The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-07-22

citation due to the strained service of
war. With restricted earnings and
with speculative profits removed, rail-
way activities have come to the realm
OF conservative and constructive serv-
ice, and the government which i'm
paired must play its part in restora-
ton. Manifestly the returns must be
so gagged that necessary capital may
be enlisted, and we must foster as
well as restrain.
We have no more pressing prob
lem. A state of inadequate transpor
tation facilities, mainly chargeable to
the failure of governmental expert
ment, is losing millions to agriculture,
it is hindering industry, it is menac-
ing 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
ali America to relieve such an emer-
gency.
The one compensation amid attend
ing anxieties is our new and needed
realization of the vital part transpor-
tation plays in the complexities OF
modern life. We are not to think of
rails alone, but highways from farm
to market, from railway to farm, ar
teries of life-blood to present-day life,
the quickened ways to communication
and exchange, the answer of our peo-
pie to the motor age. We believe in
generous federal cooperation in con-
struction, linked with assurances OF
maintenance that will put an end to
criminal waste of public funds on the
one hand and give a guaranty of up
kept highways on the other.
Water transportation is inseparab-
ly linked with adequacy of facilities,
and we favor American eminence ON
the seas, the practical development of
inland waterways, the up-building
and coordination of all to make them
equal to and ready for every call of
developing and widening American
commerce. / like that recommittal TO
thoughts of America first which
pledges the Panama canal, an Ameri-
can creation. to the free use of Amer
lean shipping. 1t will add to the Am
erican reawakening.
One can not speak of industry
and commerce. and the transportation
on which they are dependent without
an earnest thought of the abnormal
cost of living and the problems in its
wake 1t is easy to inveigh, but that
avails nothing. And it is far too
serious to dismiss with flaming but
futile promise.
Eight years ago, in times of peace
the democratic party made it an issue
and when clothed with power that
party came near to it's accomplish
ment by destroying the peoples ca
pacity to buy. But that was cure
worse than the ailment. 1t is easy to
understand the real causes, after
which the patient must help to effect
his own cure.
Gross expansion of currency anc
credit have deprecated the dollar just
as expansion and imitation have dis.
credited the coins of the world. VIZ
inflated in haste, we must debate ir
elaboration. We debased the dollar
| in reckless finance, we must restore
it's honesty. Deflation on the one hand
and restoration of the 100-cent dollar
on the other ought to have begun or
/ the day after the armistice. but plans
were lacking or courage failed. Tht
unpreparedness for peace was little
less costly than unpreparedness fol
war.
We can promise no one remedy
which will cure an i'll of such wide
proportions, but we do pledge thai
earnest and consistent attack which
the party platform covenants. W.
will attempt intelligent and cour
ageous defation, and strike at gov
eminent borrowing which enlarge,
the evil, and we will attack high cos
of government with every energy an:
facility which attend republican ca
pacity. We promise that relief wheel
will attend the hating of waste ant
1 extravaganza, and the renewal of TIT
/ practice of public economy, not alon'
because it will relieve tax burdens
but because it will be an example Il
stimulate thrift and economy in pri
vate life.
i / have already alluded to the ne
cessity for the fullness of production
and we need the fullness of servic'
which attends the exchange of pro
ducts. Let US speak the irrefutabl
truth, high wages and reduced COS
of living are in utter contradiction
unless we have the height of efficienc1
for wages received.
In all sincerity we promise the pre-
i vention of unreasonable profits. w
challenge profteering with all tn
/ moral force and the legal powers o
i government and people, but it is fair
aye, it is timely. to give reminde
that law is not the sole corrective o
our economic ills.
i Let US call to all the people TO
thrift and economy, for denial AM
i sacrifice if need be, for nationwide
drive against extravaganza and lux
1 ury, to a recommittal to simplicIs.
of living, to that prudent and norma
plan of life which is the health of tn
i republic. There hasn't been recov
cry from the waste and abnormaltie
of war since the story of mankin,
was first written, except through
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