Speech #720204784

I have received hundreds of letters from people who apologize for falling for the camouflaged and conflicting promises of the Democratic Party in the last campaign. The Democratic orators and spellbinders in the last campaign convinced many of the American people that President Hoover was the man who let the billions of dollars of American taxpayers go to foreign countries. much of it even after the armistice. and indicating that all they had to do was to vote for Roosevelt and the straight Democratic ticket and that the Democrats would send a collector overseas and collect and bring back to the American taxpayers Treasury more than the last Democratic administration gave to foreign governments. They announced to the rank and file that the HawleySmoot tariff bill was responsible for the most of the ills of the world and America. and that all we had to do was to reduce the HawleySmoot tariff rates and allow more cheaply produced foreign importations to come in from Asiatic countries. for instance. where they pay 10 cents for a days labor. Today the leading Democratic campaigner. Mr.