Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1920-06-11

| democratic party has destroyed public
| confidence, weakened the authority of
government, and produced a feeling of
| distrust and hesitation so universal as to |
increase enormously the difficulties of re-
| adjustment and to delay the return to |
normal conditions.
Never has our nation been confronted |
with graver problems. The people are
entitled to know in definite terms how the |
| parties purpose solving these problems. |
! To that end, the republican party declares
its policies and program to be as fol- |
lows
Constitutional Government.
We undertake to end executive au-
| tocracy and to restore to the people their
constitutional government.
The policies herein declared will be car
ried out by the federal and state govern
ments, each acting within its constitu-
tional powers
Congress and Reconstruction.
Despite the unconstitutional and dicta-
torial course of the president and tha
partisan obstruction of the democratic
congressional minority, the republican
majority has enacted a program of con-
structive legislation which in great part,
however has been nulliied by the vim
dictive vetoes of the president.
|
problems presented by the administra-
tion's unpreparedness for peace. It has
repealed the greater part of the veXatious
war legislation. 1t has enacted a trans
portation act making possible the rehabil-
itation of the railroad systems of the
) country, the operation of which, under the
present democratic administration, has
been wastefull, extravagant and inefficient
in the highest degree. The transportation
| ,i.ir for afTIl caf-
tlement of wage disputes, partially nulli-
/ fed, however, by the presidents delay in
: appointing the wage board created by the
e act. This delay precipitatel the outlaw
0 railroad strike.
We stopped the food of pubic treasure,
n recklessly poured into the lap of ~.>inept
: shipping board, ana laid the foundations
e for the creation of great merchant ma
: rine we took from the incompetent dem
ocratic administration the administration
e of the telegraph and telephone lines of
d the country - returned them to private
e ownership " ! reduced the cost of post
/ age and increased the pay of the postal
l. enployes-the poorest paid of all public
It servants we provided pensions for super
e animated and retired civil servants and
d for an increase in pay of soldiers and
sailors. We reorganized the army on g
D peace footing and provided for the main
ID | tenance ofa powerful and efficient army
The republican congress established b!
A. law a permanent women's bureau in th'
is department of labor; we submitted to thu
country the constitutional amendment TO
,e woman suffrage, and furnished twenty
1e nine of the thirty-ffve legislatures whicl
Id have ratified it to date.
Legislation for the relief of the con
v. sumers of print paper, for the extension
A. of the powers of the government unde
no the food control act, for broadening tn
Ill scope of the war risk insurance act, bet
m ter provision for the dwindling number 0
&c aged veterans of the Civil war and for tn
nd | better support of the manned and in
,,+ jured of the great war. and for maxim
practical the vocational rehabilitation ac
has been enacted by the republican con
gress.
We passed an oil leasing and water
~ | power bill to unlock for the public goo
- the great pent-up resources of the coun
try; we have sought to check the prof1iga
cy of the administration. to realize upo
,p- the assets of the government and to hus
ms band the revenues derived from taxation
on The republicans in congress have bee
IN responsible for cuts in the estimates fc
'ty government expenditure of nearly thre
at billion dollars, since the signing of tn
of armistice
of We enacted a national executive bulge
lis, law we strengthened the federal reserv
he act to permit banks to lend needed a.
es- sistance to farmers we authorized finaI
cial interpretations to develop expo
m trade; and finally amended the rules
no. the senate and house which will wor
var reforms in procedure and guarantee moi
the efficient and responsible government.
the Agriculture.
ain
md The farmer is the backbone of the n;
ton. National greatness and econom
no. independence demand a population di
etc tributed between industry and the farr
un- and sharing on equal terms the pro
perity which is wholly dependent on Il
efforts of both. Neither can prosper
the expense of the other without invitil
ely joint disaster
en The crux or the present agricultur
III condition lies in prices, labor and cred
ou The republican party believes that IL
- condition can be improved by practic
'. and adequate farm representation in t
10 appointment of Nnvernmental officials al
commissions; the right to form cooper
! ule tive associations for marketing the
Vel ee products, and protection against discril
nation; the scientific study of agric,
iene tural prices and farm production costs
ous home and abroad, with a view to !
lnoo n ducing the frequency of abnormal fuct
ations the authorization of associatio
oen for the extension of personal credit
national inquiry the coordination
rail water and motor transportation wi
nm adequate facilities for receiving, handli
nre- and marketing food; the encourageme
the OF our export trade; and end to unnec
ste- Sary price fixing and ill-considered effo
rhis arbitrarily to reduce prices of farm prt
elli- ucts which invariably result to the d
,ck avartaSe both of producer and consum
+ tn AMI the encouragement of the product
ron and importation of fertilizing mater
min and of its extensive use.
rnov The federal farm loan act should be
+hod administered as to facilitate the acqu
dur ton of farm lands by those desiring
has become owners and proprietors and Il
nor minimize tn eevils of farm tenantry 2
rarv to furnish such long time credits as far
n ~ ers may med to finance adequately til
AIRY larger ana iong Time prouucuon ope
+be tions.
Wis National Economy
ltive
ines A republican congress reduced the
Inmates submitted by the administrat
tice for the fihcal year 1920 almost tn
4, its billion dollars and for the fiscal y
its 1921 over a billion and a quarter 4
still lars. Greater economies could h;
.s to been effected had it not been for
stubborn refusal of the administration
: the cooperate with congress in an eccno