The Indianapolis times., 1928-11-03
WEST IS GIVEN
HOOVER farm
RELIEF PLEDGE
Nominee ReneWS Promise
of Special Session in
st. Louis Speech.
ON WAY TO PUEBLO
Talks Tonight in Colorado
Town; Stresses Need of
Waterways.
ON WAY TO PUEBLO
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
IInifed Press STAFF Corresnondent

ABOARD HERBERT HOOVER'S
SPECIAL TRAIN EN- ROUTE TO
PALO ALTO, Cal, Nov. 3.-Her-
bert Hoover's special train was
speeding today across Kansas
through the heart of the wheat belt,
carrying the Republican presiden-
tial candidate to Pueblo, Colo,
where he will break his westward
journey again for his fourth and
last speech tonight On his way
home.
The trip across the home state of
Senator Charles Curtis, Hoover's
running mate, will be broken for
several five minute stops today,
where the candidate will greet the
voters.
At Pueblo In the home city of
Hubert Work, chairman of the Re-
publican national committee, Hoo
yer will address the people of Colo
rado and the countain states over
radio hookup.
The Republican candidate re-
ceived an enthusiastic ovation from
a crowd of 10000 which packed st.
Louis coliseum Friday night to
hear the major address of his wes-
tern trip, a final appeal for farm
support.
Renews Farm Pledge
Hoover said he hoped the De-
cember short session Of congress
would solve the farm question, but
added that ''if this is not possible,
I would call a special session in
order that we speedily might arrive
at determination Of the question
before the next harvest"
Hoover's speech was pointed main
1y at the farm and business element
of the west.
He expressed himself In favor of
completion of the great three-fold
Mississippi system of inland wa
terways, joining the Gulf, the Great
Lakes and the sea via the St. Law
renee, with lateralS feeding into
this great chain.
He proposes formation of fed
eral farm board to aid farmers, with
government assistance, but leaving
their business within their own con-
troll. Futher, he advocated "regllla-
ton" of public utilities. but "ob-
jected' to the government going
into business in competition with
its own citizens"
Realms of Government
Hoover took as his theme the
fields into which government
should enter. This contrasted with
his recent New York speech in
which he labelled as Estate So
cialism," Governor Smiths proposals
for government action on the liquor
question, farm relief and waterways.
The government, he held, must
deal with great undertakings in
public works, such as inland water
ways, flood control, reclamation,
highways and public buildings"
Still other proper realms for gov
ernment activity, he said, were
fostering education, public health,
scientific research, public parks,
conservation of national resources,
agriculture, industry and foreign
commerce." as well as aiding the
growing efforts of our people to
cooperation among themselves to
useful and economic ends"
Importance of Tariff
StreSsing the Importance of tariff
asg an aid to the farmer and the
general consumer, Hoover said the
following factors are involved in any
farm solution:
/. A tariff "to reserve to the
farmer the American market; to
safeguard him from the competi-
ton of imports of farm products
from countries of lower standards of
living"
2. Provision for cheaper trans
portation to market.
8. Securing to the farmer "a lar
ger proportion of the price which the
ultimate consumer pays, through the
elimination of a voSt number of
wastes that lie in our method of
distribution.
4. SSecuring of a greater sta
bility of prices now unduly affected
by seasonal and periodical Surpluses.
Great Inland Waterways
Dealing with the inland water
ways proposal, Hoover envisaged a
system of 10000 miles of most es-
sential transportation connecting
twenty states with the gulf on one
hand and with the north Atlantic
on the other"
The three trunk lines would link
the gulf at New Orleans via st.
Louis and Chicago with the lakes
and the northern boundaries of the
country; join Pittsburgh with Sc.
Louis and Kansas City, and open
a shipway through the st. Lawrence
to the sea.
He said the $1OO,0O0,O00 expendi-
ture hitherto made was money well
spent" and he advocated complet-
ing the project "at the earliest pos
sible moment"
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