Baxter Springs news., 1919-05-23


>0t 11pUs la n1Al sIn.I|I|on |Dno|
1nolhof war but h Ovtrtaxat|on With
the cost Of govprnment continually
mounting higher, no people. no treas
ury can continue 10 spend and waste
a. ours Il doing. Congress now APP
propriAtes millions as II Il were buy
ing q cigar.
I shall 90 the limit 10 replace our
present wasteful system with what ]
hope win be the best budget system
for expenditures the world has yet
known.
Common business sense, a. well a.
the highest patriotism, demands there
must be q searching and thoro &C
counting and auditing Of the huge ex-
penditures Of the war. I shall work
10 make these investigations the @real
thing"
Congress must speedily find q way
TO deal with the prohteers and with
profteering. The question Of profits
and prices has become vital to Oui
very existence.
We need not worry II prices ars
high, II they are fair. But We must
come down or up 70 q iive-and-let-livs
basis. Nothing else win 20 quickly
encourage and stimulate production
consumption, employment, bring about
normal and truly prosperous times
and put US on q healthier. more en-
during and permanent basis: And
nothing else can or viii.
The Government should be able "a
real as effectively with any prOfteel
or any prOhteering corporation as II
does with bad banks and crooked
bankers, and we have got to come tC
It.
For all our sakes, we must make
certain that farming, our most vital
business of all, Is made as profitable
as other occupations demanding az
much capital and labor, for in no 9th.
er way can we have q surer guaran.
tee of national well-being. / shall
watch its needs closely.
am going to work for strict gov
ernment regulation and control Of
transportation, wires, packing houses
and all great corporations and monop'
olies serving vital needs. The Gov.
ernment must have the power to deal
effectively, stringently and at once, Il
need be, with any corporation entrust.
ed with q vital resource or o vital ser.
vice.
shall do my utmost to bring about
a properly safeguard League Of Ma
tions that will aid in removing the
need Of huge standing armies and big
navies. want to see q vigorous and
constructive Americanizing program
that will include the banishment from
this country Of all anarchists, red.
tagging and undesirable aliens who
seek to tear down American institu.
tions.
In striving for q thorO-going Amer
ican policy ! shall oppose compulsory
military training and every other form
Of Prussian militarism in this coun-
try.
I am going to do all one man car
to repeal Immediately the daylight.
wasting law, to pass the Suffrage
Amendment, to provide for the vigOr.
Gus and effective enforcement Of ma.
tiOnal prohibition and to boost every
constructive measure and block every
destructive one that comes up, and
that, regardless Of partisan bias.
consider loyalty to country the high
est loyalty to party.
/ am going to Washington eager
to be Of real service to my home state
and nation and no one need hesitate
to write me If can be Of service ID
him, or need hesitate to give me his
or her neighbOr's honest opinion about
public questions, for If / am to keep
in touch with the home folks, must
have such letters. Let them come.
The good of all should inspire us
to action at this most OppOrtune mo-
ment and during this epOchal year.
ARTHUR CAPPER.