The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-09-20


Now" policy, Republicans have dedi-
Gated themselves completely. The
other is that the farmer will be heard
from: they ought to be heard from,
and the Republicans are already franz
| ing effective measures to relieve their
present distress.
The Republican party's attitude to-
ward the tariff has been made very
clear and Republican leaders here pre-
dict that if the Democrats have any
idea that this issue will cease to be
agitated in the next campaign, they
are destined to find out how much mis-
taken they are.
AS to unlimited government owner
ship, the Republicans have already de-
clared themselves in opposition to the
clouded, inefficient Democratic views.
They are taking farseeing stand.
They declare: shat while there is abb
solutely nothing in this country which
should not be taken and used for neces-
sary war purposes, such taking shall
be for war purposes only and that in
such action there must be no eventual
Interior object. The Republican party,
from it's inception, has stood against
undue liberalization Of industries and
activities. We always have, and still
shall endeavor to find the middle
ground so well defined between the
"anarchy of unregulated individualism
and the deadening Journalism of ineffi-
Gent and widespread state ownership"
That the Democrats, as Senator Lewis
predicts, are going to espouse the
cause of complete and permanent gov
eminent ownership, there can be little
doubt, although they have cautiously,
if not clandestinely, concealed their
policies under a cloak of what they
call "war necessity"
If the Republican view, measures of
government control adopted for war
reasons, as temporary necessity, or
as in the case of the telephone and
telegraph lines, as an assumed neces-
sity, must not become permanent.
Though the Democrats should favor
this absolute re-making of the Gov
eminent, as it is quite apparent they
intend to do, the Republicans shall i'm
peratively oppose them. Senator
Lewis, in his usual insinuating man.
ner, indicates that this state social
ism is to become lasting and ever
swelling Democratic policy.
In reply, the Republican leaders
here declare that the voters of Ameri-
ca will have no doubt which party to
support when they once realize the
Democratic conception of a meddling
monstrous, all-swallowing state. All
Americans, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike are willing, in these trou-
blesome times, to put up with almost
anything for the sake of wartime eff
cheney, whatever may be the cost or
the consequences, and even though the
efficiency is relative and not absolute,
but once peace has been returnd
again, this democratic mirage will col
lapse like Bolshevike dream.
AS for Senator Lewis's equivocal
suggestion of some devious and COM
pick foreign policy that may be
adopted, based upon the consideration
of any single European race or group
of European races, or even of Asiatic
races, the Republican leaders see this
issue of the future as clearly as they
see the others. They declare that
any American foreign policy will be
based upon one consideration only,
that there is no such thing as any
kind of hypenated American, no
matter what his origin, remote or
near; that there is just one America,
run by and for Americans.
In other words, the Republicans are
determined that the United States has
heard for the last time all talk of this
country being a branch or continue
ton of any other. In their vision, this
nation is and must continue to be the
hub of the world wheel, and not its
unrelated spokes.
To meet the just grievances now be-
ing endured by host of farmers I'M
der the inequalities and favoritisms
of the present Democratic regime the
Republican policy will not be the
vague and indefinite one Of the quasi
government control now weakly in
stituted by the party in power and
which has resulted in the suppression
of the producer and in the elevation
of the profteering middlemah.
Answering this crying need of leg
islation affecting farm products the
Republicans, in contra-distinction to
the Democrats, will adopt constructive
: policies whose purpose shall be to
enchance and reward individual eff
fort, without enriching any set of
favorites under the guise of govern
ment control.
In making plans for the future,
whether these be an outline of poll
cies or an accurate definition of leg
islative intent, all of the Democrats
are just as hazy as many of them are
on their war record. While Senator
Lewis has spoken more freely than
have the other Democratic leaders,
he does not pin himself down to accu-
rate statements or a definite outline
of issue, but only suggests with an in