Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
RICHIE ASSA|LS
DRY HYPOCRISY
Campaigning in "0Id South"
Governor Den0unCeS
Administration.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, S. c., March 4.-Nation-
nj prohibition. which he said makes
towards and hypocrites of men in high
places" was aSSailed here today by Gov
Albert c. Richie of Maryland, an
aspirant for the Democratic presidential
nomination, in speaking before the
South Carolina General Assembly.
In bringing his campaign into the
old South" Gov. Richie charged the
Republican administration promised an
early recovery when the worst was still
TO come: erected tariff barriers which
heightened the collapse; resorted to the
world wide abb" and blamed our
troubles on peoples across the sea"
The text OF the Governors address
follows:
THE country today is at the politi-
cal crossroads. We have come TO our
high estate by routes that have been
tried and tested, but We are now detour-
ing too much into new and uhcharted
byways, some of which, 1 am afraid,
can hardly be said to be paved even
with good intentions.
The past decade witnessed the
scramble for wealth and power. 1t was
an era Of money making, reckless buy
ing and paper fortunes People, in
dustries and nations all spent more
than they had. They mortgaged their
futures through credits and install
ment purchase.
we beheld an industrial philosophy
striving for prosperity, but thinking Of
it only in terms Of profits and gains
and the imperial might of the dollar.
We saw the idea dominant that wealth
was the only measure of success. A
thousand social ferments jazzed up the
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crazy.
Pictures Morning After"
'Now that the morning after has
come 1t seems almost as if the entire
world, including our own little individ-
ual world, had suddenly collapsed or
been thrown into bewildering chaos.
Poverty and suffering in a land Of
plenty. Millions anxious to work and
no work for them. The product of
field and farm almost refused as a
gift An industrial machine of gigan-
tic size and potentially running on
half time. A world almost wrecked by
the most foolish and destructive war
IN all history plunging into another war.
All the while our own Government,
its Wanted patent on prosperity gone,
closed its eyes to the crisis even after
the crisis was here; murmured to an
alarmed populace sweet nothings about
the fundamental SoundneSS of the Ma
TONS business; issued inf1ationary
statements which intensified the crash;
promised an early recovery when the
worst was still to come; erected tariff
barriers which heightened the collapse;
resorted to the worldwide alibi SO
popular in high circles, and blamed our
troubles on peoples across the sea.
Sees Flaw i'm Machinery.
''well, for one will not accept any
gospel of despair. 1t cannot be that
q nation should be poor because it is
too rich, or that We should long have
an excess of business disaster and I'M
of commodities, of production, of money
and of real wealth. Something has
gone wrong with our economic and
financial and political machinery, but
the times are not completely out OF
joint, and the whole planJ has not been
wrecked or permanently crippled.
In an able address last Spring before
the American Club Of Paris DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler said that what is needed
is plan in a planless werld. Let me
supplement this by saying that what
less world. Nietziche maintained that
100 men shaped and bore the burden
Of the Reconnaissance.
What we need today is a mobiliZa-
ton of the constructive brains and
energy of the country and a demobiliza-
ton of political sidestepping and bun
combe. So far as this Nation is con-
cerned, the resources which constitute
our enduring wealth are still here, the
institutions which bulwark our govern
mental stability are still ours. The
question is, will we use them, or will
we blunder along with half-baked or
self-serving ideas and tendencies. If we
do, then the fault. dear Brutus, is not
in our stars, but in ourselves, that we
are underlings'
THE men of the old Southland builded