Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-20

tho circumstances under which his per
Sonal co operation shall be given. The
trike is weapon of industrial wal
and should be made increasingly unnec-
eSsary and infrequent by the better or
Ganization of industry and by the es
tablishment of a commission or commits
sions on industrial relations.
National Necessities
Increased production, stimulation of
enterprise, checking of private extrav-
agance and waste, and the reduction Of
public expenditures are national
necessity. Our system of taxation aud
of business regulation should be i'm
mediately revised, with the definite pur-
pose to promote rather than to prevent
enterprise and production.
We urge the prompt passage of
legislation to authorize q national bud.
get,
THE principle of protection must be
retained as u national policy not only
for use in maintaining American stand
ards of labor and industry when present
conditions change, but in order to insure
the nations economic independence
1--WE are absolutely opposed to gov
ernment ownership of the railroads and
to the so called Plumb plan for their
management. The transportation for
the country should be privately owned
and privately managed under strict
government regulation.
American Merchant Marine
I'VE believe that both the national
defense and proper care for our foreign
commerce require a merchant marine of
the best type of modern ship flying the
American flag, manned by American
seamen. owned by private capital and
operated by private energy.
I'VE charge that the federal trade
commission as at present constituted has
ton. 1t has prosecuted trade instead
of promoting trade.
we, are opposed to large army of
professional soldiers. We favor the
democratic policy of small standing
army with a trained citizen reserve"
President Sharply Arraigned
The platform calls attention to the
election of Republican Congress in
1918 over the Presidents appeal for
the election OF men of his own party.
Still the President persisted in his
course the platform says. Both in
his conduct of the peace negotiations
abroad and in his advocacy here at
home of ratification by the Senate of
his own individual work, he has as
sumed purely personal and partisan
attitude. He has forced the Republi-
can party to take an attif'
opposition to his recommendations in
order TO protect the independence aul
to promote the highest interests of the
people of the United States, as we'll as
to open the way to the adoption of a
real, instead of an illusory, plan for
securing the peace of the world.
I'VE shall appeal to the people to
support a policy of liberal and con-
structive progress both at home and
abroad, one which will secure inrerna-
tional CO. operation for the preventing
of war and the reduction of armaments
without sacrificing love of country and
American ideals to false and harmful
form of internationalism."
The convention then unanimously
recommended the election at the spring
primary of the following delegates at
large and alternates to the Republi
can National Convention in Chicago
next June:
Delegates at large - United States
Senator James w. Wadsworth. Jr.,
United States Senator William NJ. Cal
der, Nathan l.. Miller and William
Boyce Thompson.
The convention then adjourned