Evening star., 1924-11-02

| tion and debate in America and of
suffering, hesitation and doubt abroad.
| We have contributed freely by private
charity to stricken people, and indiv
| idual Americans have helped to solve
this and the other international prob
lem or controversy. But as n nation
! and a government we have preferred
| through dread of what the Secretary
of State calls n renewal of coutro-
versy' to outline or pursue any steady
| course.
1T was this fixed belief in privi-
lege as a governmental policy that
! led the administration to favor
subsidy to shipping interests running
to gross total of S750,000 900. And
Cumber tariff privilege came into it's
, nHrfect flower The license to plum
der which this act extends was
bought and paid for by those who
profit under it. and who hope, by
nolitical contributions during the
present campaign, to insure its per-
petuation. In view of the grossly
excessive rates which it contains it
is painful to hear President Coolidge
pronounce it the lowest tariff which
the Republican party has enacted
since 1890.
Pledges Tariff Reform.
lii INC name OF the DelnOCratlc
party promise the American people
relief from SO unjust law. We
shall rewrite the tariff without mall
ice on the one hand or favoritism on
the other. and with full sense of
the relation all schemes of taxation
bear to the economic life of the
country.
Safeguard L. $. Rights.
That it is proper to refuse to other
| powers the right to discuss or settle
our domestic questions, no man will dis
| pute. / am equally unwilling that they
should discuss and settle in our alb
sence foreign questions in which We
have 4 vital interest I apprehend that
the interests OF America will surely
suffer if she deliberately withdraws
when all the other nations OF the world
assemble to discuss matters OF world
VIDE concern. II IS not necessary in
order to preserve her independence or
protect her from the risk Of being en-
broiled in alien quarrels, that she could
| occupy merely the roe CT = .Peeping
Tom when the nations come together.
We are on trial before the wor d.
In our attitude toward the word court
there is a ready test by which mankind
VIII try the sincerity or insincerity of
the professions We have SO often. made
IL furnishes also a test of the sincerity
OF the present administration.
"A new world cannot be built in a
day Even the world court is not
the nnai answer to it's problems. Each
forward step must show the way to
| that which is to follow, but | for one
VIII not be driven from my faith in
the future because it promises NOT TO
resemble the past.
Unwilling to trust the reason and
conscience of the country on these
questions, there has been in the clos
ing hours of the campaign studiou2
eHort on the part of our Republican
friends to play upon the coun,ry's
iears. Along with other man they see
inc unrest and discomfort that ride
through the land like harbingerc of a
coming storm. With unparalleled au-
dacitE they ask the country TO trust
the Republlcan party to lay the winds
they themselves have raised"
Not all the preaching of the
reds, he continued. has ever done
so much to shake the confidence of
the American people in their Govern
ment as the corruption, the inefi-
cheney and the fayoritism that has
prevailed in Washington during the
present administration. We will not
restore the public confidence bv yot-
ing 10 repeat and to continue the
conditions which have shaken it.
Moreover, let those who fear the
spread of radicalism in this country
be warned that no conservative dyke
was ever raised so strong that it
would contain the wrath of a people
pressed beyond tho limit they were
willing to endure; and when it
breaks, the onrushing food is all the
more destructive because of the ef-
fort to restrain it. The antidote to
radicalism is not reaction; it is a
steady, forward moving, progressive
liberalism in governmental policy.
and an honest, just and sympathetic
administration of governmental af-
fairs.
There are some classes of business
whose prosperity will be seriously
diminished under a Democratic ad-
ministration. There will be no more
purchasing of public officials; no
more fortunes realized from the seiZ-
ures of the public domain; no more
bartering of Executive favors. There
VIII be no more supplies sold for
song out of the Veterans Bureau and
no hospital sites purchased at ten
times their value. No Government
license will be issued to any man or
set of men to levy tribute on their
fellow citizens.
Hits Private Monopoly.
"No legitimate business, on the
other hand, whether large or small,
has anything to fear from the appli-
cation of Democratic principles; but
against business that is dishonest or
corrupt, that is rooted in private
monopoly or draws its strength from
the purchase of governmental favors,
the Democratic party is sworn to
unending war. 1t Is this. Democrats,
which make it impossible for us to
initiate our opponents and send out,
as they have done, letters demanding
campaign contributions on the scrip
tural basis, Freely ye have received,
freely give
prosperity is legitimate aim
when it means the prosperity of the
nation as whole and not a false
prosperity bestowed upon few in
the fond hope that they in turn will
make distribution to the many.
Economic welfare is a. proper subject
1t is not degraded to the level of a
scramble for advantage and con-
test in self-set1eing. Stability in
government is a thing greatly to be
desired when 1t rests on the broad
basis Of equal and exact justice to
all men. It is dearly bought when
1t Is purchased At the price Of sup
pressing free opinion. compromising
with wrong or clinging with reac-
tiona-ry zeal to ideas and policies that
have outlived their usefulness.
Ambitious for His Party.
"I am not without great ambition
for my party. I shall rejoice when
1t is called again to the service of
the Nation and given an opportunity
to carry out, the policies it has es-