Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24

| operation WHICH again w III lildt4C
profitable and desirable the owner
| ship and operation of comparatively
| small farms intensively cultivated,
and which will facilitate the caring
for the products of farm and orch
ard without the lamentable waste un-
| der present conditions.
America would look with anxiety
on the discoura cement Of farming
activity either through the govern
ment's neglect or its paralysis by
Socialistic practices. A Republican
administration will be committed TO
seek the participation of farmers IN
curing the ills justly complained of
and aim to place the American farm
| where it ought to be--h1ghly ranked
in American activities and fully sharc
| ing the highest good fortunes OF
! American life.
Favors Merchant Marine
Becomingly ASSOCIATED with ms
| subject are the policies of irrigation
and reclamation, so essential to ag-
| ricultural expansion, and the con-
| tinued development of the great and
wonderful west. 1t is our purpose
to continue: and enlarge federal raj a ara
| the good of all America. We hold
| to that harmony of relationship be-
| tween conservation and development;
which fittingly appralses our naIural
resources and makes them aVallaplS9
! tc developing America of today, ana
| still holds to the conserving thought
| for the America of the morrow,
| The federal governments relation
| to reclamation and development IS
too important to~admit of ample dis
cussion today. Alaska, alone, is rlch
! in resources beyond all imagination,
and needs only closer linking,
| through the lines of transportation,
and a governmental policy that both
safeguards and encourages develop
ment, to speed it to a foremost posi-
| tion as a commonwealth, rugged IN
citizenship and rich in materialized
| resources.
These things I can only mention:
| Within becoming limits one can not
say more. Indeed, for the. present
many questions of vast Importance
must be hastily passed, reserving a
| fuller discussion to suitable occasion
| as the campaign advances.
I believe the budget system Will
| effect a necessary, helpful reforma-
| ton, and reveal business methods to
! government business; sn+s
| 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
/ believe in a great merchant ma
rlne--I would have this REPUBLIC the
{ leading maritime nation of the world.
l believe in a 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 4 mindful
ness for preparedness which will
avoid the unutterable cost Of our
! previous neglect.
I believe in our eminence in trade
| abroad, which the government should
| aid in expanding, both in revealing
markets and speeding cargoes.
I believe in establishing standards
| for immigration, which are concern
ed with the future citizenship of the
republic, not with mere manpower in
| industry.
Law Enforcement
I believe that every man who dons
the garb of American citizenship and
walks in the light of American OPP
| pOrtunlty, must become American IN
| heart and soul.
[ belieev in holding fast to every
| forward step in unshackling child
| labor and e1evating conditions OF
woman's employment.
L believe the federal government
should stamp out lynching and re-
move that stain from the lair name
of America.
| believe the federal government
should give it's effective aid in solv-
ing the problem of ample and becom-
ing housing of it's citizenship.
| believe this government should
make it's Liberty and Victory bonds
worth all that it's patriotic citizens
| paid i'll purchasing them.
L believe the tax burdens imposed
for the war emergency must be re-
vised to the needs. of peace, and in
| the interest of equity in distribution
| of the burden.
I believe the negro citizens of
America should be guaranteed the
enjoyment of all their rights, that
they have earned the full measure
of citizenship bestowed, that their
fields of the republic have entitled
them to all of freedom and oppor-
tunity, all of sympathy and aid that
the American spirit of fairness and
justice demands.
1 believe there is an easy and
open path to righteous relation
ship with Mexico 1t has seemed to
me that our undeveloped, uncertain
and infirm policy has made US a
eGPape party TO- the Gnr re5a
tions ought to be both friendly and
sympathetic; we would like to &C
claim a stable government there, and
offer a neighborly hand in pointing
lne way TO greater progress. 1t WI
be simple to have a plain and neigh,
borly understanding, merely an
understanding about respecting our
| borders, about protecting the lives
and possessions of American citizens
| lawfully within the Mexican domin'
| standing, else there can be no rec
ignition, and then the understand
ing must be faithfully kept.
Many Of these declarations deserve
f,,1 Will
gestions of plans to emphasize the
faith. Such expression will follow,
in due time, 1 promise you.
1 believe in law enforcement. Ii
| elected I mean to be constitutional
| president, and it is impossible to
| to evade the law, when our every
| committal is to orderly government
| People ever will differ about tile
wisdom of the enactment of law
| there is divided opinion respecting
| the eighteenth amendment and the
| laws enacted to make it operative
| but there can be no difference, of
| opinion about honest law enforce
ment.
Veteran of War
Neither government nor party can
| afford to cheat the American people.
| The laws of congress must harmon
ize with the constitution, else they
| soon are adjudged to be void; con-
| greSS endctS the laws, ana the eXecu-
| tive branch of government is charg-
ed with enforcement. We can not
nullify because of divided opinion,
| we cannot jeopardiZe orderly govern
ment with contempt for law enforce
ment. Modification or repeal is the
right of free people, whenever the
deliberate and Intelligent public sem
| timent commands, but perversion
and evasion mark the paths 10 the
| failure of government itself.
Though not in any partisan sense,
L must speak of the services of the
men and women who rallied to the
| colors of the republic in world war.
services rendered, and sacrifices
made and the sufferings endured.
| There shall be no distinction be-
tween those who knew the perils and
glories of the battle front or the
| dangers of the sea, and those who