A POLICY FOR AMERICA.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 13 August 1932, Page 15

A POLICY FOR AMERICA.

PROHIBITION ISSUE.

COMPENSATION FOR WAR DEBTS. MR HOOVER ACCEPTS NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENCY. (UNITED PJIESS ASSOCUTIOJ*-BY ELECTRIC ■miCJBM'B—COPVEICHT.J (Received August 12th, 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 11. President Hoover, in accepting renomination for the Presidency, today declared that he believed a change in national Prohibition was necessary "to remedy the.present evils" that have grown up under it. Referring to the economic situation, j he spoke of new plans, looking'to a movement "from defence to a powerful attack upon the depression," an assertion which is said in high quarters to involve carrying out his recently enunciated nine-point programme, as vyell as other propositions not yet ready for announcement. In his declaration for a new Prohibition arrangement, in which the States would be allowed to be wet or dry as they wished, but subject to constitutional guarantees to protect each "from interference and invasion by its neighbours, and to sec that in no part of the United States will there be a return to the saloon system," he lashed out at the Democratic platform proposal for the outright repeal of Prohibition, which he said meant "a return to the saloon system, with its corruption md moral and social abuse." Under the Eighteenth Amendment of late there had grown up an increasing illegal frame in liquor in some areas. "The spread of disrespi-ct, not only for this law, but for all laws, constitutes a grave danger of t|io practical nullification of the constitution, of tiegeneration in municipal government, and of an increase in subsidised crjmg and violence. I caunot consont to the continuation of this regime," lie declared.

Trade and Debt Adjustments. He reviewed the Administration's record for tho alleviation of the economic situation, saying that the measures taken had repelled attacks of foar and panic, and promised to propose more measures to hasten recovery. He reiterated his opposition to the cancellation of war debts, at the Mine time expressing an assurance that tho country would consider adjustments, "if for any particular annual payment we are offered some other tangible form of compensation, such as the extension of markets for American agriculture and labour." Ho favoured a sound our. reney, a protective tariff, immigration restriction, revision of railway laws, Foderal regulation of inter-Stato power conservation, a national resources lax, banking reform, balanced budgets, Federal economy, a St, Lawrence river seaway, and adherence, to tlij Wqrld Court, with reservations. ' He made reference to foreign affairs, but without mentioning the dispute between China and Japan last winter, or the current Gran Ghaeo dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay. He told of hav. ing projected into international diplomacy the new doctrine " that we do not, ai]d never will, recognise any title to the possession of territory gaiucd in fjio I violation of peace pacts.''