Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-16
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American Standards.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, october 16.-The text OF
Herbert Hoover's address at Boston last
night was as follows:
Economic questions have over the
past so years grown to larger and
larger proportion of our national is
sues. Today these questions are more
dominant than ever. Upon their sound
solution depends our prosperity, our
standards of living and the opportuni-
ties for a fuller life to every home. ]
make no apologies. therefore, for speak
ing to you tonight on economic QueS-
tons as they are affected by the tariff
and our foreign trade. including our
merchant marine. Obviously the poll
cieS OF our Government bear the most
important relationship to the mainte-
nance and expansion of foreign trade,
and the Government is the sole origin
of the tariff.
1 have been told that traditionally
these subjects are of less interest to
the women of our country than to
the men. This I do not believe. Not
alone are women today q large part
of the army of industry, but they are
also the treasurers of the household.
and the security of the family income
Is to them Of primary concern.
Called Vital Questions.
There are no more important ques-
Hons to the people of New England
Sfan this. Nature has given you no
coal mines, no oil wells, no vast ex-
panse of prairie-in fact, no great
possessions of rawS materials. Your
transportation relations, both inland
and overseas, do not present to you the
economic opportunity for basic raw
material industries.
But New England has something even
more important than all this. It has
from the very beginnings Of our history
provided industrial and commercial
leadership and skilled workmanship in
the United States The courage, genius
and lofty integrity. of that leadership
has for 200 years carried New England
through a score of those inevitable
crises that come from invention. from
change IN demand.
New England began with a shipping
industry as her dominant commercial
occupation. She succeeded in it be-
cause she built better ships, because
Yhe was more Skillful In ship construc-
tion and because she developed greater
skill in operation. She spread her ships
over all the seas. She was the first
part Of our country to develop the fac
tory system. She trained the first
skilled workers, erected the first ma
chinery and set up the first equipment
of modern industry. Her people have
developed, not only great industry and
commerce, but a great inheritance Of
method and skill. IT Is not simply
great past, it is great present.
Great Industrial Area.
!, Today with hen. reservoir If skilled
craftsmanship, of able -tecllnologiSts and
administrators, with her own capital,
with access to the markets of our own
country and the world, New England is,
and viii continue to be over many gene
erations to come, the great American
center for productinn OF those articles
where we require Quality rather than
quantity. But the very mature of her
location, the character Of her industry
and her resources make New England
on one hand dependent upon the tariff
to protect certain Of her industries In
the American market and upon the
other hand the development of foreign
trade to find world markets for others.
And today the whole Nation has
more profound reasons for Solicitude In
the promotion OF our foreign trade than
ever before. As the result of our
high wages, we have led the world in
substituting machines for hand labor.
This, together with able leadership and
skilled workers, enables us to produce
goods much IN excess Of our own needs.
Taking together our agriculture and
.Dur manufactures and our mining, we
have increased our production approx
3nately 80 per cent during the last
EIGHT years, while our population has
increased only about 10 per cent. Much
POI this increase of production has been
absorbed in higher standards Of living,
but the surplus grows with this unceas-
ing improvement. To insure continue
GUS employment and maintain our
wages we must find profitable market
for these 'surpluses.
Stresses Stability.
= Nor Is this the only reason for lend
ing high Importance to our foreign
trade, either for New England or the
Country as a whole. Our business ideal
must be stability-that is, regularity of
production and regularity of employ
ment. We attain stability in produce
ton whether it be in the individual fac
tory or In the whole industry or
whether it is in the Nation at large by
the number Of different customers we
supply. The shock of decreased demand
from single customer can be absorbed
by the increase from another If distri-
button be diffused. Consequently our
industries will gain in stability the
wider we spread our trade with foreign
countries. This additional security re-
fleets itself in the home Of every worker
and every farmer in our country.
The expansion OF export trade has a
vital importance in still another direc-
tion. The goods which we export con-
tribute to the purchase from foreign
countries of the goods and raw ma
terials which we cannot ourselves pro-
Nduce. We might survive as nation,
Though, on lower living standards and
wages if we had to suppress the per
cent or 10 per cent of our total pro-
lduction, which Is now sold abroad. But
our wohle standard of life would be
paralyzed and much. of the joy of living
destroyed If we were denied sufficient
imports. without continued inter-
change of tropical products with those
of the temperature zone whole sections
of the world, including our own coun-
try, must stagnate and degenerate in
civilization.
We could not run an automobile, we
could not operate dynamo or use a
telephone we're we without imported
raw IIldtCl tdlo lNOtu Jllc lIOp1CS. III
1fact, the whole structure of our ad-
Fvancing civilization would crumble and
1the great mass of mankind would
travel backward if the foreign trade
of the world were to cease. The great
war brought into bold relief the utter
dependence of nations upon foreign
trade. One of the major strategies of
THAI hour was to crush the enemy by
deprtt1ng him Of foreign trade and
therefore Of supplies of material and
foodstuffs which were vital to his 51-
4stence. ,..
A Mutual Service.
Trade In its true sense is not com
1nerc1al war; it Is vital mutual service
The volume of world trade depends
upon prosperity. In fact, 1t grows from
prosperity. Every nation loses by the
poverty of another Eevery nation
gains by the prosperity Of another Our