Evening star., 1932-11-06
NORRIS CONTINUES
POWER TRUST WAR
Declares Hoover Friendly to
Interests-Cites Muscle
Shoals Veto.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November Sen
ator George W. Norris, Nebraska Re-
publican independent, renewed his at
tack on the power trust in an ad-
dress here tonight in behalf of the
presidential candidacy of Franklin D..
Roosevelt.
The veteran Nebraskan commented
in a prepared address that he did not
agree 100 per cent with Roosepelt's s
position on the public utility question,
but the Democratic nominee comes so
much nearer to standing for the rights
of the people against the monopolies' :
than President Hoover that there is no
comparison.
He said Roosevelt's appointments as
Governor of New York Indicated he
would approach this problem with a
sympathetic idea: with sympathy for
the toiling masses"
Senator Norris declared. For four
years We have had man in the White
House who has been friendly to the
trust. The trust supported him from
the first. They have circulated his
speeches as part of their propaganda.
They worked for his election four years
ago and did everything they could, re-
sorted to every fair and unfair means,
Cites Muscle Shoals Veto.
The Senator declared that during the
1928 campaign Mr. Hoover virtually
made a promise he would favor reten-
ton of Muscle Shoals and its operation
by the Government.
But when such a bill reached him.
the Senator added, he vetoed it"
Senator Norris said proper control
OF public utilities was one of the vital
issues OF the campaign" He said that
the great danger is that while we are
attempting to solve some of our tenn
porary difficulties and while we are
wrestling With problems of important
necessity, the greatest monopoly ever
known in the civilized world will
have taken possession of our God-given
natural resources and deprived our gen.
Grafton and future generations of the
happiness and the comfort that God
Almighty intended for all the people
Senator Norris traced what he said
were attempts OF the power trust to
carry propaganda against public owner
ship into the schools and churches and
Women's clubs. He asserted that lit
was developed before the Federal Trade
Commission that fund Of $500 900 was
set aside for the control of the Senate
"a Vic Ollltcd obdJcS Jul ing OIlt StSSlOll
of Congress" to prevent enactment of
the Muscle Shoals bill, governmental
construction of the Boulder Dam Can
yon project and any investigation of
the propaganda activities.
Denounces insult
He cited what he said were illustra-
tions in several States, including his
own State of Nebraska Of corporation
systems by which profits were passed
along and financial structures pyra-
mided. He specifically mentioned
Samuel insult, who ne said is hiding
and concealing himself in a foreign
land 80 ne cannot be arrested, brought
to justice and tried for his deceitful
and dishonorable methods which have
brought financial ruin to thousands of
his fellow citizens"
Senator Norris quoted what he said
were words of Theodore Roosevelt when
he was President: DO not give up your
water power for promise Of quick de-
velopment. We are not free citizens if
We allow those things to get into the
hands Of a few
The speaker asserted "he warned us
OF the danger the greatest monop-
oily on earth-the greatest trust ever
known to civiliZation-is trying to COB
BILE up our natural resources for pri-
vste gain and profit. We are now in
the midst of the struggle"