Evening star., 1932-10-16
Denies Slavery
of Chinese
Labor.
10000 HEAR HIM
ASSAIL HIS FOES
Declares No Family
Need Fear Hunger
or Cold.
The tert OF President Hooper's
speech piH be found ON Page A
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND AUDITORIUM,
October 15-Making one of the
few gestures of his speech, Presi-
dent Hoover tonight pounded re-
peatedly on his speaking desk
when asserting that he had Sc
cured a sworn statement with
drawing published lies that he
had employed cheap Chinese labor
during his earlier career as an
engineer in South Africa.
He described as "calumny' a
statement from a copy of in
structions issued by the Demo-
cratic National Committee" to its
speakers. He said the statement
implied he had engaged in the
slavery of human beings" through
contracting cheap Chinese labor
in his early engineering days.
Il happen to have in the files in
Washington, from the man who
first penned those lies" he said,
"a statement under oath, humbly
and abjectly withdrawing them.
Such contemplate statements
in a political campaign would be
ignored were it not that they were
issued by the authority of the
Democratic National Committee,
and they would be of no interest
to the American people except
that it is proposed that political
party shall be placed in power
over one hundred and twenty mil
lions of people On the basis of
votes secured in this manner"
Outlines IL Policies.
At the outset the President said his
address would be devoted largely to en-
ployment and wage questions. He out
lined in detail II policies and measures
which he described as the record OF his
administration on this score.
But before reaching this section Of
his speech, he turned directly to dis
cussion of causes of world economic
strain.
Our opponents" he began, have
been going up and down the land re-
peating the statement that the sole or
major origins of this disruption and this
Worldwide hurricane came from the
United States through the wild f1otatlon
of securities and the stock market spec
ulation in New York three years ago
together with the passage OF the Smoot-
Hawley tariff bill, which took place nine
months after the storm broke.
II propose to discuss this assertion.
First: Because it can be proved abso-
lutely untrue.
tho limited States
did not bring this calamity upon the
world. The United States is not the
oppressor of the world.
Third: Because it can be demon
strated to be founded upon complete
misunderstanding of what has happened
in the world.
Fourth: Because any party which
exhibits such lack of economic under
standing upon which to base national
policies should not be trusted with the
fate of 25,O00,000 American families
They should not be trusted to command
the battle against the most gigantic
economic emergency with which our
people have ever been confronted, and
to bring that battle to victorious issue
in the establishment of the function
ing Of our economic machine"
The President said our opponents
demand to kpow' why Government
leaders did not foresee the approach of
the "disintegrating forces"
mo Democratic Jeremiahs."
mo one can foresee the coming of
fear or panic" he asserted. Il did not
notice any Democratic Jeremiahs."
Contending that the thesis of the cp-
position as to the origin of our troubles
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