The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-23

tune ptIinducul. we QO hOt OPPOS~s
but approve. collective bargaining, be-
cause that is an outstanding right, but
we are unalterably insistent that it's
exercise must not destroy the equally
sacred right of the individual in his
necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any
American has the right to quit his EN-
ployment; SO has every American the
right to seek employment. The group
must not endanger the individual and
we must discourage groups preying
upon one another, and none shall be
allowed to forget that the govern
ment's obligations are alike to all the
people.
We are so. confident that much of
the present-day insufficiency and in
efficiency of transportation are due to
the whitening hand of government op-
Grafton that we emphasize anew our
opposition to government ownership
We want to expedite the reparation
and make sure the mistake is not re-
peated.
state of inadequate transpOrta-
tion facilities, mainly chargeable to
the failure of governmental expert
ment, is losing millions to agriculture;
it is hindering industry it is menae-
ing the American people with fuel
shortage llllIp less tlluil d ICili. II
emphasizes the preseut-day problem
and suggests that spirit of encourage
ment and assistance which commits all
America to relieve such an emergency.
Gross expansion of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar just
as expansion and initiation have dis
credited the coins of the world. We
inflated in haste we must deflate in
deliberation. We debased the dollar
in reckless finance. :. we must restore
in honesty. Y>
In all sincerity we promise the pre-
vention of unreasonable profits; we
challenge profiteerfng with all the
moral force and the legal powers of
government and people, but 1t is fair
aye. it is timely-to give reminder
that law is not the sole corrective of
our economic ills. %. "
Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy, for denial and sac
rifice if need be, for simplicity of liy-
ing to that prudent and normal plan
of life which is the health of the re
public s aa+
New conditions which attend amaz
ing growth and extraordinary indus
trial development call for a new and
forward-looking program. i,aa
The American farmer had a hun
tred and twenty millions to feed in the
home market, and heard the cry of the
world for food and answered it, though
he faced an appalling task amid handi-
caps never encountered before. ~ =
Contemplating the defenselessness
of the individual farmer to, meet the
organized buyers of his products and
the distributors OF the, things the farmer
buys, / hold that farmers should not
only be permitted but encouraged to
join in cooperative association to reap
the just measure of reward merited
by their arduous toll H+.st5ss
Our platform is an earnest pledge
of renewed concern for this most es-
sential and elemental industry and in
both appreciation and interest we
pledge effective expression in law and
practice. We will hail that cooperation
which again will make profitable and
desirable the ownership and operation
of comparatively small farms inten-
sively cultivated and which will facili-
tate the caring for the products of
farm and orchard without the lament
able waste under present conditions.
America would look with anxiety on
the encouragement of farming act
ivity either through the governments
neglect or its paralysis by Socialistic
practices. A Republican administra-
tiOn will be committed to renewed re-
gard for agriculture and seek the par
ticipatiOn of farmers in curing the ills
justly complained of and aim to place
the American farm where it ought to
be, highly ranked in American actiyi-
ties and fully sharing the highest good
fortunes of American life.
BecOmingly associated with this SUBJ
ixapN TIT -
reclamation so essential to agricultural
expansion and the continued develop
ment of the great and wonderful west
1t is our purpose to continue and en-
large federal aid not in sectional par
tiality but for the good of all America
| believe the budget system will eff
feet a necessary helpful reformation
and reveal business methods to govern
ment business.
believe Federal Departments
should be made more business-like and
send back to productive effort thou
sands of federal employees who are
either duplicating work or not essen
tial at all.
l believe in the protective tariff
policy and know we will be calling for
its saving Americanism again.
| believe in a great Merchant Mar
inc. l would have this republic the
leading maritime nation of the world
l believe in navy ample to protect
1t and able to assure us dependable de-
tense. l believe in small army, but
the best In the world, worth a mind
fulness for preparedness which will
avoid the unutterable cost of our pre-
vious neglect
| believe In our eninence in trade
abroad. which the government should
aid in expanding, both in revealing
markets and speeding cargoes. l be-
lieye in establishing standards for I'M
migration, which are concerned with
the future citizenship of the republic,
not with mere man-power in industry
| believe that every man who dons
the garb of American citizenship and
walks on the light of American op-
portunity, must become American in
heart and soul.
| believe in holding fast to every
forward step in unshacklinp child