The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-05
|OOvER OUTLINES
loss PLATFORM
1T INAUGURATION
,peech Closes Over All
Important Issues

Ter, When q mllllon men were on
lie payroll of the department of
lstice.
Because We're Rich.
Hoover accompanied this with
mother blurb about the Liberation
:om widespread poverty" and the
.aching of "higher degree Of in
ividual freedom than ever before"
'hich "brings devotion to and con-
srn of our institutions" Then he
aid single nice word, the usual
ling, about Coolidge, and went back
} the business, the only real in
crest, of his speech, namely, a big
err and more efficient secret po-
ce:
81 propose to appoint national
ommission for a searching investi-
alton of the whole structure of our
ederal system of jurisprudence, to
lclude the method of enforcement
f the 18th amendment and the
auses of abuse under it.
ats purpose will be to make such
communications for reorganization
f the administration of federal
Avs and court procedure as may be
ound desirable"
Well, yesterday the house of rep
esentatives met on Sunday, defying
ne supposed commandment of Hoov-
RS alleged Quaker god, to vote him
100000 to hire spies with - labor
pies disguised as prohibition agents.
Mergers All Right.
Discussing "the relationship of
overnment to business, Hoover
cad:
"The election has again confirmed
he determination of the American
eople that regulation of private
Enterprise and not government
wnership or operation is the course
lightly to be pursued in our relation
business. In recent years we
ave established a differentiation in
he whole method of business regu-
alton between the industries which
reduce and distribute commodities
n the one hand, and public utilities
the other. In the former, our
avs insist upon effective COMPETE
ion; in the latter, because we sub
tantially confer a monopoly by
uniting competition, we must regu-
ate their services and rates." and
gain: business has by coopera-
ion made great progress in the ad-
ancement of service, in stability,
n regularity of employment and in
he correction of its own abuses"
More and more mergers in public
tilities-we have monopoly there
nyway, and regulation only of
ates, by an interstate commerce
commission put in office by the po-
itical party of those interests it is
opposed to regulate.
"Culture-Not Conquest"
Hoover modestly disclaimed any
Intention of extending the American
mpire. He spoke not a word about
american marines in Haiti, Nicara-
,ua, China, about the continued &C.
upation of the Philippines, in defi-
nee of all solemn promises of both
larties.
"Our form of government is i'll
dapted to the responsibilities which
Inevitably follow permanent limita-
ion of the independence Of other
'eoples."
However, Hoover, the great adj
illustrator that he frankly confess
es himself to be, intends to improve
he technique.
"Civilize EN- With Marines"
After a brief reference to "the
PRESSURE of population, wealth and
lower" in which superficial OBJ
ervers seem to find destiny
owards Imperialism, and hint that
a new social SYSTEM" some new
ind of semi-fascist state, based on
law enforcement" by a big police
.rmy is on the way, he stated:
from these things our sympathies
re broadening beyond the bounds of
,ur nation and race toward their
rue expression in a real brother
lood of man."
So that, according to President
Ioover, is why the marines are in
Nicaragua and China, not conquest,
ut the old lie of the white mans
urden".
A Court, On U. s. Terms.
Hoover put in good word for
he Kellogg pacts, and the world
curt, which he declared twas first
proposed by American statesmen"
nd:
"The permanent court of inter-
rational justice in its major pur-
pose is thus peculiarly identified
With American ideals and with
American craftsmanship. No more
,otent fundamentally for this pur-
,ose has ever been conceived and
10 other is practicable Of establish
nent. The reservations placed upon
,ur adherence should not be mis-
Interpreted. The United States
eeks by these reservations no spe-
ial privilege or advantage but only
clarity our relation to advisory
pinions and other matters which
re subsidiary to the major purpose
the court. The way should, and
believe will, be found by which we
nay take our proper place in a
movement so fundamental to the