The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-06-25

q :. q
construction of highways, which will
/ bring about reduction in transpor-
/ ton costs, better marketing of farm
/ products, improvement in rural pos
| tai delivery, as well as meet the needs
of military defense
In determining the proportion of
Federal aid for road construction
among the states the sums lost in
taxation to the respective states BY
the setting apart of large portions of
their area as forest reservations.
| should be considered as a controlling
| factor
Policy of Conservation.
Conservation is a Republican pol
icy. 1t began with the passage of
the reclamation act signed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The recent passage
Of the coal, oil, and phosphate leasing
I bill by Republican Congress and
the enactment of the water power bill
fashioned in accordance with the
same principle, are consistent land
marks in the development of the con-
servation of our national resources.
We denounce the refusal of the Pres
ident to sign the water power bill
passed after ten years of contro-
versy.
The Republican party has taken an
especially honorable part i saving
our national forests and in the eff
forts to establish a national forest
policy. Our most pressing conserva-
ton question relates to our forests.
We are using our forest resources
faster than they are being renewed.
The result is to raise unduly the cost
of forest products to consumers and
especially farmers, who use more
than half the lumber produced in
America, and in the end to create a
timber famine.
The Federal government, the
states and private interests, must
unite in devising some means to meet
| the menace.
Law and Order.
The equality of all citizens under
{ the law has always been policy of
the Republican party.
! Without obedience to law and main
! terance of order, our American i n
stitutions must perish. Our laws
must be impartially enforced and
speedy justice should be secured.
Reclamation.
We favor fixed and comprehen-
sive policy of reclamation to increase
national wealth and production.
We recognize in the development of
reclamation through Federal action.
with its increase of production and
taxable wealth a safeguard for the
nation
Would Reclaim Land.
We commend to Congress a policy
to reclaim lands and the establish.
ment of a fixed policy of develop
ment of natural resources in relation
to reclamation through the now des-
| ignated government agencies.
The Service Men.
We hold in imperishable remem-
brance the valor and he patriotism
Of the soldiers and sailors of Amer
lea who fought in t he Great War for
human liberty. We pledge ourselves
to discharge to the fullest the obliga-
tons which a grateful nation justly
should fulfill, in appreciation of the
services rendered by its defenders on
sea and on land.
Care Promised for Disabled Soldiers.
Republicans are not ungrateful.
! Throughout their history they have
shown their gratitude toward the ma
tion's defenders. Liberal legislation
for the care of the disabled and in
firm and their dependents has ever
marked Republican policy toward the
soldier and sailor of all the wars in
which our country has participated.
The present Congress has appropr-
ated generously for the disabled of
the World war. The amounts already
/ applied and authorized or the fiscal
year l92O-2l for this purpose reached
the stupendous sum of s1,1sO.571.-
800. This legislation is significant OF
the party's purpose in generously
caring for the manned and disabled
men of the recent war.
Civil Service.
We renew our repeated declaration
that the civil service law shall be
thoroughly and honestly enforced and
extended wherever practicable. The