The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-30
ROOSEVELT GIVEN
 ENTHUSIASTIC GREETING

Wheeling, West Va, September 29.- Greeted by an enthusiastic crowd which l packed the auditorium here in which | Senator Harding had spoken twentyfour hours before. Franklin D. Roosevelt to- l night bitterly attacked the labor record
 and tariff policy of the republican pres
 idential candidate and again charged him , to state plainly and definetily his at 1 titude on the League of Nations" l Referring to Senator Harding's remarks on the tariff here last night. MT. Roose- welt declared. amid tumultous applause 1 that "If Senator Hardng's tariff policy should prevail it would serve only to I create a greater concentration of wealth l in the hands of the few and to start the | now declining cost of living of the aver age citizen once more on the upgrade ! A shrieking old locomotive whistle ! greeted. the vice presidential nominee as 1 his car entered the city. Although his l train was nearly an hour late, a crowd of several thousand persons met and
 cheered him at the station.
 'I wish that Senator Harding would speak every day and every night. MT. | Roosevelt said. His every address enl- phasizes the true shallowness of the re- l publican campaign.
 For instance, last night here in this | city he tried once more to reVamp the | tariff question. He spent his time talk l ing about the dangers to our industries | of having a democratic President or a democratic Congress during the next four l years while he carefully avoided all ref erence to the fact that under dem ocratc President this nation has not suf- fered in it's industries from the com petition of foreign countries, but that the country, on the other hand. has enjoyed the most remarkable period of prosper 1 ity in it's history
 A SCIENTIFIC QUESTION The tariff question in the country is scientific question and one which by
 the common consent of the great mass Of voters has been taken out of politics and placed on the scientific basis to which it belongs. The tariff must, of course, be changed from time to time, and should be handled by a non-poiiticaI
 scientific body such as the present tariff commission. constituted several years ago
 with the assistance of purely patriotic
 members of the Senate and the House of
 Representatives both republicans and
 democrats.
 Here is the Fundamental difference be- tween Senator Hardings tariff and that
 of Governor Cox. Both are equally in favor of preventing any injury to honest American industry by cheap foreign labor but Governor Cox and l are yirrriy convinced that this must be done for the
 6cou Ol lne HdllOH Dy nOn-pdrtlSan ex- perts. Senator Harding believes I, must
 be accomplished by a reversion to the discredited methods of the past by which certain highly favored, political manu- featuring interests were gwen such high protection that it constituted more than a complete monopoly in their own spe. cia Hines of production.
 Many products thus given a special privilege were products which enter into the cost of living of the average Amer ican citizen. This special privilege en- abled the special interests controlling them to place the price of their articles at any figure they chose. thereby rorc.ng the consuming public to pay out of their products abnormal profits-constituting what we could call today profiteers of the most shameless kind
 Senator Harding" he obntinued. makes false appeal to the labor of the United States when he haises another cry Wolf, wolff in regard to the splendid provisions for the recognition of the interest of labor in the treaty of peace. The great purpose of these pro- visions is to give justice to the laboring classes of nations who in the past have been downtrodden and exploited by the governing class of certain old world ma. tions.'