Evening star., 1938-07-08
Washington Observations
Critics of Hulls Trade Program Find Him Ready to
Fire Back With the Figures.

Judge Hull calmly observed that "the
very reverse is true" The secretAry's
general contention and broad justif1ca-
tion Of the trade agreements program
Is that 1T Is one Of hard-headed
common sense" Its design 10 ito help
industry. agriculture and business by
making 1t easier for American goods
10 be sold in foreign countries" The
program finally has - "one Of its
cardinal aims the strengthening Of
the basis Of peace" and "is In fact q
significant contribution to the main.
tenance Of orderly and amicable inter-
national relations"
AHA
Special pleaders can prove almost
anything by statistics, but In refuta-
ton Of the favorite charge that his
program Is wrecking American agri-
culture, Hull produces foreign trade
figures for the FIRST five months Of
1898, which show that our exports of
corn in that period, 4,168. 900 bushels,
were vastly in excess Of corresponding
1887 exports, and that wheat exports,
January-May this year, 1925, 900
bushels, were also far ahead Of 1887
shipments. Our imports of corn and
wheat were vastly below those Of q
year ago.
According to Charles Brooks Smith,
the principal Washington news eyes
and-ears Of West Virginians, President
Roosevelt. in Marietta. Ohio, today, at
the outset Of his epochal swing across
the country, will stand on the soil Of
the neighborhood in which the first
historically famed "Copperhead" got
his start. Quoth the veteran PAN
handle press galleryite: He was
Vallandigham OF Columbiana, fourth
county up the Ohio River from WASH
ington County, In which Marietta is
situated. vallandigham was q Demo-
crat in good standing had been in
Congress and was a candidate for
governor. His speeches were sweeping
criticisms of the war and the admins
tration. The blunt-spoken Ohioan
WAO lCSICO ulACI u
charged with having publicly expressed
sympathy for those in arms against
the United States with the object of
weakening the power of the Govern
ment to suppress an unlawful rebellion.
The ''copperhead" was tried by court
martial and sentenced to close confine-
ment at Fort Warren in Boston
Harbor Lincoln modified this verdict
and ordered the defendant sent into
the Confederate lines, stipulating that
if he returned he would be imprisoned
at Fort Warren. Vallandigham re-
manned in the Confederate lines only
a few weeks, then made his way to
Canada aboard blockade runner.
Meantime he was nominated for gov
ernor Of Ohio at Democratic State
convention in Columbus, with the
understanding that, If elected, he
should be escorted from the State
line to the Capital by . volunteer
procession Of Democrats strong enough
to resist any attempt to rearrest him.
All over the country, as far north
as Albany. Democrats enacted resolu-
tons upholding Vallandigham's con-
stitutional rights and condemning the
action taken against him. Copper
head" was the epithet applied to him
not by his party. but by political
opponents.
Add to the roster of 1910 Repub-
lican white hopes the honorable names
Of Gerald P. Nye. victor in the late
G. o. P. senatorial unpleasantness in
North Dakota. If the elephant turns
left-and if he stands pat, Repre-
sentative James w. Wadsworth of
New York, for whom boomlet has
just been launched by upstate
admirers.
(Copyright 193S1