The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-09-06


land under my leadership will not
advocate any sudden or drastic re-
volution in our economic system
which would cause business up
heaval or popular distress.
"The Democratic party stands
squarely for the maintenance of
Legitimate business and a high
standard of wages for American
labor.
"Pay no attention to the Repub-
lican propaganda and accept my
assurance as the leader of our
party that Democratic tariff legis-
lation will be honest" he declared.
SIT will play no favorites. 1t will
do justice to every element in the
nation"
He said foreign policy has it's
roots in the approval of the ma
jority of the people and that he re-
garded it as paramount duty to
keep alive the interest of the peo-
pile in question of foreign policy
and to advise the electorate as 10
facts. He promised to stress the
necessity for restoration of cor
dial relations with Latin-America.
The Republican administration
has signally failed in its endeavor
to remove the causes of war, he
continued.
81 pledge myself to a resump-
tion of real endeavor to make the
outlawry of war effective by re-
moving it's causes and to substitut,
the methods of Cancellation. confer
ence, arbitration, and judicial
determination" he declared.
The President has two duties
with respect to the prohibition
question, he said.
"The first is embodied in this
oath of office" he went on. eff
with one hand on the Bible and
the other hand reaching up to
Heaven, 1 promise the people of
this country that 4 will faithfully
execute the office of President of
the United States and to the best
of my ability preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution of the
United States you may be sure
that l shall live up to that oath to
the last degree.
81 shall to the very limit exc
cute the pledge Of our platform
to make an honest endeavor to
enforce the 18th amendment and
all other provisions of the Federal
Constitution and all laws enacted
pursuant theret D."
The Governor promised truth
lessly to stamp OUT the present
corruption in prohibition enforce
ment.
"Such condi.ic rs cannot and vii!
not exist under any administration
pr esided over by me- he asserted.
Continuing, he said:
'"The second constitutional duty
imposed upon the President is to
recommend to the Congress such
measures as he shall judge neces-
sary and expedient.' -
81 shall advise the Congress in
accordance with my constitutional
duty of whatever changes I deem
necessary or expedient.' It will
then DE for the people and the
representatives in the national and
state legislature to determine
whether these changes shall be
made"
81 believe in temperance" he
continued. owe have not achieved
temperance under the present sys-
tenn. The mothers and fathers of
young men and women throughout
this land know the anxiety and
worry which has been brought to
them by their children's use of
liquor in "a way which was unknown
before prohibition. l believe in
reverence for law. Today disre-
gard of the prohibition laws is in
sidiously sapping respect for all
law. l raise, therefore, what |
profoundly believe to be a great
moral issue involving the righteous
ness of our national conduct and
the protection of our children's
morals"
The remedy is to be found in the
fearless application of Jefferson.
ian principles, he continued, to
allow for different habits and
customs of different parts of the
country.
"Some immediate relief would
come from an amendment to the
Volstead law giving a scientific de-
finition of the alcoholic content OF
an intoxicating beverage" he said.
"The present definition is admit
tedly inaccurate and unscientific
Each side would then be allowed
to fix it's own standard of alcoholic
content, subject always to the pro-
viso that that standard could not
exceed the maximum fixed by the
Congress.
81 believe, moreover, that there
should be submitted to the people
the question of some change in the
provisions of the 18th amendment
Certainly, no one foresaw when
the amendment was ratified the
conditions which exist today OF
bootlegging, corruption and oper
violation of the law in all parts OF
the country. The people them
selves should, after this eight
years of trial, be permitted to say
whether existing conditions should
be rectified. / personally believ,
in an amendment to the 18th
amendment which would give to
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