ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1932, Page 5

ELECTION CAMPAIGN

HOOVER’S SPEECH U.S.A. EXTERNAL SUFFERING. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) CLEVELAND, October 15. Before an enthusiastic crowd of thirty thousand here, President Hoover delivered his second' campaign speech, in which lie combined militant support for the United States protective tariff and denunciations of his critics. The one instance he termed as "lies” propaganda, which allegedly was distributed from the Democratic Party’s headquarters to the effect that ib (Hoover) participated in a shady deal in contracting for Chinese labourers to work in the mines in South Africa.

The speech was largely directed to Labour, which, he said, had been saved from immeasurable suffering, due to the United States tariff, now that the Labour and the monetary standards in many parts of the world are so low.

He again insisted that America was the l , victim o. the economic and political dislocations abroad, which, he said, neither the tariff nor the over-specula-tion on Wall Street had precipitated. In the "New York World,” a leading member of the Scripps Howard Publications, commenting on the Ottawa agreements attacked the United States Smoot-Hawley Tariff. He mentioned an estimated less of exports of between seventy-five and a hundred and fifty million dollars annually. He adds: "We cannot complain of injustice. Our two best customers are simply retaliating against our monstrous tariff. Perhaps the misguided voters, both Republican and Democratic, who have been fooled in the past by the ‘prsoperity through the tariff, myth, will learn from this bitter experience.” '