Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-07-26

the means and opportunity TO assume
and maintain their rightful position
as useful, contented and Independent
citizens, and as leaders in the high
est purposes and accomplishment OF
the nation and its people.
The war has demonstrated that
the American farmer is OF the high
est Importance in the affairs of our
people, and that his loyalty to the
cause of liberty and justice can not
be questioned. If | am permitted to
serve the people of my district in
congress, | shall use my best efforts
to protect and encourage the farmer,
and furnish him with all necessary
assistance of a scientific and prac-
teal nature, to increase his effici-
ency. prom ote his happiness, and Sc
cure just returns for his efforts.
American labor is loyal to the
core and its efficiency is the wonder
of the world. If | am placed in a
position to do so, shall insist that
labor shall receive fair treatment,
that its rights and lawful aspirations
be protected and encouraged, and
that it shall have equal standing with
capital, in our industrial and eco
nomic affairs.
n a
the strength of the nation is not
measured by the number Of its inhdb-
itants, but by the number of its cit
liens, both native and foreign born,
who understand, appreciate and are
devoted to it's ideals of government,
and who are willing to sacrifice all
for those ideals. While large m a
jority of our foreign born citizens,
from whatever land they may have
come, are loyal to America and are
standing faithfully by her cause, yet
the safety of the nation is endangered
by the fact that a number of foreign
born citizens and inhabitants, retain
the customs, language, ideals and
sympathy Of their fatherland, and
live here merely to profit by the bene-
fits and blessings TO be had under the
protection of our flag and the lber-
ties guaranteed by our institutions.
They have no interest in or sympathy
for our form of government or desire
to maintain it. This condition Of at
fairs must no longer be tolerated in
America. While we should give the
same degree of protection, sympathy
and encouragement to our loyal cit
liens of foreign birth that we accord
to loyal native Americans, we must
also see to it that all those who
would live in America must become
thoroughly Americanized, so that we
shall all have the same ideals of gov
eminent, one language and one al
legiance
Relieving that the United States
has outgroWn its swaddling clothes
and is fast becoming vertically an in
dustrial and commercial giant, | hold
that all matters of tariff taxation
should be entrusted to a comm ission,
composed OF persons whose fitness is
based upon the highest order of tech
nical and practical experience in such
matters, and that they should be
selected without regard to their party
affiliations. On such a commission
the producer, the consumer, the man
ufacturer and the laborer, should
have equal representation
Il supported all prohibition laws
now in force in this state, and favor
the ratification of the federal amend
ment to prohibit the manufacture,
importation and sale of Intoxicating
ratified | shall oppose the use of
food products in the manufacture of
intoXicants.
In 1888 and in 1900 | supported
the constitutional amendments to
grant the ballot to the women of our
state, and | shall do all within my
power to secure the adoption of fed
eral amendment, granting to the
women of America the right to vote
and to participate in government, up
on an equality with men. In ex-
tending this right we are not making
a gift, but are merely expressing our
confidence in our womanhood, and
showing our appreciation of her I'M
selfish sacrifices, her loving service
and her wonderful influence in shap-
ing and directing the moral and spir-
itual welfare of our nation and peo-
pie
4 am strongly in favor of federal
aid in the construction and mainten-
ance of important state and inter
state highways and in the reclama-
ton of the arid lands of the west.
and especially of my own district.