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the land and the lawnesSness which
have resulted from putting prohibition
IN the Constitution where it ought not
TO be, instead of leaving the question
TO the States, where it ought to be.
Ultimate Solution Seen.
''The inability of the Federal Govern
ment to shape or control the forces, or
cure the ills which brought the crisis
ABOUT, and its palpable impotence in
the hour of disaster, are awakening the
people to the defects of over-central-
lied power, and to the virtues of a
larger measure Of self-help and local
lied government.
1 do not mean to convey any sense
OF sympathy with those who are op-
posed TO the necessary regulation which
Government must exercise over the
operations of such public utilities as the
railroads and the giant combines of
power companies in order to protect
the public interests, nor do I mean to
comfort those who would thWart the
proper and effective application of such
necessary regulatory measures by OBJ
structive tactics. What I am referring
TO are those excursions of Government
into fields in which Government does
not properly belong"
1 entertain no doubts that in due
course we will find a way out of our
dlthcultleS and emerge from the present
crisis all the better for it. 1t cannot
be that Nation should be poor because
1t is too rich, and that we should long
nave an excess of business disaster, un-
employment and even suffering when
we nave an excess of commodities, of
production, of money and of real wealth.
Something has gone wrong Temporarily
with our economic and financial and
political machinery. or with its en-
glneers, or both, but it is foolish to
think that the whole plant has been
wrecked or permanently crippled.
The foundation on which real pros
per1ty must build are sound and will
prove even more sound because of our
present experience. Here is Nation of
100000 people with an infinity of
wants and desires; ambitious to succeed;
believers in the gospel of work; filled
with the spirit Of courage, initiative and
enterprise; determined to maintain and
lift the standards of life; willing to
labor, to buy and to sell, to use the
railroads and utilities, to spend their
substance on luXurieS and diversions
and living 4SlSS land with unlimited re-
sources ansEaopportunities He must
have litTyefaith in his country or little
vision of the'Tuture, who cannot fore
see prosperity greater than ever.
Economic Values Not All.
ut will, I believe, be a prosperity
allied with the economic restoration of
Europe. The world now is to closely
knit together for even this great land
to contemplate its own destiny alone.
The countries of Europe are cur
debtors. Our permanent economic
progress involves helping them, and the
time is near when further considera-
ton should be given to the status of
our international debts.
The question need not be approached
on the basis of world responsibilities
alone, although certainly some measure
OF international leadership is required
OF country with the power and the
resources of our own. But even On
the basis of profit and loss, we should
not forget that sometimes present loss
may be ultimate profit.
After all, economic values are not
the whole of life. 1t is well to re-
member that in the last analysis most
of. the major ills of society are prob
ably due less to bad economics, bad
politics, bad government or bad laws
than to such elemental weaknesses as
human greed for wealth and power and
human Indifference to the rights of
others. The catch word of the hour
is economics We speak of economic
laws as if they were part of the order
of nature, even though there is almost
universal disagreement as to what they
are. Perhaps We test life too much by
the economic yardstick.
Anyway, I enter upon my fourth
term as Governor with the conviction
that in spite of drought and depres-
sion our future will be even more
glorious than our past. There is SO
much that 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
10Th an example and an inspiration"