The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06

is on the bridge of our ship of State.
He has charted our course through the
spray and wash of restless waters.
And it is Hoover and not his critics
who is now bringing US safely back
into the placid waters of prosperity's
port.
Let US look at these two boys, one
born in the pinch of poverty and the
other with gold spoon in his mouth.
One got a Bachelor of Arts degree,
with his fathers help, from Harvard
and then an LIB. from Columbia.
The other got a Bachelor of Arts de-
gree without even father to help
him. Then he engaged in the profess
sion of engineering, planning, design
ing and promoting great wealth-pro-
ducing enterprises which gave him
international fame and Melted him to
date personal fortune generously es-
timated at $750,000, but a fractional
part of the fortune Franklin Roosevelt
possesses, which he never made-just
inherited. From his very rich mother
he will inherit lot more.
Hoover has accepted no decorations
since he became President of the
United States. But his achievements
before brought him degrees from
Brown University, the University of
Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale, Column
bia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, George
Washington, Dartmouth, Rutgers,
University of Alabama, Oberlin, Rem
sselaer, Tufts, Swarthmore, Williams
and little Cornell College so near to
the place of his birth in Iowa. Be-
side these recognitions the following
European universities have decorated
him with high degrees: Karlsruhe,
Liege, Brussels, Warsaw, Cracow, Ok
ford, Manchester, Prague, Client and
Lemberg.
All told, with the help of wealthy
father, Franklin Roosevelt has ac-
quired, through honest and credible ac-
ademic effort, two college degree dec
orations, while the orphan boy, Her.
bert Hoover, rose in life to receive de-
grees from eighteen American univer-
sites and ten European universities,
twenty-eight academic embellishments
against two. That's where Herbert
Hoover's wealth is found. The wealth
of creative intelligence, of human SER
vice, the wealth of intellect, the
wealth of human experience and SYM
pathy.
The fact is, Franklin Roosevelt was
born in the lap of luxury. No dis
grace. But something of a handicap.
And the Democrats are simply dishon-
est who criticize Hoover for every
thing that he is not and for every
thing that Franklin Roosevelt is.
Franklin Roosevelt did not make him.
self rich and he never made anybody
else rich. Out of adject poverty Her.
bert Hoover built up his own economic
security and he made it possible for
many to honestly make money. And
that is the kind of presidential stuff
we need right now.
Franklin Roosevelt never knew
what it was to make and maintain
pay roll. He never knew what it was
to respond to the factory whistle or
to say cheerily: "Hi, Bill" to CO.
worker in overalls. He never knew
the tenderness and bond sympathy
that stand by a comrade in industry
in a humble home and hope for fell
low workers stricken child.
Franklin Roosevelt came from, and
he is of that social class that de-
mands dividends by telegraph and de-
livers responsibility by OK cart.
Now let's measure this ridiculous
statement that the Democrats are
trying to bolster up with the crutches
of falsehood. Let's see how avaricious
is this mans mind whom Democrats
tell us is interested only in money
getting.
When the war was over Hoover had
an opportunity to join the Guggen-
heimers on a contract which would
have made him million dollars a
year. Such a contract was never ten
dered for the talents of Lord Fauntel-
roy Roosevelt. But Hoover did not
accept this Turing offer. He chose
instead to stay in public service, to
serve mankind, to be humanitarian,
to be a public servant without pre-
tensions or dramatics. He is a Pres
ident who is on the job. He is a
worker. He never knew the taste of a
gold spoon. And you Democrats can't
put the gold spoon in Herbert Hoov-
er's mouth. 1t won't fit.-Tulsa (Ok.)
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