The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-17

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war and the present crisis have de-
molished much of the Republican
argument for the Smoot- Hawley
tariff.
MIR. Hoover told the farmers at
Des Moines that if it were not for
this tariff, their crops would rot in
shci: barns. Here in North Dakota
and in Iowa, they are rotting in the
fields for lack of a market.
To picture a debacle, extreme and
intense unless the Republican party
is returned to power by the election
Of Hoover, is to insult the intelligence
of the American people. They have
had plenty of suffering and distress
under Republican auspices during
the last three years and reputation
for sure prophesy is not in the Re-
publican party this year. Together
with Mr.. Hoover. they have been very
poor guessers. This nation will not
fall into the status of Russia, as Mr.. !
Hoover limited at Cleveland when he
referred to the Soviet new deal, if
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected.
American ideals and institutions will
be as safe under Roosevelt as they
have been under Republican rule. 1t
is sheer nonsense, even to win an
election, to pose as jeremiah and
Mr.. Hoovers speech at Cleveland was
full of Jeremiads. Even the speech
Of introduction by the Republican
candidate for governor of Ohio was
defeatist in tone.
Much that has happened can not
be placed at Mr.. Hoover's door, it
is true. The weak position of the
Republicans in this campaign is that
they, in the past, have so vociferously
claimed credit for every iota of ma
tional prosperity. Now when it
comes time to shoulder some of the
brunt of this depression the burden
is grievous and the leaders are
peevish and irritable.
Right or wrong, the voters of the
nation are going to place large por-
ton of the present economic mess at |
Mr.. Hoover's doorstep. That is in
evitable, and if the shoe were on the
other foot the Republicans would he
going up and down the nation doing
just what the Democrats are doing
today. Most of the voters know this |
and the frantic efforts of Republican
leaders to scare the voters into en-
dorsing their candidates this year is
not making much Roadway, if the
straw votes indicate anything.
Voters are not going to believe the |
charge that Democrats !
will force down the standard of liv-
ing or place the American farmer on
a par with the Russian peasant be-
cause some American farmers today
are not so far from that status. Mr..
Roosevelt has given a solemn pledge
to the American farmers that he will
give them tariff protection equal to
that given other industry. This was
definite pledge made by the Re-
publican party at Kansas City in
1928 and broken brazenly by Re-
publican congress in the passage of
the Ubiquitous Smoot- Hawley tariff
bill. Voters, especially those in the
agricultural region, should not for
get this, and judging from the eco
nomic unrest in the wheat and corn
sections they will not.
Mr.. Hoover did not repeat at
Cleveland the assumption that this
nation recently was within two weeks
of going off the gold standard. He
is entitled TO praise. in common with
the Democrats, for his efforts to
maintain sound currency under the
gold standard. Both parties are
pledged to this very thing, although
speakers declare upon
every occasion that the Democrats
will debase our currency and resort
to greenbacks. OF course that is
partisan conclusion which the voters
must take with couple of grains of
salt. 1t is the old campaign baliy-
hoo which won in 1896-but the 1882
has nothing in common
with 1896.
The effect of MI Hoovers Des
Moines assertion about how near the
United States was to going off the
gold standard had unfortunate re-
actions abroad
This unfavorable reaction was def
initely checked by Senator Glass and
many financiers who successfully re-
futed such fear and prediction. Mr..
Hoover was more guarded in his
Cleveland utterances regarding the
gold standard. and fortunately 50. for
raid on the American dollar might
be most embarrassing at this time.
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