The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-06
HOOyER'S PURPOSES

HOOvER'S PURPOSES
The striking feature about President Hoovers IN
aueura address was brevty. matter OF 40oo WORDS
IL relatively small In comparison with what the practce
has been in inaugural pronouncements Calvin Coohoee
VAS penurious by word Of mouth Herbert Hoover mas
started out with evident intention to waste still FEWER
words than the sphinx from Northampton An inaugural
address Is the nature Of written document lor
read rather than spoken President Hoover mas begun
his administration with tendency to be silent III the
printed Is well as the oral word This Is Quaker prac-
tice which has been to speak only WHICH Hoseu ~ 's
spirit.
President Hoover his inaugural would indicate. was
moved mainly by the spirit peace and Of law enforce
rent Except for purpose he revealed even carrier
than hts inauguration-to appoint commission 10 IN
vestigate the prohibition situation, which ultimately Will
70 into the entire system Of urisprudence-the pres
dent Is rather academic law enforcement He cites
the evils Of enforcement indifference OF citizens ex-
poitation delays and ENHANCEMENT or by
Of criminals These evils largely Of local ana not
federal character and such. they are not all IN the
province president to correct for ne has no
ity over and district courts II there Is 10 pe any
reform under proposal 1t must come IN the federa
courts There the chief complaint has been the cutereo
condition Of the calendars. There has especially been
on the part Of federal urss tendency to criticize the
loading on their courts Of the prohibition prosecutions
Is being Of police court character and as interfering
with the discharge Of other and more important busi-
ness.
So the president. 1t would SEEM has chosen some
what complex and complicated contract as his first big
lob It will be interesting to see how he goes about It
His inaugural address sets out planjust the intent
Perhaps he relies on arousng the states into
md thus inducing the local tribunals to handle the
violations Of tho Votsead Law. Otherwise 1t Is difficult
to see how the president Is driving at his purpose II
he could the federal courts Of such cases which In
volve the selling Of pint Of moonshne and similar law
violations he would achieve triumph from the legal
standpoint. And 1t might be possible to win Teapot
Dome convictions thereafter Just what he has IN mind
probably will revealed after he has appointed his COM
mission investigate prohibition and It has barred con-
ditions and made its recommendations
The conditions which his declarations imply certainly
exist There indifference by citizens delay in trials
combinations Of criminals to commit crime and to thwart
Justice But this Is not much In the federal courts
except when there celebre as the Fall Doheny
and Sinclair trials Maybe the president has this type
Of legal fuke mind instead of the present flood Of
prohibition violations which naturally would be assumed
the matter at which he driving when he speaks
Of widespread contempt Of law and justice.
Herbert Hoover was Of the original advocates of
the League OF Nations and his recommendations for
entry into the World court probably will be considered
in the light Of his early predictions However. the
recent ratification Of the mutateral peace treaty has
revealed senate somewhat different from that in the
hostile days Of Henry Cabot Lodge and the de-hards
It Is conceivable that this recommendation may now
find with the upper house and that eventually the
United States will unite with the international tribunal
with which one Of It's legal lights-Elihu Root-has
had 50 much to do in establishing Europes antpathy
toward the reservations which the United States spu
lated preliminary It's willingness to Join the tribunal
has had sudden amelioration and it would not be
prsng to the reluctance Of Europe to accept the
American reservations court membership fade away
Then there u the presidents assent to doing
thing for the farmer That IS the third big recommends
ton Of his inaugural It touches big subject There
Is feeling that something and must be done fol
the farmer by legislation. but those who would b
willing to see prosperity invoked by the magic Of hocus
pocus have their doubts that the farmers salvation
bound up legislation that not in accord with economic
law The president, 1t win be noted, links this
mendation with .limted changes In the tariff" NORTH
Dakota wants IN increase In the tariff flax. Tn
ptesidents recommendations would let that in hi
program. Ia tho end that sort Of relief may Be tn
remedy that the tess viii get. It Is the principle
legislaton which has Injured to the benefit OF the
tion's industries Even the enemies Of protection con
cede that when they complain against it. saying IN
enriched ~ bsnsfiearies out Of proportion.
Anyisow the nation has optmist In the Whit
House Hesbert Hoover believes IN the American M
tion belieyos IS win 90 forward In development and VII
prospr ~ ~ y committed 70 encouraging that course
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