HOOVER’S PLATFORM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 190, 13 August 1932, Page 7

HOOVER’S PLATFORM

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY NEW ATTACK ON DEPRESSION ATTITUDE ON WAR DEBTS ADJUSTMENTS FOR MARKETS Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh: Received Aug. 12, 10.5 p.m. WASHING'!ON, Aug. 11. Mr. Hoover, in accepting renominalion for the Presidency, declared that lie believed a change in national pro iiibition was necessary “to remedy present evils” that have grown up under it.

As to the economic situation, he ■poke of new plans looking to a move ment “from defence to a powerful attack upon the depression,” an asser tion said in high quarters to embrace the carrying out of his recentlynunciated nine-point programme, a> well as other propositions not yet ready ')'• announcement.

Mr. Hoover made a declaration for new prohibition laws to be set up under which States would be allowed to be wet or dry as they wished, but subject to constitutional guarantees to protect each ‘‘from interference and invasion by its neighbours.” He said that no part of the United States would thereby return to the saloon system. Mr. Hoover lashed out at the Democratic platform proposal for outright repeal of prohibition as meaning ‘‘a return to the saloon system with its orruption and moral and social abuse.” Air. Hoover said that under the Eighteenth Amendment of late there bad -grown up an increasing illegal traffic of liquor. In some areas the spread of disrespect “not only for this law but for all laws, constitutes the grave danger of the practical nulification of the Constitution, the de generation of municipal government and the increase of subsidised crime and violence. I cannot consent to a continuation of this regime.” The President declared that he had •eviewed the administration’s record for the alleviation of the economic •ituation, saying that the measures taken had repelled the attacks of fear :nd panic. He promised to propose more measures to speed recovery. He reiterated his opposition to the ancellation of war debts, at the same time expressing an assurance that the ountry would consider adjustments ‘‘if for any particular annual payment we are offered some other tangible form of compensation, such as an extension of markets for American agriculture ind labour.” Other Planks. He favoured sound currency, a proective tariff, immigration restriction revision of railway laws, the Federal regulation of inter-State power, the conservation of national resources, tax and banking reform, balanced budgets. Federal economy, the St. Lawrence river seaway and adherence to the world court with reservations. He made reference to foreign affairs, but without mentioning the Japan-China situation last winter or the current Chaco dispute between Bolivia and Parguay. He told of having projected : nto international diplomacy the new doctrine “that we do not and never will recognise titles to the possession of territory gained in the violation of oeaco pacts.”