Evening star., 1932-11-06
Take Vote Seriously"

But the last thing l can say" he
said is to take your vote seriously, and
consult your head and your conscience
before you put your ballot in the box y
The audience leaped to its feet as
he concluded and cheered and applaud
ed him.
Mills promised to ''see to it" that if
Gov Roosevelt is elected "he will be
reminded at every session of Congress
while he is President of a promise to
reduce Federal expenditures 25 per
cent.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in his
advance text, quoted Gov. Roosevelt as
saying in Brooklyn last night that at
Pittsburgh he had promised reduc-
tion in the cost Of government and
set forth in detail the means by which
1t could be accomplished"
This is a miSStatement of fact" Mills
continued. Neither in his speech at
Pittsburgh nor in any other speech has
he indicated one single item of Federal
expenditures which he would do away
with or which he would reduce.
"Year Not Specified"
"He pledged himself to reduce the ex
penditures of the Federal Government
by IS per cent without specifying the
year he took as a base. Now if he took
tl4C 4lSSdl yCdl 4OOA do q bdoC, VIVA
the expenditures were enormously in
creased by such items as half billion
dollars for the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation and S125,000,000 for the
capitalization of the land banks, his
promise was meaningless, for as the
President pointed out, such reduction
has already in large measure been &C
complished this fiscal year.
But if he means that he would re-
duce the cost of government from S4,-
900 100000, which is the rate at which
1t is now running on normal basis
from S4000,000,0OO to $4,000 00O, 600
then I say to you that that is just an
other promise that he can't keep.
i say to you that he knows he can't
keep it, And here publicly for the sake
of the record, because if he is elected
I am going to refer to it in the days
to come, I forecast if Mr.. Roosevelt be-
comes President of the United States
on March A. 1888, that not in any single
one Of the ensuing years will the ex-
penditures of the Federal Government
be reduced to $4,000, 100000"
Summary of Speeches.
He gave the following as a summary
OF RooseVelt'S speeches and promises:
He began by promising to put a mil
lion unemployed to work planting trees
He has promised to reduce interest and
amortization payments on farm mort
cages covered by contracts made under
State law, without telling how the Fed
eral Government is to obtain jurisdic-
ton. He has promised to make the
tariff effective on those agricultural
crops that sell on an export basis with
out telling how this can be accom-
plished.
AT Butte he promised to improve the
condition of silver, without telling how
At Seattle he promised to restore the
deprecated buying power of the Orient.
He said there were several ways of do
ing this, but didn't have the time to
mention one
AT Springfield he promised the seal
ing down of amortization inStallments
of Federal Land Bank borrowers, which
would impair the security of the hold
ers of Sl,200,000,000 Land Bank bonds.
That same evening at ST. Louis, having
forgotten what he said at noon, he
promised to protect the bondholders.
But worst of all, in a letter which
has been given wide circulation among
the unemployed, he promised to have
the Federal Government furnish en-
ployment to all surplus labor at all
times-a promise which he knows he
cannot keep and which simply serves to
raise false hopes in the minds of unfor-
tunate men and women in the expec-
tation that they may be induced to vote
for him"