Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
HOOVER EUL0G|zES
LIBERAL LINCOLN
Avoids Attack on New Deal,
but Other G. O. P. Chiefs
ASSaiI Policies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 13.-Former
President Herbert Hoover last night
eulogiZed Abraham Lincoln as a great
liberal who believed passionately that
Americans should be the masters of
the State and not the pawns of the
State" and said:
Lincoln would judge and express
in Illuminating phrase were he with
us tonight"
Mr.. Hoover. in a brief address at
the forty-ninth Lincoln day dinner
of the National Republican Club,
Joined with DR.. Glenn Frank, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt and other noted
Republicans in paying tribute to the
Great Emancipator. But unlike the
others, he made no direct attack on
the present administration.
Others Attack New Deal.
DR.. Frank, president of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. declared Amer
lea had, lin essence, Joined the mad
reversion to primitive tribalism" ex-
emplified by the postwar nationaliSm
in Europe.
Col. Roosevelt aSsailed the national
administration as TRAITORS to the very
people whose favor they seek to gain"
Mr.. Hoover, after touching on the
difficult period through which the
country is passing and terming it 'as
trying, if not more trying, than any
that has confronted our country since
Lincoln'S time" said
Lincoln believed that while changes
were inevitable to meet the shifting
scenes and problems of the day. that
those changes should be in method
and not in principle.
Cites Lincoln's Own Words.
He held the abiding spiritual truth
that all individual and national secu-
rity must rest upon the orderly proc
eSSeS of constitutional Self-govern-
ment. In his own words, A majority,
held in restraint by constitutional
checks and limitations. is the only
true sovereign of free people
This provides us with our text to-
day. Whatever violates, infringes or
abrogates fundamental American lib
erty violates the life principle of
America as Nation. So, feel, Lin
coin would Judge and express in illu-
minating phrase were he with us to-
night"
Declaring events Of the last few
years have confused our thinking"
Mr.. Hoover said fear has come to
dominate the world, and added:
From all these dislocations there are
everywhere yearning and striving
to find individual and national Sc
curity."
DR.. Frank Sees New Issue.
Preceding him, DR.. Frank said the
Nations destiny lis locked in this
number of nations of Europe down
the suicide road to the all-embracing
state or shall we gamble our future
on an intellgently modernized CAPT.
talism that finds its profit in produc-
ton for the masses and stabilizes
its market by a progressively wider
distribution of the national in
come? y"
The issue now, he declared, it not
the Republican party against the
Democratic, adding:
The issue is between straight and
crooked thinking, between a frantic
clutching at patent medicine remedies
and truly responsible experimental
ton, between workable and nom
workable policies. between realism and
muddling.
Raps Curb on Production.
Swinging into criticism of Roose-
welt policies, DR.. Frank said the
Kaleidoscope dance of hastily impro-
vised policies with which during the
last two years we have sought to meet
the emergency and make over the ma
tional future has resulted in a vast
confusion of the national mind"
Assailing the restriction of produc-
ton to raise prices, the educator de-
clared:
Events will sooner or later rip the