Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-02-03
ROOSEVELT BARES
LEAGUE OPPOSITION
Wants Debts Paid to u. S.
and Tariff Barriers on
Trade Lowered.

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| BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N Y, February 3.-Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Governor Of New York
and candidate for the Democratic presi-
dental nomination, believes:
% The United States should not
participate in the League of Nations.
(2) European debts should not be
Cancelled.
80 An international trade confer
ence should be called to level tariff
barriers.
Gov. Roosevelt committed his views
on these subjects to public considera-
! ton at meeting of the State Grange
! last night. His announcement on the
| League tol!oWed by a few days th.2
challenge of William Randolph Hearst
| that he announce his views thereon.
{ Sees Change in League.
| AS Democratic vice presidential can
didate u years ago, Mr.. Roosevelt
worked and spoke in behalf of Ameri
can participation in League of Ma
tions."
For that course I have no apology"
! he said. The League of Nations to-
| day is not the League conceived by
mere meeting place for the political
| discussion Of strictly European diff
/ cultiec."
Gov. Roosevelt is the second promi-
nent Democrat to discuss altered views
on the League question in recent weeks.
! Newton D. Baker, Secretary Of War
| in the Wilson cabinet and for years a
propOnent of American entry into the
| League, said recently he was against
League Of Nations plank in the 1882
| Democratic platform. He said. how
| ever, he believed the country will and
ought to join the League some day.
Concerning cancellation of debts,
| Gov. Roosevelt said:
Europe owes us. We do not owe
her. Therefore we should call meet
ing of our debtors here and not in
Europe and demand an understanding
Pans European Spending.
IF it were considered advisable in
the present condition of world finance
to postpone the payment of debts for
while. we should nevertheless insist
upon an accord as to when payments
should begin and in what amount. Eu-
rope has INDUCED herself in an orgy
of spending
Text of Address Given.
The text of Gov. Roosevelt's address
| follows:
The question Of markets is today our
most vital question. There are two
outlets for our products the first. an
increase of home consumption, and the
second. the sale of more Of our indus
trial and agricultural products to other
nations throughout the world.
You, in the State of New York,
whether you live on the farm or work
in the factory, are personally and deep
" interested in the problem. not only
of finding home markets, but Of find
ing foreign markets Volumes OF tech
nical phrases have been written and
uttered, but 1t all comes down to this
plain truth:
The nations Of Europe, South Amer
lea and the Far East are not buying
our products of factory and farm for
the very good reason that they have
not the means to do the buying. Inter
national cash is gold. or its equivalent,
and they have not got the Cold.
Blames Tariff Walls.
For 10 years, between 1920 and
1890, we Americans helped these other
nations to buy our goods by IeNQlng
them our own money to do the buy
ing. We have stopped doing that now
for good and obvious reasons
There was, and is, only one other
way by which other nations could buy
our goods-and that was by using the
old-faShioned method of bartering or
exchanging their goods for ours. IN
fortunately, that is an impoSSibility for
| them because our Government, in its
wisdom. put up tariff fence so high
that they could not use this old-faSh-
Toned method of exchange of goods
/ Furthermore, when our Smoot- HaWley
tariff law went into effect three years
ago, over the protest Of thousands of
our own business men and farmers, the
foreign nations, by way Of retaliation,
raised high tariff fences of their own.
BY way of parenthesis, I might add
that our own tariff fence increased the
cost to the farmer of manufactured ar
ticleS wa by him on his farm and in
his household, while at the same time
it did not prevent foreign competition
with him in many lines of agricultural
products. 1t is a simple fact tEat the
farmers of America have been buying
in a protected market and selling in q
market open to the competition of the
whole world.
Urges Horse Sense"
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