NEW DEAL ASSAILED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19038, 11 June 1936, Page 5

NEW DEAL ASSAILED

REPUBLICAN SPEAKER CONVENTION ADDRESS CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 9. At the opening Republican Presidential election convention to-night the most severe condemnation of any feature of the New Deal was .an attack launched by Senator F. Steiwer against President Roosevelt's foreign treaty programme. His address was bitter in the extreme, bub nowhere more bitter than in its disapproval of "trade bargaining rampant." "One of the fundamentals of established national policy is tariff protection and efficient American production," he said. "America does not propose to destroy the opportunity of our citizens by surrendering this protection. The Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act has increased the sale in our markets of goods, produced by aliens, which our producers could have supplied. "Agreements have been negotiated right and left with shrewd foreign traders who have reduced rates on articles which they desire to import into their own countries, whereas the Administration's pretended 'good neighbour' policy has resulted in an American reduction of duty on agricultural, dairy and forest products. The net result is a. downward revision of the tariff, which has seriously impaired our American system of protection.

"We must realise that the Administration's hope to rescue the world at our expense has injured American industries and agriculture and added unemployment, destitution and want. The combined effort of reckless uninformed trade agreements, plus the Administra lion'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 long we have had a eminent without political morality," and then demanded an honest money Government run in a business-like manner; no importation of goods which could be made or grown in the United States; a prosperous agriculture; competition in business; reduction in taxation ; elimination of Government competition in business; and avoidance of all foreign entanglements." There was brief applause at the conclusion, and the convention promptly adjourned till to-morrow morning.