Evening star., 1932-10-27
|CHANGE IN REGIME
VITAL, SAYS SH0USE
Says Democratic Victory Is
Necessary for Return of
Prosperity Era.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Election Of the Democratic ticket Is
termed by Jouett Shouse "vitally neces-
sary to the return to an era Of
prosperity affecting alike capital and
labor agriculture and industry"
The former chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Executive Committee
made this statement in an address pre-
pared for broadcasting last night under
auspices Of the Democratic National
Committee.
THE American people long ago made
up their minds not to re-elect Herbert
Hoover President of the United States"
he said, land this decision was not
altered and would not have been altered
regardless Of the action Of the Demo-
cratic national convention at Chicago
as to its nominee"
Shouse, president OF the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
said he spoke as IAN individual citizen
with the same interest in the outcome
Of the present campaign that every
patriotic American has, no greater and
no less"
Tariff Law Assailed.
Reviewing President Hoover's term in
office. Shouse said a referendum of the
farmers as to the Farm Board would
result in an overwhelming .'repudiation'
of the Hoover administration, and that
the Hawley-Smoot tariff law was the
most disastrous piece of legislation ever
written upon our statute books
In 1881, he said, President Hoover
permitted precious months to eiapSe
nithout the slightest effort to effect a
legislative program that would help in
the resuscitation of business. IN the
lessening of unemployment, in the relief
of the suffering"
Shouse added that not until after a
declaration by Speaker Garner in favor
of balanced budget did ANY member
of the administration voice the slightest
concern as to balancing the budget.
Shouse said it was not until the
depression had been running for more
than a year and half, that the
apologists for the Republican party
united In pleas that the ills that had
befallen our people were result solely
of the World War" He added:
yet in every speech in this campaign,
defenders of the administration have
sought to prove that there was no way
to avoid what happened in America,
that it was an inevitable result of the
World War"
G. o. p. Dry Straddle Charged.
The Republican prohibition plank,
Shouse said. is nothing less than an
abortive attempt to hold the votes of
both vets and drys."
The Democratic declaration" he
said, "is a clear-cut honest statement CT
the view that the eighteenth amend
ment should be repealed and that
pending such repeal the Volstead act
should be modified to permit the sale
of light wines and beer.
Repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment does not for a moment contem-
plate that such States as desire to pre-
vent the sale or importation of liquor
within their own borders shall not have
absolute protection. Such protection is
now guaranteed by the provisions of the
Webb kenyon act which has never beer
repealed by Congress and which should
never be repealed. There need be nc
constitutional provision to assure this
protection which is conceded by all who
have studied the problem.
The only direct method to secure
repeal of the eighteenth amendment is
through the plan outlined in the Demo
cratic platform. Those who believe in
such repeal. those who feel that police
statute does not belong in the Constitu-
ton of the United States, should vote
for Democratic candidates in order to
assure the necessary action.
In the meantime, under Demo
cratic administration the amendment
of the Volstead act will provide hun
dreds of millions of revenues to the
Federal Government at a time wheI
such revenue is desperately needed.