The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-07-22

America. In the first term OF this Demo
cratic administration the national bank
act was so altered as TO authorize loans
OF five years maturity on improved farm
lands. Later was established a system OF
farm loan banks from which the borrow
ngs already exceed three hundred mill
lions OF dollars and under which the in
terest rate TO farmers has been so mate
rally reduced as 20 drive out OF business
the farm loan sharks who formerly sub
sisted by eNtorAOn upon the great asrl-
cultural interests OF the country.
Thus II was Democratic congress IN
the administration OF Democratic presi-
dent which enabled the farmers OF Amer
lea for the first time TO obtain credit upon
reasonable terms and insured their oppor-
tunty for the future development OF the
nations agricultural resources.
Smith Lever Act Praised.
Not only did the Democratic party put
INTO effect great farm-loan system or
land mortgage banks but IL passed the
Emith- Lever agricultural extension act,
carrying 10 every farmer In every section
OF the country. through the medium or
trained experts and by demonstration
farms, the practical knowledge acquires
by the federal agricultural department. IN
all things relating TO agriculture, horti-
culture and animal life. IL established the
bureau of markets, the bureau OF farm
management and passed me Sotlon tu-
lures act the grain grades bill, the CO
operative farm administration act anu
the federal warehouse act.
The Democratic party has vastly nm
built up tho parcel post system to such
AN extent as 10 renCer It's activities ami
LIS practical service Indispensable 10 the
farming community. Il was this wise en-
COuraEemeDt and tbs effective concern OF
the Democratic party for tie farmers OF
the United States that enabled thls sredt
interest TO render such essential service
In feeding the armies Ct America and the
allied nations of the war and succoring
starving populations since armistice day.
G. o. p. Condemned.
Meanwhile tie Republican leaders at
WashinG ION have failed utterly To propose
one single measure 10 make rural hfe
more tolerablC They have SlSNallZeu
their fifteen months Of conEressional
power by urging schemes which would
strip the farms OF labor, by assailing the
principles OF the farm-loan system and
seeking to impair It's efficiency; covertly
attempting TO destroy the great nitrogen
plant at Musse Shoals upun which the
government has expended $1c.t0uV Jo to sup
ply American farmers with fertilizers at
reasonable cost by ruthlessly Gripping
nearly every branch Of agricultural en-
deavor literally Gripping Tire productive
mediums through which the people must
be fed.
We favor such legislation as will CON
firm 10 the primary producers of the ma,
ton the right of collective bargaining and
the right OF cooperative handling and
marketing OF the products OF the work
shop and the farm and such legislation as
will facilitate the expectation of our farm
products.
We favor comprehensive studies OF farm
production costs and the uncensored pub
LEGATION OF facts found i'm such studies.
Labor and Industry.
The Democratic party is now, rs
ever. the firm friend OF honest labor
and the promoter Of progressive in
Of labor al Washington and Demo-
era tic president called to his official
council board the first pra ctical work
ingman who ever held cabinet port
mi N 4 r. -
hccc crtcE!!-hcd employment bureaus
to bring the man and the lob together;
bitter disputes between capital and
labor: were passed the child labor
act, the workingman's compensation
act (the extension OF which we advo-
cate so as to include laborers engaged
in loading and unloading ships and In
interstate commerce), the eight-hour
law. the act for vocational training and
a code OF other wholesome laws AFFECT
ing the liberties and lettering the con-
ditions OF the laboring. classes.
In the department of labor the Dem
ocratic administration established a
womans bureau. which Republican
congress destroyed by Withholding APP
propriations.
Labor is not a commodity; II is hui
man. Those who labor have rights
and the national security and safety
depend upon Just recognition OF
the strength OF the workers and their
families in the interest OF sound
hearted and sound headed men. wom-
hours OF labor and conditions under
which labor is performed. when passed
in recognition of the conditions under
highest development and happinesa. are
just assertions OF the national interest
in the welfare OF the people.
At the same time the nation de-
ponds upon the products of labor; a
cessation OF production means loss and,
II long continued. disaster. The whole
sist that justice shall be done to those
who work, and in turn hat those
whose labor creates the necessities
upon which the life OF the Ration de-
ponds must recognize the reciprocal
litigation between the worker and the
state.
ulation OF sound laws and regulations
governing the conditions under which
labor Is performed recognize and obey
the laws so formulated and seek their
processes ordinarily addressed to the
laws and regulations affecting the
other relations OF life.
Labor. as we'll as capital. is entitled
TO adequate compensation. Each has
the indefeasible right OF organization.
OF collective bargaining and OF speak
ing through representatives of their
own selection
Neither class. however should at
take action that will put in Jeopardy
the public welfare Resort TO strikes
and lockouts which endanger the
health OF lives OF the people is an
unsatisfactory device for determining
disputes, and the Democratic party
pledges itself TO contrive. IL possible.
and put into effective operation fair
and comprehensive method OF compos-
ing differences OF this nature.
In private Industrial disputes we are
opposed to compulsory arbitration as
n method plausible in the theory but
a failure in fact. With respect TO gov
eminent service we hold distinctly
that the rights OF the people are para
mount to the right to strike. How
ever we profess scrupulous regard for
the conditions of public employment
and pledge the Democratic party TO
Instant inquiry into the pay Of gov
crnment employees and equally speedy
regulations designed to bring salaries
TO a lust and proper level.
Woman's Suffrage.
We indorse the proposed nineteenth
amendment OF the Constitution OF the
United states granting equal suffrage
to women We congratulate ,he legis-
iatures OF thirty-five states which have
already ratified said amendment and
we urge the Democratic governors and
legislatures OF Tennessee. North Caro-
lima and Florida, and such states as
I.a,,a not of ratified fedaraI