The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-22


ing millions. The government which
has assumed so much authority for
the public good might well stamp
| railway employment with the sane.
tity OF public service and guarantee
TO the railway employees that justice
which voices the American concep-
tion of righteousness on the one
hand and assure continuity of serv-
ice on the other.
| The Railroads
! The Importance of the railway
rehabilitation is so obvious that ref
erence seems uncaled for. We are
so confident that much of the present.
day insufficiency and ineffciency of
transportation are due to taa wither-
ing hand Of government operation
! that we emphasize anew our opposi-
ton to government ownership, we
want TO expedite the reparation. and
make sure the mistake is not re-
peated.
1t is little use to recite the story
of development, exploitation, govern
inent experiment and its neglect,
! government operation and its failures.
| The inadequacy of trackage and ter.
minal facilities, the insufficiency of
equipment and the inefficiency of
! operation-all bear the blighting stamp
of governmental incapacity during fed
eral operation. The work of rehabili.
tation under the restoration of priv
ate ownership deserves our best en-
couragement. Billions are needed to
meet the growing demand for service
but to restore the extraordinary de-
preciation due to the strained serv.
! ice Of the war. With restricted earn.
ings and with speculative profits IT.
moved railway activities have come
to the realm of conservative and con-
structive service, and the government
which impaired must play its part in
restoration. Manifestly the returns
must be so gauged that necessary
capital may be enlisted, and we must
foster as well as restrain.
We have no more pressing prop.
EN-. state of inadequate trans.
portation facilities, mainly charge
eApA' " bilt VI
experiment, is losing millions to
agriculture, it is hindering industry,
1t is menacng the American people,
with a fuel shortage little less than
a peril. Ii emphasizes the present
day problem and suggests that spirit,
which commits all Americans to re.
lieve such an emergency.
The one compensation amid at.
tending anxieties is our new and
needed realization of the vital part
transportation plays in the complex.
tiles of modern life. We are not to
think of rails alone, but highways
from farm to market, from railway
to farm, arteries Of life.blood to
presentday life, the quickened ways
10 communication and exchange. the
answer Of our people to the motor
age. We believe in generous federal
cooperation in construction, linked
with assurances of maintenance tina,
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
Inland Waterways
Water transportation is inseparably
linked with adequacy of facilities. and
we favor American eminence on the
seas, the practical development of in.
land waterways, the up-building and
coordination of all 10 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 Am.
erican shipping. 1t will add to the
American re-awakening.
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 seri-
Gus 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 its accom-
plishment by destroying the people S
capacity to buy. But that was a
cure worse than the ailment. II is
easy to understand the real causes,
after which the patient must help
to effect mis- own cure.
Currency Imitation
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 ir haste, we must deflate in
deliberation. We debased the dollar
, in reckless finance, we must restore in
} honesty. Deflation on the one hand
and restoration of the 10O-cent dollar
| on the other ought to have begun
, on the day after the armistice, but
, plans were lacking or courage failed
The unpreparedness for peace was
, little less costly than unpreparedness
for war
, We can promise no one remedy
which will cure an Ill of such wide
proportions, but we do pledge that
earnest and consistent attack which
the party platform covenants. We
will attempt intelligent and courageous
deflation, and strike at government
borrowing which enlargcs the evil
and we will attack high cost OF gov.
ernment vita every energy and IA
cility which attend republican capac
4, ity. We promise that relief which
, will attend the halting Of waste and
| extravaganza, and the renewal o
: the practice of public economy, not
: alone because it will relieve tax bur
dens but because it will be an ex
) ample to stimulate thrift and econ
, omy in private life.
Increased Production