The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-08-08
Democratic Nominee Is
Behind Controversial
Article 10.
HEADS LARGE PARADE
Large Crowd From Both
Parties Hear Long Ac-
ceptance Speech.
CONTINUED FROM PRECEDING
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tors. | am impressed also, with tho
Importance Of improving II not re-
organizing our consular service. The
certain increase in foreign trade
would fRem to demand IL. This
suggests another change. Our am
baseadUrs to foreign countries have
had assigned to them military and
q naval attache. The staff should
be enlarged 80 as 60 include an Of
ficer OF the government whose cx-
elusive duty would be TO make OBJ
servations and report development
and Improvement in educational and
social problems generally
Government bureaus during the
war had close contact with the bust
ness organization OF the country
That experience revealed the modern
need Nof reorganization along purely
business lines. The advantage OF a
democracy in government need not
be recounted. IL has been held by
experts that II involves the disad-
vantage Of disbursements, author
ized by the law making power with
out sufficient knowledge OF the
need of the service or the possibli
ties OF extravaganza. The answer
to this is the budget system. NO
successful business enterprise OF any
size can operate without Il. For
hundred years, the federal unit, and
the states as we'll, made appropria-
lions without determining the differ
ence between department need and
caprice, at the same time paying
little attention to the relation as be-
tween income and expense. Many
of the states have adopted bud
get system. and with a success that
carries no exceptions. Efficiency
- a..,., ,..e. II
responsibility has been centered, and
economies have been effected. The
same can be done by the federal
government. The system will reveal
at once, as II did in the states, n vast
surplusage OF employees. 1t awakens
individual interest. encourages grea-
ter effort, and gives opportunity for
talent to assert itself, The normal
course OF least resistance, develops in
government bureaus hardpan,
which retards progress. When the
reorganization is made, pay should
be commensurate with service.
Many federal departments whose
ramification touch the country gem
orally. have lost valuable men to
business. This has badly crippled
postoffices. the railway mail service
and other branches.
am convinced after considera Bile
study OF the subject that the eX-
pense OF the government can, with
out loss of efficiency. be reduced to
maximum OF four billion dollars,
including sinking fund and interest
on the national debt. When we
enter the league of nations, we
should at the same time diminish our
cost for armament, To continue ex-
penditures in either the war or the
navy departments on n vast scale
once our membership In the league
is assured, would seem to be very
definite refutation OF tho advantages
of the world plan which we believe
II possesses An appealing funda-
mental In the league meCliod, Is the
reduction OF armaments. We can
not afford to do II, until other ma
tions do likewise. IL we do NOT enter
the league, hundreds OF millions Of
dollars must be spent for armaments.
II we go in, and / believe the people
will insist on It. then we can count
on economies.
Since the last national conventions
of the two great parties a world
war has been fought, historic, un-
precedented. For many, many
months, civilization hung in the bal
ance. In the despair OF dark hours,
Il seemed as though a world die
tator was inevitable and that hence
forth men and women who had
lived In freedom would stand at at
tention. In the face OF the drawn
sword OF military autocracy. The
very soul of America was touched as
never before with a fear that our
liberties were to be taken away.
What America did, needs nc reitera-
tion here. II is known of all men.
History will acclaim it--poets will
find 1t anjnspiration throughout the
ages. And yet there is not a line
in the# republican platform
that breathes an emotion of pride,
or recites our national achievement.
In fact. II man from Mars were TO
depend upon the republican platform
or its spoken Interpretation, by the
candidate OF that party. as his first
means OF information, he would not
find a syllable telling him that Am
erica had saved the world. HOW
ungenerous. how ungracious all or
this is; how unfair that a mere
group OF leaders should 80 demean
themselves in the name of the party
OF Lincoln and Mckinley and
Roosevelt.
The discourtesy to the president is
an affair OF political intrigue His
tory will make II odious Az well
might IL be directed at n wounded
soldier OF the war. One fell in the
trench: the strength OF tho other
was broken In the enormous labors
of his office, But others were ig-
nored--the men and women who la
bored at home with an industry and
skill that words cannot recount!
What OF the hands that moved the
lathe by day and tho needle by
night7 What of the organizations
superbly effective, that conserved
food and fed the world-thst carried
nourishment to the very front trench
in the face of helrs furies-that nur.
sed the wounded back TO life-that
I buried the dead In the dark shelter
of the night---that inspired business
men and artisans of all parties "a
work in harmony? What OF the
million OF men women and children
OF all creeds. religious and otherwise
who stood in the ranks as firm as
soldiers overseas, undivided by the
things they once quarreled about
What OF the government itself
confirming the faith OF our fathers
as sufficient to meet the storms ot
time? why the sneer at labor witt
the veiled charge that II was a mere
Stacker? The spectacle is sufficient
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