The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-12
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, ps
Can't Fool All The People-

It is an interesting though not CAUTIOUS fact that the opposition to the reelection of Herbert Hoover is nowhere appreeiaoiy stronger nor more demonstratve in normal republican states than in Iowa. where he was born, and in California. which is now his home. The producers of agricultural products in those states have suffered rea- lively with those of other states. and ehe very natural excess of sentiment heretofore felt for a native or adopted son could mot out weigh the resentment against the dtplorable conditions which they rightfully charge in large part to the man they have previously been proud to honor.
 In Iowa, upon the occasion of MT Hoovers emergency visit, float in. the parade of the protesting farmers bore banner citing the prices of the principal pro ducts of the state - so low that f1ey would be jest if they were less tragic. From California have come frequent Iepons of rotting surplus fruit and inaances o' growers burning their oranges for lack of market. The resentment of the asrleul- turists of Iowa and of the hortieulRuralists of California must be much the satne as that exhibited by the people of Maine. where po- tatoes are selling on the farm at 19 cents bushel, when they elected democratic gov ernor and two democratic eongrdssmen last month.
 The wellinformed voters of these and other agricultural states know the chief causes of their distress. They know that the de- preston is a domestic and not foreign pro duct. They know. for instance. that Mir Hoover and the republican leaders promised them in 1928 3 tariff that would place their commodities on parity with manufactured products, and they know alto that they got d tariff act that was of no benefit to the major cxporable agricultural products but increased tbe disparity between those and manufactured products. They know that ;he Hawley Smoot act practically destroyed their export market by reason of retalihory tariffs. Foreign trade loss including August this year, is 70 per cent compared with 1929. The effect upon California's frun exports by practically barring them from the Canadian market alone would have been sufficient 10 prove disastrous to the fruit growers
 The agricutursts of hese and other states also know the extra burden they have 
 tional, state and local, as result of the oyerexpansion and spendthrift policies of Mir Hoover and of the kind of republican leadership of which he has been part Mil lions, and millions upon millions of dollars of indebtedness have been created because Mr Hoover and other misguided republican leaders were persuaded that prosperity could thus be created when they were merely blowing bubbles They know that under Mir Hoover this country had its first ten"bil- lion dollar congress-moR than $5.OOO,- 100000 each of the first two years of his administration All of which must come out of the taxpayers. They have noted the erection of $l7.500O0O building 10 house MT Hoovers department of commerce and its 5000 employees while the foreign commerce of the country declined more than one half They have heard the spendthrift republican leaders boast that theirs was not poor mans party" These instances might be multiplied indefinitely.
 When Governor Roosevelt said in his Sioux City speech. T accuse the present ad- minstrstion of being the greatest spending administration in peace times in all our history" he drew a true indictment. Ex- trayagance, waste. mistaken economic policy and ruinous taxation--all products of incompetent republican leadership--are largely responsible for the present plight of lhe American people. including l,500. 900 unemployed. Is it any wonder that Iowa and California give evidence of putting their own interests above mere personal senti- ment to join other agricultural states and follow the path indicated by Maine when the Pine Tree state forecast lhe democratic landslide in November!