Arizona republican., 1920-06-09

the representatives of the people, and |
 when those laws arc once made they
 must be obeyed until the people see fit to change them. The will of She people, expressed in lawful manner through the government of the United States, must be supreme, for the gov ernment of the United States can neither suffer revolt nor submit to any question of it's authority on the part of any man or any group of men or any minority of the people When free government fails. autocracy and reVo- lution and the downfall Of civilization 9s we have known it arc at hand. l Progress will cease and the decline to lower stages of development wiil have begun True progress must rest upon and proceed from the sound 1rinclples which sustain all free goVe rll1I7eGt and to such progress the Republican party always has been committed. Loyalty to l the United States and obedience 10 the peoples laws are tho corner stones of the republic and should he sustained and upheld by every man ard goman l in every corner of our great land. Keep these principles sacred and untouched and all the rest will follow.
 Economic Problems
 Let me turn first to the economic conditions, so profundly distorted and confused by the war, which affect our l daily life. are essential to our business and upon which our material prosper I and moral. which flow from 1t when l honestly acquired. so largely depend. i Already beginning has been made by | a Republican congress, working under all the difficulties and opposition i'm i posed by a hostile executive. Many 1 vital economic measures and especially protective tariff legislation to guard l our industries are impossible with d 1 Democratic free trader of Socialistic proclivities in the White House. To | accomplish such measures as these we must have as we intend to have. a Republican president, in sympathy
 with a Republican house and senate. l Great reductions in expenditures have ! been effected but we have been met l with resistance in some of the depart \ ments and also by habits of waste | backed by maladminiStTatiOn, by sac rifice of efficieny to political purposes. | never so recklessly indulged in before. and in certain cases by an incom- l potency so marvellous that it cannot 1 be due to nature but must be the result | of art. Yet despite all these lettering 1 conditions an amount of work has been done which in days of peace would | have been considered remarkable but
 now passes almost unnoticed, because | great events have so crowded on each
 others heels in the years Of world war l that the comprehension and apprecia-
 tion of legislative accomplishment are well nigh lost. Let me give few ex-
 amples of what has been accom- pIished.
 The estimates have been reduced
 over billion dollars. The oil-leas- | ing and water power bills, two meas
 ures of large effect and high import
 ance, which have been halting and
 stumbling for many years in the in- | capable hands of a Democratic ma
 jority, have become laws. We have
 passed the vocational rehabilitation t,r.4 c<<.- | and several acts for the disposition of war material, very necessary to our finances. We have amended and inn
 proved the Federal Reserve and the l farmers loan acts. We have cared 1 for the soldiers of the Civil War straitened in their old age through the
 rise in prices, by an increase in their
 pensions. The civil service retirement law, a long deferred act of justice to faithful servants of the government has been passed and a, minimum wage bill for all persons in government em- ploy has passed both houses. We have
 been obliged to restore the army and
 navy to a peace footing, a work as
 difficult as it was necessary. We have
 met this by two most important meas
 ures, the army and navy pay bill and the law for the reorganization of the | army on a peace basis Two of the
 most important acts of any period. the
 shipping act for the upbuilding of the | American Marine and the settlement
 of the affairs of the shipping board
 and the law establishing the budget, a
 great measure of economy and sound
 financial administration. are conspicu- ous as our latest achievements.
 Railroad Legislation
 The list of beneficial laws, passed under adverse circumstances, might
 be largely extended did not time for
 bid. But these are enough to show } the far-reaching results of the labors of
 this congress, whose time is but little more than half spent. Some of the
 master minds of the Democratic party 7 are now chirruping away like incessant ? little birds that .the Republicans have done nothing" I should be glad ] emitting the two years of war when both parties worked together, to put ] the recorded accomplishment of the five years of complete Democratic con- t trol beside that of our eighteen months ) hampered by an inimical administra- 7 ton. Let me assure you that we dc not fear the comparison.
 We have made a remarkable begin { ming, but We are fully conscious thai ) it is only a beginning. Much has beer 7 done. much more remains to- do and l we pledge ourselves to exert all oul . energies to deal with what is still un- t done. The wreck and confusion of { 3 great war, in business. finance and al = economic conditions, cannot be cleared Il away ad 1uIly reaoJuSteu m d year dut 9 a half nor indeed in twice that time T Reconstruction must be steady ana e energetic but it also demands care i t it is to be of lasting value. The rise O e prices, the high cost of living whicl s reach daily into every home, is tn r most pressing as it is the most diff . cult and most essential problem whicl [. confronts us. Some of the sources O f this trouble can be reached by legisla y tion. although not all, but everything d that can be effected by law should b
 done at once. Profiteering, the charg
 ing of extortionate and unjustifie' r prices which is stupid as we'll as un h lawful, are subject now to ample punl ( tive laws. Those laws should be en n forced, others if necessary added, an e the offenders both great and smal o should be pursued and punished, no $ in the headlines of newspapers afte
 the manner of the present attorne e general but quietly. thoroughly and eff l. ficiently. in tho courts of the Unite Il States Something more in this direc tt ton can be accomplished by the prope r. regulation of cold storage, and a bi II for that purpose has passed bot |