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The Washington times., 1932-06-27
Over 40 Nations, in Self-Defense,
Enact ReprisaLs Against u. S. Tariff

propose to inaugurate friendly
international trade conferences
with view to the reopening of
normal trade channels through
out the world. We propose
again to start the wheels of
industry and afford an outlet
for the energies and ambitions
of industrious men and women.
BY this we do not mean to
ignore the legitimate claims of
American business. We mean
to promote them.
The Democratic party does
not advocate and has never
advocated the policy of free
trade. But we do object to the
use of the power of taxation by
saall groups to stimulate their
particular interests with an
artificial invigoration at the
expense and to the damage of
the whole people.
During the present session of
Congress the Democratic party
wrote, Spon. ored and secured
the passage of a measure
which ought to lift tariff max
ing above the sordid processes
of log-rollerS and back-scratch-
ers and place it upon the high
plane of scientific knowledge
obtained by an expert body re-
SponSible to Congress,
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$4,000, ,OOO, 900 in Bank Deposits Held
InUo[ued in Failures of &. 0. P. Era

and National governments is
incomplete without some refer
ence to the policy involved in
the Eighteenth Amendment to
the Constitution.
1t serves no useful purpose
now to quarrel over the pro-
cess by which it was incorpo-
rated in the Constitution. It
was adopted by the same con-
Stitutional methods which were
followed in the adoption of all
other amendments to that in
strument. So long as it is a
part of that Constitution no
citizen Of the republic has a
legal or moral right to violate
it.
But any American in the ex-
ercise of the functions of citi-
zenship has the same right to
advocate the change or repeal
of any law which he has to
advocate its enactment in the
first instance. While those
who have supported this amend
ment have been and are actu-
ated by the loftiest motives of
service to society. we must ad-
NIT that neither the amend
ment nor the laws made for
its enforcement are beyond the
power or right of revision,
amendment or abrogation by
the will of the people,
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long enough for its virus to
take effect.
We look upon a world that is
prostrated; international bust-
ness that is paralyzed; conf
dence that has fled from the
hearts of men; fear that is en-
throned.
What has occurred since the
World War to produce this state
of affairs has been a combina-
ton of politics and business in
politics-a combination of the
ineptitude of government and
the cupidity of certain type
of business.
Came then the campaign OF
1920. In that struggle the Re
publican party mobilized every
sore spot the war had caused:
BY the grosSest deception and
Misrepresentation ever perpe-
trated in American politics, by
the most base and Sordid ap-
peals to ignorance and preju-
dice, it took advantage Of a
people disturbed by the rapid
transformation in national and
world events, won the election
in November, and on March 4,
1921, took charge of every
branch of the National Govern
ment
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

While the breakdown in the
processes of effective and intel
ligent Government has been no
greater than the breakdown in
the confidence of the people,
at no point is the complete
rout of confidence more ap-
parent or striking than in the
banking situation.
h We have heard by far the
most about the $500 banks
which failed during the Is
months from october, 1880, to
January, 1882.
Since the beginning of 1921,
which covers the period of
complete Republican control,
we have had more than $500
bank failures, involving depos-
it's of more than $4,000, 900, 900,
while for eight years under
woodrow Wilson only 499 banks
closed their doors involving de-
poSitS of only $165, 100000.
Consideration should be given
to the revision of the Federal
Reserve Act to insure more di-
rect contact with commercial
banks and borrowers.
There should be reorganiZa-
tion in the personnel of Re-
serve banks where necessary.
And discussion of the func-
tions and problems of the State
The Washington times., 1932-06-27
HQrding's Regime of "NOrmalcy"
Assai[ed As "This Era of Debauchery"

never accomplished, he encour-
aged through his own attitude
and through the greatest Sec
retary of the Treasury since
Alexander Hamilton" and the
greatest Secretary of Commerce
in all history, an orgy of specu-
lation and initiation that had
no foundation in real values.
stocks were manipulated,
prices pyramided, then split up,
then distributed among inno-
cent people under the influence
of the opiate of fabulous fl
nancial hopes built up by the
most gigantic campaign of Of
ficial ballyhooing ever witnessed
in the annals of American his
tory.
In the midst of this artificial
and abnormal situation the
President, with a foresight that
did him credit, announced his
lack of choice to run again,
and We were precipitated into
the campaign of 1923.
In that campaign the Repub-
lican party, in its platform and
through its candidate, assured
the people that the road to per-
petual plenty was through their
continuance in political power.
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

Since the enactment of the
: Hoover-Grundy tariff law more
than 40 nations in self-defenSe
have followed the example we
set them by raising their
own tariffs, many of them in
specific discrimination against
us, and our foreign trade has
dWindled to a mere shadow of
its former self.
How can our debtors or
our customers abroad pay us
their debts or purchase our
goods unless friendly and recip-
rocal trade relations can be
maintained?
The continuation of such a
program means a loss to
American labor, American cap
1tal and American prestige
which none but a hopeless pro-
vincial could approve and none
but a blind and decadent peo-
pie would longer tolerate.
What shall we do, when
given power, to change this
program of folly and reverse
this process of commercial dis
integration?
We propose to reduce the
eXorbitant and indefensible
rates of the Smoot-Hawley,
Hoover. .Grundy tariff act. We
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

1t were a pity we cannot blot
from our memory the events
of the next few years. Those
who floated into power on the
tide of postwar reaction set
in motion at once the chain
of events which forms the
darkest chapter of public be-
trayal in the history of this
or any nation.
No branch of the Govern
ment, no class of the people
escaped the malign influence
of this era of debauchery.
This was Normally!
Then came Coolidge. For
six years profound silence was
mistaken for profound wisdom.
We entered the era of laissez
faire.
While making pious and vir-
, tuouS overtureS to economy" )"
through the press and in pub
lie statement, Mr.. Coolidge Off
cially recommended. allowed,
and approved increases in the
expenses of the National Gov
ernment of more than $780,
100000.
While claiming to set an ex-
ample of frugality to all the
people by a perpetual prating
about governmental savings
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ucts. The Farm Board was ap-
pointed. It proceeded to stabi-
lize the farmers products. It
stabilized wheat from $1.25 per
bushel down to 80 cents, corn
from rs cents per bushel down
to 20 cents, cotton from Is
cents per pound down to 5
cents, wool from 90 cents per
pound down to Z cents, and
every other agricultural product
which it touched was stabilized
in the same direction.
This profound solution of the
great agricultural enigma has
cost the American people $780,
100000 at the hands of a party
and a candidate heretofore pro-
claiming everywhere their op-
position to Government in
business"
1 feel warranted in giving
assurance that the Democratic
party will attempt to remove
from the shoulders of agricul-
ture a portion of the unnatural
burden which it bears because
others have been able to shift
it there through special legiSla-
ton. in their own behalf.
We shall undertake to open
the channels of trade which
are so essential in the discov-
cry and capture Of markets for
the sale of farm products.
We shall consider the enact
ment of laws setting up CO.
operative gencies through
which the farmer may work
out his own problems over a
period of years,
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

session convened in Washing
ton, all the. objects of Special
Privilege, all the feeders at
the Public Trough, all those
who in campaigns proclaim
their opposition to Govern
ment in business but who be-
tween campaigns conspire to
ensnare it into use for their
special benefit, swept down
upon Washington like a con-
gregation of harpies.
Among the hordes who came
for plunder and for pelf was
Joseph R. Grundy, who testi-
fled under oath in a Senate
lobby investigation that for
Is years he had helped to
write every Republican tariff
enacted into law; that in 1928
he had collected q million dol
lars to help elect Mr.. Hoover
and a Republican Congress;
and that he was in Washing
ton to see that those who con-
trlbuted the money were re-
paid in legislative favors.
When the tariff law was
done, instead of vetoing it,
as more than LOO economists
of every political faith from
179 colleges and universities
urged him to do, and as a
majority of the newspapers
throughout the nation, regard
less of politics. urged him to
do, he signed it with an
apology and assured the Amer
ican people that his new
Tariff Commission would
remedy whatever defects it
contained.
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

pie want it repealed or made
inapplicable. 1t defies defini-
tion.
Whatever may by the diver
gent views of men and women
on the merits or demerits of
the Eighteenth Amendment as
a national policy, it is incon-
ceivable that this or any other
part of the Constitution of the
United States should apply to
only a part and not the whole
Of the American nation. That
great instrument declares that
This Constitution and the laws
made in pursuance thereof shall
be the supreme law of the
land"
But it cannot be the supreme
law of the land if it can be
abrogated by the people of a
part of the land while remain
The Washington times., 1932-06-27
Republicans Plank on Prohibition
Declared Made of Scrap Lumber OnIy

It is manifest, therefore, that
a re-expression of the will of
the American people on this
great question is advisable and
justified in the most direct
and effective manner possible
under the Constitution.
This Government is the peo-
ple's Government. The Consti-
tuition is their Constitution.
Two weeks ago in this place
the Republican party promul-
gated what it called plank"
on the subject of the Eight
eenth Amendment. But it is
not a plank. It is a promiScu-
GUS agglomeration of Scrap-lum-
ber. At one point it proclaims
its opposition to the repeal of
this amendment and at another
it announces it's support of it's
repeal in States where the peo-
The Washington times., 1932-06-27
Distribution of Labor ADVOCATED,
That None Nav Suffer in IdLenesS

While unemployment is more
acute at present than in normal
times, we cannot ignore it's
presence at all times to some
extent.
If a permanent condition has
been reached in which all the
people may work three-fourths
of the time or three-fourths Of
them all the time, then there
is but one course left in justice
to all the people. If there is
not enough work for all the peo.
pie all the time, there must be
a distribution of that labor
among all of them so that each
may have his share according
to his needs and ability and
opportunity. If this means the
shortening of hours or of days
society will have to adjust it.
self to this new order. II it
means the Inauguration of the
five-day week or the siX-hour
day, as I believe it must, in Or
der that all who will may share
in the toll upon which all must
depend, then society must pay
the price of it's own comfort
and advancement.
Regardless of differences Of
opinion on other subjects we
must confess that the cost OF
government in the United
States has increased out of all
proportion to the needs OF the
people or to the benefits re-
ceived by them.
During the famous era Of
Coolidge economy the expenses
of the national Government in.
The Washington times., 1932-06-27
CHICAGO, June 81.

The partial teTt of the Keynote
speech of Senator Alben W. Bark
ley, of Kentucky, temporary chair
man of the Democratic national
contention, toIlotDS::
The conditions which face our
country and the world charge
us with a heavy compulsion to
ascertain their causes, to search
for their remedy and to apply
that remedy in the most funda-
mental manner which wisdom
can conjure or singlenesS of
purpose consecrate to the Serv-
ice of a great nation.
We must by major opera
ton remove from the body of
our nation and the world, both
of which are sick and detected,
the dead flesh and decayed
bones resulting from IL years
of Republican quackery.
We must apply to the hopeful
but misused patient the recuper-
ative processes of Democracy
which for a century and a half
has responded in the emergen-
cieS which have always beset us
at the end of every period OF
Republican control which lasted
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

creased more than their total
cost in the year 1900.
While under Mr.. Hoover
from 1929 to 1882 they in
creased practically $2,000,000,-
600, during that whole time
only casual reference was ever
made to the word economy"
The Democratic House Of
Representatives reduced appro-
priations requested by the Presi-
dent by more than 100000
900 and the Democrats of the
Senate forced appropriation
bills back to committee with
instructions to reduce them by
at least another 10 per cent.
When through an economy
committee efforts were made
to reduce expenses still further
the President denounced what
he called a Locust Swarm" of
lobbyists around the Capitol op-
posing reductions, but failed to
announce that the chief 'Lo-
Gusts" in size, frequency and
activity were members of his
own Cabinet who opposed re-
ductions in their own depart
mentS.
But when at last in the Sen
ate additional reductions were
effected amounting to more
than $200,000,000 per annum,
the whole program was torpe-
doed by the President himself
because his pride in a pet ges-
ture was greater than his de-
sire for actual relief to the tax
burdened people of the United
States
The Washington times., 1932-06-27
HGgerstOIOn Man
In Chile Rebel Zone

HAGERSTOWN, Md, June 81.
Alarm is felt by the family of
Percy A. Seibert, of this city,
an attorney at Santiago, Chile,
as a result of the revolt in that
country.
M. Finley Seibert, former sher-
iff of Washington county and
father of Mr.. Seibert, said he
had no word from his son for
three weeks.
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

When every well-informed per.
son and organization knew
that there were five or six mil.
lion idle men and women in the
nation in 1880, and 1881, the
Department of Labor and Com
merce were claiming there were
only two or three millions.
When faced with unpleasant
facts and conditions which 1t
has helped to bring about, the
policy of this Administration
has been to cross the street or
appoint a commission. We are
the only nation in the world
now living under the commits
sion form of government.
When a measure was pending
in the Senate providing relief
for unemployment, which had
in part at least been caused by
the Short-sighted policies of the
Republican party. all the pres
ure that could be exerted by
an Indifferent and incompetent
Administration was exerted
against it's passage.
When a great Democratic
Senator, Robert Wagner, of New
York, secured the passage Of
three measures dealing with un-
employment in a constructive
and permanent manner, the
President grudgingly ap-
proved two of them, claiming
they had been originated by
two unknown subordinates in
the Department of Commerce,
while he vetoed the third on
the pretext that it interfered
with existing agencies.
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whose delegates shall be chosen
upon this issue alone.
If the people are to pass
again upon this question, let
them pass upon it in such bald,
naked and unequivocal terms
as to make their decision intel
ligent and certain.
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ing in force over the rest Of
them.
Under these circumstances
this convention owes 1t to the
people of the nation to make
its declaration upon this sub
ject clear, understandable and
unequivocal. There is no reason
The Washington times., 1932-06-27
Every Hoover Prediction and Pledge
Has "Turned to AsheS." Is CHARGE

Mr.. Hoover was elected and
with him a Congress Republi-
can in both branches. Under
this new worker of miracles
poverty was to be abolished and
ignorance was to vanish.
But every prediction, every
promise, every assurance made
by them to obtain votes has
turned to ashes in their hands,
and every pretense has been
exposed in all its naked affec-
tation.
Agriculture has continued it's
collapse. Industry has Ian
guished beyond any previous
record. Credit has been re-
stricted until finance and pro-
ductive enterprise are fright
ened and stagnant, and there
is constantly marching a
greater army of unemployed
men and women in search of
honest toll than has ever been
experienced by this or any
other nation.
That the Hoover Admins
tration and the policies it has
pursued have largely contri-
buted to the disaster which
has overtaken ours and the
worlds affairs no intelligent
observer can dispute.
In 1920 the Republican plat
form promised to place agricul-
ture on an economic basis
equal to that of industry. Yet
the condition of the farmers
has declined to its lowest
relative station in the history
of the nation.
When Mr. HO0Ver'S extra
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

versal controversy, this conven-
ton should in the platform
here to be adopted recommend
the passage by Congress of a
resolution repeating the Eight
eenth Amendment and its sub
mission to the people Of the
States through conventions
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

why the people should be de-
ceived or deluded. There is no
reason why a political declara-
ton should look in every direc.
ton and see nothing.
In order, therefore, to obtain
the present will of the American
people on this subject Of uni
The Washington times., 1932-06-27
Southwest Virginia
Wheat Crop Poor

RICHMOND, Va, June 81.
The wheat harvest in southwest
Virginia, is said to be much in
ferior in yield to last years crop.
The aphids were destructive in
some sections. Rust, too, have
reduced the yield.
A fair amount of hay, clover
and grasses has been cut in the
last 10 days, in spite of the six
weeks Of dry weather.
The Washington times., 1932-06-27

The Republican party pro-
claimed it's generosity to the
American farmer by proposing
to create a Farm Board and
give it $500,0O0,000 with which
to stabilize" him and his prod
The Washington times., 1932-06-27
Federal Farm Board Held Failure
At Cost of $500, 900, 900 to PeOp[e

But Mr.. Hoover vetoed the
measure. because he was not
willing to give up the power
he held under the Smoot-Haw-
ley act and to a lesser degree
under the act of 1922.
The Washington times., 1932-06-27
Haas BrOs.-Printed
Sheer Crepes
j9c ya.
$500 and $3.50 Qualities

Exquisite sheer silk Romaine - silk
georgette and silk chiffon. the products OF
one of Americas foremost silk designers.
Lovely in texture, color, artistry and design
Printed Silk Crepes, 40 In. Wide, 59c yd.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-12
Akron, Leaving Tragedy in Wake,
Casts Off Today for Coast Flight

nose shot upward, and the portside
ground crew-all but four men
let 60 the cables.
AS thousands OF spectators held
their breath, one by one three Of the
men let 90. E. G. Walkup fell a
short distance. One arm was bro
ken.
Fenton and Edsall fell $50 feet and
were killed. Cowart. lashed wildly
about, was carried further upward.
The Akron shot 70 height of
l 900 feet as Cowart wrapped a loop
OF the rope about his feet, FASH
ioned himself seat, and prepared
TO ride it out.
Swinging to and fro like a tiny
pendulum, it seemed that he must
be snapped loose as the cable
whipped in the wind, suspended
from the Swaying dirigible.
At first it was thought the Akron
might be brought low over the
water, where Cowart could drop and
be picked up by a boat. Finally,
a volunteer from the Akron climbed
hand over hand down the rope %
determine how secure Cowart had
made himself.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-12
Life in Wheelchair Is
Price for Good Turn

gain a Judgment on which to sup
port his family.
He seeks damages Of $4,000 from
Shelby Lewis OF 2s2 South Ritter
avenue.
Lewis speeding car. it is charged
swerved from state road 81, north OF
Southport, hitting Keller. who was
helping push an automobile from a
ditch.
L still would do the same good
turn, IL were able" Keller said
after testifying before the jury.
A stormy night, Nov. 26, 1880. was
a fateful night for Keller. Icy blasts
beat heavily on the snow-covered
pavement in front Of the Keller
home, 4732 Madison avenue.
Aided by his son, Keller had
pushed three wayfarerS from the
ditch before tragedy crossed his
path.
He had stopped to aid another
motorist. evidence revealed. when
the Lewis car slciddec from its course
to the side Of the road, striking
Keller.
For twelve months Keller lay in
the Robert W. Long hospital. Final
ly doctors ampuIated one leg. A
compound fracture of the other
never Will wholly heal, doctors told
Keller.
The complaint against Lewis
charges him with negligence and
with driving at a dangerous rate Of
speed.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-12
SENATE DEFERS
TAX BILL MOVE
Democrats ASSaiI Tariff
Rates in Measure.
BVTnilcd Prcss

n p = WtffN ff~f
WASHINGTON. May 12.-Deci-
sion to defer senate consideration Of
the tax bill until Friday came today
as a group Of influential Democrats
opened formal warfare on the tariff
rates in the $l.OOo,OOo.oOO revenue
measure.
Senators Harrison Miss. Walsh
(Msss) Hull TENN, Costigan
CColo) and George (Gs), offered in
the senate a minority report de-
nouncing tariff log rolling, and urg-
ing that duties be stricken from the
bill.
Their challenge was directed as
much against their own party as
the Republicans. Democrats from
Texas, Oklahoma. Arizona and Ken
lucky joined Republicans from
California, Washington, Oregon and
Michigan in arranging vote trades
which procured protection for coal,
OIL lumber and petroleum.
Chairman Smoot of the senate
finance committee had intended to
call up the tax bill at 2 p. m. today,
but agreed TO postpone his motion.
thus giving Senator Glass Dem.
Va another day for consideration
of his bank bill.
The tariff question was raised
also before the house ways and
means committee. Representatives
of such industries as lumber, clay.
iron and steel appeared to support
the Hawley bill
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-12

Back he went, more slowly, and
entered the hatch. He reported
Cowsrt probably could remain in
his position until pulled within the
ship.
Then began the task Of pulling
up the rope. AS Cowart neared the
Akron. the swinging became more
vicious. Snsplike jerks threatened
either to dislodge him or break the
rope. but finally he was hauled in
opposite gangwsy and pulled into
the vessel.
He refused medical treatment.
protested he was unharmed and be-
gan tour of the Akron.
The landing deaths we're the first
recorded by the United States navy.
At Lakehurst men have been in
jured slightly. but their experience
with dirigibles has prevented any
serious accident. The men at Camp
Kearney never before had moored
such craft.
An experienced crew of 1000 men
sent there from Lakehurst, awaits
the Akron at Sunnyvale, near San
Francisco, the destination Of its
turbulent transcontinental trip.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-05-12
NJ. {. DISTRICT
HERE DROPPED
Conference Votes to Merge
With Another Area.

General conference Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church at Atlantic
City, N. j., today voted to discon-
tinue the episcopal area Of Indian
apolis, comprising three districts in
the state, according to word received
here.
The district is headed by Bishop
Edgar Blake.
Under the discontinuance. the
Indiana districts probably will be
joined with districts of another
state, it was said.
The Rev. Orien w. Fifer Of In
dianapolis, chairman of the COM
mittee on episcopacy. sponsored a
minority report which opposed the
discontinuance.
Areas in Buffalo. N. Y, and
Helena, Mont, also were discon-
tinued. 1t is estimated the elimi-
nation would save at least 100000
a year.