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October 19, 1928 1 WILII-ETTE LIPB · ! t5 To lead the progress of the country Elect Hoover . ' ·, l '· Prosperity .didn't ·"just happen" !· Aa ahown by H ttbert Hoover' · atatementa: · Every man has a right to ask of ~- ~ '· whether the United States is a better place for him, his wife and his children to live in, because the Republican Party h~s conducted the government for nearly eaght years. 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. .AccctJtance Speech, August 11, 19!8 Cooperation Promiaecl · · I have already stated the-position of the Republican Party in positive support of free collective bargaining. I have stated that it is necessary "to impose restrictions on the excessive use of injunctions. It is my desire and the desite of every good citizen to ameliorate the cause of indusrial conflict, to build toward that true cooperation which must be the foundation of common action for the common welfare. The first requisite to less conflict i3 full employment. By full employment we are steadily reducing conflict. and loss~ · Newark Speech, Septem·b~r Higher .Wages ... the average of rea:l wages is higher today than ever before. :And the arduous hours of labor have decreased. We can easily prove this. As a standard of comparison, let us take the purchasing power of wages in 1913 or before the war. In purchasing power we consider both the dollars and the cost of living. Taking this standard we shall find that real wages at the height of the war inflation were about 30 per cent over 1913. Despite the great after-war slump they have risen until today they are over 50 per cent greater than before the war. Viewed in another way, while the cost of living today is about 60 points on the index above · pre-war, wages are 127 above. Parallel with this increase in real wages the average hours of labor have steadilv · decreased. Moreover, standards of world. And real buying our real wages and our living are the highest in the 1 am again speaking of the power of wages. ·11, 19!8 ' Amel'ican 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 worldand they are steadily becoming less. American homes have more conveniences, more comforts. and more luxuries than any other homes in the world. Amrricans own more automobiles. wear better clothes, have more amusements and more plentiful food than the citizens of any other country in the world. One of the oldest and perhaps . the noblest of human aspirations has beeri the abolition of poverty. By poverty I mean the grinding of undernourishment, cold, and ignorance and fear of old aile of those who have the will to work. We in America today are nearer to the final · triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse 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 from this nation. There is no guarar.tee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of th~ economic policies we advocate. Having earned my living with my own hands, I can not have other than the greatest sympathy with the aspirations of those who toil. It has been my good fortune during the pa3t 12 years to have received the co-operation of Labor iu many directions and in the promotion of many public purposes. Acceptance Speech, Aug1tst 11, 19!8 Hold Herbert Hoover on the .Job! "Real wages and standards of living of our labor have improved more during the past seven 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 he knows-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 u·pon time-tested Republican policies-not untried and doubtful experiments. WHY CHANGE NOW? Republican tariff protection has increased the comfort and happiness of every American citizen-man and womanhousewife and clerk-worker and farmer-merchant and manufacturer. Republican restricted immigration has protected American wage-earners from a flood of cheap labor that would lower wages and cause unemployment. Republican export policies have increased our foreign sales of American surplus industrial and agricultural products from $J,7.~o.ooo,ooo in 1922 to $4,84o,ooo,ooo in 1927 --over a billion dollars increase-the means of livelihood for more than two million American families. Under able management we can confidently · expect these proved Republican policies to produce even greater prosperity in the future. . Let's elect as President America's best business administrator -Herbert Hoover-and keep our jobs and prosperity. · Newm·k Speech, F-q1tembe1· 11, 19.?8 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 earner 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 participation in life and leisure. Most of all, I like to remember what this progress has meant to America's children. The portal of their opportunitv has been ever widening. While our population has grown but 8 per cent we have increased by 11 per cent the number of children in our grade schools, by 66 per cent the number in our high schools, and by 75 per cent the number in our in3titutions of higher learning. Acceptance Speech, A 1tgust 11, 1928 Avoid Disaster At such a time as this a change' in national policies involves not-a~ some may lightly think-only a choice between different roads by either of which we may go forward, but a question also as to whether we may not be takjng the wrong road and moving back\vard. The measure of our national prosperity, of our stability, of our hope of future rrogress at this time is the measure of what we may risk thro~gh a change in present policies. More than once in our national history a change in policies in a time of advancement has been quickly followed by a turn toward disaster. Newm·k Speech, Septemb~r l7, 1928 MR. WILLIAM B. MciLVAINE MR. JOHN, R. MONTGOMERY H. SCOTT MR. WILLIAM C. BOYDEN MR. FREDERICK MR. WILLIAM D. McKENZIE MR. LEONARD PETERSON MR. LOUIS B. KUPPENHEIMER MR. H. A. DE WINDT MR. AUGUST MAGNUS Woman~s This advertisement inserted by Winnetka Hoover for President CIQIJ' ,< ;·