Honolulu, Nov. 26.
Efforts of local leaders to secure statehood for Hawaii in the United States received a. setbback to-day as the result of statement that the Ametiean Federation of Labour intends to throw the whole Wwelzht Of its influence in Congress against the BIL granting the islands a state-
It is understood that the Federation fears that, owing to the large number of Asiatics the passage of the Bill may result In two Japanese be-gaming American Senators at Washington.—Reuter, futility companies, and inaugurated a programme to remedy the ravages of Moods and other natural disasters. At Present, he reminded his hearers, the 'Administration was instituting a programme of social' security "for "the masses, Concerning the future, the Pres: Jdeat asserted that the average citizen to-day lived on a "third-class diet" [because of lack of money, despite the Jeconomie recovery made go far. He aid that, {f the average citizen lived Jon a second or first-class diet, the agricultural acreage would naturally Jexpand, and prices of farm products would increase, Bankers' Request Recalled President Roosevelt, in his address led that, in the' spring of 193:
ing bankers. of the nation converged upon Washington to seek ald in avoiding insolvency, "To them 1 pointed out," he said, "that the Government would be compelled to go heavily into debt for a fow years in order to save the banks, the insur ance companies and the railroads, and to care for the millions of persons on the verge of starvation.
"Every one of the gentlemen expressed the firm conviction that it w well worth the price. However, order to get their further judgment, asked them what maximum the ™ational debt "could' reach without serious danger to the national credit, Their answer in the spring of 1933 was that the nation could safely stand a! debt of between $55,000,000,000 and The relief problem also came in for attention in the address, and orities of the manner in which the Administration has handled the problem were given a sardonic answer, "Gentlemen well-warmed clubs "discourse their suffering because the Government is, spending money for. work' relief, "Some of the gentlemen tell me that the dole is more economical. That {ig true, but the gentlemen unfortun-jatoly have too little contact with the true America to realize that we are dealing with self-respecting Americans. in whom the dole outrages every in: stiner of individual independence."
Work relief, he pointed out, besides. its moral value to the recipients, sults in lasting improvements redounding to the benefit of the nation and its) component communities—United Press. told them that such a figure was wholly unnecessary, and that only moderate Increase for a few years was justified, That is the objective to-day, bhut remember that, at that time, many of the bankers and big businessmen were willing to see the country go far deeper into debt than T shall ever it go, if the bankers thought we could stand a debt of $55,000,000,600 '$70,000,000,000 in 1983, T wonder what they would say the' country woul stand to-day, in the light of the enor: mous Increase of property values.
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