Evening star., 1932-11-05
PRESIDENT SCORES
PROHIBITION EVILS
Brings Up Dry Issue for First
Time in Campaign-De-
tends Dawes Loan.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ST LOUIS, Mo, November 5.-Fol-
lowing is the text of President Hoover's
first Missouri campaign address:
From the congressional elections in
1880 down to the present moment the
strategy of the Democratic party has
been an effort to implant in the un-
thinking mind through deliberate mis-
representation the colossal falSehood
that the Republican party is responsible
for this worldwide catastrophe. They
then appeal to distress, hardship and
radicalism BY nebular and inconsistent
promises. These are the reasons they
give why the Republicans OF the coun.
try should desert their party ant
why the Nation should abandon 6
constructive program with its accom-
pliShment already demonstrated in
overcoming the crisis. Theirs Is not a
campaign of issues; it is campaign OF
avoidanceS; and propose tonight to dis
cuSS the nature of their campaign, its
false promises, its vague promises, its
shifts of position; and I shall also
touch upon their destructive actions
which have delayed recovery.
Despite the fact that Democratic
leaders announced after the congress
sional elections two years ago that they
would have real program to end the
depression. they produced no program,
then or now, although the crisis at one
time rose to a degree which endangered
the Nation. Instead of constructive
program. the Democratic leaders passed
a number of bills through the Demo-
cratic House of Representatives de-
signed to appeal to discomfort and sec
tiOnal cupidity, and, indeed, of the type
that would have destroyed the very
foundations of our American system.
Its threats to confidence set recovery
backward. Their candidates have sought
constantly to distort the facts as to the
depression; they have sought to mini
mize the measures by which the ad-
ministration saved the United States
from generation of chaos. They fail
ever to mention the effect that these
measures are having day by day in the
steady recuperation of our economic life.
Their leaders have taken no patriotic
satisfaction in the fact that a million
men have returned to work since the
malign influence of the Democratic
House and their allies was removed by
adjournment of Congress and the Re-
publican measures and policies had an
opportunity to work.
Recalls Old Campaign.
The whole campaign has many as
poets parallel with a campaign which
took place in former depression, of
which I will read you short descrip-
ton from a journal published in Wash
ington during that time. That journal
said, more than half century ago:
THE circumstances on which the
Democratic party base their hope of
success in the present campaign is un-
queStionably the hardness Of the times.
Their expectation is that Republican
voters will quit their party, or at least
remain at home on election day, because
they find themselves in straitened cir
cumstances. Even the ravages of the
grasShopperS, damages to the crops by
drought in some sections and excessive
moisture in others are to be traced by
some mysterious process to the malad-
ministration and extravaganza OF the
Republican party"
Later on that journal reviews the
discussion of expenditures of the Re
publican administration during that dis
tant period Of depression, pointing out
that the House of Representatives was
Democratic, as it is at present. 1t
states that there had rarely been such
ignorance. joined with a stubbornnesS
more mulish than that which charac-
terized the action of some of the lead
ers of that body"
And that their economy was of the
brilliant description which consists in
saving at the spigot and losing at the
bung."
They likewise today repeat their
promises of economy in the face OF the
attempts of the Democratic House last
Winter to fasten S3,400,000,000 of added
GnVprnmpnf
The country wisely supported the Re
publican party in that election and
made rapid recovery.
A circular placed in my hands since
coming to this State, issued by the
Democratic National Committee, says
this depression was man-made, and
that the man who made it was myself
personally. They express no gratitude
that in my manufacture OF this world
crisis l have let this country of easier
than Russia and Western Europe and
South America.
In this campaign of 1882, also despite
overwhelming proof to the contrary, but
In order to make unceasing appeal to
discomfort, the present Democratic can
didate and his corps Of orators repeat
down to the last "a hours their unceas-
ing statement that the Republicans are
that has happened in it.
In the earlier part of this campaign
the Democratic candidate held up the
horrors of the Hawley-Smoot tariff act
and of the stock market boom as being
the sole cause of this world catastrophe.
At Des Moines, Detroit and Indianapolis
I established the complete absurdity OF
his tariff bill argument. and the Gov
ernor has since at Wheeling, Baltimore
and Boston uttered such confused
changes in his tariff views that he can
no longer consistently or conscienciouSly
state that the tariff had anything to do
with the worldwide catastrophe. If
he will make his contradictory state
ments on the tariff consistent, 1t will
have the disastrous political effect OF
requiring the deletion, so my statis-
ticians tell me, of more than 10000
eloquent words from what he has said
upon this subject. In order to con-
tinue the false premise on which the