AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1928, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. GOVERNOR. SAIITH’S PLEDGES. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEAV YORK, August 22. “ 1 never will advocate or approve of any law directly or indirectly permitting the return of the saloon,” Governor Smith declared to-day, in a speech expressing acceptance of the Democratic nomination. The sale of intoxicants by state agencies along similar lines to those in force in Canada, he proposed as can alternative. He pledged himself to make an honest endeavour to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and all other provisions of the Federal Constitution and all laws enacted pursuant thereto. He advocated an amendment of the A'olstead Act to permit States to fix their own standard of alcoholic content, “subject always to a proviso that the standard does not exceed the maximum fixed by Congress.” He declared the party did not eontemplate “sudden or drastic” changes in tariff schedules and reiterated that it would give the problem of controlling crop surpluses immediate attention. He assailed the administration of Nicaragua and the Mexican policy, and declared the feebleness of arbitration treaties as deterrents of war had been materially impaired by the reservations, asserted by various nations, of the right to wage defensive wars, as those reservations were interpreted in the light of ilr Coolidge’s record. He pledged himself to the resumption of a real endeavour to make outlawry of war effective by removing the causes and substituting methods of conciliation, conference, arbitration and judicial determination. NEAY YORK, August 22. Governor Smith in his address at Albany, declared tlie Republican claim regarding propeiiity was unfounded, there being four million unemployed and a considerable percentage of business corporations were actually losing money. He also pointed out to the increased federal appropriations and also increased federal taxes and advocated taking the tariff question out of the reading of politics and treating it on strictly business' basis. The Democratic Party did not and under his leadership would not, advocate any sudden or drastic revolution of tlie country’s economic system, which would cause a business upheaval, or increase distress. HOOVERS PLEDGE. NEW YORK, Aug. 22. In the second address of his campaign. Air Hoover, speaking at AA'est Branch, lowa, pledged the farmers of the country that if elected, he would cal! upon the leaders of agricultural thought to join in a search for a common ground upon which to act in solving wlmt he regarded as the greatest economic problem in America, He omitted reference to the increased tariffs on farm products, hut elaborated upon Federal financial aid to farmerowned co-operations to dispose of crop surpluses, and the development pf waterways,