The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-12
COOLIDGE HITS
ROOSEVELT ON
BONUS SILENCE
Failure to Face Issue Is
Retarding Recovery, Says
Ex-PreSident.
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preston by failing to speak against
the bonus
The former President reused his
listeners to laughter by his terse
quotations from Grover Cleveland
against reciprocal tariffs; he re-
ferred to the forgotten man" of
the Roosevelt speeches as sthe
ordinary run Of people"
CriticiSes ROOseveIt's Wealth
He injected by reference criti-
cism of Roosevelt for his inherit
ance of wealth and his costly edu-
cation. He said President Hoover
never was carried into political Of
flee by the way of family influence"
Coolidge came to the aid of his
party in the closing stages of a
vigorous campaign to hold New
England and New York in the Re-
publican column.
Colonel William j, wild Bid
Donovan and other state candidates
spoke briefly, or were introduced
from the same platform. Bands,
flags and oise-making machinery
made the mass meeting an old-time
New York political rally.
Coolidge lost little time in de-
livering himself~of series of cpl
grammatic statements that brought
cheers or laughter from his hearers.
Speaks About Tariff
Before we decide that we want
to have a change we ought to de-
termine what the chances are of
securing an improvement" was the
first.
He continued:
NO government has yet been de-
vised that could make the people
prosperous all the time.
we are told we ought to have a
competitive tariff. Our producers
are not suffering from any lack of
competition. Is it proposed to put
our wage earners in competition
with those Of India, China and
Japan?
But we are told again that by
reducing our tariff we can increase
our foreign commerce. Every for
eign nation wants our tariff re-
duced. No foreign nation wants to
increase our commerce.
Warns on Treasury Raids
AN independent nation ought to
keep within its own control the au-
thority to determine it's own reve-
nueS and regulate its own COM
merce."
The defeat of the Democratic
greenback craze and the free sill
yer issue were both followed by pc
RODS of prosperity under Repub-
llcan administration" Coolidge said.
THE assurance" he stated, that
the pending Democratic raids on
the treasury would be defeated by a
Republican victory in November no
doubt would have the same effect in
reviving all kinds of business
"All this" he added, speaking of
the Republican reconstruction pro-
gram, lis the question of method of
the adoption of the means to an
end. Always the end has been to
improve the well-being of the ordi-
nary run of people.
Praises Hoover Efforts
'Since the main causes of our
difficulties lay in failure of credit.
the first object would be to restore
credit, That is the policy which
President Hoover constantly has ad-
vocated.
The whole policy has been based
on the theory the establishing
the opportunity for employment
came by strengthening the re-
sources of the employer.
I'VE have advocated strengthen
ing the position of the employer in
order that he might pay better
wages to his employees, enlarge the
consumption capacity of the people
and increase the market for farm
and factory. All this is a queS-
ton of method, of the adoption of
a means to- an end. Always the
end has been to improve the we'll
being of the ordinary run of people. 3"
Coolidge claimed that these prin-
ciples were responsible for prosper
ity declaring that the scale of wages
and the standards of living con-
stantly had increased because of
them.
He praised Mr.. Hoover's recon