Evening star., 1928-10-25

| serted In the newspapers by the Repub-
lican party. The advertisement says:
Republican prosperity has reduced
| hours and increased earning capacity"
Buying Power Paralyzed.
That cannot be made to apply to the
| farmer, and because it cannot Is one Of
the reasons why it cannot be made to
apply to the textile workers of New
England, for the reason that the buying
power of one-third of the American
people has been paralyzed. Advertise
ment says that Republican prosperity
car In every back yard" The textile
workers of New England, at $3.50, can
not buy very many chickens nor very
much gasoline.
Republican efficiency has filled the
working mans dinner pail and his
gasoline tank besides, and placed the
whole Nation In the silk-stocking class"
I should like to have q picture of o
$17.30-a-week textile worker riding out
to 6inner in his automobile with his
silk stockings on.
In the face of the candidates own
statement in the face of the Republi-
can party's own declaration that agri-
culture is Frustrated and that the buy
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of the Nation has been paraly1ed, the
Republican candidate at Madison
Square Garden on Monday nigh. OF
this week declared the Democratic rem
edy for the economic ills of agriculture
to be State socialism, without offering
anything in the way of a remedy for
their solution. Unfounded statements
of that kind go farther to build up the
ranks of socialism in this country than
anything else.
AS far as these problems are con-
cerned, certainly words have not been
used to convey meaning, but have
been used to hide it.
Turns to Prohibition.
Taking about using words to hide a
meaning, let us take the gem of the
speech of acceptance of the Republican
candidate. Speaking of prohibition, he
said:
"Our country has deliberately under
taken great social and economic ex-
pertinent, noble in motive and far reach
ing in purpose. 1t must be worked out
constructively."
What does that meanp What is the
matter with the noble experiment that,
after eight years of trial, 1t is necessary
for the Republican candidate to say 1t
must be worked out conStructively? Is
it working now? II not, what Is the
matter? And what Is his remedy?
Why not use words to convey the mean
ing and not to hide it?
Further in his speech he says:
Common sense compels us to realize
that grave abuses have occurred"
What are they, and what Is the REM
edy for them?
Speaking In Milwaukee, in great de-
tail laid before the American people
the abuses Of prohibition bootlegging,
official corruption and general disrespect
| for law. And offered remedy.
Strange to say, at Madison Square
Garden on Monday night my remedy
modification of the VolStead act and
the application of States rights to the
solution of the problems referred to
by the Republican candidate as State
| socialism. It cannot be possible that
! Mr.. Hoover means seriously to try to
lead the American people to believe that
the cure of these evils by the applica-
tion of the principle of States rights
can be attacked as socialism.
Present Condition Anarchy.
Where does Mr.. Hoover's do-nothing
! policy with respect to prohibition get
us? For anything that he has to sug-
| ge5t we shall continue to live under
| the present grave abuses. II my plan
of liquor control is State socialism, the
| present condition of bootlegging, hijack-
ing, racketeering, corruption and law
leSsness Is governmental anarchy.
| Is this cry of socialism anything new?
| Not to a man with my experience.
| have heard 1t raised by the reactionary
element of the Republican party in my
own State over period of quarter Of
q century. Every forward-looking pro-
I gresSive, up-to-date legislative enact
! ment In New York was at some time or
another referred to by reactionary Re-
| publican leaders as State socialism.
I recall vividly to mind the debate in
| the Assembly when was the leader OF
the Democratic party on the floor OF
that house on the question of pensions
for widowed mothers. The Republican
leader referred to it as paternalism and
| as socialism. The workmen's compensa-
tion act, enacted by Democratic leg
islature and signed by a Democratic
governor, was referred to as paternalis-
tic and socialistic. All of the Salutary
amendments to the factory code intend
ed to promote the health and well be-
| ing of women and children in industry
were decried as being socialiStic and
paternaliStic.
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| argument made against me and my
| campaign for the governorship was
predicated on the theory that favored
paternalistic legislation because ar
gued for the strengthening of the child
labor laws, the laws for the protection
of women in industry and the extension
of the benefits of the widows pension
act And in the present campaign In
| New York State, the Republican candi-
| date is building large part Of his ar
| gument on promise to extend the
benefits of all these laws, notwithstand-
| ing that at the time of their original
| introduction they were all decried by
| the reactionary element of the repub-
lican party as socialistic and paternal-
! istic.
Foster Cry o; Socialism.
The cry of socialism has been pat
ented by the powerful interests that de-
sire to put damper on progressive leg
iSlation.
Failing to meet the arguments fairly
and squarely, special interest" falls
back on the old stock phrase, of social
ISM The people of New York State are
tired OF the stock argument, have dis
covered it means nothing, that it, Is SIM
ply subterfuge and camouflage, and
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ton in their wisdom will SO appraise 1t.
AS far as all these problems are con-
cerned, have certainly used words to
convey my meaning and I have not
attempted to conceal it, and it made
no difference in what part of the coun-
try was talking. To refer to the rem
edies for all these evils as State social
ism Is not constructive craftsmanship;
1t is not leadership, and leadership is
what this country is hungry for today.
! It has not had it in the last eight years,
and it has little prospect of it in the
four to come in the event of Republican
success.
The solution of these problems along
sane, sensible, progressive lines can
only come from the restoration of the
Democratic party to power under a