The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-07

 sion and prohibition were the prin- cipal topics discussed by Attorney Edward Mascolo in a radio ad- dress over Station WDRC at Hart ford yesterday afternoon. Attor- ney Mascolo spoke on the invita- ton of the State Federation Of an-Italian Democratic Clubs and the Democratic State Central committee.
 Attorney Mascolo, who was the democratic candidate for congress from this district in 1928, spoke in brief as follows:
 -Four years ago, on the eve of the presidential election of 1928, I spoke on the air to warn you against the exaggerated claims made by the republican party, that if you wanted prosperity and full dinner pail, you should vote for it's ticket.
 Instead of having a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage, as we were promised four years ago, 1932 finds us, if we are lucky, with two chickens in the garage. The pot and the two cars disappeared long ago.
 By the time 1882 rolled around. the business interests of the coun- try, gasping with the death rattles in their throats, finally shook the president from his lethargy, and practically forced him to awake to his duties, and to set up some government machinery to meet the situation, and to show some messed the birth of the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation. Unques-s tionably, it has done much good, even at this late day. But it came too late to be of real service to the country.
 "The president, in his current speeches, is also claiming that the Hawley-Smoot tariff act, foisted upon a helpless people by his ad- ministration, has had nothing to do with prolonging the depression. In fact he claims that were it not for this unscalable tariff wall, which has been built around us, matters would be much worse and the unemployment situation would be even more acute. Now, we all know that immediately after this pernicious act was passed, prac- tically all of the civilized countries of the world, one by one, enacted tariff laws of their own, in self defense and in retaliation for our stand in depriving them of the op- portunity of trading with us, and then what happened!--every large American industry which had ex- tensive foreign markets for it's products, in order to scale or bur row under these foreign tariff walls, proceeded to erect huge plants in each foreign country where it's business was large and profitable. Before these foreign plants were set up, every article sold in foreign countries, by these American concerns, was manufac- tured and produced by American workmen in factories located in our American towns and cities. Now. of course, 1t stands to reason, that a Ford car, fabricated in German factory, for sale to the German trade, is not affording any American workman an opportunity for employment.
 Now, coming to the subject of prohibition. The only hope for immediate relief, which we can look for is from the democratic party. In it's platform it has pos- itively stated, that 1t will seek to amend the Volstead Act, by hav- ing congress pass laws which will raise the alcoholic content of bey- erages which legally may be sold under the Eighteenth Amendment, to 8 point that will make 1t pos sible to restore honest-to-goodnes beer and buono vino. With the sale of beer and wine once again legalized, all of the evils of the existing prohibition law will be dissipated. Nothing whatever can be said in favor of the law as 1t now stands, and now Is the time to give it its death blow.
 "You must vote for and elect the democratic candidates for the sem ate and house of representatives in Washington, because measures to accomplish 8 speedy amendment of the present Volstead Act must first originate in congress. Then. to give the work of congress an opportunity to be enacted into law, you must send to the White House our democratic candidate avail us, to have a democratic con- gross, submit for approval abill which aims to give voice to the will of the majority of the people, only to have the dour. MT Hoover, kill 1t with a veto. And say what he will to the effect that he now believes some sort of change is needed, President Hoover is and always will be the leader of the dry forces in this country, and as long as he has the power to do it, he will veto every bill which may be passed for the purpose of really the Eighteenth Amend ment and its dubious offspring.-- the Volstead Act.
 From every township and dis trict in the state, send to Hartford for the next session of our lepisla-