The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-08
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IGNORANCE FLAYED
IN FRANCE SPEECH
Presidential Candidate Calls on
Nation to Return to First
Principles

Charging that Ignorance and In
competence In public office" have
brought the nation and the world to
q crisis, ]. I. France Of Maryland,
candidate for the Republican NOM
nation for president, told q Bismarck
audience Monday night that the
world must sow different seed II it
would reap a different harvest.
With a fierce wind blowing out
side and the temperature well below
zero, only about lbs persons turned
out to hear the only man who has
yet entered the lists against Presi-
dent Hoover.
II the delegates to the Republican
national convention obey the laws.
France said, he expects to win the
nomination. He predicated this state
ment on the fact that no Republican
candidate has entered primary cleo
tons in the states where he has filed
and that, II the delegates elected
support him as the peoples choice.
he Will have at least 400 votes In the
convention. He recognized, however,
the possibility Of fraud" in this con-
nection.
It was nervous man with flicker
ing hands whom Bismarck residents
heard issue q call for new respect for
the moral law and for the principles
laid down in the Declaration of In
dependence, the constitution Of the
United States and the farewell ad-
dress Of George Washington.
Asserting that he has no desire for
public office, DR.. France, former q. s.
senator from his native state, said he
does have deep desire to assist III
restoring America to recognition OF
just principles and. OF the benefits
tof brothefly' love. He pictured him
self as political crusader whose en-
tire public life has been spent In
fighting corruption, iniquity and un-
sound policies.
| Peace Treaty ubiquitous
The cause Of present world condi-
tons. he said. are to be found In the
ubiquitous" provisions of the treaty
of Versailles providing for punitive
PREPARATIONS to be paid by Germany.
He said Germany has never paid
them and never will be able to pay
them.
When the time came that the Unit
ed States stopped making loans to
Europe. he said, the reparations
stopped and chaos resulted.
The world, he said. is staggering
under burden Of 400 billion dollars
of debt with is billion dollars in year.
ly interest. The war. he said. added
~ billions to the annual budget of the
world and economic war has follow
ed armed war.
Attacking the peace treaty, he said
it has caused more misery. has cost
more lives and has caused more prop
erty loss and disorganization Of the
financial and social structure Of the
world than the war itself.
Describing the Declaration Of In
dependence as q great spiritual In
strument of precision" he said the
nations evils can be cured by appli-
cation Of the principles 1t lays down
better than by "plasters Of platitudes. /"
Quoting Cecil, Rhodes as saying
civilization Is goods" France asked
who In the world has too much goods
today and asserted that the policy Of
this and other governments toward
trade and commerce has been pitiful.
He asserted that II any Bismarck
high school boy, going to Washington
and studying the situation for three
weeks, could not devise sounder
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