Evening star., 1928-11-01

1oF 0IIlleu pIepdEeu SpeeCu last uABu
follows:
I shall take for my text this evening
a statement by the immortal Lincolr
which since its utterance has beer
heard around the world:
"You can fool some of the people
all of the time, all of the people some
of the time, but you cannot fool all oi
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? 1t looks
| to me like it is Gov. Hughes. And 1t
further looks to me as though he is
| trying to becloud the issues in vain
attempt to set his own candidate right
before the people and to question my
! position.
In the city of Denver 7 clearly out
lined my position on water power. 1t
is as follows:
great, 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 Ma
! ton 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
believe the agency, whether 1t be
State or Government. should not only
own the site but should own and build
and operate the powerhouse. 1t 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
Governments 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 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 know that. What
I said 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 campaign Mr..
Hoover has not made single suggeS-
ton about it, except to refer to it as
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, am running my own cam
paign. He has got all he can do to run
Mr.. Hoover'S. And 1t is entirely un-
necessary for him 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 1t, where his candidate stands on
| the issues.
Now let us devote our attention to
the text just read.
The Republican record of the last
seven and 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 processes its great love
and devotion to the workingman and
! 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 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 we're set during the
war under the administration of Wood
| row Wilson. 1t 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 Presidents 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 2,75O,0O0 was the
maximum figure. He raises the figure
OF unemployed in 1921 from around
/; 2,f50,000 to 100000 for the purpose
| Of campaign argument.
| In the course of his speech Mr.
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