The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-22
THOUSANDS HEAR
PRESIDENT SPEAK
IN WEST VIRGINIA
Says Commission Has Been
Asked to Review Whole
Schedule of Tariffs
is on HIS WAY TO DETROIT
Said He Recommended in the
Past Cooperation to In
sure Fair Competition
is ON HIS WAY TO DETROIT

Aboard Presidents Special En- Route
to Detroit, Oct. 22.-(P)-speakine
from an improvised platform in Laid
ley Stadium at Charleston, w. Va.
President Hoover announced Saturday
he had asked the tariff commission
tc investigate whole tariff schedules
10 determine whether many commodi-
ties were being given adequate pro-
lection lin the face of deprecated
foreign currency"
The president left his special train
bearing him to Detroit for a campaign
speech Saturday night in order to
discuss the tariff and difficulties of
the coal industry before a cheering
audience of thousands in the West
Virginia capital.
He advocated limited cooperation in
marketing coal and other natural re-
sources to safeguard them from de-
Structive competition.
Hoover was the first president to
visit this capital city during his term
pf office since Andrew Jackson in 1882.
Hoover told his cheering audience,
estimated at thousands by police, that
he had in the past suggested some
measure of cooperation in the market
Ing of coal because he was Impressed
with the absolute destruction of our
national resources and the impover-
tshment of labor through destructive
competition"
Would Preserve Competition
Neither you nor wish to DESTROY
the fundamental basis of competition
in our country" the president said.
but limited cooperation to prevent
this destructive action should be un-
dertaken. We have already extended
this privilege to your agriculture and
labor. The coal industry could have
such safeguards as would make it pos
Eible to pay fair wage, earn reason
able profit and save hundreds of COM
munities from their steady degenera-
ton and impoverishment."
AS in his other speeches along the
route OF campaign trips, the president
discussed the Republican protective
tariff principles at length.
The chief executive faced a series
of rapid fire appearances in more
than dozen cities, beginning with
his brief speech in Charleston, as
his train rolled through three states
In the brief span of IL hours.
His route was carefully mapped to
carry him through West Virginia,
Ohio and Michigan, states with a to-
tai of more than so electoral votes.
which are claimed by both political
parties.
Stops also were scheduled during
the day at Huntington and Kenova,
West Virginia: 1pwille, Columbus.
Delaware, Marion, Fostoria, and To-
aedo, Ohio. and Monroe, Michigan.
Third Campaign Swing
It was the presidents third speedy
campaign swing into the Middle West
within three weeks. AS on the other
trips, he was accompanied by ms
Hoover.
The chief executive was putting the
finishing touches on his Detroit
speech en- route. Immediately after
boarding his special train at 10:30
o'clock Friday night. Hoover and
Postmaster General Brown sat down,
side by side, and worked on the adj
dress.$
On the train were q corps OF Ste
1ographers and mimegroph machines.
ready to turn out the completed text.
It's subject was closely guarded, how
ever.
Conjecture included new outline
of Republican economic principles and
possible reply to Franklin D. Roose-
velt's recent statements on the bonus
and other issues.
The president and his party were
due at Detroit just in time for his
speech at 1880 p. m. (C.S.To and will
leave the Michigan city immediately
afterwards to get back into Washing
ton Sunday afternoon.
Is Curious Description
The presidents address at Charles
ton follows in part:
The Democratic candidate for pres
ident has said he and his party pro-
pose to reduce the tariff. He states
the protective tariff is CHASTITY jest.
That becomes a curious description Of
the great industrial development Of
this state.
Right here the Kanawha Valley.
once a wilderness, has become the
great chemical center of our country.
That industry would never have been
created except by the protective tariff,
and 1t cannot survive today and the
people obtaining their daily bread
from it could not continue their jobs
If the tariff were reduced.
The protective tariff made possible
all the plants in this valley and the
employment In them. That great
American policy, adopted and defend
ed by the Republican party. also has
made possible the steel. glass and
pottery industries in this state.
All these plants today are the back
bone OF your employment and bust
ness. They give the market for your
agriculture. They will continue to-
do so for generations unless they are
destroyed by this promised action Of
the Democratic party.
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