McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1920-07-23


sacred right OF the individual, in his
necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any
American has the right to quit his en-
Payment. so has every American the
right TO seek employment. The group
must not endanger the individual. and
we must discourage groups preyiug
upon one another, and none shall BE-
allowed TO forget that tae govern.
ment's obligations are alike to ali the
people.
we are so confident that much Of the
present day insnfficiency and ineffi-
cheney OF transportation are due to
he whitening hand of government op-
GRAFTON that we emphasize anew our
opposition to government ownership.
We want to expedite the PREPARATION
and make sure the mistake is not re-
peated
state OF inadequate transportation
facilities, mainly chargeable to the fail.
are OF governmental experiment, Is los
ing millions to agriculture, II Is him
dering industry, it is menacing the
American people with a fuel shortage
little less than peril. IL emphasizes
the present day problem AMI suggests
mat spirit OF encouragement and as
sistance 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 debate in
elaboration. We debased the dollar in
reckless finance, we must restore In
honesty.
In all sincerity we promise the pre-
.ention of unreasonable profits, we
challenge profiteering with all the
moral force and the legal powers Of
government and people. But it is fair,
aye. 1t is timely, to give reminder that
Jaw is net the sole corrective of our
economic ills.
Let US call to all the people for thrift
and economy, for denial and sacrifice
II need be, for a nationwide drive
against extravaganza and luxury to a
recommittal to simplicity of living, to
that prudent and normal plan OF life
which is the health of the republic
New conditions which attend amaz.
Ing growth and extraordinary indus,
trial development, call for a new and
forward looking program. rhe Amer
lean farmer had a hundred and twent,
millions to feed in the home market
and heard the cry of the world for
food and answered 1t, though he tacec
an appalling task amid handicaps neye
encountered before.
Contemplating the defenselessness
of the individual farmer to meet thu
organized buyers OF his products ant
the distributors of the things the farm.
er buys. hold that farmers should not
only be permitted but encouraged tC
Join in cooperative association to reap
the just measure of reward merited by
their arduous toll.
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 co-opera.
tion which again will make profitable
and desirable the ownership and op
Grafton of comparatively small farms
intensively cultivated and which will
Ct farm and orchard without the la.
nentable waste under present condt
tions.
America would look with anxiety
On the discouras ,ar ent of farming &C.
tivity either through the governments
| neglect or its paralysis by socialistie
practices. A republican administration
will be committed to renew regard for
agriculture and seek the participation
of farmers in curing the Ills justly com
planned of and aim to place the Amer.
lean farm where It ought to be. highly
ranked in American activities. and full
ly sharing the highest good fortunes
of American life.
Becomingly associated with this sub.
ject are the policies of irrigation and
Reclamation so essential to agricultural
expansion and the continued develop
ment of the great and wonderful west
II 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
.ect a necessary helpful reformation
and reveal business methods to gov
crnment business.
believe federal departments should
be made more business like and send
back to productive effort thousands Of
federal employees, who are either du-
rlicating work or not essential at all
believe In the protective tariff
policy and know we will be calling for
Its saving Americanism again.
believe in great merchant marine.
would have this republic the leading
maritime nation OF the world.
believe in navy ample to project
4 and able TO assure US dependable de-
| Tense
believe in a small army but the
best in the world. with mindfulness
for preparedness which will avoid the
unutterable cost Of our previous neg.
lect.
| believe in our eminence In trade
abroad, which the government should
aid in expanding. but in revealing mar
kets and speeding cargoss. believe
in establishing standards for immigra-
siou which are concerned with the fu-
ture citizenship OF the republic. not
! With mere man power in industry.
/ | believe that every man Who dons
the CART OF American citizenship and