Evening star., 1932-10-15
By the Associated Press.

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| with the statement that have every
respect for an opinion contrary to my
own, providing it is sincere. Now, I
have been in Congress for 30 years dur
| ing Republican and Democratic admin
| istrations. During that time have
| learned that no man and no party has
| a monopoly of good intentions or Of in
telligence. It was the proudest moment
of my life when became the Speaker
of the House. The pride I felt in at
| tanning to what I regard as the most
potent office in the Government, with
the exception of the presidency. was
mitigated with sense of the RESPONSE
bility it involved. This was particu-
larly SO because I succeeded great
man and a great Speaker, my closest,
dearest friend, Nick Longworth, square
shooter If there ever was one, and a
Republican as devoted to the principles
of his party as I hope I am to mine.
We had our battles and there was an
intellectual pleasure, you may be sure,
in fighting one another. For Nick Long
worth was sportsman and played the
game according to the rules.
my desire Is that we should conduct
this campaign as fairly and as cleanly
and as truthfully as the legislative bat
ties to which have referred were
conducted.
Two Schools of Thought.
AFTER all, this political struggle is
simple in its essence. There are Two
schools of thought. The welfare OF the
country depends on which OF tnese
schools is right and which is wrong.
There is no occasion Tor personan'y' Ao
excuse for abuse. +.
"I know I have been represented In
certain partisan argument as danger
Gus radical, either without the DISPOSE
tion to understand great public ques-
tions or with Satanic desire 10 turn
things topsy-turvy with some wild idea
of destruction. Actually I am plain
business man who has happened to nave
had a long legislative experience as the
representative of conservative coH
munity. This experience has endowed
me with a fair realization, I hope, OF
the problems of government. AS
member of the Ways and Means COM
mittee, every fiscal problem, Tor exam
pie, has been perforce a matter o1
study. for I assure you that We In Con-
oresS are as cognizant of our response
blities and as much alive to the re-
ouirements of our trust as any other
Government official, from the President
down. A.,,.d
II have referred to certain absurd
representations in regard to myseH. II
is no more necessary for me TO cnafSe
every evil to Mr. Hoover because ne Is
president than it is to ascrlpe every
defeated House bill to John Garner pc
cause he is Speaker. I have too mucn
respect for the high office OF the fresi-
dent to reply in kind to certain charses'
I want to try to bring the polltlcal ae-
bate back to the high Level Wnicn i.S
extreme gravity requires ana SUCK soie tV
" to a fair statement OF 1acts Ironl .,,u
nrinted record. Let my hearers oraW
thair oun Conclusions and use their own
cuss words if they are so disposed.
Charges Lack of Frankness.
..Mv contention, of course, Is that tne
,,resent administration in washington
hos neither been efficient In us pei
formance nor frank in its explaIiaIioha
Naturally the minds OF all OF US a,e
on our present industrial and coninie.
cial Might. The administration mas
told YOU that the depression came lioni
abroad. Let us see II IT OLD. x,
Did the depression come iIonn na
abroadp Our export business Is less
49,, ner cent of our total business and
the mar value of foreign loans about
ner cent of our wealth. Say we nave
lost half of all this foreign stake, OF
nor cent of wealth and business. does
that account for the 40 per cent 10 oo
ner cent loss of both? Two million
peoule were employed in productlon Iol
eynort-half of them are out OF Work.
Does that explain our 1O.Oo0'ooO 70
70 COO 600 unemployed? We consume
5C ner cent of the worlds production
If raw material. The 1929 crash nlt
here first. It was like an avalanche.
But that sudden disruption OF SO mucn
of human commerce, we rocked ta.e
world from pole to pole. Ihe oepreS.
sion did not come from Europe. ~
came from our own 1ouy anu liiuoioli'
not the least of which was that pros,
neritv was so great that poverty wouio
soon be abolished.
put am not content to rest on gen
ersI charges. I want to trace cause 10
effect in the cold print of the record.
Mr.. Hoover says he has an exclusive
personal program now to temper olsas-
ter. He had one in 1929 TO insure pros
nerity Let's look at that. Let us begin
with agriculture.
II quote from the President:
"'The most urgent economic proolem
is in agriculture. we nave
n1edped ourselves to Mld a solution.
An adequate tariff is the foun,
dation = modernization tof iniano
waterways will comprise supstan-
tial contribution Che estimated Genus
to 10 cents per busheD. we
should have completed the MISSISSIPPI
system within the next 1our years
The platform pieoges
Federal Farm Board TO pulio up;
with Federal finance farmer-owned
- stabilization corporations which
will protect the farmer from the de-
nressions and Generalization OF season.
al gluts and periodical surpluses.'
Calls Program = Failure.
"There we have his specific program
in his own words. How did 1t WORK!
The Smoot- -Hawley tariff on the one
hand gave higher rates and on the
other destroyed export farm markets.
The st. Lawrence Waterway is NOT be-
gun: the Mississippi project is years
from fulfillment. The Farm Board Is
an acknowledged failure. Let the
farmer draw his own conclusions ABOUT
the new 12-point program.
Next on the 1928 program were IN
dustry and labor quote again:
1--WE have increased production ap-
proximately 80 per cent, while our pop
ulation has increased only about 10 per
cent. This is proof of real prog
ress it is the road to abolition
of poverty. have heard voices
raised in protest that the effect OF
these activities is to destroy employ
ment: this is a re-echo Of q century
ago. = = We have led the world IN
substituting machines for hand labor.
This enables us to produce goods
,,,uch in oyceSs of Ollr needs. To
insure continuous employment -
we must find a profitable market Tor
these surpluses ." we must sell more
products abroad If we would have
Steady and assured employment for
labor in our industries Those are the
Presidents own words, and he further
said:
"It is an essential part Of the sound
expansion of our foreign trade that we
should interest ourselves in the devel-
opment of backward or crippled coun-