Evening star., 1932-10-29
SHIFT ON TARIFF
CITED IN ADDRESS
Indianapolis Address Makes
Reference to Opponents
Supreme Court Remarks.
BY the Associated Press.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, october 90
Following is the text of President
Hoover's address last night IL the Fielc
House at Butler University:
My major purpose tonight is to dis
cuss those long-view policies by which
We not only cement recovery, but also
by which we secure over the years the
enlarged comfort and the steady prog
ress of the American people. I pro-
pose to contrast them with the ideas
which have been developed by the
Democratic House of Representatives
the Democratic platform, and the
Democratic candidate in the course OF
his campaign.
When I refer to the views of these
groups say at once that do not refer
to all members of the Democratic party
Many of them as in 1896 and 1923 have
signified their intention to support us
against these notions. / also pay tribute
to those Democratic members OF Con-
gress who have supported our measures
for combating the depression.
I again reiterate the statement made
recently at Detroit. that the most IN
portant issue before the American
people right now is to overcome this
ycrisis, that We may secure restoration
,of the normal jobs of our unemployed
irecovery to our agricultural prices and
!to business, that we may extend ger
serous help in the meantime to tide
fpur people over until the fundamental
Eestoration Is accomplished.
/ I pointed out there that the battle
has now changed from successful de-
of nd
Sehaos to forward marching attack on
xe hundred fronts through a score of
finstrumentalities and weapons toward
yrecovery. Since that time I have fur
Ether positive evidence showing that the
measures and policies we have set up
4are driving the forces Of tl-ls depression
into further retreat. If there shall be
no change in the strategy of this battle.
If there shall be no delay and no hesi-
tation, we shall have the restoration
Of men and women to their normal
jobs and to lift agriculture from its
anXieties and losses.
Methods and Policies.
Before I begin the major discussion
of the evening I shall take moment
of your time to revert to these methods
and policies for protection and recovery
from this depression in the light of
certain recent misstatements of the
Democratic candidate in respect to
them.
presume the Governor of New York
will announce that I am acting upon
the defensive if I shall expose the self
interested ineXactitude which he is
broadcasting to the American people.
I am equally prepared to defend. attack
or expound. I shall not be deferred
tn
people the truth as to the issues they
confront: I shall do it in the sense of
responsibility of one who has carried
and must continue to carry these issues
into action.
The Governor of New York in a
speech on October 25 stated;
The crash came in October. 1929.
The President had at his disposal all
the instrumentalities of the Govern
ment. From that day to December 81
1881, he did absolutely nothing to
remedy the situation. Not only did he
do nothing, but he took the position
that Congress could do nothing
That period constitutes over the first
two years of the depression. 1t seems
almost incredible that man. a candi-
date for the presidency of the United
States, would broadcast such violation
of the truth. The front pages of every
newspaper in the United States for the
whole of those two years proclaimed the
untruth of such statements. I need re-
mind you of but a few of the acts of
the administration to demonstrate what
! say.
The Governor dismsses the agree
nents brought about between leaders
of industry and labor less than month
after the crash, by which wages of
literally millions of men and women
were, for the first time in Is depres-
ions of century. held without reduc-
ton until after profits had ceased and
the cost of living had decreased
He ignores that today real wages in
the United States are higher than in
any other depression period, and higher
in purchasing power than in any other
country in the world. He dismisses the
healing effect of these agreements by
which the country has been kept from
industrial strife and class conflicts.
Division of Work.
He would suppress from the American
people knowledge of the undertaking
brought about within two months after
the crash among the industries to divide
existing work in such fashion as to give
to millions of families some measure of
income instead of discharging large
portion of them into destitution, as had
always been the case in previous de-
pressions. He ignores the fact that they
have held to these practices to this day.
If the Governor will look up his own
files of official correspondence, he Will
find that within a month after the
crash I appealed to him for CO.
operation in creating employment and
stabilizing wages. in which I set out
to him the gravity of the situation and
urged that he should present the great
need to all cities and counties. II he
says nothing was done then he violated
the promise he gave me at the time.
Nevertheless the other States and
municipalities entered into the general
definite organized campaign to increase
construction work in relief to unem-
ployment during the Winters OF 1880
and 1881. Not only Federal but State,
municipal and private agencies were
modified to this end. BY this, which
the Governor seems to have forgotten.
I succeeded in reversing the whole OF
the usual process of decreasing con-
struction work in time of depression.
This type of work was increased dur
ing the first year of the depression by
over S80O,0 100000 above normal, thus
giving a living to thousands of families
who otherwise would have been destitute.
The Governor would suppress the fact
OF the mobilization of the American
people under my leadership. for the
Winters of 1890 and 1881 of private
charity and public support to relief of
distress in every town. village and ham
let of the United States, through which
We carried them over those Winters
without serious suffering or loss, as is
proved by the public health statistics
day by day.
Federal Public Works.
The Governor cannot be ignorant of
The recommendations I made to the
Congress within month after the
crash and again in the session year
later for the great increase of Federal
public work in and to employment;
and he cannot be ignorant of the ap-
nronriatinn made to care for the farmers