Evening star., 1932-10-09
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BY c. 0.P. SAySCOX
Columbus Rally Told by For.
mer Candidate Hoover Of
ferS No Hope.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 8.-Pic-
turing the "Old Guard" Of the Repub.
lican party as taking advantage of the
Halloween season and reSorting tc
''hobgoblins" in an attempt to stir ur
primitive fears Of the people, former
Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio tonight
told rally Of fellow Democrats that
with one exception President Hoover's
Iowa speech contained mot single
phrase which holds any assurance of a
changed order"
The exception he listed as the Presi-
dents admission as to the errors oi
the Farm Board and promise to cor
rect them"
Cox. who led the Democratic party
as its presidential candidate in 1920
said that President Hoover in his farm
belt address offered nothing basicalfy
new on the tariff and in discussing "ar
embarrassing subject-prohibition," In
his acceptance speech, said subStan-
TALLY that IF We did not look out we
would have the old-time saloon back
on our bands"
''Sm:te observers from almost every
State reported the diminishing power
of the Presidents party because of con-
tinuing the noble experiment, SAID
Cox, but he feared the intimidating
hand of the Anti-Saloon League, recog-
nized throughout the years as the con-
trolling balance Of power in our ma
tional election"
Two "Outstanding Errors"
The former Governor said that when
the history Of present times is written
1t will be recorded that the President s
two outstanding errors were these
First, he permitted four years ago a
high-powered political salesmanship
running into terms that common
modesty should have vetoed. Second
in the face of too many emergencies
he has moved with a dif1dence born
of fear"
The people want a change, con-
tinued the former Governor, and the
reforms they are thinking of seem tc
be Symbolized by the leader of progress
sive forces in America, the Democratic
candidate, Gov. Roosevelt of New York.
"One would think that the Old Guard
of Republican leaders would learn
something in psychology. The country
has been in an unhappy state OF mlno
N-@N
threat of continuing disaster 1t wants
to turn in thought to happier things
We have always been brave people
and never failed to cut ourselves out
of the wilderness of despair True, IN
every such adventure. We have oeen
warned of O. dreadful end, but we
pressed on remembering what Shakes
peare said:
"Cowards die many times before
their death; the valiant never taste
Of death but once
The Old Guard standing waist deep
in the morass of desolation, offers nc
way out. but threatens even graVer
disaster if We attempt to take our
selves out under new leadership.
The Presidents Iowa speech was
filed with terms of peril, desolatlon
disaster. destruction, economic earth
quakes,' and what not, all to alarm the
people. Read it from end to end. and
with an admission as to the errors OF
the Farm Board and promise to
correct them, there is not a single
phrase which holds any assurance OF
a changed order
The subject that is elaborated upon
most to spread doubt is the Oldest. 1t
has been the trump card in days gone
bv. 1t is the tariff. The President Oh
fers nothing basically new since the
davs of Aldrich. Hale. Burrows. Can
non, Payne, Dingley and Dalzel.
Proposals 40 Years Old.
THE economic creed which he pro-
poses is that which could have been
lifted from the pages of tariff debates
in the Congress 40 years ago. With
every economist in the world agreed
that the graveSt menace Is found In
excessive national tariff walls. which
we have encouraged if not compelled
the President persists in policy tnat
has already brought us business distress
He sounds the warning of flood OF
agricultural products through our ports
if the competitive tariff declared for
in the Democratic platform is carried
into law.
Now. the President knows better
than this. There is not a student OF
tariffs in this country who does not
know that the competitive schedules, as
they have been discussed for years:
contemplate the difference in cost OF
production at home and abroad. plus
an allowance for reasonable profit TO
American effort.
Secretary Mills. stressing this same
matter only a day or two ago, stated
that a competitive tariff would mean
the placing of wheat, potatoes AMI
other products OF the soil upon the free
list He painted a dark picture OF
the American farm when this dreadful
thing happens. Evidently the Secretary
does not know that wheat is being 4ed
to the hogs. corn is used for fuel ana
potatoes and other food necessities are
rotting in the field. not because OF
agricultural prostration in the flrst IN,
stance. but through our desolated ana
yet highly protected industrialiSm
"The farmers of America will laugn
at this threat. Some one long ago. tn
circumstances somewhat like the pres
ent. said that when a child is sleeping
on the floor you can't scare him about
falling out of bed.
Scarecr0w ResOrted To.
when the President, in his speech
of acceptance. found 1t necessary 10
discuss an embarrassing subJect-pro-
hibition and the eighteenth amendment
he resorted again to the scarecroW.
In the face of an almost unprecedented
revolution in our public opinion on thls
subject. every one expected the Presl-
dent to respond in some way to the
universal inquiry of what is to be done
in an America terrorized by organized
gangsters, corruption in places Wnere
moral and official restraints have held
fast in the past, and disrespect for
law. With expectant ears we hung
on every word from presidential lips,
and the burden of his message was that
if we didn't look out We would have
the old-time saloon back on our hands
again. Now, every fair minded citizen
knows that the two institutions OF
equal rank in public adherence are
the saloon and prohibition.
"The President in grave words, If not
with stirring emotion, reached climax