Evening star., 1932-10-05
PRESIDENT IS TOLD
TALK TURNED TIDE
Hoover Cheered by Warm
Reception Given Address
at Des Moines.
Continued From First Page.)

that have uttered in public Office.
hope 1t will be the last I shall have to
say. When you are told that the
President of the United States, who by
the most sacred trust OF our Nation Is
the President Of all the people, man
of your own blood and upbringing, has
sat in the White House for the last
three years of your misfortune without
troubling to know your burdens, with
out heartaches over your miseries
and casualties, without summoning
every avenue Of skillful assistance, ir-
respective of party or view, without
using every ounce of his strength and
straining his every nerve to protect and
help, without using every possible
agency Of democracy that would bring
aid without putting aside personal am
bition and humbling his pride Of opin-
ion, il that would serve-then I say to
you that such statements are deliberate,
intolerable falsehoods"
Mr.. Hoover was interrupted at Des
Moines by a great outburst of applause
when he declared that the Democratic
party program as eXpounded in this
campaign would mean ruin to American
agriculture. while as to the general de-
preston it would disturb every pos
sibility Of recovery
Crowd Enthusiastic.
The Des Moines Coliseum, in which
he spoke, was packed with an audience
of nearly 5000 msn and women. The
crowd was enthusiastic and continu-
ally interrupted the President with ap-
plause. at one point when the Presi-
dent was assailing the opposition some
man with a penetrating voice called
from far back In the hall, Give EN-
hell" This provoked great cheers and
calls OF Go to it, Soak EN-" Alta
boy" and the like.
During all this the President smiled
as he awaited for these spasms Of en-
thusiasm to run their course.
The audience shrieked its approval
when the President struck directly at
his opponent with the remark that he
(Mr. Hoover was not coming before
the farmers peddling any economic
patent medicine"
Again he struck happy chord when
he declared, Il refuse to offer counter
felt currencv or false hopes. l will no.
make any pledge to you which can
not fulfill"
In laying down his 12-point farm re-
lief program Mr.. Hoover embraced
other national issues interlaced with
the agrarian situation.
In this program he proposed to rec
ommend to the next session Of Con-
gress such reorganization of the Fed
eral Land Bank system as would give
men who want to fight for it
chance to hold their homes.
Hoover's Program.
His program included:
l. Maintenance Of high protective
tariffs on farm products
2. Repeal Of the price stabilization
provisions of the farm marketing act
3. national program of land util-
ization TO divert land from unprofit-
able to profitable use
4. Completion Of vast inland water
way system, including the Great Lakes
st. Lawrence seaway.
S. Relief for recipients OF drought
feed and seed loans who are unable to
paw under the stress of the times.
g. conference Of tax experts to
determine a co-ordinated system Of
Federal, state and local taxation where
by farms might be relieved OF extra
burdens for public revenue.
T. Expansion Of credits to make
available ready short-term loans for
planting, harvesting feeding live stock
8. Loans. through the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation, to producers
of agricultural products in order to re-
lieve the farmers from carrying over
stocks.
Use Debts For Markets.
9. Relief of farm owners from the
pressure Of long-term mortgage pay
ments.
10. Participation by this Government
in such measures as would insure world
stability and expansion Of agricultural
markets such as promotion of good will
and disarmament and appointment Of
a representative OF agriculture as
member Of the forthcoming world eco
nomic conference.
II. Recommendation that "any an
nual payment Of the foreign debt be
used for the specific purpose Of securing
and expansion Of the foreign markets
for American agricultural products"
r. Continuation of the efforts OF the
Government to reverse the processes of
deflation and bring things back to their
real values"
Candidate Hoover explained. in max
ing the proposal for applying foreign
debt payments to the extension of agri-
cultural markets abroad, that he was
going farther than in his recent accept
ance speech, when he declared, If for
some annual payment We are offered
some other tangible form of compensa-
ton, such as the expansion Of the mar
ket for American agriculture and labor
and the restoration and maintenance OF
our property, then am sure our citizens
would consider such a proposal"
He added to this by saying that his
proposal was Of more Importance to
the farmer than any panacea." Again
going farther than his acceptance
speech, Mr.. Hoover said the enormous
buying of the Farm Board stabilization
corporations had cushioned" prices in