Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-21

moreover, an in
onA''e' ''n'''"' element to war
because materials Of possible military
use figured among the exports-instead
Of what the trade treaties are repre-
sented to be, agreements OF accord and
Amity among the nations.
II Chairman Hamilton Is not careful
he will find himself directly saying
something definite about the program
of the minority party, which would
be violent departure from all the
rules OF DR.. Glenn Frank and the 266
members OF the G. o. p. Program Com
mittee. If the Republican National
chairman does not watch his step
somebody is going to accuse him of
wanting to nominate ex-President
Hoover in 1910. The former President
is understood to feel that in the reci-
procity trade agreements lies the germ
Of destruction for the whole country.
Back in 1893 when Mr.. Hoover was
pointing out the perils and picturing
the awful consequences of the possible
election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, he
indicated that If the sacred Smoot-
Hawley tariff was interfered with 1.-The
grass will grow In streets of hundred
cities, q thousand towns; the weeds
will overrun the fields Of millions OF
farms"
Hoover in Lonely Position.
I gather that, regardless OF whether
the bearer of the tattered Republican
banner of 1910 will be Hoover, Lam
don or Senator Vandenberg, Mr.. Ham,
ilton will not be chairman after the
nomination is made. which perhaps
explains his holiness in trying to say
something that might be construed as
having actual meaning However. ex-
President Hoover has been considered
as occupying rather lonely position
in regard to the trade agreements.
For example. Winthrop w. Aldrich,
chairman of the Chase National Bank
and director in pretty much every
banking association in the country. de-
voted the best part of a speech before
the International Chamber of Com
merce to the reciprocal trade accords.
Now Mr.. Aldrich Is against the SPEND
ing program, the Roosevelt fiscal set
up. the social security arrangements
and pretty near everything else that
appertains to the New Deal He sat
at the head of the No. table at the
American Liberty League dinner in
1896 And yet he said Of the Hull
treaties that this program will.
moreover, contribute largely TO the
prosperity Of the other nations of the
world, and with improvement Of the
economic conditions Of foreign nations
our own markets will be broadened
and our own industrial life strength
ened and made more secure"
And only last month James A.
Farrell, former president of the United
States Steel Corp. and chairman Of
the National Foreign Trade Council,
etc, devoted a whole magazine article
to the subject, and In the course Of
that he said: The reciprocal trade
agreements have already expanded
our foreign markets. The
industrial recovery We experienced
between 1888 and 1887 was due largely
to the expansion of foreign trade,
enabling us to put more men to work
making products for export. which. in
turn, increased the domestic demand
for manufactured goods"
Even the Chamber of Commerce Of
the United States, that organization
which views with alarm everything
President Roosevelt says or does,
slipped to the extent of stating in its
resolutions at its annual meeting that
lit should be the objective of Govern
ment and business during the coming
year to maintain and increase the
volume of export trade, which in the
last year has taken up much slack In
domestic business and employment
Then, too, the mournful Col. Knox,
who, according to the reference books,
ran for Vice President in 1886, took
fall out of the Smoot-Hawley traif
and so inferentially endorsed the re-
ciprocal trade arrangements about
which Chairman Hamilton is so much
distressed.
Need Somebody to Speak.
Really it would be great thing
If there were somebody who could
talk for the Republican party. The
national chairman is supposed to do
that, but here he is affronting Liberty
Leaguers just as If his organization
could get along without the fat con-
tributions of those who constituted
that great aggregation devoted to
saving the country from Franklin D.
Roosevelt
But the Republicans seemingly
nsver learn. They are quietly organiz-
ing a new campaign against the recip-
rocal trade program. They plan to
lay down their attack on the pending
negotiations with Czechoslovakia,
Great Britain and Canada. Although
the country's foreign trade has doubled
from the days of the Hawley-Smoot
Act in 1892, they profess to see the
country headed for ruin because . few
high tariffs have been reduced"
No, the foregoing is not a quota
ton from a Democratic campaign
speech. It was put out during the
recent session of Congress by my
distinguished and consistent colleague
on the other side of the political fence
who directs the publicity for the Re-
publican National Committee. With
Chairman Hamilton seeing in the re-
ciprocal trade agreements the germs
of war and the destruction of Ameri-
ran indnStrv renera11v and the farm