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Show turer. distributor, worker, and eon umer have been called la council together, to-gether, not tor a single occasion, but for continuous work. These efforts bare been successful beyond any expectation. ex-pectation. Tbey bare been accomplished accom-plished without interference or regulation regu-lation by the government They have secured progress In the Industries, remedy for abuses, elimination of waste, reduction of cost in production and distribution, lower prices to the consumer, and more stable employment employ-ment and profit. While the problem POINTS FROM HOOVER SPEECH 4 It shall be an honest campaign; every penny will be publicly accounted ac-counted for. Having earned my living with my own hands I cannot have other than the greatest sympathy with the aspirations of those who toil. Our purpose Is to build In this nation a human society, not an economic system. Appointive office, both North, South, East and West, must be based solely on merit, character, and reputation Mn the community in which the appointee la to serve. Participation of women In politics poli-tics means higher standards. Our workers can buy two and often three times more bread and butter than any wage earner In Europe. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both In act and In spirit Our foreign policy has one primary pri-mary object, and that Is peace. Government should not engsge In business In competition with its citizens. varies with every different commodity and with every different part of our great country, I should wish to apply the same method to agriculture so that the leaders of every phase ot each group can advise and organize on policies poli-cies and constructive measures. I am convinced this form of action, as it has done iu other Industries, can benefit farmer, distributor and consumer. con-sumer. Greater Opportunities "The working out of agricultural relief re-lief constitutes the most important obligation ob-ligation of the next Administration. I stand pledged to these proposals. The object of our policies Is to establish for our farmers an Income equal to those of other occupations; for the farmer's wife the same comforts la her home as women in other groups; for the farm boys and girls the same opportunities in life as other boys and girls. So far as my own abilities may be of service, I dedicate them to help secure prosperity and contentment la that industry where I and my forefathers fore-fathers were born and nearly all my family still obtain their livelihood. "The Republican Party has ever been the exponent of protection to all our people from competition with lower standards of living abroad. We bave always fought for tariffs designed to establish this protection from imported import-ed goods. We also have enacted restrictions re-strictions upon Immigration for the protection of labor from the Inflow of workers faster than we can absorb them without breaking down our wage levels. "The Republican principle ot an effective ef-fective control of Imported goods and of Immigration has contributed greatly to the prosperity of our country. There Is no selfishness In this defense of our standards ot living. Other countries gain nothing If the high standards of America are sunk and if we are prevented pre-vented from building a civilization which sets the level of hope for the entire world. A general reduction In the tariff would admit a flood ot goods from abroad. It would injure every home. It would fill our streets with Idle workers. It would destroy the returns to our dairymen, our fruit, flax, and livestock growers, and our other farmers." Prohibition On the subject of prohibition, Mr. Hoover repeated his recent declaration: declara-tion: "I do not favor repeal of the 18th Amendment. I stand tor efficient ut the common ground en which we may mobilise th sound forces of agricultural agri-cultural reconstruction. Our platform lays a solid basis upon which to build. It offers an affirmative program. Tariff and Waterways "An adequate tariff is the foundation of farm relief. Our consumers increase faster than our producers. The do-mestlo do-mestlo market must be protected. Foreign For-eign products raised under lower standards of living are today competing compet-ing In our home markets. I would use my office and Influence to give the farmer the full beneflt ot our historic t tariff policy. "A large portion ot the spread between be-tween what the farmer receives for his products and what the ultimate consumer pays is due to Increased transportation charges. Increase in railway rates has been one of the penalties pen-alties of the war. These increases j have been added to the cost to the farmer of reaching seaboard and for- I elgn markets and result therefore in reduction of his prices. The farmers of foreign countries have thus been Indirectly In-directly aided in their competition with the American farmer. Nature has endowed us with a great system of Inland waterways. Their modernization modern-ization will comprise a most substantial substan-tial contribution to midwest farm relief re-lief and to the development of twenty of our Interior states. This moderniza-atlon moderniza-atlon Includes not only the great Mississippi Mis-sissippi system, with its Joining of the Great Lakes and of the heart of midwest mid-west agriculture to the Gulf, but also a shipway from tbe Great Lakes to the Atlantic. These improvements would mean so large an Increment In farmers' farm-ers' prices as to warrant their construction con-struction many times over. There is no more vital method of farm relief. "But we must not stop here. "An outstanding proposal of the Party Par-ty program Is the whole-hearted pledge to undertake tbe reorganization of the marketing system upon sounder and more economical lines. We bave already contributed greatly to this purpose by the acts supporting farm co-operatives, the establishment of Intermediate In-termediate credit banks, the regulation regula-tion of stockyards, public exchanges and the expansion of the Department of Agriculture. Tbe platform proposes REPUBLICAN RECORD Our problems of the past seven years have been problems of reconstruction; re-construction; our problems of the future are problems of construction. They are problems of progress. During these years our population popula-tion has Increased eight percent. Yet our national Income has Increased In-creased 45 percent. The number of families has Increased 2,300,000 and we have built 3,500,000 new and better homes. We have equipped 9,000,000 more homes with electricity, and through It drudgery has been lifted from the lives of women. The barriers of time and distance have been swept away and life made freer and larger by the Installation of 6,000,-030 6,000,-030 more telephones, 7,000,000 radio sets and the service of an additional 14,000,000 automobiles. By rigorous economy, federal expenses ex-penses have been reduced two billions bil-lions annually. The national debt has been reduced six and a half billions. Taxes have been reduced four successive times. We have doubled savings deposits and nearly near-ly doubled life Insurance. President Coolidge has not only given a memorable administration, he has left an imprint of rectitude and statesmanship on our country. to go much farther. It pledges the creation of a Federal Farm Board of representative farmers to be clothed with authority and resources with which not only to still further aid farmers' co-operatives and pools and to assist generally In solution of farm problems but especially to build up with federal finance, farmer-owned and farmer-controlled stabilization corporations cor-porations to protect the farmer from tbe depressions and demoralization of seasonal gluts and periodical surpluses. HOOVER MEETS FARtaraQBLEEl Urges Expenditure of Hundreds of Millions on a Workable Program FAVORS HIGHER TARIFF WALL Farmers Must Control and Administer Adminis-ter Federal Farm Aid, Says Candidate. HOOVER ON FARM RELIEF; An adequate tariff Is the foundation founda-tion of farm relief. Working out agricultural relief Is the most Important obligation of the next Administration. The object of our policies Is to establish for our farmers an Income equal to those of other occupations. Farming Is and must continue an Individualistic business of small units and Independent ownership. If the farmers' position Is to be ' Improved by larger operations It ' must be done not on the farm, but In the field of distribution. - Our platform lays a solid basis upon which we can build. It offers an affirmative program. Nature has endowed us with a great system of Inland waterways. Their modernization will comprise substantial contribution to midwest mid-west farm relief and development of 20 Interior states. There is no more vital method of farm relief. PALO ALTO, Calif. Herbert Hoover Hoo-ver met the farm question fairly and squarely In his Address of Acceptance at the Stadium of Stanford University. Nearly one-third of his address was devoted to this subject, which Hoover termed "the most urgent economic problem In our nation today." He declared de-clared bluntly that farm relief must not be delayed by any monetary considerations, con-siderations, urging that "a nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of Its population their fair share of the national prosperity." Tbe candidate pledged himself to a farm-aid plan m which farmers shall themselves control and administer the federal financial assistance which be proposes to put into effect "The most urgent economic problem in our nation today is in agriculture," he said. "It must be solved if we are it to bring prosperity and contentment . to one-third of our people directly and to all ot our people indirectly. We have pledged ourselves to a solution. "In my mind most agricultural discussions dis-cussions go wrong because of two false premises. The first Is that agriculture agri-culture is one Industry. It is a dozen distinct industries incapable ot tbe same organization. The second false premise Is that rehabilitation will be complete when it has reached a point comparable with pre-war. Agriculture was not upon a satisfactory basis be-, be-, fore the war. The abandoned farms of the northeast bear their own testimony. testi-mony. Generally there was but little profit In midwest agriculture for many years except that derived from the slow Increases in farm land values. Even of more Importance Is the great advance in standards of living of all occupations since the war. Some branches of agriculture have greatly recovered, but taken as a whole It Is not keeping pace with the onward march in other industries. Cause and Effect "There are many causes for failure of agriculture to win Its full share ot national prosperity. The after-war deflation de-flation of prices not only brought great direct losses to the farmer, but he was often left indebted In inflated dollars dol-lars to be paid in deflated dollars. Prices are often demoralized through gluts in our markets during the harvest har-vest season. Local taxes have been In- enforcement ot laws enacted thereunder. thereun-der. Our country has deliberately undertaken un-dertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble In motive and far-reaching far-reaching in purpose. It must be worked out constructively." And he added the following comment: "Common sense compels us to realize re-alize that grave abuses have occurred abuses which must be remedied. Investigation In-vestigation can alone determine the wise method of correcting them. Crime and disobedience of law cannot be permitted to break down the Constitution Con-stitution and laws of the United States. "Modification of the enforcement laws which would permit that which tbe Constitution forbids is-nullification. This the American people will not countenance. Change in the Constitution Con-stitution can and must be brought about only by the straightforward methods provided in the Constitution Itself. There are those who do not believe in the purposes of several provisions pro-visions of the Constitution. No one denies their right to seek to amend It Tbey are not subject to criticism for asserting that right. But the Republican Re-publican Party does deny the right of anyone to seek to destroy the purposes pur-poses of the Constitution by indirection. indirec-tion. "Whoever is elected president takes an oath not only to faithfully execute the office of the President, but that oath provides still further that be will, to the best of his ability, preserve, pre-serve, protect and defend the Constitution Con-stitution of tbe United States. I should be untrue to these great traditions, tra-ditions, untrne to my oatb ot office, were I to declare otherwise " Will Cost Money "Objection has been made that this program, as laid down by the Party Platform, may require that several hundred millions of dollars of capital be advanced by the Federal Government Govern-ment without obligation upon th Individual In-dividual farmer. With that objection I bave little patience. A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program pro-gram that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's na-tion's prosperity. Nor does this proposal pro-posal put the government into business busi-ness except so far as It Is called upon to furnish initial capital with whioh to build up the farmer to the control of his own destinies. "This program adapts itself to the variable va-riable problems of agriculture not only today but which will arise in the future. fu-ture. I do not believe that any single human being or any group of human beings can determine in advance all questions that will arise in so vast and complicated an industry over a term : of years. Tbe first step is to create an effective agency directly for these purposes and to glve it authority and I resources. These are solemn pledges and they will be fulfilled by the Re- publican Party. It is a definite plan of relief. It needs only the detailed elaboration elab-oration of legislation and appropriations appropria-tions to put it into force. "During my term as Secretary of Commerce I have steadily endeavored to build up a system of co-operation between the government and business. Under these co-operative actions all elements Interested in the problem ot a particular Industry such as manufac- creased to provide the improved roads and schools. Tbe tariff on some products prod-ucts is proving inadequate to protect him from imports from abroad. The Increases in transportation rates since the war has greatly affected the price which he receives for bis products. Over six million farmers in times of surplus engage In destructive competition competi-tion with one another in sale of their product, often depressing prices below those levtls that could be maintained. "The whole tendency of our civilization civiliza-tion during the last 60 years has been toward an increase In the size ot the units of production In order to secure lower costs and a more orderly adjustment ad-justment of the flow of commodities to the demand. But the organization of agriculture into larger units must not be by enlarged farms. The farmer has shown be can increase the skill of his Industry without large operations. He Is today producing 20 per cent more than eight years ago with about the same acreage and personneL Farming is and must continue to be to individualistic business ot small units and independent ownership. The farm is more than a business; it is a state of living. We do not wish it converted con-verted into a mass production machine. ma-chine. Therefore, if the farmers' position posi-tion is to be improved by larger operations opera-tions it must be done not on the farm but in tbe field of distribution. Agriculture Agri-culture has partially advanced in this direction through co-operatives and pools. But the traditional co-operative is often not a complete solution. "Differences of opinion as to both causes and remedy bave retarded the completion of a constructive program of relief. It is our plain duty to search |