Evening star., 1932-08-28
ROOSEVELT ROUSES
7 CHEERS OF 100000
Repeal Plea Made to New
Jersey Crowd in Second
Major Speech.
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him review the 1o2d Cavalry of the
National Guard.
With the Governor were his wife and
two of his sons, Franklin, jr, and John.
With Gov. and Mrs. Moore and Farley
they had lunch at the Little White
House.
It was the New Jersey Governor who
introduced the New York Governor to
the crowd, and in doing so he called
Roosevelt lone of the plain people"
Gov. and Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at
their town house in New York City to-
night from Seagirt after two-hour
automobile trip, most of it through
driving rainstorm.
Temperance Is Praised.
In his speech Gov. Roosevelt praised
temperance as lone of the cardinal vir-
tues" and labeled the eighteenth amend
ment "stupendous blunder."
He termed the Republican plank
"long. ambiguous, insincere, false"
The presidential nominee described
the Democratic prohibition plank as 80
plain and clear and honest that no one
could doubt its meaning"
In direct attack on President
Hoover and his acceptance speech,
Roosevelt said:
ITO any one who will read the prohi-
bition plank in the Republican platform
and the remarks of the President on
this question in his acceptance speech,
the difficulty under which the President
labors will become obvious, and the rea-
son for his use Of meaningless words
will become clear
Sees Principle Sacrificed.
cit Is the difficulty that always at
tends sacrificing principles for votes,
and attempting to conceal that fact by
the use of pusSy-cat words"
In the acceptance speech, Roosevelt
continued, the President proceeds de-
liberately to misrepresent the position
of the Democratic party" on prohibition.
The Democratic standard bearer then
accused Republican leaders of trying
a circus stunt, with one foot
on the wet horse and the other foot
on the dry horse"
1.-The answer of the voters" he con-
tinued, will be precisely the same" as
the result in 1880 in New York State
when the Republicans "fell to the
ground" between the two horses.
"It is increasingly apparent he said,
that the Incorporate use OF 1ntoxi-
cants has no place in this new mechan-
lDeQ ClVulZdIlOI VI OuIo.
Peril to Industry.
"In our industry, In our recreation
on our highways, a drunken man is
more than an objectionable companion
he Is a peril to the rest of us.
But the methods adopted since the
great war with the purpose OF achiev-
ing greater temperance by the forcing
of prohibition have been accompanied
in most parts Of the country by COM
plete and tragic failure"
"The recent recognition Of this fact
by the present administration" he con-
tinued, "is an amazing piece OF hind
sight. -
I'm craftsmanship an ounce of fore
sight is better than a pound OF hind
sight"
The proper means Of regulation, the
| Governor continued. sis through the
States, with control by Federal Govern
ment limited to that which Is necessary
to protect the States in the exercise OF
their legitimate powers" J."
Tax Relief Held Possible.
He said "unquestionably our tax bur-
den would not be so heavy nor the
forms 1t takes so Objectionable" If some
of the money now paid to bootleggers
could be made available for the ex-
penses of government"
The statement made by the President
which Roosevelt charged was issued ito
mislead the people" he quoted as fol-
lows:
"Our opponents pledge the members
Of their party to destroy every vestige
of constitutional and effective Federal
control Of the traffic"
In reply to that charge, Roosevelt
said:
"The Democratic platform expressly
and unequivocably opposes the return
of the saloon and With equal emphasis
it demands that there be Federal con-
troll of the liquor traffic to protect the
dry States"
Then turning to Vice President Curtis
Roosevelt said:
1.-The anti-repealiSts in the Repub-
lican party raised their voices in lamen-
| tation, like jeremiah of old.
1.-THE Republican candidate for Vice
President heard this wailing. He
hastened to avow his devotion to the
Republican platform, but he found ful
justification for the belief that the
eighteenth amendment should not be
repealed"
more the honest wet than the shifty
wet, and the anti-prohibitionist, know
prefers the four square dry to the un'
certain wet"