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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1928)
t 4 1 - V - . f Jffi,;0?3? Salem, Ortgon Sunday Morning, November. 1923 -i ' ! - - " I weVe ERIC AN standards of living are the highest in the world and steadily improving. American wages are by far the highest in the world and steadily advancing American workers have the shortest hours in the world and they are steadily becoming Iessl American homes have more conveniences, more comforts, and more luxuries than any other homes in the world. Americans own more automobiles, wear betjer clothes, have more amusements and more plentiful food than the citizens of any other country in the world. T Hold Herbert Hoover on the Job I "Real wagei and standards of living of our labor have improved more during the past .even and a half years of Republican rule than during any similar period in the history of this or any other country" says Herbert Hoover and hclcnotvs for, as Secretary of Commerce for.Calvin Coolidge, he more than any other individual directed the business policies which made it so! Our National progress has been built upon time-tesjed Republican policies not untried and doubtful exper iments. WHY CHANGE NOW? j Republican tariff protection has increased the comfort and happiness of every American citizen man an ,wdman housewife and clerk worker and farmer merchant and manufacturer j Republican restricted Immigration has protected American wage-earners from a flood of cheap labor that '.would lower wages and cause unemployment. j Republican export policies have increased our foreign sales of American surplus Industrial and agricultural products from $3,750,000,000 in 1922 to $4,840,000,000 in 1927-over a bUlion dollars increase-the means of livelihood for more than two million American families. AWTiy trade such proven benefits Jor a phantom glass of beer? 'Under able management we can confidently expect these proved Republican policies toprbduce wengreateij prosperity in the future : , , .j I Let's elect as President America's best business administrator Herbert Hoover-nd keen our jobs and out; prosperity -.. 17 - ,.;-- ' . Prosperity didn't "just happen" ' A $howm by Herbert H?oWrs Every man has a right to ask of bs whether the United States is a better ?lace for him, hit wife and his children to lire. in, became tho Republican Party has conducted the government for nearly eight year. Every woman has a right to ask whether her life, her home, her man's job, her hopes, her happiness, will be better assured by the continuance of the Republican Party in power. Acceptance Speech. Autt 11. JMS, Higher Wares , . . the average of real wages Is higher today than ever before. And the arduous hours of labor have decreased. We can easily jrovo this. As a standard of comparison, let us take the purchasing power ol wages- in 1913 or before the war. In purchasing power we consider both the dollars and the cost of liv ing. Taking this standard we shall find that real wages at the height of the war inflation were about 80 per cent over 1918. Despite the great after-war slump they have risen un til today they are over j 60 per cent greater than before the war. Viewed in another way, while the cct of living today is about 60 points on the index above pre-war, wages are 127 above. Parallel with this in crease in real wages the average hours of labor have steadily de creased. Moreover, our real wages and our standards of living are the highest in the world, And I am again speak ing of the real buying power of Wages. JVewarft 8peecK. September 17. JPf. High Standard of Living Our workers with their average weekly wages can today buy two and often three times more bread and butter than any wage carper 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 partici pation in life and leisure. Most of all, I like to remember what this progress has meant to America's children. The portal of tlicir 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 schoolsby . 66 per cent the number in our high schools, and by 75 per cent the num ber in our institutions of higher learning. Acceptance Speech. Jufuet 11. ISftt. More Jobs and More Wages On any calculation our exports have increased by over one billion dollars during the past seven years. Tliis is an increase of 41 per cent since 1922 and an increase of 88 per cent over pre-war. It li no accident which has brought about this unique situation in the United States. It is not c'ianee that has brought this added r-nployment for American workmen, and added markets for American farmers. Things like that don't happen. - More than two million families hi tlie United States earn their living today producing goods for export, and another million families ear, their living in the manufacture e raw materials which we import in exchange for oar exports. This in crease in exports has brought lit ing to 800,000 families. This meant snore than statistics. It means higher -, Standards of living more jobs make snore wages. Foreign trade is n Artificial stimulant to employment. Its development is a vital contribu tion to the welfare of the America workman and the American mer chant and the American farmer. I propose that we shall continue thbj service to our people. Jit war k Speech.' September It. IMS Cooperation Promised I have already stated the positio fcf the Republican Party in positive Support of free collective bargaining. I have stated that it Is necessary td impose restrictions on the excessive use of injunctions. It is my desire and the desire of every good citiseA to ameliorate the cause of industrial conflict, to build toward that true cooperation which must be the foun dation of common! action for the common welfare. The first requisite; to less conflict is full employment By full employment we are steadily, reducing conflict and loss. Newark Speech. September 17 SMS One of the oldest and perhaps the noblest of human aspirations has been the abolition of poverty. By poverty I mean the grinding of un dernourishment, cold, and ignorance and fear of old age of those wh 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 poor house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal but given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day, when poverty will be banished front this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job fof every man. That is the primary 'purpose of the economic policies we advocate. 'Having earned my living witK my own hands, I can not have other than the greatest sympathy with thd aspirations of those who toil. It has been my good fortune during the past 12 years, to have received the co-operation of Labor in many direc tions and in the promotion of many public purposes. Acceptance Speech AupmH U. JMS, Aroid Disaster At soch a time as this a change 1st national policies involves not at some may lightly think only Si choice between different roads by, either of which we may go forward, but a question also as to whether we may not be taking the wrong road and moving backward. The measnr of our national prosperity," of emt stability, of our hope of future pro ' gress at this time is" the measure of what we may risk through a change In present policies. More than once In our national history a change fa policies In a time of dvancemeat has been quickly followed by a tarsi toward disaster. -j The Marion County Republican Central Committee wishes to appeal to the people interested in the election of Herbert Hover, for funds with which to pay off the deficit now staring iis.in the face. In spite of the importance of the present election the committee has been seriously handicapped for lack of funds. Such bills as hall rent, postage,, advertising, clerical help and other incidental expenses must be paid. Loyal1 citizens, interested in the success, of jyour party, We urgently request that you mail a check or money order, no . matter how small to the Republican Central Committee, 209 Masonic Bldg., ' at once. j j .- MARION COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE J.C PERRY, Chairman. 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