The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-30
C. O.P. TARIFF
IS BOMBARDED
BY ROOSEVELT
Depression in U. S. Made by
Hoover Rule, Charges
N. Y. Governor.
PLEDGES LOWER TAXES
Democrat Nominee LaSheS
at Bureaus Piled Up
by President.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press STAFF Correspondent

ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL,
EN- ROUTE TO CHICAGO, Sept
3O.-Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
swung into the home stretch of his
nationwide tour today after laying
down for the second time in the
corn belt a barrage designed to off
set the reelection offensive OF
President Hoover, scheduled for Des
Moines, Ia, next Tuesday.
Roosevelt, speaking before 10000
persons who flocked to Sioux CITY
Ia, from Minnesota, South Dakota
and Nebraska, again pledged "a new
deal" for the farmer.
He presented a program which
had for its salient features the fol-
lowing:
/. Downward revision of tariff
rates to give the farmer the same
advantages as those enjoyed by
industry.
2. Reduction in the expenses of
government.
3. Lower taxes.
The Democratic presidential nom
lnee bitterly asSailed the Hoover
administration, charging it was the
greatest peace time Spender in
American history.
Rails at Bureaucracy
He asserted the administration
was "one which has piled bureau
on bureau, commission on commits
sion, and has failed to anticipate
the dire needs or reduced earning
power of the people. Bureaus and
bureaucrats have been retained at
the expense of the taxpayer"
The Governor blamed the pres
ent tariff for large measure of
the farmers ills, asserting it's pro-
visions to be lone of the effective
causes of the present depression"
and a ''barbed wire enhancement
against our economic contact with
the world"
Pointing out that the high tariff
affected industry as well, Roosevelt
observed lin two years, from 1890
to 1882, American manufacturers
have established in foreign coun-
tries, to escape the penalty on the
introduction of American-made
goods, 258 factories; AZ in Europe.
IL in Latin-America, % in the far
east, and II in Canada.
Cites Ottawa Farley
Every week of 1882 has seen
four American factories moving to
Canada. Premier Bennett is re-
ported to have said in a recent
speech that a facory is moving
every day of the year from the
United States into Canada, and he
assured those at the recent Ottawa
conferences that by the arrangement
made there Great Britain and her
colonies would take from Canada
$3.50 100000 of trade which other
wise would go to the United States.
This, you see, puts more men on
the street here who had been en-
ployed in factories that had moved
to Canada"
Roosevelt declared the depression
IN this country was American-m made.
traceable to the high tariff and i'm
provident loans to backward and
crippled countries.
To blame the foreign victims, as
he charged the Republicans are do
ing, was lashed by Roosevelt as ''the
boldeSt aliki in the history of poll
tics"
Urges Competitive Tariff
To offset these conditions RooSe-
welt offered his cure, Ia COMPETE
tive tariff which means one which
will put the American producers
on market equality with their
foreign competitors. One that
equalizes the difference in the cost
of production-not a prohibitory
tariff back of which domestic pro-
ducers may combine to practice ex-
tortion on the American public"
The basis of the Roosevelt farm
policy, he summed up as follows:
First, to seek relief for the farm
er from the burden of his expense
account, and second, to try to re-
store the purchasing power of his
dollar by getting for him higher
prices for the products of the SOIL"
The Governors, special left Sioux
City late Thursday night for Mil