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view has been that the whole
problem should be turned back
to the States so that each
State might have the OppOr-
tunity of settling it in accord
with the needs of its own
people, and be protected by the
Federal Government against
interstate shipments which
would contravene its laws. We
have been steadfast in this
position when others who now
embrace 1t and acclaim 1t
lacked either the courage or
the conviction to declare it,"
On the issue of unemployment
Governor Ritchie said:
"PeOpIe are becoming tired
of hearing about justice and
liberty and equality, and the
old cOnjure words. They want
to know how to get a job and
how to prosper. Business
craftsmanship should find and
show the way.
Sure of Solution
"I entertain no doubts that
we will find a way out Of our
present difficulties, and emerge
from the present crisis all the
better for it. Let us not accept
any gospel of despair. Our
ultimate prosperity is as certain
as the rise and fall Of the tides.
eff our present economic
system can produce present con-
ditions Of unemployment and is
unable to change them, some
thing is wrong with that Sys-
tenn. There must be an antidOte
to Communism. This / believe
is to be found in helping the
disadvantaged man to his feet.
"The more helpful you are
to those who need help, the
more you offer sound education
to the iIIiterate, hospital care
to the sick and q chance to the
underfeIIOw, the more difficult
it will be for Communism and
Socialism to obtain a fOOthOld.
Confident of Future
81 enter upon my fourth
term as governor with the con-
victiOn that in spite Of drought
and depression our future will
be even more glorious than our
past. There is SO much than
can be done to make this q
greater and better nation, and
more and more is being done.
In the doing of it I like to feel
that Maryland Is both an ex-
ample and an inspiration"
While Governor Ritchie opposed
Federal regulation and interfer-
ence with business, he Is not
to necessary control
of public utilities. He said:
~ do not mean to show
sympathy with those who are
opposed to the necessary regula-
tion which government must
exercise over the operation OF
such public utilities as the rail-
roads and the giant combines
of power companies, in order to
protect the public interest.
'NOr do I mean to comfort
those who would thwart the
proper and effective application
Of such necessary regulatory
measures by obstructive tactics.
What / am referring to are
those excursions of government
into fields in which government
does not properly belong"
Hits Export Of Capital
Business as well as the States,
he asserted, needed a larger meas
ure of self-government, and he
expressed confidence that If it
were forthcoming many problems
would work tn mselVes out
In Maryland, he said:
I'VE believe that the people
who are least governed are best
governed. We think you cannot
make people temperate by pass
ing a prohibition law and that
you cannot make industry pros
porous by putting up q tariff
that drives manufacturers to
other countries, SO that they
employ foreign labor there in
stead Of domestic labor here.
We do not believe that any
make-Shift economic measures
which attempt to lift up any
part of the population by its
bOot-Straps constitute proper
governmental action. Such
things will always fail.
There was, Of course, no men
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