The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-07-22

! cred right of the individual, in his nee
j essary pursuit of livelihood. Any
! American has the right to quit his en-
( ployment, so has every American the
/ right to seek employment. The group
must not endanger the individual, and
! we must discourage groups preying
/ upon one another, and none shall be
/ allowed to forget that the governments
{ obligations are alike to all the people.
No Strike Against Government.
We are so confident that much of the
{ present-day insufficiency and inefficien-
cy of transportation are due to the
whitening hand of government opera
| ton that we emphasize anew our oppo-
/ sitiOn to government ownership, we
/ want to expedite the reparation and
make sure the mistake is not repeated.
| 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 menac-
| ing the American people with q fuel
shortage little less than a peril. 1t en-
phasizes the present-day problem and
| suggests that spirit Of encouragement
and assistance which commits all
America to relieve such an emergency.
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
| elaboration. We debased the dollar
in reckless finance, we must restore in
honesty.
In all sincerity we promise the pre-
vention Of unreasonable profits, we
challenge profiteering with all the NOR
al force and the legal powers of gov
eminent and people, but it is fair, aye,
it is timely, to give reminder that law
Is not the sole corrective of our eco
nomic ills.
Drive Against Extravaganza.
Let US call to all the people for
thrift and economy, for denial and sac
rifice if need be, for a nationwide
drive against extravaganza and lux
ury, to a recommittal to simplicity of
living, to that prudent and normal plan
of life which is the health of the re-
public.
New conditions, which attend amaz-
Ing growth and extraordinary indus
trial development, call for a new and
forward-looking program The Ameri-
can farmer had a hundred and twenty
millions to feed in the home market,
aud heard the cry of the world for
food and answered it, though he faced
an appalling task amid handicaps
never encountered before.
Contemplating the defenselessness of
the individual farmer to meet the Or
ganized buyers Of his products and the
distributors Of the things the farmer
buys, l hold that farmers should not
only be permitted but encouraged to
join in cooperative association to reap
the just measure of reward merited by
their arduous toll.
Our platform is in earnest pledge Of
renewed concern for this most essen
tial and elemental industry and in
both appreciation and interest we
pledge effective expression in law and
practice. We will hail that co-opera-
ton which again will make profitable
and desirable the ownership and Cd
Grafton of comparatively small farms
intensively cultivated, and which will
facilitate the caring for the products
Of farm and orchard without the
la m N n hla
tons.
America would look with anxiety on
the Encouragement of farming ac-
tivity either through the governments
neglect or its paralysis by socialistic
practices. A Republican administra-
ton will be committed to renewed re-
gard for agriculture, and seek the
participation Of farmers in curing the
ills justly complained of, and aim to
place the American farm where 1t
ought to be-highly ranked in Ameri-
can activities and fully sharing the
highest good fortunes of American
life.
Becomingly associated with this
subject are the policies Of irrigation
and reclamation, so essential to agrt-
cultural expansion, and the continued
development Of the great and wonder
full West 1t is our purpose to con-
tinue and enlarge federal aid, not in
sectional Partially. but for the good
of all America.
believe the budget system will eff
feet a necessary, helpful reformation,
and reveal business methods to gov
eminent business
believe federal departments should
be made more business-like and send
back to productive effort thousands
of federal employees, who are either
duplicating work or not essential at
all.
I believe in the protective tariff
policy and know we will be calling for
its saving Americanism again.
1 believe in great merchant ma
rine. l would have this republic the
leading maritime nation of the world.
1 believe in navy ample to pro-
tect it, and able to assure us depend
able defense.
I believe in a small army, but the
best in the world. with a mindfulness