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CONVENTION HALL, CLEVELAND—The text of former President Herbert Hoover's speech to the Republican national convention Hollows:

PART ONE “In this room rests the greatest

party. But in the larger sense it determine the fate of those ideals for which this nation was founded. That far transcends all partisanship. “There are elemental currents

which make or break the fate of

nations. There is a moral purpose in the universe. Those forces which affect the vitality and the soul of a people will control its destinies. The sum of years of public service in these currents is the overwhelm-

ent importance over the more tran-

of national life.

“I have given about four years to}

research into the New Deal, irying to determine what its ultimate objectives were, what sort of a system it is imposing on this country. “To some people it appears to be a strange interlude in American history in that it has no philosophy, that it is sheer opportunism, that it is a muddle of a spoils system, of emotional economics, of reckless adventure, of unctuous claims. to a monopoly of human sympathy, of greed for power, of a desire for popular acclaim and an aspiration. to make the front page of the newspapers. That is the most charitable view. “To other people it appears to he 8 cold-blooded attempt by starryeyed boys to infect the American people by a mixture of European ideas, flavored with our native predilection to get something for nothing.

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POINTS TO TWO ROADS.

“You can choose either one you like best. But the first is the road of chaos which leads to the second. Both of these roads lead over the same grim precipice that is the crippling and possibly the destruction of the freedom of men. “Which of these interpretations is accurate is even disputed by alumni of the New Deal who have graduated for conscience’s sake or have graduated by request. “In central Europe the march -of Socialist or Fascist dictatorships and their destruction of liberty. did not set out with guns and armies. Dictators began their ascent to the seats of power through the elections provided by Liberal institutions. Their weapons were promise and hate. They offered the mirage of Utopia to those in distress. They flung the poison of class hatred. They may not have maimed the bodies of men but they maimed their souls. “The 1932 campaign was & pretty ood imitation of this first stage of opean. tactics. You. may recall the promises of the abundant. life, the propaganda of hate. ; “Once seated in office the first demand of these European despotisms was for power and ‘action. gislatures were told they ‘must’ delegate their authorities. Their ‘free debate was suppressed. The powers demanded are always the same pattern. They all adopt planned economy. They regimented industry and agriculture, They ptit the government into business. They engaged in gigantic government éxpenditures, They created vast organizations of spoils henchmen and subsidized dependents. They cozrupted currency and credit. They drugged the thinking of the pegple with propaganda at the péople's expense,

Beneath their mammoth banner,

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Californians Lead. Cheering for Hoover

Hoover's home state of Calofornia,

shown above, ‘led in ‘the ‘ovation given the former President when he appeared on the speaker's stand to launch his blast against the New Deal at the G. O. P. national convention. Surrounding the Golden State delegation "are groups from other states who Joined uproatiously in the 20-minute outburst of applause.

age of their dreams? In the words of Mr. Hopkins, perhaps we are too profanely dumb to understand.

PART TWO

“So much for the evidence that the. New Deal is a definite attempt to replace the American system of freedom with some sort of Euro-pean-planned existence. But let us assume that the explanation. is simply hit-and-run opportunism, spoils system and muddle. “We can well take a moment aot explore the prospects of American ideals of liberty and 'self-govern-ment under ‘that philosophy. We may take only seven short examples: “The Supreme Court has reversed some 10 or 12 of the New Deal major enactments. Many of these acts were a violation of the rights of men and of self-government. Despite the sworn duty of the executive and Congress to defend these rights they have sought to take them into. their own hands. That is an attack on’ the foundations of freedom. “More than this, the independence of the Congress, the Supreme Court and the executive are pillars at the door of liberty. For three years the word “must” has invaded the independence of Congress. And the Congress has abandoned its responsibility to check even the expenditures of money. They have turned open appropriations into personal power. These ‘are destructive of the very safeguards of free people. ‘fi “We have seen these gigantic expenditurefi@nd this: torreht of waste pile up a natibndf® generations can not repay. One time I told a Democratic Congress thdt ‘you can not spend yourselves into prosperity.’ You recall that advice did not take then. It hasn’t taken yet. Billions have been spent to prime the economic pump.- It did employ a horde of paid officials upon the pump handle. We have seen the frantic attempts to find new. taxes on the rich.. Yet three-quarters of the bill: will be sent to the average man and the poor. He and his: wife and his grandchildren will be giving a quarter of all their working days to pay taxes. Freedom to work for himself is changed into a slavery to work for the follies of government.

“WHAT COMES NEXT?"

“If there are any items in this stage in the march of European colJectivism that the New Deal has not imitated it must have been an oversight. “But at this point this, paraliel with Europe halts—at least for the present. The American people should thank Almighty God for the. Constitution and the Supreme Court. They should be grateful to & courageous press. “You might contemplate what

velt could: have appointed enough . Bupreme Court justices in the first year of his Administration. Suppose these New Deal acts had remained upon the statute books. We would have been a regimented people. Have you any assurance that he will pot have the appointments if he = Ye-elected? “The succeeding stages of violence gnd outrage by which European ‘despotisms have crushed all liberalism and all freedom have filled. our ; headlines for years. But what comes next in the United States? Have the New Dealers dropped their ideas of centralization of government? Have

menting the e into a planned ? Has that greed for power cooled by the resistance of Btople With & heritage ui inert? ‘Will they resume if they are reelected?

“EXPLOSIVE INFLATION”

“We have seen an explosive inflation of bank credits by this government ‘borrowing. We have seen varied steps toward currency inflation that have already enriched the speculator and deprived the poor. If this is to continue the end result is the tears and anguish of universal bankruptcy and distress. No democracy in history has survived its final stages. “We have seen the building up of

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have seen the Bréssiives upon the helpless and -destitute to trade” political support for ‘relief. Both are a pollution of the very fountains of liberty. “We have seen the most elemental violation of economic law and experience. The New Deal for-

gets. it -is solely ‘by production of

more: goods and®more varieties *of goods and services that we advance the living and security of men. If we constantly decrease costs prices and keep "up. earnings the production of plenty will be more and more widely distributed. These laws may be restitched in new phrases that they are. the very shoes of human progress. We had so triumphed in this long climb of mankind toward plenty that we had reached Mount Pisgah, where we looked over the promised land of abolished poverty. Then men began to quarrel over the division of the goods. The depression produced by war destruction temporarily checked our march Joward the promsed land.

“STRIKING SOLUTION”

“Then came the little * prophets of the New Deal. = They announce the striking solution that.the way out is to produce ‘less and to increase prices so that people can buy less. They have kept on providing some new restrictions or burden or fright down to a week ago. “4At least it has enabled the New Deal to take a few hundred thousand earnest party workers to the promised land. It fakesihe rest of us for a ride into the wilderness of unemployment. “Can democracy stand the strain

of Mother Hubbard economics for |.

long? “Any examination of - the economic muddle to the last thr years shows the constant threat of price fixing, restriction of production and drive against small business. . That is the soul of monopoly. That has

maintained from :the NRA' to. the].

last tax bill. These are old tricks, no new disguise, which put shackles

upon the freedom of men.

“In desperate jumping from one muddle to’another we have seen repeated violation of morals ‘and honor ‘in government.’ Do I ‘need recall the repudiation of obligations, the clipping of the coin, the violation of trust to guard the Constitution and the coercion of the voter? When the standards of honor

and morals fail in government ‘they

fail in the people. “There are some moral laws writ-

ten in a great book. Over all there

is the gospel of brotherhood. For the first time in ‘the history of America we have heard the gospel of class hatred preached from the White House. That is human poison far more deadly than fear. Every reader of the history of democracy knows: that. is: the final rock upon which all democracies -have been wrecked.

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gospels that it is the neck who will inherit the earth. The New Deal will have little inheritance. There are recommendations as to righteousness for righteousness’ sake only. I will not elaborate that. “If all this is the theory and practice of muddle where has it brought us, even now? We have spent $15,» 000,000,000 more than the last Republican Administration. We have a debt 10 billions greater than even the -great war debt. After three years we still have the same number of unemployed that we had at the election of November, 1932. These actions are bringing injury to the well being of people it ‘purports to serve. It has produced gross reactionarism in the guise of .liberalism. And above all the New Deal has brought that which George Washington called ‘alterations which may impair the energy of the System and thus overthrow that which can not be directly overthrown.’ “Republicans! After 150 ‘years: we have arrived at that hour. “Here, whe the tablets of human e first handed down, their sacred word has been flouted. Today the stern task is: before the

of that covenant to the temple in Washington.

PART THREE

“The New Deal may be a revolutionary ican system with despotism. It may be the ‘dream stuff of a false. libperalism.: It ‘mag be the ‘valor of muddle. Their relationship to each other, however, is exactly the. p- of the witches b cauldron of pow trouble the Macbeth. Their product is the pois.oning of '‘Americanism.: ; “The President has constantly. reiterated that he will not retreat. For months, to be sure, there has been a. strange quiet. Just as ‘the last campaign was fought on. promdses that have been broken, so :apparently this campaign is to’ be Slipped, through by-evasion. = “But the American’ people have the right. to know now, while they still have power to act. ‘What is going ‘to be -done after election with these measures which ‘the Constitution forbids -and the people by their votes have never authorized? What

with these instable currencies, unbalanced budgets; debts and taxes? Fifty words would it clear. Surely the propa agencies which emit half a million words a day ‘could find room for: these 50. I noticed they recently spent. 300 words on how 1 choose 3 hay. It is slightly, more important. to know the fate of a nation. ‘ 25

PART FOUR

“You have the duty to determine the principles upon which the Republican Party will stand. You ‘make the laws of the party. Whether it is within the party or a government, our system is a government of laws and not of men. This party holds its Promises.

Hoover’ S Political Career Ends on

BY LYLE C. WILSON United Presy Staff Correspondent

PUBLIC HALL, Cleveland, June 11.—Herbert Clark Hoover's political career is ended today as he may have wished it to end—in circumstances - that were pleasant,

on an occasion of his own choosing. He faced the folks last night and

of this markedly restrained eakhefvys ing. They whooped and shouted, lugged metal-heavy state standards

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around the hall, refused to subside on the call of their chairman. and finally were sent home like unruly

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us to the selfishness of reaction. “The Republican. Party must achieve true social betterment. But we must produce measures that will not work confusion and disappointment. “We must propose a real approach to social ills, not the prescription: for them, by quacks, of poison in place of remedy. “We must achieve freedom in the economic field. We have grave problems in relation of government to agriculture and business. Monopoly is only one of ‘them. The ‘Republican Party is against the greed for power of the wanton ‘boys who waste the people's savings. But it must’ be equally adamant against the greed for power and exploitation in the seekers of special privilege. At one time I said: no more have economic power without checks and balances than we can have political power without checks and balances. ‘Either one leads to tyranny.’ “The Republican Party must be a party that accepts the challenge of each new day. The last word in human accomplishment has not been spoken. The last step in human progress has not been made. We: welcome change when it will produce a fairer, more just, and satisfying civilization. But . change which destroys the safeguards of free men and women are only apples of Sodom. “Great calamities have come to the whole world. These forces have reached into every calling and every cottage. They have brought tragedy and suffering to millions of firesides. I have great sympathy for those who honestly reach for short cuts to the immensity of our problems. While design of the structure of + betterment * for - the common man must be -inspiréd by the human heart, it can only be achieved by fie intellect. It can only be builded by using the mold of justice, by laying brick upon brick from the materials of *scientific: research; ‘by the painstaking sifting of truth .from the collection of fact and experience. Any other mold is distorted; any other ‘bricks are without straw; any other foundations are sand. That great structure of human progress ‘can be built only by ‘free men and ‘women.

“PARTY'S omavEsT aoe |

“The gravest task which confronts the party is to regenerate these freedoms. “There are principles which neither ‘tricks of organization, nor the rigors of depression, nor the march of ‘ time, nor New: Dealers, nor Socialists, nor Fascists change. There are some SE io

with the stars of which worlds are made, and they have always ‘been and ever will be true. Such are the laws of mathematics, | the law of gravitation, the existence

of humankind to be free. “Throughout the centuries of history, man’s vigil and his quest has been to be free. For this the best and bravest of earth have fought and died. To embody human liberty in workable government, America

Must we condémn the unborn generation to fight again and to die for the right to be free? “There are some principles that

shall have a ‘society based upon or-

the individual or we shall have a | planned society that means dicta‘tion no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no halfway | ground. They can not

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Reparation ?

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

body but Hoovér., He was an unwanted Jonah. But last night they were in a far different mood. Mr. Hoover came before them as a man who had served faithfully, giving the best he had only to meet with ill-fortune which they now realized he had borne like a man. If he had any ambition to be President again, they knew he had forsworn it. Yet he did not sulk. He continued to labor for the party. They ‘were-touched by the sporting way in which he had carried on. they sought by applause, which is the only coin with which they could pay, to make reparation.

believe that it is an “iron ‘cage against which the wings of idealism beat in.vain. “They do not realize ‘that their only relief and their hope of economic security can come only from the enterprise and initiative of free men, : g ; “Let this: convention : declare without shrinking, the source of economic = prosperity is freedom. Man must be free to use his own powers in his own way. Free to think, - to speak, to worship. Free to plan his own life. Free to use his own initiative. Free to dare in his own adventure. It is the essence of true ‘liberalism that these freedoms are limited by the rights of others. “Freedom both requires and makes increased responsibilities. There is no freedom from exploitation of the weak or from the dead hand of bureaucracy.

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than pay rolls, than economics, than materialism, at issue in this campaign. The free spirit of - men is

the source of ‘self-respect, of stur~: diness, of moral and spiritual prog- | ress. With the inspirations of

freedom come fidelity to public trust, honor and morals in government. The Social- order does not rest upon orderly economic freedom alone: It rests even more upon the ideals. and character of .a people. Governments must express those ideals in frugality, in justice, in courage, ‘in decency, and in for the less. fortunate, and above all in honor. Nations die when these weaken, no matter what their material prosperity.

: ENTERING NEW CRUSADE

are at stake. Is . the Republican Party ready for the issue? Are you willing to cast your ‘all upon the issue, or would you falter and look back? Will you, for expediency’s sake, Se will-o’~-the-wisps which $he people? , Or ‘have you to enter in a holy crusade for oe which shall deter‘mine the future and the. ‘perpetuity o's ‘mationop frée men? That star

expanded. tunity, the inheritance, and the spritual future of your children be guaranteed. And thus you will win the gratitude of postesity and the

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