Evening star., 1932-10-26


such as public health, personnel admin
istration, education and activities Of the
War and Navy Departments. That act
was approved June 30. and to this day
there has been no consolidation Of such
activities, and therefore there is no JUS
tification for our entertaining the hops
Of any reorganization Of the depart
ments Of the Government under hi
leadership.
Army Posts Measure.
The Presidents idea Of economy 1.
illustrated by the only section Of the
relief bill which is of Republican origin
namely. the appropriation Of SIS .000, ,00C
for the construction Of theaters. gym
nasiums, service clubs. recreation hall:
and riding halls at Army posts through
out the Nation, construction project.
that the Congress failed to provide fol
in the regular appropriation bills; that
were unessential and placed an unjust
and unfair burden upon the American
taxpayers. And the Presidents idea Of
economy is further Illustrated by hi.
approval Of an appropriation Of $780,
900 for the creation of the Wickershan
Commission, one Of the outstanding
achievements Of the present admins
tration.
The horseman of deceit rode wher
the Republican convention wrote 1t.
plank on prohibition. While nothing
could be more clear than the declara.
ton Of the Democratic platform anc
nothing can be more clear than my &C.
ceptance Of it, the Republican con-
vention adopted, as you all know, a pro-
hihitinn Ctatpr1ont that infpndnf
to sound wet to the vets and dry Il
the drys. The trouble was that 1t ended
by deceiving no one. 1t sounded dry
to the vets. and wet to the dryS.
And so the presidential candidate at
tempted to correct it. He added new
elements of confusion. He promised II
work for the repeal Of the eighteenth
Amendment with very important res.
ervation. Everything went well, bu
suddenly the Vice President was heard
from. He attempted to make provision
for any Interpretation of what tht
President meant as an appeal to tht
vets. Thus 1t looked as If the ticket
was facing both ways. But on clost
examination 1t was found that the vics
presidential candidate was Individually
dry. the presidential candidate was only
half dry. The result Of this curious at
tempt to move two ways on one-way
street. however, was to resolve the Re-
publican ticket In sort of whirlins
motion, that meant to the voter hon.
estly attempting to make a choice only
dizzy exhibition of uncertainty Here
is where the issue stands, my friends
No honest wet and no honest dry car
approve Of such political tactics. 1t Is
the most palpa BILE attempt to defrand the
American people that we have seen in
our time.
And a word as to beer. 1 favor the
modification Of the Volstead act to per-
NIT States to authorize the manufac-
ture and sale Of beer. This Is q way tc
divert three hundred million dollars oil
more from the pockets of the racketeers
to the Treasury of the United States.
The horseman of deceit was certainly
riding high when the Republican lead
ers were trying to make up their minds
about the eighteenth amendment.
Horseman Of Depression.
Finally, there rides abroad in q
stricken country among people i'm
poverished, confused, sore and weary
the fourth horseman. He Is the horse
man Of despair.
This administration has resortec
finally to the most plaintive diagnosi:
Of a doctor of despair that any coun-
try has ever heard from responsible
statesmen. The most devastating ex'
ample of this kind Of preaching IS con-
tanned in the Presidents acceptance
speech when he addressed himself te
the farmers of the Nation. He tolo
them that he sympathized with theil
stricken condition, that he wished M
could do something to help them. Tha'
his attempt to hold them through sta
bilization had been disastrous failure
that he had considered various rene
dies and had finally come to the con-
clusion that nothing but the general re-
vival of business could restore the
American farmer. This was bitter meo,
icine for the agricultural population OF
the United States. It's fallacy is quite
apparent. We all know that only by
restoring this vast potential market, in
yolving the needs of fifty million peo-
pie. can American industry be restored
How. it may be asked, can industry
which depends for its restoration upor
the farming population, recover anc
thus contribute to the recovery OF ag'
riculture? That this economic doc
trine is absurd is attested by the fact
that industrialists have come to the con-
clusion that the future of industry de-
pends upon establishing a market fol
American-made goods among American
farmers.
Another example Of the doctrine o.
despair has been uttered recently by tne
President of the United States. In M
speech at Detroit he quarrels with the
statement which I made to the e1ec'
that it was the responsibility OF Gov.
ernment' to see to it that workers shoulc
be kept ON their jobs wherever possible
and that when they were out Of job!
they should be restored. have M
apology for that statement. 1t mean!
precisely what it says. Mr.. Hoover!
Interpretation of it, however, Is basee
on what he apparently has come to be'
lieve, that ten million people OF the
United States must remain unemployed
unless the Government provides EN-
ployment for all, of them. The eXac
meaning of his statement Is, II 1 un'
derstand the English language correctly
that there is no hope for restoratloi
of normal employment Tor these ter
million people.
Despair is written all over this state
ment of the President. A despairint
cry which says to the ten million OF
more American unemployed that nor
NAL employment is not for them and Il
not in sight. This is pure unadulteratee
despair. There is something worse, my
friends, than Offering hope. He appar-
entity is opposed to any optimism in the
face of present conditions. He appar'
emily feels that the way to restore tht
spirit of the American people Is to tel
the unemployed-the vast weary army
of unemployed that they are going u
remain unemployed.
This, my friends, is pure and un'
adulterated pessimism. It is. I sub
init, hair-shirt hypocracy with q ven
geance. II my opponents feel that
am to be diverted by puerile criticism,
reply by returning to the attack.
My statements are matter OF pub
lie record. They are correct. They ar
clear. They are directly and clearly ad'
dressed to the needs of the country:
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