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THE MERCEDES NEWS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928
HERBERT HOOVER DELIVERS SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE IN CALIFORNIA
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FARMING,
PROHIBITION
PLAYED UP
Republican Nominee
Formally Accepts
Candidacy
SPEECH FOLLOWS
LINES EXPECTED
Urg
es Some Form of
Farm Relief and Dry
Enforcement
You bring, Mr. Chairman, formal
notice of my nomination by the Re-
publican Party to the Presidency of
the United States. I accept. It is
a great honor to be chosen for lead-
ership in that party which has so
largely made the history of our
country in these last 70 years.
Mr. Chairman, you and your asso-
ciates have in four days travelled
8,000 miles across the continent to
bring me this notice. I am reminded
that in order to notify George Wash-
ington of his election, Charles
Thompson, Secretary of the Con-
gress, spent seven days on horse-
back to deliver that important intel-
ligence 230 miles from New York to
Mount Vernon.
In another way, too, this occasion
illuminates the milestones of prog-
ress. By the magic of the radio
this nomination was heard by mil-
lions of our fellow citizens, not seven
days after its occurrence, nor one
day, nor even one minute. They were
to all intents and purposes, present
in the hall, participants in the pro-
ceedings. Today these same millions
have heard your voice and now are
hearing mine. We stand in their un-
seen presence. It is fitting, however,
that the forms of our national life,
hallowed by generations of usage,
should be jealously preserved, and
for that reason you have come to
me, as similar delegations have come
to other candidates through the
years.
Those invisible millions have al
ready heard from Kansas City the
reading of our party principles. They
would wish to hear from me not a
discourse upon the platform—in
which I fully concur—but something
of the spirit and ideals with which
it is proposed to carry it into admin
istration.
Reconstruction Problems
Our problems of the past seven
years have been problems of recon-
struction; our problems of the fu-
ture are problems of construction.
They are problems of progress. New
and gigantic forces have come into
our national life. The World War
released ideas of government in con-
flict with our principles. We have
grown to financial and physical
power which compels us into a new
setting among nations. Science has
given us new tools and a thousand
inventions. Through them have come
to each of us wider relationships,
more neighbors, more leisure, broad-
er vision, higher ambitions, greater
problems. To insure that these tools
shall not be used to limit liberty has
brought a vast array of question#
in government.
The points of contact between the
Government and the people are con-
stantly multiplying. Every year
wise governmental policies become
more vital in ordinary life. As our
problems grow so do our tempta-
tions grow to venture away from
those principles upon which our re-
public was founded and upon which
it has grown to greatness. Moreover
we must direct economic progress in
support of moral and spiritual
progress.
Nation of Homes
Our party platform deals mainly
with economic problems, but our na-
tion is not an agglomeration of rail-
roads, of ships, of factories, of dyna-
mos, or statistics. It is a nation of
homes, a nation of men, of women,
of children. Every man has a right
to ask of us whether the United
States is a better place for him, his
wife and his children to live in, be-
cause the Republican Party has con-
ducted the government for nearly
8 years. Every woman has a right
to ask whether her life, her home,
her man’s job, her hopes, her happi-
ness, will be better assured by the
continuance of the Republican Party
in power. I propose to discuss the
questions before me in that light.
With this occasion we inaugurate
the campaign. It shall be an honest
campaign; every penny will be pub-
licly accounted for. It shall be a
true campaign. We shall use words
to convey our meaning, not to hide it.
Difficult Problems
The Republican Party came into
authority nearly eight years ago.
It is necessary to remind ourselves
of the critical conditions of that
time. We were confronted with an
incompleted peace and involved in
violent and dangerous disputes both
at home and abroad. The Federal
Government was spending at the
rate of five and one-half billions per
year ;our national debt stood at the
staggering total of twenty-four bil-
lions. The foreign debts were un-
settled. The country was in a panic
from over expansion due to the war
and the continued inflation of credit
and currency after the Armistice,
followed by a precipitant nation-
wide deflation which in half a year
crashed the prices of commodities
by nearly one-half. Agriculture was
prostrated; land was unsaleable;
commerce and industry were stag-
nated; our foreign trade ebbed away;
five millions of unemployed walked
the streets. Discontent and agitation
against our democracy were ram-
pant. Fear for the future haunted
every heart.
Reconstruction Tax
No party ever accepted a more dif-
ficult task of reconstruction than
did the Republican Party in 1921.
The record of these seven and one-
half years constitutes a period of
rare courage in leadership and con-
structive action. Never has a polit-
ical party been able to look back
upon a similar period with more sat-
isfaction. Never could it look for-
ward with more confidence that its
record would be approved by the
electorate.
Reviews Accomplishments
Peace has been made. The heal-
ing processes of good will have ex-
tinguished the fires of hate. Year
by year in our relations with other
nations we have advanced the ideals
of law and of peace, in substitution
for force. By rigorous economy fed-
eral expenses have been reduced by
two billions per annum. The na-
tional debt has been reduced by six
and a half billions. The foreign debts
have been settled in large part and
on terms which have regard for our
debtors and for our taxpayers. Taxes
have been reduced four successive
times. These reductions have been
made in the particular interest of
the small taxpayers. For this pur-
pose taxes upon articles of consump-
tion and popular service have been
removed. The income tax rolls to-
day show a reduction of 80 per cent
in the total revenue collected on in
come under $10,000 per year, while
they show a reduction of only 25 per
cent in revenues from incomes above
that amount. Each successive re-
duction in taxes has brought a re-
duction in the cost of living to all
our people.
Commerce and industry have re-
vived. Although the agricultural,
coal and textile industries still lag
in their recovery and still require
our solicitude and assistance, yet
they have made substantial prog-
ress. While other countries engaged
in the war are only now regaining
the prewar level in foreign trade,
our exports, even if we allow for the
depreciated dollar, are 58 per cent
greater than before the war. Con-
structive leadership and cooperation
by the government have released
and stimulated the energies of our
people. Faith in the future has been
restored. Confidence in our form of
government has never been greater.
Test of Progress Under Repub-
lican Guidance
But it is not through the recita-
tion of wise policies in government
alone that we demonstrate our prog-
ress under Republican guidance. To
me the test is the security, comfort
and • opportunity that has been
brought to the average American
family. During this less than eight
years our population has increased
by 8 per cent. Yet our national in-
come has increased by over thirty
billions of dollars per year or more
than 45 per cent. Our production—
and therefore our consumption—of
goods has increased by over 25 per
cent. It is easily demonstrated that
these increases have been widely
spread among our whole people.
Home ownership has grown. While
during this period the number of
families has increased by about
2.300.000 we have built more than
3.500.000 new and better homes. In
this short time we have equipped
nearly nine million more homes with
electricity, and through it drudgery
has been lifted from the lives of wo-
men. The barriers of time and dis-
tance have been swept away and life
made freer and larger by the instal-
lation of six million more telephones,
seven million radio sets, and the
service of an additional 14 million
automobiles. Our cities are grow-
ing magnificent with beautiful build-
ings, parks, and playgrounds. Our
countryside has been knit together
with splendid roads.
We have doubled the use of elec-
trical power and with it we have
taken sweat from the backs of men.
The purchasing power of wages has
steadily increased. The hours of la-
bor have decreased. The 12-hour
day has been abolished. Great prog-
ress has been made .in stabilization
of commerce and industry. The job
of every man has thus been made
more secure. Unemployment in the
sense of distress is widely disap-
pearing.
Increase in Education Noted
Most of all, I like to remember
what this progress has meant to
America’s children. The portal of
their opportunity has been ever
widening. While our population has
grown but 8 per cent we have in-
creased by 11 per cent the number
of children in our grade schools, by
66 per cent the number in our high
schools, and by 75 per cent the num-
ber in our institutions of higher
learning.
With all our spending we have
doubled savings deposits in our
banks and building and loan asso-
ciations. We have nearly doubled
our life insurance. Nor have our
people been selfish. They have met
with a full hand the most sacred ob-
ligation of man—charity. The gifts
of America to churches, to hospitals,
and institutions for the care of the
afflicted, and to relief from great
disasters, have surpassed by hun-
dreds of millions any totals for any
similar period in all human record.
One of the oldest and perhaps the
noblest of human aspirations has
been the abolition of poverty. By
poverty I mean the grinding by un-
der-nourishment, cold, and ignorance
and fear of old age of those who
have the will to work. We in Amer-
ica today are nearer to the final tri-
umph over poverty than ever before
in the history of any land. The
poorhouse is vanishing from among
us. We have not reached the goal,
but given a chance to go forward
with the policies of the last eight
years, hnd we shall soon with the
help of God be in sight of the day
when poverty will be banished from
the nation. There is no guarantee
against poverty equal to a job for
every man. That is the primary
purpose of the economic policies we
advocate.
Improvement in American Homes
I especially rejoice in the effect of
our increased national efficiency
upon the improvement of the Amer
ican home. That is the sanctuary of
our loftiest ideals, the source of the
spiritual energy of our people. The
bettered home surroundings, the ex-
panded schools and playgrounds, and
the enlarged leisure which have
come with our economic progress
have brought to the average family
a fuller life, a wider outlook, a
stirred imagination, and a lift in as
pirations.
Economic advancement is not an
end in itself. Successful democracy
rests wholly upon the moral and
spiritual quality of its people. Our
growth in spiritual achievements
must keep pace with our growth in
physical accomplishments. Mate-
rial prosperity and moral progress
must march together if we would
make the United States that com
monwealth so grandly conceived by
its founders. Our government, to
match the expectations of our peo
pie, must have constant regard for
those human values that give dig-
nity and nobility to life. Generosity
of impulse, cultivation of mind, will-
ingness to sacrifice, spaciousness of
spirit—those are the qualities where-
by America, growing bigger and
richer and more powerful, may be-
come America great and noble. A
people or government to which these
values are not real, because they are
not tangible, is in peril. Size, wealth,
and power alone cannot fulfill the
promise of America’s opportunity.
The most urgent economic prob-
lem in our nation today is in agricul-
ture. It must be solved if we are to
bring prosperity and contentment to
one-third of our people directly and
to all of our people indirectly. We
have pledged ourselves to find a
solution.
False Premises Of Agricultural
Discussions
In my mind most agricultural dis-
cussions go wrong because of two
false premises. The first is that ag-
riculture is one industry. It is a
dozen distinct industries incapable
of the same organization. The sec-
ond false premise is that rehabilita-
tion will be complete when it has
reached a point comparable with
pre-war. Agriculture was not upon
a satisfactory basis before the war.
The abandoned farms of the north-
east bear their own testimony. Gen-
erally there was but little profit in
midwest agriculture for many years
except that derived from the slow
increases in farm land values. Even
of more importance is the great ad-
vance in standards of living of all
occupations since the war. Some
branches of agriculture have greatly
recovered, but taken as a whole it
is not keeping pace with the onward
march in other industries.
There are many causes for failure
of agriculture to win its full share
of national prosperity. The after
war deflation of prices not only
brought great direct losses to the
farmer, but he was often left in-
debted in inflated dollars to be paid
in deflated dollars. Prices are often
demoralized through gluts in our
markets during the harvest season
Local taxes have been increased to
provide the improved roads and
schools. The tariff on some prod-
ucts is proving inadequate to pro-
tect him from imports from abroad.
The increases in transportation rates
since the war has greatly affected
the price which he receives for his
products. Over six million farmers
in times of surplus engage in de-
structive competition with one an-
other in the sale of their product,
often depressing prices below those
levels that could be maintained
The whole tendency of our civili-
zation during the last 50 years has
been toward an increase in the size
of the units of production in order
to secure lower costs and a more or-
derly adjustment of the flow of com-
modities to the demand. But the or
ganization of agriculture into larger
units must not be by enlarged farms.
The farmer has shown he can in-
crease the skill of his industry with-
out large operations. He is today
producing 20 per cent more than
eight years ago with about the same
acreage and personnel. Farming is
and must continue to be an individ-
ualistic business of small units and
independent ownership. The farm
is more than a business; it is a state
of living. We do not wish it con-
verted into a mass production ma-
chine. Therefore, if the farmers’
position is to be improved by larger
operations it must be done not on
the farm but in the field of distribu-
tion. Agriculture has partially ad-
vanced in this direction through co-
operatives and pools. But the tradi-
tional cooperative is often not a
complete solution.
Differences of opinion as to both
causes and remedy have retarded
the completion of a constructive pro-
gram of relief. It is our plain, duty
to search out the common ground on
which we may mobilize the sound
forces of agricultural reconstruction.
Our platform lays a solid basis upon
which we can build. It offers an af-
firmative program.
Adequate Tariff Foundation of
Farm Relief
An adequate tariff is the founda-
tion of farm relief. Our consumers
increase faster than our producers.
The domestic market must be pro-
tected. Foreign products raised un-
der low standards of living are to-
day competing in our home markets.
I would use my office and influence
to give the farmer the full benefit of
our historic tariff policy.
A large portion of the spread be-
tween what the farmer receives for
his products and what the ultimate
consumer pays is due to increased
transportation charges. Increase in
railway rates has been one of the
penalties of the war. These increases
have been added to the cost to the
farmer of reaching seaboard and
foreign markets and result therefore
in reduction of his prices. The farm-
ers of foreign countries have thus
been indirectly aided in their com-
petition with the American farmer.
Nature has endowed us with a great
system of inland waterways. Their
modernization will comprise a most
substantial contribution to midwest
farm relief and to the development
of twenty of our interior states. This
modernization includes not only the
great Mississippi system, with its
joining of the Great Lakes and of
the heart of midwest agriculture to
the Gulf, but also a shipway from
the Great Lakes to the Atlantic,
These improvements would mean so
large an increment in farmers’
prices as to warrant their construc-
tion many times over. There is no
more vital method of farm relief.
But we must not stop here.
farmer from the depressions and
demoralization of seasonal gluts and
periodical surpluses.
Objection has been made that this
program, as laid down by the Party
Platform, may require that several
millions of dollars of capital be ad-
vanced by the Federal 'Government
without obligation upon the individ-
ual farmer. With that objection I
have little patince. A nation which
is spending ninety billions a year
can well afford an expenditure of a
few hundred millions for a workable
program that will give to one-third
of its population their fair share of
the nation’s prosperity. Nor does
this proposal put the government
into business except so far as it is
called upon to furnish initial capital
with which to build up the farmer
to the control of his own destinies.
Program Adapted to Future
This program adapts itself to the
variable problems of agriculture not
only today but which will arise in
the future. I do not believe that
any single human being or any
group of human beings can deter-
mine in advance all questions that
will arise in so vast and complicated
an industry over a term of years.
The first step is to create an effect-
ive agency directly for these pur-
poses and to give it authority and
resources. These are solemn pledges
and they will be fulfilled by the Re-
publican Party. It is a definite plan
of relief. It needs only the detailed
elaboration of legislation and appro-
priations to put it into force.
During my term as Secretary of
Commerce I have steadily endeav-
ored to build up a system of cooper-
ation between the government and
business. Under these cooperative
actions all elements interested in the
problem of a particular industry
such as manufacturer, distributor,
worker, and consumer have been
called into council together, not for
a single occasion but for continuous
work. These efforts have been suc-
cessful beyond any expectation.
They have been accomplished with-
out interference or regulation by the
government. They have secured
progress in the industries, remedy
for abuses, elimination of waste, re-
duction of cost in production and
distribution, lower prices to the con-
sumer, and more stable employment
and profit. While the problem varies
with every different commodity and
with every different part of our
great country, I should wish to ap-
ply the same method to agriculture
so that the leaders of every phase of
each group can advise and organize
on policies and constructive meas-
ures. I am convinced that this form
of action, as it has done in other in-
dustries, can greatly benefit farmer,
distributor and consumer.
building a civilization which sets the
level of hope for the entire world. A
general reduction in the tariff would
admit a flood of good from abroad.
It would injure every home. It would
fill our streets with idle workers. It
would destroy the returns to our
dairymen, our fruit, flax, and live-
stock growers, and our other
farmers.
To Amend Immigration Laws
No man will say that any immi-
gration of tariff law is perfect. We
welcome our new immigrant citizens
and their great contribution to our
reconstruction years have suspend-
ed the construction of many needed
public works. Moreover, the time
has arrived when we must under-
take a larger visioned development
of our water resources. Every drop
which runs to the sea without yield-
ing its full economic service is a
waste.
Possibilities of Cheaper
Transportation
Nearly all of our greater drain-
ages contain within themselves pos-
sibilities of cheapened transporta-
nation; we seek only to protect them tion, irrigation, reclamation, domes-
equally with those already here. We tic water supply, hydro-electric pow-
Farm Relief Important Obligation
To Reorganize Marketing
System
An outstanding proposal of the
Party program is the whole-hearted
pledge to undertake the reorganiza-
tion of .the marketing system upon
sounder and more economical lines.
We have already contributed greatly
to this purpose by the acts support-
ing farm cooperatives, the establish-
ment of intermediate .credit banks,
the regulation of stockyards, public
exchanges and the expansion of the
Department of Agriculture. The
platform proposes to go much far-
ther. It pledges the creation of a
Federal Farm Board of representa-
tive farmers to be clothed with au-
thority and resources with which not
only to still further aid farmers’ co-
operatives and pools and to assist
generally in solution of farm prob-
lems, but especially to build up with
federal finance, farmer-owned and
farmer-controlled stabilization cor-
porations which will protect the
The working out of agricultural
relief constitutes the most important
obligation of the next Administra-
tion. I stand pledged to these pro-
posals. The object of our policies is
to establish for our farmers an in-
come equal to those of other occu-
pations; for the farmer’s wife the
same comforts in her home as wo-
men in other groups; for the farm
boys and girls the same opportuni-
ties in life as other boys and girls.
So far as my own abilities may be
of service, I dedicate them to help
secure prosperity and contentment
in that industry where I and my
forefathers were born and nearly all
my family still obtain their liveli-
hood.
The Republican Party has ever
been the exponent of protection to
all our people from competition with
lower standards of living abroad.
We have always fought for tariffs
designed to establish this protection
from imported goods. We also have
enacted restrictions upon immigra-
tion for-the protection of labor from
the inflow of workers faster than
we can absorb them without break-
ing down our wage levels.
The Republican principle of an ef-
fective control of imported goods
and of immigration has contributed
greatly to the prosperity of our
country. There is no selfishness in
this defense of our standards of liv-
ing. Other countries gain nothing
if the high standards of America are
sunk and if we are prevented from
shall amend the immigration laws to
relieve unnecessary hardships upon
families. As a member of the com-
mission whose duty it is to deter-
mine the quota basis under the na-
tional origins law I have found it
impossible to do so accurately and
without hardship. The basis now in
effect carries out the essential prin-
ciple of the law and I favor repeal
of that part of the act calling for
a newr basis of quotas.
We have pledged ourselves to
make such revisions in the tariff
laws as may be necessary to provide
real protection against the shiftings
of economic tides in our various in-
dustries. I am sure the American
people would rather entrust the per-
fection of the tariff to the consistent
friend of the tariff than to our op-
ponents, who have always reduced
our tariffs, who voted against our
present protection to the worker and
the farmer, and whose whole eco-
nomic theory over generations has
been the destruction of the protec-
tive principle.
Having earned my living with my
own hands I cannot have other than
the greatest sympathy with the as-
pirations of those who toil. It has
been my good fortune during the
past 12 years to have received the
cooperation of labor in many direc-
tions, and in promotion of many
public purposes.
The trade union movement in our
country has maintained two depar-
tures from such movements in all
other countries. They have been
staunch supporters of American in-
dividualism and American institu-
tions. They have steadfastly op-
posed subversive doctrines from
abroad. Our freedom from foreign
social and economic diseases is in
large degree due to this resistance
by our own labor. Our trade unions,
with few exceptions, have welcomed
all basic improvement in industrial
methods. This largeness of mind
has contributed to the advancing
standards of living of the whole of
our people. They properly have
sought to participate—by additions
to wages—in the result of improve-
ments and savings which they have
helped to make.
Greater Understanding Between
Labor and Capital
During these past years we have
grown greatly in the mutual under-
standing between employer and em-
ployee. We have seen a growing
realization by the employer that the
highest practicable wage is the road
to increased consumption and pros-
perity and we have seen a growing
realization by labor that the maxi-
mum use of machines, of effort and
of skill is the road to lower produc-
tion costs and in the end to higher
real wages. Under these impulses
and the Republican protective sys-
tem our industrial output has in-
creased as never before and our
wages have grown steadily in buy-
ing power. Our workers with their
average weekly wages can today buy
two and often three times more
bread and butter than any wage
earner of Europe. At one time we
demanded for our workers a “full
dinner pail.” We have now gone far
beyond that conception. Today we
demand larger comfort and greater
participation in life and leisure.
The Republican platform gives the
pledge of the Party to the support
of labor. It endorses the principle
of collective bargaining and freedom
in labor negotiations. We stand
also pledged to the curtailment of
excessive use of the injunction in
labor disputes.
The war and the necessary cur-
tailment of expenditure during the
er and frequently the necessities of
flood control. But this development
of our waters requires more defi-
nite national policies in the syste-
matic co-ordination of those differ-
ent works upon each drainage area.
We have wasted scores of millions
by projects undertaken not as part
of a whole but as the consequence
of purely local demands. We can-
not develop modernized water trans-
portation by isolated projects. We
must develop it as a definite and pos-
itive interconnected system of trans-
portation. We must adjust reclam-
ation and" irrigation to our needs for
more land. Where they lie together
we must co-ordinate transportation
with flood control, the development
of hydro-electric power and of irri-
gation, else we shall as in the past
commit errors that will take years
and millions to remedy. The Con-
gress has authorized and has in
process of legislation great prog- j
rams of public works. In addition j
to the works in development of
water resources, we have in pro-
gress large undertakings in public
roads and the construction of public
buildings.
All these projects will probably re-
quire an expenditure of upward is of
one billion dollars within the next
four years. It comprises the largest
engineering construction ever under-
taken by any government. It in-
volves three times the expenditure
laid out upon the Panama Canal. It
is justified by the growth, need, and
wealthy of our country. The organ-
ization and administration of this
construction is a responsibility of
the first order. For it we must se-
cure the utmost economy, honesty,
and skill. These works which will
provide jobs for an army of men
should so far as practicable be ad-
justed to take up the slack of unem-
ployment elsewhere.
I rejoice in the completion of leg-
islation providing adequate flood
control of the Mississippi. It marks
not alone the undertaking of a great
national task but it constitutes a
contribution to the development of
the South. In encouragement of
their economic growth lies one of
the great national opportunities
the future.
Position Upon 18th Amend-
ment
I recently stated my position upon
the 18th Amendment which I again
repeat:
(See HERBERT HOOVER, Page 3)
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The Mercedes News (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 76, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 14, 1928, newspaper, August 14, 1928; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth651713/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.