Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-07
TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE
DOMESTIC S u FIRST

In emphasizing domestic issues and In outlining what
has been done and what he plans to do in the nation
wide effort to shorten the depression, there is little doubt
that President Hoover's statement of domestic affairs as
contained in his formal acceptance address meets with
the hearty approval of the great bulk of the American
people regardless of their political affiliations.
President Hoover, on international affairs, reiterated
his support of time-honored American principles of inter-
national cooperation without involving the United States
in any foreign alliances or obligations, political or other
wise. In this, too, the American people will agree. But
the President properly devoted the greater part of his
address to the discussion of American economic issues.
1t is in the United States that we have to live, and it will
be the American people who will pull themselves out of
this depression by the application of sound business prin-
ciples. This cannot be done by talk about debt cancella-
ton, or the elimination of so-caned barriers to interna-
tional trade, which means only the lowering of Ameri-
can tariffs to put the American producer into competition
with the low priced production of Europe and the Orient.
That winning the battle over the depression is an Amer
lean affair SO far as the people of the United States are
concerned, is pretty generally recognized by our people.
Only the importers, the theoretical free traders and the
international bankers who have a big stake in Europe
are now talking about solving the depression by inter-
national agreements which would put Uncle Sam into
European politics.
The case of the American citizen who thinks in terms
of his own country and its welfare was well summed up
in a recent editorial opinion of the Progressive Labor
World, a sound American labor paper which said, in part,
under the caption, Solve Americas Problems First:
1--WE are within a few months of a presidential cleo
ton. Domestic issues of the greatest Importance are in
the balance. Voters are insistently pressing candidates
for explicit statements showing what they propose to do
to relieve an intolerable situation.
"This is no time to suggest that the idle, the hungry,
the naked, must look to international agreements for re-
lief.
eve must not furnish ~perplexed politicians with an
easy alibi which would enable them to say to inquisitive
constituents: Don't ask us now what we will do for the
farmer and the unemployed. Wait till we get through
with our international "~talkfest' at Geneva or Lausanne,
or some other European CENTER
owe have had too much of that kind of buck passing
in recent years.
"Our economic recovery is not contingent upon what
some foreign country may or may not do. 1t must never
be forgotten that we have the means to put agriculture
on its feet and to supply employment for our jobless army.
All we need is the courage and intelligence to use them.
"Of course, it is highly desirable that the rest of the
world should come to its senses, get rid of the war COM
pick, reduce ornaments and prepare to live in peace with
its ~neighbors. Every decent man and woman is praying
for that blessed day to dawn.
'But-we cannot permit plans for the millennium to
interfere with the solution of the problems which are
crowding us SO fiercely at this moment"