NEW DEAL CENSURE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1936, Page 5

NEW DEAL CENSURE

BITTER ATTACK U.S. FOREIGN TRADE DEALINGS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) CLEVELAND, (Ohio), June 10. At the Democratic Convention,‘ the severest condemnation of any feature of the New Deal was an attack launched to-night by Mr Seiwar, against Mr Roosevelt’s foreign trade treaty programme. The address was bitter in the extreme, but nowhere was it more bitter than in its disapproval of “trade bargaining which is rampant.” “One of the fundamentals of an established national policy is tariff protection and efficient American production. America does not propose to destroy opportunity for our citizens by surrendering this protection. The reciprocal trade agreement act has increased the sales in our market <> goods produced by aliens, which our producers could have supplied. “Agreements have been negotiated right and left with shrewd foreign traders who reduced the rates on articles which they desire to import into their countries, whereas the administrations pretended that, the good-neigh-bour policy has resulted in the American reduction of duty on agricultural, dairy and forest, products, whereof we have already have a surplus. “The net result is a downward revision of tariff which has seriously impaired our American system of protection. We must realise that the administration’s wishful hope to rescue the world at our expense has injured American industries and , agriculture. Added unemployment, destitution and want, combined with the efforts of reckless uninformed trade agreements, plus the administration’s monetary policies are fast putting our nation under foreign control.”

The speaker, whose appearance on the dais was greeted with tremendous cheering, immediately cried: “Over three Jong years we have -had a government without political morality!” He then demanded an honest money government, run in a business-like manner, no importation of goods which can he made or grown in the United State, prosperous agriculture, competition in business, reduction of taxation, elimination of Government conipetion in business, and avoidance of all foreign There was brief applause at the conclusion, and the Convention promptly adjourned.