- mediate future g d is to follow night. UPp o theipresent tim, he been in the midst of the work &.{ Pui- ting them into effact and now a% that is required is for the people .§' be patient until they have had an op\'0r- tunity to demonstrate their effectite- ness. To this end he deserves the con - fidence and the support of the Ameris ! can people and undoubtedly I t He has been laboring handicap of constant opposition Congress which ih one branch been out of sympathy with him politi cally. W oalition deal_with ts ranks a majority of L eight in the Senate on any joint vote, he yet has been put through that body 15 of his ma policies and suffered a defeat two and one of lived. 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