Evening star., 1932-11-01
SPEECH COMPARES
TWO PHILOSOPHERS
TELLS New Workers Proposals
of Democrats Would
Prove Ruin0us.
BY the Associated Press.

venber l.-Following is the text OF
President Hoover's address last night
in New York:
This campaign is more than con-
test between two men. 1t is more than
q contest between two parties. 1t Is
b contest between two PHILOSOPHERS OF
government.
We are told by the opposition that
we must have . change; that We must
have a new deal. 1t is not the change
that comes from normal development
Of national life to which I object but
the proposal to alter the whole founda-
tions of our national life which have
been builded through generations of
testing and struggle, and of the prin-
ciples upon which We have builGed the.
Nation. The expressions our opponents
use must refer to important changes in
our economic and social system and our
system OF government otherwise they
are nothing but vacuouS words And
II realize that in this time of distress
many of our people are asking whether
sour social and economic system is in
capable OF that great primary function
of providing security and comfort OF
life to all of the firesides of our 25,000,-
600 homes in America, whether our So
cial system provides for the funda-
mental development and progress of
our people, whether our form OF
government is capable of originating
and sustaining that security and prog
ress.
This question is the basis upon which
our opponents are appealing to the
people in their fears and distress. They
are proposing changes and so-called
new deals which would destroy the very
foundations Of our American system.
Our people should consider the pri-
mary facts before they come to the
judgment-not merely through politi-
cal agitation, the glitter of promise.
and the encouragement of temporary
iardships-w whether they will support
changes which radically affect the
whole system which has been builded
up by $50 years of the toll of our
fathers. They should not approach the
question in the despair with which our
opponents would clothe it
Our economic system has received
abnormal shocks during the past three
years, which temporarily dislocated its
normal functioning. These shocks have
in large sense come from without our
borders, but l say to you that our sys-
TEN of government has enabled us to
take such strong action as to prevent
the disaster which would otherwise
have come to our Nation. 1t has en-
abled us further to develop measures
and programs which are now demon
strating their ability to bring about res
toration and progress.
Refers to Congress.
We must go deeper than platitudes
and emotional appeals of the public
penetrate to the full significance of the
changes which our opponents are at
tempting to float upon the wave Of dis
tress and discomfort from the difficult
ties we are passing through. We can
find what our opponents would do after
searching the record Of their appeals
to discomfort. group and sectional in
terest. We must search for them in
the legislative acts which they spon-
sored and passed in the Democratic
controlled House Of Representatives in
the last session of Congress. We must
look into measures for which they voted
and which were defeated We must in
quire whether or not the presidential
and vice presidential candidates have
CiSavowed these acts. If they have not,
We must conclude that they form por-
ton and are substantial indication
of the changes proposed.
And we must look still further than
this as to what revolutionary changes
have been proposed by the candidates
themselves.
We must look into the type of lead
ers who are campaigning for the DEM
ocratic ticket, whose PHILOSOPHERS have
been well known all their lives, whose
demand for a change in the American
system are frank and forceful. 1 can
respect the sincerity of these men in
their desire to change our form of gov
ernment and our social and economic
system, though I shall do my best to-
night to prove they are wrong. I refer
particularly to Senator Norris, Senator
LaFollette, Senator Cutting. Senator
Huey Long, Senator Wheeler, William
r. Hearst and other exponents of So
cial philosophy different from the ira
Gitional American one. Unless these
men feel assurance of support to their
IDEAS they certainly would not be sup
porting these candidates and the Dem
ocratic party. The seal of these men
indicates that they have sure confidence
that they will have voice in the ad-
ninistration of our Government.
may say at once that the changes
proposed from all these Democratic
principals and allies are of the most
If they are brought about this will not
in the past.
Maintenance of Equality.
Let US pause for a moment and ex-
anime the American system OF gorern-
ment, of social and economic life,
which 1t is now proposed that We should
alter. Our system is the product of our
race and Of our experience in building
Nation to heights unparalleled in the
whole history of the world. It is a
system peculiar to the American peo-
pie. 1t differs essentially from all
others in the world. 1t is an American
system.
1t is founded on the conception that
only through ordered liberty. through
freedom to the individual and equal
opportunity to the individual will his
initiative and enterprise be summoned
to spur the march of progress
1t is by the maintenance of equality
OF opportunity and therefore Of a So
Ciety absolutely fluid IN freedom of
the movement CT its human particles
that our individualism departs from the
individualism of Europe. We resent
class distinction, because there can be
no rise for the individual through the
frozen strata of classes, and no strait
fication of classes can take place in
mass livened by the free rise of its
particles Thus, in our ideals the able
and ambitious are able to rise con-
stantly from the bottom to leadership
in the community.
This freedom of the individual Gre
ates OF itself the necessity and the
cheerful willingness OF men to act CO.
operatively in a thousand ways and for
every purpose as occasion arises, and
1t permits such voluntary corporations
to be dissolved as soon as they have
served their purpose, to be replaced by
new voluntary associations for new
purposes.
There has thus grown within US, to