The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-10-21
A CHANGE BUT WHAT KIND
IAN EDITORIAL
From The Denver Post

The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president would
mean that from election day in November until Inauguration day
in March, and for months thereafter, the people of the United
States would be subjected to a period of hard times far worse
than anything they have thus far undergone.
Business and industry would simply stand still and wait to
see what Roosevelt would do Business and industry have no
way of knowing now what he will do if elected. His campaign
speeches have been so vague and indefinite that it is impossible
to discover in them any clear policy. Roosevelt has made moth
ing plain or definite except this-that if he is elected, he will
change policies now in effect. His entire campaign has been
simply an appeal to the discomfort and unrest and dissatisfaction
that have resulted from the worldwide depression. He is trying
to capitalize all that into votes for himself, but he has not said
what he will offer in place of the policies that he condemns. He
is playing the most ordinary sort of politics. He knows that a
lot of people want a change. A change is exactly all that Roose-
welt offers them-simply a change of administration from Re-
publican to Democratic. He does not offer them any substantial,
concrete, constructive program of new policies. He says, Il
will undo everything Hoover has done" and lets it go at that.
And so If the voters of this country are misled by a desire
for change into electing Roosevelt, they can look for a hard win
ter. From November until March, no plans will be made, no con-
structve effort will be put forth by the men and corporations
that control business industry and employment Money I'LL be
tight and jobs will be scarcer than ever, simply because capital
in this country will be waiting to see what sort of change Roose-
welt intends. Even after he begins making his changes, this con-
dition of retrenchment and doubt and waiting will continue at
least until business and industry find out how his changes are
going to work. And If Roosevelt is as vague, indefinite and un-
certain after election as he is before election, conditions will not
return to normal at all while he is in office, but will be more
disturbed than ever.
The voters of the United States ought to consider well this
situation before they cast their votes on Nov. 8 for a vague
something that nobody knows the meaning of.
Mr.. Hoovers reelection, on the contrary, means that the
honest, conscientious and effective measures that have been put
into effect in recent months will be continued and carried on
to assist business and agriculture back to their feet. The coun-
try will know at once the nature and exact details of Mr.. Hoo
vers nroeram BUSINESS will go ahead. with confidence. to make
plans for the winter and the Spring. With the uncertainty and
disturbance of the campaign ended, the wheels will begin to
turn in earnest, and jobs will become more plentiful instead of
less plentiful The winter and spring will be a time of progress
i've construction, instead of doleful waiting.
A vote for Hoover is a vote for a change-A CHANGE FOR
THE BETTER, through the only sensible means by which such
changes ever are made-common sense policies based on con
structive craftsmanship and the greatest good to the greatest
number. A vote for Roosevelt is a vote for a change to vague
remedies, untried panaceas, guesses and experiments, the real
nature of which not even the candidate himself knows.