Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-14
FEDERAL POLICIES
FACTOR IN SLUMP,
R|TCH|E DECLARES
Too Much Interference Cited
by Governor in Inaugural
Address.
ISSUE UP TO BUSINESS,
NOT STATE, HE ASSERTS
/, High Tariff Wall and Dry Law
Called Mistakes-More Glori-
Gus Future Is Visioned.
car correspondent Of The Star.

Nv a staff Correspondent OF The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, January IA
Blaming excessive governmental inter-
ference in business and domestic lie
for much of the present economic
trouble. Gov. Albert C. Richie, deliver
ing his inaugural address before
Joint session of the House and Senate
today, hailed Maryland's doctrine OF
federation and local government as the
principles which will, during the coming
decade, lead the Nation through drought
and depression to "a future even more
glorious than our past"
With the frankness and forcefulneSs
that has proved so popular with the
people of his own State who have
elected him four times to the governor
ship Gov. Richie laid the blame for
the present depression chiefly at the
door of the national administration,
reiterated his belief that the prohibition
question should be disposed OF by the
individual States, and concluded with
an appeal for unity and harmony be-
tween all classes.
His speech was broadcast over Ma
tion-wide hook-up, and Gov. Richie,
often mentioned as a presidential pos
sibiIity. did not confine himself to local
issues in Maryland, but discussed cur
rent problems of national and inter-
national interest.
Too Many Experts, He Says.
He declared that business must realize
the problem of unemployment as its
own and not the States, and raped
the '.infiationary statements and &C
lions which melted, or at least inteh-
sifed, the crash of 1929"
by undertaking too much, and step
ping in too often where it had better
stayed out, Government itself has helped
to create the present crisis" he de-
clared.
There have been too many experts
and advisory commissions There have
been too many noble experiments.
There has been too much regulation
and supervision in realms where the
proper forces, if left free to work, could
have worked to a better end"
After expressing profound gratitude"
to the people for choosing. him again
as their leader. and pledging his best
efforts in return, GOV. Richie launched
into an exposition of the present busi-
ness situation.
IF it be true that this is a period
to try mems souls" he said, lit Is also
one to open their eyes. If 1t seems In
credible that so complete collapse Of
prosperity and so far-reaching a break
down in law observance has come upon
us, it is equally incredible that We
should have so long been blind TO our
political and economic mistakes, which
have at least contributed to this re-
suit, If they have not caused it.
High Tariff Wall Cited.
The replacement of men by machines,
he said, has resulted in an increased
flow of goods from our factories with
consequent need for additional export
trade.
"Yet, in place of increasing our ex-
port trade, the Federal Government did
everything that could well be imagined
to destroy il, and built a tariff wall so
high that it has flooded our domestic
markets with an unmanageable sur
plus, started the migration of Ameri-
can industries abroad and Is bringing
reprisals and retaliations from other
nations with which we trade and whose
friendship and good will we ought to
have"
What aid is it, let me pause to ask,
that our country is dedicated to life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness"
if our men and women are without en-
ployment, which is necessary for food,
lodging and self respect, and if our
boys and girls who left high schools
last year are unable to realize the OPP
portunities for which they studied and
worked, because jobs for them do not
EXIST"
There has also been developed the
conception that law is a scheme Of So
ciaI control to regulate human conduct
by forcing upon all people the social
precepts and ideas of some of them.
THE high-water mark of all this was
national prohibition as imposed by the
eighteenth amendment. and no matter
what the findings of the Wickersham
Commission may be, they cannot end,
nor can they minimize. the injury 10
the case Of reasonable temperance, the
unhappy temptation to the youth of
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