Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1928 — Page 6

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Farm Relief The election of Governor Smith for President on November 6th of vital interest to the farmer, the farmer’s wife and every business man and banker who transacts busines. with the farmer. His election will mean the advancement in the value of farm lands • during his administration of from $25.00 to $50.00 per acre, and the advancement in value of all farm products. His election will mean that important legislation will be enacted for FARM RELIEF during his administration which will be as beneficial to agriculture as the FEDERAL RESERVE ACT was to our financial system. His election will mean that agriculture will be placed upon an equality with other lines of industry and that prosperity will exist for the farmer as w ell as for the large manufacturer and business man. More than 1,500,000 farm homes have been abandoned as the result of the farm policy of the Coolidge-Har-ding administrations; with Hoover as the Chief Advisor on Agriculture of both of these administrations. Under this policy thousands of farmers have lost their homes and have gone into the city to compete with the laboring man in the factory. The climax of the Hoover hostility to the farmer came in his New r York City speech w hen he denounced Farm Relief as being Socialistic in its nature. Governor Smith replies in his Boston speech by stating that if Farm Relief is Socialistic, that Vice-Presi-dent Dawes, James Eli Watson, Senator George Curtis and a majority in both branches of Congress are Socialists: because all of these men worked for and voted for Farm Relief. If Hoover is elected the farmer’s demand for equality will be postponed for another four years; the farmer will continue to suffer ruin and bankruptcy, and the fight for Farm Equality will be lost. This is the reason why the election of Governor Smith is of vital interest to the American farmer and to all men who transact business with the farmer. A Vote for Gov. Smith is a vote for prosperity for the farmer; it is a vote to increase the value of farm land and the value of farm products.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1928.

I St,4 J Os. r■ % w i: ■ -GJ W W I* 1 ' t / Jr i ■ t w & ]|n GOVERNOR ALFRED E. SMITH

ALFRED E. SMITH IS PLEDGED; 1. To relieve the long neglected farmer and restore the farmer’s position of equality with industry. 2. To safeguard American standards of living with a protective tariff. 3. To defend the right of labor to fair wages, steady employment, good living and working cond’tions, and to develop a scientific plan to deal with the problem of unemployment. 4. To protect the American working woman, the American housewife in the city and on the farm, and the American child whose battles Governor Smith has fcught for years in his own State. The Ship of State will be safe w ith Alfred E. Smith at the helm. “Prosperity in the United States does not depend upon the party in power. It rests upon the resources of the country and enterprise and labor of the people. Tho lam a Republican I am, in this election, for Governor Smith—for various reasons that are to me absolutely conclusive. And so far as a President can help the currents of the Nation’s Prosperity I would rather have the help of Governor Smith than that of anv other man in our public life.” —FRANKLIN MAC VEAGH. Secretary of the Treasury During President Taft’s Administration.

Statement of AGNES NESTOR, who is Vice-president of the National and President of the Local Women’s Trade Union League and Vice-presi-dent of the International Glove Workers' Union: “The successful administration of an office as important as Governor of the richest State in the Union is a good measure of the capacity of Alfred E. Smith for President of the United States. Under his leadership business in his State has prospered, but real prosperity rests in the wellbeing and happiness of the whole population. Alfred E. Smith as Governor has secured for his State the passage of admirable labor laws, a housing program, extended the public health service in the interest of mothers and children and has protected working women through legislation for their health and safety. Because I ‘rust his leadership and believe in his love for the people, I want to see him elected President.”

Governor Alfred E. Smith is honest, able, fearless. He keeps his word.

Frank P. Walsh Distinguished labor advocate and co-chairman wlith Chief Justice Taft on the National War Labor Board, says: _ “Governor Smith has an instinctive feeling for the unprivileged and powerless. His record as Governor is proof of his deep interest in the welfare of workers. He understands the farm problem and has boldly and intelligently outlind a procedure by which a plan for immediate relief to this suffering industry may be intelligently adopted and quickly put into execution.”.

Prohibition Governor Smith has been denounced by fanatics as an enemy of law because he has sense enough to know and courage enough to say that the United States can be made truly temperate only by modification of the present laws to fit the stubborn facts of life today. No man is stronger for Temperance than Governor Smith, that is why he seeks to modify the law which is now 7 violated every day. He is against the saloon in any form. He is being supported by Sen. Shepherd who is the author of the Eighteenth Amendment and by thousands of other fair-minded men and women who advocate the cause of Temperance. In his acceptance speech Governor Smith said the following: “If with one hand on the Bible and the other hand raised to Heaven 1 promise the people to execute the office of President of the United States, you may be sure that I shall live up to that oath to the last degree. I shall. Io the very . limit, execute the pledge of our plat- . form to make an honest endeavor to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and all other provisions nf the Federal Constitution and all laws enacted pursuant thereto. I shall ruthlessly stamn out corruption in enforcement activities. Such conditions as now exist cannot exist and will not exist under anv administration presided over bv me. There is no ouestion here of the return of the saloon. I shall never advocate nor approve any law which directlv or indirectly permits the return of the saloon." Mr. Hoover pledges himsell to a continuation of the Coolidge policies, which means a continuation ot our present nolicv of non-enforcemeni. with the Prohibition department presided over bv Mr. Mellon, a former distiller. Will you select honest enforcement under Governor Smith oi Coolidge enforcement under Herber Hoover? ~~ A Vote for Gov. Smith is a vote for Temperance and the elimination of the evils of Prohibition. (Political Advertise 1116