Show 1 LASHES H HOOVER 0 0 VERA AT TI T I DESMOINES MOINES r rI Senator Ex-Senator James A. A Reed of Missouri Mis Mis- Missouri I Bonn Answers President Hoevers Hoever's Hoovers Hoover's Hoo- Hoo vers ver's Des DOO Moines 1 Speech T Senator Ex James A. A Reed probably t the tho o orator In m Inthe the Democratic party or any other party perhaps answered President President President dent Hoovers Hoover's Des Moines address Monday night Mr Reed Recd spoke from the same platform as did the president Reed told the audience audience audience au au- au- au he knew all the answers Then as he swung into the farm problem he took the offensive and blamed the president for war-time war regulation of the price of wheat That made the farmer pay for everything he bought at World War yar prices but he was was not permitted permitted permitted per per- to obtain World War prices prices- for what he had to sell said Reed This regulation and high tariff In the post war pe period od which enabled enabled enabled en en- the manufacturers to maintain maintain main I tain Jain war prices on their products II are re the underlying factors in the farmers' farmers troubles Reed said The manufacturers' manufacturers demanded II and obtained a tariff he said but long before that the government maxium on wheat had expired There was nothing to sustain the farmers' farmers market He was then obliged to buy in the high protective protective protective tive marJ market et and sell his surplus which also fixed the price In the domestic market markett upon upon the bankrupt bankrupt bankrupt bank bank- rupt market of Europe The gap between these two price levels is the gap of bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bank bank- to which the American farmer has been constantly en en he continued As to the charges of Pork barrel barrel barrel bar bar- rel legislation leveled at Garner by the president Mr Reed stated th that t If It the Garner Bill was Pork Barrel legislation then Mr Hoover Hoover Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver is in I lard rd up to o his eyes He went vent on to explain that the president president dent in 1928 advocated a huge public public public pub pub- lic works program Mr Reed laughed at the idea I that the United States was about to be forced off the gold standard I and branded such statements as absolutely untrue I |