Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-27

and by millions Of unemployed lab
orers. invite decisive political rev
olution. The farmers Of the west
and Of the middle west will not sup
port Mr.. Hoover. He has led the
forces opposed to the McNary-Hau-
gen bill and challenged its advo-
Gates.
All Policies Republican
The false p%retense underlying the
republican claim OF unusual nation
wide prosperity is more fully made
apparent when il is disclosed that
every financial panic the country
has experienced has occurred while
the republican party was in power.
In 1869 when "Black Friday" cast
its pail over the nations business,
the republican party was In control
Of every branch Of the government.
The panic OF 1873 eliminating in
the hardest times the American peo-
pie ever went through came during
the administrations OF Presidents
Grant and Hayes. The election Of
Grover Cleveland in 1884 resulted
from a political revulsion induced
by distress in every sphere of bus
mess. The panic of 1892 orig
mated during President Garfield's
administration, and was a prominent
factor in the second election Of Mr..
Cleveland.
When the financial disaster Of
1907 took place. the republican party
had been in full power throughout
the 10 preceding years. Millions
were thrown out Of work. bread lines
were formed and soup houses estab-
lished in every city of the United
States.
NO Danger of Steal
Does a fair survey justify the
claim that the country has been SO
prosperous under Presidents Hard
ing and Coolidge that IL would in
vite adversely TO change control next
November? To ask the question is
to answer il. Government property
certainly will be safer with the
democrats in power. There will be
no danger of its being stoleni
Mr.. Bowers in his notable adj
dress TO the convention has de-
scribed the corruption which has
disRraced the executive departments
during the present and preceding
administrations. Such a saturnalia
Of crime and fraud never before was
witnessed. Honest o rnment in
the public interest is an issue which
the democratic party Is entitled to
make.
Under President Wilson our party
administered the nations affairs,
and expended more than $4,000, 000,-
600 during the World war. We kept
the record clean. The worst that
can be said is that the emergency,
which involved the safety Of our
country and its institutions, caused
expenditures which subsequent
CANT. Not an instance Of official dis
honesty of sufficient consequence to
justify the merest mcntionl I'M
mediately following the return OF
the republican party to mower March
4, 1921, organized plunderers took
control of the departments Of jus
tice and interior and of the veterans
bureau, and unmasked graft took
toll in millions Of the public treas
ure.
G. O. p. Inconsistent
DOHlDAct4C D0actS VI the C1AtE~
man of the Kansas City convention
and the supplying verbosity and
reckless perversions of the republic
can platform prompt the declaration
that both the foreign and domestic
policies Of the Harding and Coolidge
administrations are characterized By
and inconsistency - the
resulting from ignorance;
the inconsistency arising from moral
responsibility. How otherwise ac-
count for the agreement not to forti-
fy u possessions in the Pacific; for
the destruction Of new battle ships
and the immediate building OF in
vessels. In what other way
can be explained the preaching OF
peace while waging war in Nicara-
qua; the white washing Of corruption
in high places; the conformation Of
the sale of the republican party ma
chinery to the beneficiaries Of COR
rupt bargains with faithIess cabinet
officers?
President Wilson's foreign policy
was decisive. 1t commanded respect
for the United States throughout the
world. It pledged cooperation with
other powers in the promotion o. in
ternational peace and in the avoid
ance of war.
What Is Foreign Policy
Who can comprehend, who can de-
fine the foreign policy of the Hard
and Coolidge administrations?
What il the attitude Of the United
with respect to great intesna- I
problems? Our government is
unpopular. Our flag is regarded with
suspicion and contempt. Nothing has
been done, little is proposed, that is.
to invite the confidence
and friendship OF other peoples. The
peace policy has been hesitant, blum
and futile. In Wilson's
lime the United States held the lead
Of the world on ali highways
human progress. Prompted by the
ignorance and malice Of those enjoy
ne his conf dence. President Hard
ng abandoned this leadership; and