“NO OTHER LAND”

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1928, Page 8

“NO OTHER LAND”

COMPARISONS FOR MR. HOOVER.

“My country owes me nothing,” said Mr Hoover, Repulican candidate for the United States Presidency, recently. “It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service, and honour. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.” This moved “The Nation” of New York, in an editorial, to say: “Somebody ought at least to tell MiHoover that there is a man named .1.

Ramsay MacDonald, of obscure parentage, born without heritage save ability and honesty; yet he, without influential friends, looked forward with such unbounded hope that he became Prime Minister of Great Britain. Next somebody should tell Herbert Hoover the story of the harness-maker who became the first President of the German Republic, having been born of humblest, parentage, with no such inheritance as was Mr Hoover’s. Next somebody should ask Mr Hoover to turn to Italy and gaze upon one Mussolini, who was certainly not born with a. golden spoon in his mouth, but forced his way upward. Next his attention should be invited to one Georges Clemenceau in France, and even to one Napoleon Bonaparte, who worked his way up' from obscurity to the foremost place in Franco without money and without influential friends. No country but America which offers opportunity? Faugh, Mr Hoover! That is buncombe. You know vastly better.”

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