Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-29
HOOVER WOULD WRITE
IDEALS INTO PLATFORM
Saw &. O. P. Must Do More Than
Enumerate Issues Which
It Approves.

NEW YORK. April ?e.-"rhe rerub-
lican party must do something more
than cnumerate issues thry favor.
Our peonIa are only secondariiv in
terested in the remedies and adjust
ments which all sides VIII promise to
promote They are craving Tor a
demonstration of the moral. socia !
ond economic ideals that are 10 DOM
natA the solution of these 'ostirns."
Herbert Hoover thus writes in a
statement which the New York TIL
bupe prints In answer to us question:
what do you consider the most I'm
portant issues Of the presidential
campaign?'
Mr.. Hoover says the party Platform
will be built about ~" central
themes. the party view OF the CUES
lions before the country and the
ideals that the party will represent
"Al1 the different party Platforms"
he writes, will urge some form of
league of nations, husifsss reor-
SANITATION Of federal administration.
an economy In government, national
budget. reimbursement of taxation. re-
ducfion of cost Of living, suppression
of proflteering. betterment OF agricul-
turaI industry, improved relations he
tween capital and labor. better dis
tribution Of wealth, an american
merchant marine, maintenance of
civil liberty. extension OF education,
Improvement Of waterways and many
other items.
Aspirations Of People.
II am for all of these things. but
wish to call attention to the TACT that
they will be put forward in every
particular; that even the socialists on
one extreme. or the groups frankly in
favor of special interests on the other
extreme, also could consclenlinusly
adopt that same favorable attitude
Mr.. Hoover then proceeds to say:
mo greater mistake can be made
than the assumption that our people
have lost their national aspirations
and idealism because they have gone
back to business. In defining the great
standards. the party must reach iato
the aspirations of our people and into
the social philosophy upon which our
national life is founded
Our people have an ideal OF world
service 1t was not passing favor
in which we made the sacrlnces OF the
last three years for the great ideal Of
the prevention Of war and for the
freedom of the oppressed. 1t is now
q dozen years since republican leaders
Including Roosevelt-first proposed
a league. The ideal cannot be ignored
by the party.
Enunciate a Social Ideal.
I'm the ideals and standards to be
applied to our economic problems. the
republican party must enunciate
social ideal that does not tolerate
either socialism or the Capitalization
of wealth and domination of capital
1.-THE great ranks OF our people are
neither radical nor reactionary. Their
ideal is individual liberty. the protec-
ton and stimulation OF individual
initiative under the American condi-
tion that there shall be equal oppor-
tunity to all.
"They comprehend that the whole
mass can progress in it's moral. in
tellectual and physical standards only
through the progress of each individ-
ual, Their ideal is that we can Sc
cure this only by a maintenance Of
equality of opportunity to each and
every man and woman to take that
niche in our community to which
their abilities and character entitle
them.
"They realize that this is the only
protection from frozen class barriers:
either on one hand. of the class domi-
nation of reaction, or on the other. of
the shining bureaucratic domination
Of socialism. They understand full
well that the domination Of any in
dividual or any interest is negation
Of our real national faith. They be-
lieve that such domination is going
on today and they want correction
to 1t"