Evening star., 1932-10-12
CO0[|DGE'S SPEECH
GIVEN IN NEW YORK
Ex-PreSident Makes Plea for
Reelection of Hoover
This Fall.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 12.-Following
Is the full text Of the address delivered
last night at Republican rally at
Madison Square Garden by former
President Calvin Coolidge:
NV fellow countrymen: This meet
ing was arranged by body of public
spirited New York people and the Ma
tionsl Republican Committee Tor the
purpose of helping to re-elect as PTesl-
dent of the United States Herbert
Hoover. 1 have accepted an invitation
to address you in order that might
express nv opinion on some OF the
issues of the campaign, reiterate my
support. of the President and reassert
my faith in the Republican party. the
most efficient instrument for sound
popular government ever intrusted with
the guidance of great Nation.
We ought to bring to all our tasks
snirit of good cheer, but natlol,al 80
tion which IS to determine the oee.hieo 10
Of more than 120,00o0Oo people los .iiS
next four years cannot De cotislosisu
as anything less than serious uau.,
taking to be seriously approacneo aiiu
sarjonslv discharged. After all, con-
tentment that is worth anything comes
from duty we'll done. from meeting tne
obligations of the present as they occur.
Things Could Be Worse"
Some people are saying that as things
could not be any worse, we might as
we'll try a change. That is a very oan-
gerous principle to apply TO the ois-
charge Of the duties OF American cltl-
zenship. Things are much worse IN
other parts of the world. They coulo
he a great deal worse here than they
are, and would have been much worse
if it had not been for the vision, the
courage and the leadership of Presi-
dent Hoover.
Before we decide that we want to
have a change we ought to determine
what the chances are on securing any
Improvement We shall be most likely
to find progress in holding fast to that
which experience has proven to be
sound and just and true.
Casting a ballot to determine VINO
.baII be President of the United STATES
ought to take on judicial iunction
The ability. experience and character
Of the candidate, the policies Win
which he has identified himself IN the
mast and those which he proposed 1or
the future, the standing OF his asso-
ciates and advisers, and the results
which have generally been secured py
the administration of his party ougn1
ali to be carefully considered. No other
attitude in approaching an elec'lon
worthy of free people.
We are told that business Is not
rood. that the fault must lie with the
administration, and therefore the
nroper remedy is to vote against the
President. No government has ever yet
been devised that could make the peo-
ple PROSPEROUS all the time. But bad
Government will constantly keep the
neopIe in distress. Our National Gov
erninent has adopted one measure after
another to support and encourage busi-
ness and agriculture. The present eco
nonlic distress is world wide. Our own
fundamental conditions were SO sound
that we have been able to make the
sacrifices and relieve the distress bet
ter than could be done in other coun-
tries. If there was anything which
government could do to prevent the
decline in business the world has ex-
perienced, it must be that some gov
ernment somewhere would have been
wise enough to apply remedy If no
such remedy anywhere has been found,
the inference is practically certain that
the present economic condition was
brought about by forces no government
could foFesee and prevent.
Discusses the Tariff.
One of the subjects which is being
discussed in this campaign which it is
very easy to misrepresent and misun-
derstand is the tariff. Because of con-
stantly changing conditions, If for no
other reason. no one was ever able to
devise a perfectly adjusted tariff bill
No one can devise one now, and no
Congress, constituted as ours is, will
ever pass one. Some schedules may be
too high and some too low, but pro-
lection gives the general result Of an