Evening star., 1932-11-04

BY the Associated Press.
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPECIAL
EN- ROUTE WEST, November 4-Here
is the text of the speech prepared by
President Hoover for delivery this aft
ernoon at Springfield, ILL.,:
No man can come to Springfield with
out a long look backward in our his
tory. No man can visit this national
shrine without rejecting once more on
its significance in the life OF the Re
public.
No man can live in Washington with
out constant reminder of the great
struggle that determined our country'S
destiny. And no man in my position
can fail to gain inspiration and courage
from the courage of the high intelll-
gence, the answering fidelity with
which Abraham Lincoln met the over
whelming difficulties that threatened
the very existence Of the Union.
thank you for the privilege of renewing
contact with this shrine.
RecOunts Reactions.
At Des Moines a month ago I made
an address largely directed to agricul-
ture l elaborated II points which 1
can summarize, with the progress made
in respect to them since that time, and
1 can add the apparent reactions upon
the Democratic candidate in response to
that statement.
The first Of the subjects discussed
at that time was the tariff in its rela-
ton to American, agriculture.
Since that speech the Democratic
hnc CIa tot ,Dt1tc
as to which he can only confuse the
public mind and from which l do not
believe American agriculture will secure
much conviction. 1t is, of course, diff
cult for the Democratic party to main
tain one theory on the tariff in the East
and another in the West.
Declared Unreliable.
But of one thing you can be sure. and
that is that the party which placed the
majority of farm products on the free
list in the tariff bill which they imposed
on the country in 1913. the party which
voted against the emergency farm tariff
in 1921. the party of the Democratic
President who vetoed it, the party of the
Democratic minority in the succeeding
House, which voted against the revival
of the emergency tariff although it was
,orced through by Republican majority
and a Republican President. the party
which voted against the increase in agri-
cultural tariffs in the Republican tariff
bill of 1922. and the party which voted
against the increase in the HaWley-
Smoot tariff bill of 1880. the party
whose platform enunciated the princi
pie of competitive tariff for revenue.
and the candidate who unSeeingly has
reaffirmed that platform and who de-
nOunces the HaWleySmoot tariff in un-
mea sured terms notwithstanding that
sc per cent of the dutiable goods under
1t are farm products. and who has
termed it frequently ghaStly jest. are
scarcely the party and the candidate
upon whom the Republican farms OF
Illinois should depend for their proteC-
ton. Certainly whatever they may now
say in words in the West they depend
upon their historical low tariff policy to
carry conviction in the East.
Hits Negotiated Tariffs"
Moreover. I have not yet noticed
that the Democratic candidate has
abandoned his notion of what he calls
negotiated tariffs with other gov
ernments. I have examined the pro-
tests which are always lodged by
protective tariff bill. and in fact all
nations lodge similar protests when
anybody passes a tariff bill. I find
that all but few of those protests
lay their major emphasis on the in
crease in our farm tariff. In other
words, there is no negotiation that can
be carried through that will not be
done at the sacrifice Of the American
farmer.
In speaking at Des Moines I gave
some figures at which farm commOdi-
ties would be sold in the United States
from foreign countries. even in these
days Of depressing and heart breaking
prices, if the tariff were reduced to
competlve basis for revenue. I can
add some items that are especially
applicable to the State Of Illinois.
Illustrates Tariff Effect.
Soy bean oil is an important new
product with you. This oil now sells
in the Atlantic Coast markets for about
$3.50 per hundred pounds. 1t could
be imported for far less except for the
tariff. 1t was formerly on the Demo-
cratic free list. and your entire industry
would be destroyed by lowering the
tariff to competitive basis with the
labor of China. which is the chief COM
petlng country.
Your butter, which sells in New York
at % cents. could be sold from New
Zealand for Is were it not for the
tariff. And as a matter of fact, your
wheat, distressing as the price is. is
selling in Minneapolis today at II cents
above the Canadian price for similar
grades In discussing the tariff at DeS
MoineS l pointed out that at that mo-
rneOt there uprp . 000 nm ratt1e in the
northern states of Mexico seeking a
market and. stated that "the price is
about two and Cne-half dollars per hun
dred pounds on the south bank Of the
Rio Grande and four dollars and half
on the north bank and only the tariff
wall between them
Want "Bony" Cattle.
This fact has greatly worried our
Democratic orators and they have
concluded that these cattle must be
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