GOVERNOR SMITH

Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 6

GOVERNOR SMITH

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SPEECH ATTITUDE ON PROHIBITION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 22. (Received August 23, at 9 a.m.) “ I never will advocate or approve of any law directly or indirectly permitting the return of the saloon,”Governor Smith declared to-day in a speech expressing acceptance of tho Democratic nomination. Ho proposed as an alternative the sale of intoxicants by State agencies along similar lines to those in force in Canada. lie pledged himself to make an honest endeavour to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and ail other provisions of tho Fedora! Constitution, and all laws enacted pursuant thereto. He advocated an amendment iif the Volstead Act to permit the States to fix their own standard of alcoholic content, “subject always to the proviso that the standard does not exceed tho maximum fixed by Congress.” Governor Smith declared that his party did not contemplate “ sudden or drastic” changes in tho tefriff schedules, aud he reiterated that it would give tho problem of controlling crop surpluses its immediate attention. He assailed tho Administration for its Nicaraguan and tho Mexican policies, and declared that the usefulness of arbitration treaties as deterrents of war had been materially impaired by the reservations asserted bv the various nations of the right to wage defensive wars. Ho pledged himself to the resumption of a real endeavour to make the outlawry of war effective by removing the causes and substituting methods cl conciliation, conference, arbitration, and judicial determination. —Australian Press Association. (Received August 23, at 10 a.m.) Governor Smith in his address at Albany declared that the Republican claim regarding prosperity was unfounded, there being 4.000,000 unemployed and a considerable percentage of tho business concerns were actually losing money. He also pointed to the increased Federal appropriations, also the increased Federal taxes, and advocated taking tho tariff question out of tho welter of politics and treating' it on a strictly business basis. The Democratic Party did not, and under his leadership would not advocate any sudden or drastic revolution of tho country’s economic system, which would cause a business upheaval or popular distress.—Australian Press Association.