Evening star., 1932-10-31

The text of President Hoover's address
at Baltimore follows:
Il has been my opportunity and
pleasure during the past years of public
service to visit practically every part
of this State. I have visited it par
ticuarlv in search of those landmarks
in the history of our whole country
from the days of the first landings on
our coat. in which it is so rich. 1 deem
it an hcnOr to have had a great
grandfather who lived for the span Of
"A generation at Union Bridge, in Fred
erick County of this State. Every i'm
print of the development of American
national lite is to be found in the State
of Maryland.
Because the time is short on this oc-
CaSion, l must limit myself to state
ment Of few of the wide differences
of policies Which have developed be-
tween the Republican and Democratic
parties during this campaign. With
the important concern you of this city
have in the issues in this campaign
there is no better place to point out
the effect which the course you may
choose will have upon the future and
the welfare of your State.
Constitution Born in Annapolis.
A few days ago in this city the Demo-
cratic candidate made a statement II
respect to the Supreme Court which
must be the negatiOn of the sentiment.
the feeling and the resolution of the
people Of the State that produced Chief
Justice Taney and other honored mem
bcrS who have helped to make the long
history Of the Supreme Court While
the Constitution was actually brought
Ill,
every student of history knows that i
was the preliminary meeting at An
ndpoliS from which the Constitution
vas born. And every student of history
knows, and every person in the modern
world knows, that Maryland has main
taincd peculiar fidelity to the Consti-
tuition. and that it surely would not be
the VII! of the people of Maryland that
the independence Of this great tribunal
shall be undermined or brought into
question for political party purposes,
whether they be Democratic or Repub-
llCan It is the genius of our form of
government that the independence of
tie Supreme Court stands unique in all
the governments of the world and is the
strongest bulwark of the permanenCe
OF our democracy.
OF other matters for which MARYLAND
mas always stood constantly from her
beginning, I might mention the pro-
tectlve tariff. Lately at Cumberland I
recalled that the first petition lodged
with the Congress which had lust con-
Vened under the Constitution was a
petition signed b. merchants and man
ufactursrs. chiefly of the city of Balti-
more, requesting a protective tariff in
order that they might have industrial
freedom as we'll as, political freedom
That was the first petition acted upon
by the Congress. Thus the first piece Of
legislation signed by George Washing
ton as President was a protective tariff
measure passed in response to a petit
ton from the State of Maryland From
that day to this your varied industries
have grown and thriyed under protec-
tive tariffs. They have Wilted and
shriveled whenever that tariff has been
lowered OF when those projections have
been abandoned The livelihood OF your
Wcrkmen are peculiarly dependent upon
1t. Your agriculture is in particular
danger from lowering Of these tariffs
because you are situated close to the
seabOard and close to the point of at
tack Of foreign imports At this precise
moment there is scarcely an agricultural
product IN your State that could not.
under the deprecated Currencles of
Europe and South America, be brought