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from competition with American labor

from competition with American labor
here at home.
So you have the truth about the new
tariff. We need it to save the American
wage Garner, the American farmer, the
American business man. We got it
because We have wise men in ONCE
who saw the Nations danger and
warded that danger off.
Finally as If there weren't already
enough to harry the President, there
are those who kick because he has not
yet filled the new Tariff Commission.
The answer is that the flexible clause
in this new law takes the tariff for the
first time in our history out of the
realm of partisan rancor and places it
in the hands of disinterested experts.
The President is combing the country
for the right men, and his aim Is to
get them, on the principle that it is
better to please the whole country with
just the right men than to please a
few kickers who think that any Job is
a good job if it is rush job.
Gratitude for President.
The heart of this whole Nation should
go out to President Hoover, and ere
long his critics will rue their words.
President Hoover believes that the only
job worth doing is a good job, the job
that is done well from the beginning
and stays done. To be certain of doing
that kind of job, and only that kind of
job, he takes the necessary time. No
President we have ever had has launch
ed so many broad movements for the
benefit of the people. 1t has taken
time. Now the fruits of his careful
planning are going to be evident. We
are going to see results. When the
country is on it's feet again, it will
owe its recovery largely to the wise,
cautious. deliberate planning and initi
alive of President Hoover. And those
who are carping now will have every
reason to be ashamed of themselves.
The Presidents achievements would
stand out even If they had been per-
formed in a time when every condition
was favorable. Instead. President Hoo
yer has had to accomplish what he has
done under every adverse circumstance.
He had hardly come into Office when a
financial disturbance beyond the control
of any man, even President of the
United States, plunged the entire coun-
try into business uncertainty.
In 1929, before this collapse, progress
had been made on the problem of tech
biological unemployment-the displace-
ment of human workers. The steady
introduction of labor saving machinery
Iluu Ue6n SLOWLY duulIlB W uIlcIHplOy-
ment figures. The President was per-
sonally Interested. A Senate committee
held protracted hearings on the subject.
We were just on the point of working
out some means of counteracting this
unemployment tendency when the
market disaster came and our energies
went into these emergency steps that 1
have described. 1t was another serious
disappointment to President Hoover.
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Nations crops as result of weather
conditions unparalleled for 40 years.
No man has faced down more discourage
ing circumstances than those confront
ing the President. In the long run the
very difficulties he has had to face win
him the sympathy of the country. And
when in spite of these difficulties the
great work he has accomplished is Wis
ible at last, he will stand higher in
popular approval than ever before.
The Nation sympathizes also with the
farmers themselves, who. on top of
state of world affairs which has shrunk
their markets, have now to bear heavy
losses through ruin of this years crops.
1t will wish the President especially well
in his efforts to help save the farmers of
the West from the effects of the unpre-
cedented drought of this year.
1t has been truly trying time for all,
and We still have problems to solve.
But no one doubts for a minute the
courage and the mental and material
resources of this great country of ours. |
That courage and resource are already
swinging us back on the road to re-
covery. And we are fortunate in hav-
ing President who sets us shining
example of that courage and initiative, |
and backs it up with an ability that
already is proving itself in great prac-
tical achievements.