Milford chronicle., 1928-08-17

in production and distribution, low
er prices to the consumer, and more
stable employment and profit
While the problem varies with
every different commodity and
with every different part Of our
great country, l should wish to ap-
ply the same method to agriculture
so that the leaders Of every phase
Of each group can advise and or
ganize on policies and construc-
tive measures. l am convinced that
this form Of action, as it has done
in other industries, can greatly
benefit farmer, distributor and con-
sumner.
Greater Opportunities
"The working out Of agricultural
relief constitutes the most impor-
tant obligation of the next Admin
istration. l stand pledged to these
proposals. The object Of our poll
cies is to establish for our farmers
an income equal to those Of other
occupations; for the farmers wife
the same comforts in her home as
women in other groups; for the
farm boys and girls the same OPP
portunities in life as other boys and
girls. So far as my own abilities
may be of service, dedicate them
to help secure prosperity and con-
tentment in that industry where l
and my forefathers we're born and
nearly all my family still obtain
their livelihood. .
1.-THE Republican Party has ever
been the exponent Of protection to
all our people from competition
with lower standards Of living
J abroad. We have always fought
for tariffs designed to establish
this protection from imported
goods. We also have enacted re-
strictions upon immigration for the
protection of labor from the inflow
of workers faster than we can abb
sorb them without breaking down
our wage levels.
1.-THE Republican principle OF an
effective control Of imported goods
and of immigration has contributed
greatly to the prosperity OF our
country. There is no seltshness
in this defense of our standards OF
living. Other countries gain moth
ing if the high standards of Amer
lea are sunk and if we are pre-
vented from building a civilization
which sets the level of hope for the
entire world. A general reduction
in the tariff would admit a flood OF
goods from abroad. It would in
lure every home. It would fill our
streets with idle workers. 1t
would destroy the returns to our
dairymen, our fruit, fax, and live
stock growers, and our other farm
ers."
Prohibition
On the subject of prohibition Mr..
Hoover repeated his recent decla-
ration: 81 do not favor repeal Of the
18th Amendment. 1 stand for ell
cient enforcement of laws enacted
Hereunder. Our country has de-
liberately undertaken great social
and economic experiment, noble in
motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Il must be worked out constructive
w." And he added the following:
Common sense compels us to re-
alize that grave abuses have oe-
curred-abuses which must be rem
edied. Investigation of fact and
causes can alone determine the
wise method of correcting them.
Crime and disobedience of law can
not be permitted to break down the
Constitution and laws of the United
States.
Modification of the enforcement
laws which would permit that which
the Constitution forbids is nullifica'
ton. This the American people
will not countenance. Change in
the Constitution can and must be
brought about only by the straight
forward methods provided in the
Constitution itself. There are those
who do not believe in the purposes
of several provisions of the Consti-
tuition. No one denies their right
to seek to amend it. They are not
subject to criticism for asserting
that right. But the Republican Par
ty does deny the right of anyone to
seek to destroy the purposes of the
Constitution by indirection.
whoever is elected President
takes an oath not only to faithfully
execute the office of the President,
but that oath provides still further
that he will, to the best of his abil-
ity, preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United
States. should be untrue to these
great traditions, untrue to my oath
Of office vera I to declare other