The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-08
BY PAUL r. MALLON

United Press STAFF Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March "A SIM
pie JefferSonian solution for farm
relief and development Of friendly
international relations are the
planks of the concise platform upon
which Senator Thomas j. Walsh Of
Montana stands for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
The Teapot Dome prosecutor who
announced his candidacy Saturday
laid down today his ideas about a
Democratic party platform in an
exclusive interview with the United
Press.
No bulky cure-all political rem
edies burden WalSh's statement of
principles. He wants a two-plank
platform built Of simple words.
Wants Low Tariff
He would promise the farmers
two things-a lower tariff which he
thinks would bring more of an
equality between the prices they pay
for things they Use and the prices
they receive for their products; and
rapid completion of the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway to
give them lower freight rates.
He would seek to bring about
what he calls "a radical change in
our attitude toward and our rela-
tons with foreign nations"
1T may be too much to say that
we have come to be hated In all
lands" Walsh declared, "but 1t is
safe to assert that no nation bears
us any particular good will.
In searching for the causes Of
arrangement, the premier place
must be assigned to our declination
to cooperate with them in preserv-
ing the peace of the world, because
they choose to operate and find it
convenient to operate through the
league of nations.
Deal Justly With Nations
perhaps next in It's irritating in
huence is our insistence on the pay
nent of the debts due from our
late allies while raising up prohi-
bitive tariffs which make it impos-
Sible for them to pay, and particu-
larly in making up the customs
duties after the debts were con-
tracted-a proceeding equivalent to
raising the interest rates on them.
Our people have a holy horror Of
war. 1t can only be avoided by
cultivating the friendship OF the
nations Of the earth, by dealing
justly, considerably with them.
More than ever before, in view
Of our expanding foreign commerce
and the necessity for finding
abroad markets for our surplus
products, manufactured as well as
agricultural, should the admonition
of Thomas jefferson be observed, to
cultivate honest friendship with all
nations"
But farm relief should be the
paramount issue. Walsh says, be
cause the conditions of which the
farmers so justly complain are, in
large part, due to Republican poll
cies in contravention of the basic
principles of the Democratic party"
OeueNeS COunVry DEy
strangely enough representatives
of the farmers Of the grain growing
States he continued, look for re-
lief to artif1cially raising the price
of farm products-the McNary-
Haugen idea to meet the level Of
prices generally recognized by them
to have been elevated In large part
by the tariff. But failing to secure
such relief land the signs all point
to their failing) it may be expected
they will embrace the logical rem
edy and give their support to the
only party through whose success
it can be secured"
There is only one other appeal
Walsh believes should be made-to
restore to the people the Federal
Reserve system which he claims has
fallen into the hands Of the very
interests whose malign purpose it
was designed to render innocuous. n
Prohibition should not enter the
discussion, Walsh believes. He is
dry and he believes the country IS
dry.