Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-14
The keynote Address
Senator Dickinson Lauds Career of Hoover and
Cites Many Acts Designed to Meet
Economic Distress.

the President, who alone had a work.
able program.
But after they had assisted in par
TALLY translating this plan into law our
Democratic friends were no longer able
to contain their hopes of victory within
the sphere of the good of the Nation.
On the all-essential proposition OF bal
ancing the budget they elected to follow
their own course. And with what re-
suit?
The Democrats In the House Of Rep
resentatives flouted their own leader
ship: their tax bill was completely re-
majority: their economy measure was
torn to shreds.
Currency Imitation Call.
Democratic sponsors call for undue
imitation Of the national currency. The
safety Of the country requires the main
tenance Of the gold standard. The
value of the American dollar must be
maintained throughout the world.
Nor was this moribund issue the sum
total OF the products of the master
minds OF Democracy. They proposed
billions In bond issues for unnecessary
and unproductive public works, presum-
ably on the theory that when your
budget is unbalanced-when your outgo
exceeds your lncome-you can squander
yourself into prosperity.
In their efforts thus to debase the
dollar by fiat money and other equally
unsound financial schemes the Demo-
Gratis stalked forth with the ghost In
1896.
The Farm Board has been the butt
OF much criticism, the greater part of
which is unjust. We have heard much
abuse OF the boards operations in sta
bilization of cotton and wheat by their
financing of co-operatives to purchase
these commodities, but We have heard
very little of the fact that by their
entry into the market in February dur
ing the crop year of 1880 and again in
November OF the next crop year they
stemmed the panic which had broken
in agricultural prices.
The Farm Board held prices in each
OF these two crops above world levels
to such a degree that the very mod
crate estimate of the amount realized
by the American farmer over and above
what they would have realized other
wise Is between $4,000, 100000 and
$4,000, o0o, 900.
1t matters little If the Government
loses $150000,000 for the savings 1t
made to homes of farmers throughout
this whole land. 1t was throwing a
regiment into the front of the battle
to lose, but saved millions.
Billion Farm Aid.
Directly and indirectly the Federal
Government has, during the last three
years, poured into the agricultural in
dustry nearly 81 1000 100000. As said
before, grievous as his suffering may be,
no farmer can deny the undertaking
friendship Of the Republican party.
Since the beginning Of the economic
crisis the Democratic party has shown
an utter lack of cohesion on every i'm
portant issue, and on none has 1t been
more divided than on the tariff. Its
leaders have run the scale from free
trade to the highest possible protection.
With falling prices and deprecated
currencies overseas, there stands Just
one bulwalk for the salvation Of our
people. Without the rates of the Haw-
ley-Smoot act of 1880 we would long
since have been inundated by flood Of
cheaply produced foreign products.
Gentlemen Of the opposition cried
to high heaven against some of the
rates that were being written into that
bill. But while they thus walled, they
were not only voluntary, but eager,
partners In the writing Of duties for
their local and State industries, which
N many cases even 0xRAsaed Uhat