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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 7 (December 1, 1930)

Hoover's Anti-Hunger Plans

Hoover's Anti-Hunger Plans.

Memory goes back a quarter of a century to Mr. W. J. Bryan's metaphorical statement that the world is “crucified on a cross of gold.” Like his silver coinage campaign, and his silver voice, that figure of speech of the great Democratic orator is forgotten. There is little oratory in political economics to-day. No one could be less like Bryan than is President Hoover, now facing the second depression winter of the United States. The Hoover plan for dealing with unemployment is the plain and prosaic plan of finding money to find work. His statement of 17th October does not gild the pill. He seeks to strengthen “Federal activities for employment” in order to “prevent hunger and cold” this coming American winter. He says nothing about that glut of gold.