The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-07-23

speech, the freedom of press, or the
freedom of assembly, because there is
no promise In repression. These lib
critics are as sacred as the freedom of
religious belief, as inviolable as the
rights Of life and the pursuit of hap-
piness. We do hold the right TO crush
sedition, to stifie a menaclng contempt
for law, to stamp out peril to the
safety Of the republic or its people
when emergency calls, because secur-
ity and the majesty of the law are
the first essentials Of liberty. He who
threatens destruction of the govern
ment by force or flaunts his CONTEMPT
for lawful authority, ceases to be a
loyal citizen and forfeits his rights
to the freedom of the republic.
No party is Indifferent to the well
fare Of the wage Garner. To us his
good fortune is of deepest concern,
and we seek to make that good for
tune permanent. We do not oppose
but approve collective bargaining be-
cause that is an outstanding right,
but We are unalterably insistent that
Its 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 employment, so has every Amer
lean the right to seek employment
The group must not endanger the in
ntUIdnOI ,ct tcnn ~
groups preying upon one another and
none shall be allowed to forget that
the governments 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 OPP
GRAFTON that we emphasize anew our
we want to expedite the reparation
and make sure the mistake is not re-
peated.
A state Of inadequate transporta-
ton facilities, mainly chargeable to
the failure Of governmental expert
ment, is losing millions to agriculture,
1t is hindering industry, 1t is menacing
the American people with fuel
shortage little less than a peril. 1t
emphasizes the present-day problem
and suggests that spirit of encourage
ment and assistance which commits
all America to relieve such an emer-
gency.
Gross expansion of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar Just
as expansion and imitation have dis
credited the coins of the world. We
inflated in haste, we must debate in
deliberation. We debased the dollar
in reckless finance, we must restore In
honesty.
In all sincerity we promise the pre-
Of unreasonable profits, we
challenge profiteering with all the
moral force and the legal powers Of
government and people; but it is fair,
aye, it is timely, to give reminder that
aw is not the sole corrective Of our
Ills.
Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy, for denial and
sacrifice If need be, for nationwide
irive against extravaganza and lux
Try, to a recommittal to simplicity of
living, to that prudent and normal
,lan Of life which is the health of the
epublc.
New conditions which attend amaz-
ng growth and extraordinary indus
rial development, call for a new and
Onward looking program. The Amer
can farmer had a hundred and twen-
y millions to feed in the home mar
,et, and heard the cry Of the world
or food and answered it, though he
aced an appalling task amid handicaps
lever encountered before.
Contemplating the denfenselessness
# the individual farmer to meet the
organized buyers of his products and
he distributors of the things the farm
n buys, ] hold that farmers should
lot only be permitted but encouraged
o join In cooperative association to
cup tic VI IcWdTu
" their arduous toll.
Our platform Is an earnest pledge
Il renewed concern for this most es-
entail and elemental industry, and In
10Th appreciation and interest we
ledge effective expression in law and
'ractice. We will hail that co-opera-
lon which again will make profitable
nd desirable the ownership and OPP
ration Of comparatively small farms
cultivated and which will
acilitate the caring for the products
f farm and orchard without the Ia !
nentable waste under present condi-
ions.
America would look with anxiety |
n the encouragement of farming &C.
lvity either through the governments
eglect or its paralysis by socialistic
ractices. A Republican administra-
lon will be committed to renewed re- |
ard for agriculture and seek the par