Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-06-23


been established or are in the course of
being established by law. The lons-needed
cotton futures act passed by the Sixty
third Congress has now been in successful
operation for nearly two years.
A new grain grades BILL long needed.
and permissive warehouse bill. intended
to provide better storage facilities and to
enable the farmer to obtain certificates
upon which he may secure advances Of
money, have been passed by the House Of
Representatives. have been favorably re-
ported to the Senate and will probably
become law during the present session of
Congress. Both houses have passed good
roads measure which will be of far-reach-
ing benefit to all agricultural communities.
Above all. the most extraordinary and sig
nificant progress has been made under the
direction Of the Department of Aericul-
turs in extending and perfecting practical
farm demonstration work which is so
rapidly substituting scientific for empirical
farming. But il is also necessary that
rural activities should be better directed
through cooperation and organization.
and that unfair methods of competition
should be eliminated and the conditions
requisite for the just. orderly and econom-
ical marketing Of farm products created.
We approve the Democratic administra-
ton for having emphatically directed at
tention for the first time to the essential
interests of agriculture involved in farm
marketing and finance, for creating the
Office of markets and rural organization in
connection with the Department Of Agri-
culture, and for extending the cooperative
machinery necessary for conveying infor-
nation to farmers by means Of demon
STATIONS We favor continued liberal pro-
vision, not only for the benefit of produc-
ton. but also for the study and solution OF
problems Of farm marketing and finance
and for the extension of existing agencies
for improving country life.
Coop ROADS.
The happiness. comfort and prosperity
OF rural life and the development Of the
city are alike conserved by the construc-
ton Of public highways. We. therefore
favor national aid in the construction oil
post roads and roads for military purposes
LABOR
We declare our faith in the seamen's
act, passed by the Democratic Congress
and we promise our earnest continuance
Of its enforcement
We favor the speedy enactment of an
effective Federal child labor law and the
regulation of the shipment of prison made
goods in interstate commerce.
We favor the creation of a Federal
bureau of safety in the Department OF
Labor to gather facts concerning industrial
hazards. and to recommend legislation to
prevent the manning and killing of huma n
beings.
We favor the extension OF the powers
and functions Of the Federal bureau of
mines.
We favor the development upon a sys-
tematic scale Of the means already begun
under the present administration to assist
labOrers throughout the nation to seek and
obtain employment. and the extension by
the Federal government. by the same as
sistance and encouragement as is now
given agricultural training.
We heartily commend our newly estab-
lished Department of Labor for its excel
lent record in settling industrial strikes by
personal advice and through concilatins
agents.
ECONOMY AND The BUDGET.
We demand careful economy in all ex.
penditures for the support of the govern
ment, and to that end favor a return by
the House Of Representatives to its former
practice Of initiating and preparing all APP
preparation bills through single commit
tee chosen from its membership.
CIVIL SERVICE.
We reafiirm our declarations for the rigid
enforcement Of the civil service laws.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
We heartily indorse the provisions OF
the bill. recently passed by the House OF
Representatives. further promoting self
government in the Philippine Islands
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
We recommend the extension Of the
franchise to the women of the country by
the States upon the same terms as to men
PROTECTION Or CITIZENS.
We again declare the policy that the
sacred rights of American citizenship mus,
be preserved at home and abroad, and tina,
no treaty with any other government shall
receive the sanction Of our government
which does not expressly recognize the
absolute equality of all our citizens. ire
spective of race. creed or previous nation
atty and which does not recognize the
right of expatriation.
Prison REFORM.
We demand that the modern principles
of prison reform be applied in our Federal
penal system.
PENSIONS.
We renew the declarations of recent
Democratic platforms relating to generous
pensions for soldiers and their widows
and call attention to our record of per.
Torrance in this particular.
WATERWAYS AND FLooD CONTROL.
We renew the declaration in our last two
platforms relating to the development Of
our waterways.