Evening star., 1928-10-20

| expected in the next"
Z The words that just read are taken
| from the Republican platform adopted
in Kansas City last June.
Why did the Republican platform
drafters limit the guarantee to the
present administration? They have
been in power since the 4th of
| March, 1921. / can see no other rea-
son for it except deliberate effort to
| get away from the record of the previ-
Gus administration.
| However, the Republican candidate
in his speech of acceptance said:
| The record of these seven and a
half years constitutes period of rare
courage in leadership and constructive
| action. Never has a political party
been able to look back upon a similar
| period with more satisfaction"
Let us therefore deal tonight with
! that record. record which the candi-
| date looks upon with satisfaction and a
| record which the Republican party
offers as guarantee of what may be
! expected in the next four years if it
| is continued in power.
Farm Relief Cited.
Let us take first the record with
regard to the nationwide question of
relief for agriculture. AS far back as
1924 the Republican party in its plat
form definitely promised such legiSla-
ton as would give to agriculture the
benefit of the tariff and place it on an
economic equality with industry. They
so Signally failed in that promise that
they found it necessary to repeat 1t
word for word in the platform of 1928.
! The Republican candidate, who is the
chief adviser to President Coolidge on
matters affecting agriculture and its
promotion, holds out no hope to the
farmer in his speech of acceptance.
Senator Borah. today the chief
spokesman of the Republican party, is
making a special appeal to the farm
newal of their support, so freely and
so cheerfully given to the Republican
party in years gone by.
Let us consult the record and find
out how much help Senator Borah gave
TO make good their previous promises.
AS far back as 1925, speaking of the
farmer, he said:
His problem is still with him, and
Congress should, before many months,
pass a law to give him the relief to
which he is entitled"
Senator Borah, now pleading for
farm support for his party, voted
against the only bill suggested to bring
that relief, and at the same time
offered no solution of his own.
Quotes Borah's Words.
A further extract from his speech is
amusing and entertaining and shall
read it to you:
Don't forget that both major par
ties promised this relief when they
asked the farmer for his vote last year
(meaning 1920. Both parties always
show q great love for the farmer Just
before election time. Now the hour to
make good is at hand"
When that hour struck neither Sen
ator Borah nor his party was prepared
to make good, and as a matter of fact,
did not We find the Senator out now
just before election time, again promis-
ing that relief and again expressing
that great love and devotion to the
cause of the American farmer. He is
himself engaged in doing the very
thing that he accused both parties of
doing. He is going step further and
misrepresenting the situation to the
American farmer in an effort to make
him believe that Mr.. Hoover kept up
farm prices during the war and in the
reconstruction period thereafter.
I read cablegram addressed to one
of the farm leaders by Mr.. Hoover in
which he said he was keeping the
prices down. Who is right: Senator
Borah or Mr. Hoover? Let them ex-
plain the matter to the American
farmer.
not taking the Senator very seriously.
For great many years he had the
reputation of being progressive rep
resentative of the great farming sec
tions of the country. This campaign,
however, diScloseS that he is more
anxious for the success of his party
than he is for the vindication of any
great principle that ne has heretofore
enunciated.
Cites Attack on Hoover.
Let us see how he dealt with the
candidate Of his party when that can
didate was not leading the Republican
forces but was the head of the Food
Administration Bureau under President
Wilson.
In the course of his speech in the
Senate on a bill to appropriate $780,
100000 for food for suffering Europe
Senator Borah, in opposition to the
appropriation, had the following re-
marks to make about Mr.. Hoover, then
food administrator. I read them from
dS 1lG SDUkS
II challenge successful contradiction
that three of the vast monopolies which
control food in this country have with
relation to their commodities, directed
and controlled the Food Administration
since its organization"
Speaking further of Mr.. Hoover, he
said:
He permits there people to in effect
fix their own prices. It is a case of
an individual dealing with himself"
Further on in the speech, speaking
about the food monopolies, he said:
Their profits under Mr.. Hoover
amounted TO all the way from 20 to
40 per cent for the last two years.
Shall be called upon under my oath
as a Senator here to turn over $780,
900 900 to feed the poor of Europe, when
I am notified that out of that $780,
100000 those that control the food
products of this country will ashland
probably receive-from 25 to 40 per
cent profit ON their Investments"
Asks Borah Question.
This to my way of thinking was quite
an indictment of the efficiency and the
ability of Mr.. Hoover to administer
the fund for foreign relief. Further on
in his speech, speaking about the ap-
preparation OF $lOO,OOU,OOU, ne USED tnlS
remarkable language:
mo man who has such perverted
views of decency ought to be trusted
with the unlimited power to deal with
| $10O, ,000"
1 ask Senator Borah this question
| To whom did he refer? What man did
/ he have in his mind when he made that
| statement?
On a subsequent occasion Senator
Borah said:
"Mr Hoover, who violated the most
fundamental principles Of the Consti-
| tuition Of this country, will not have
very much regard for statute in
| Europe"
That to my mind is polite way OF
calling a man 1awbreaker. That was
; only nine years ago, and today Senator
Borah is busily engaged in explaining
/ to che American people that Mr.