SOME COMPARISONS FOR MR HOOVER.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1928, Page 8

SOME COMPARISONS FOR MR HOOVER.

“My country owes me nothing,” said Mr. Hoover, Republican candidate for the United States Presidency, recently. “It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service, find honour. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.” This moved V.Tfie Nation,” of New York, in an editorial, to say: “Somebody ought at least to tell Mr. Hoover that, there is a man named J. Ramsay MacDonald, of obscure parentage, born without heritage save ability and honesty; yet he, without influential friends, looked forward with such unbonded hope that he became Prime Minister of Great Britain. Next somebody should tell Herbert Hoover the story of the, harness-maker who became the first President of th® German Republic, having been born of the humblest parentage, with no such inheritance as was Mr. Hoover’s. Next somebody would ask Mr Hoover to turn to Italy and gaze upon one Mussolini, who was certainly not born with a golden spoon in his mouth, but forced his way upward. Next his attention should be invited to one Georges Clemenceau in France, and even to one Napoleon Bonaparte, who is reported in various histories to have worked his way up from obscurity to the foremost olace in France without influential friends. No country but America which offers opportunity? Faugh, Mr. Hoover! That is buncombe. You know vastly better.”