Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-23

the answer of our people to the
motor age. We believe in generous
federal cooperation in construction.
linked with assurance of mainte-
nance that will put an end to GRIM
inal waste Of public funds on the
one hand and give a guaranty of up
kept highways on the other.
Water transportation is in
separately linked with adequacy Of
facilities, and we favor American
eminence on the seas, the practical
development of inland waterways.
the p-building and coordination Of
all to 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 American Gre
alton, to the free use Of American
shipping. 1t will add to the Amer
lean reawakening.
One can not speak of industry and
commerce, and the transportation
on which they are dependent with
out an earnest thought Of the
abnormal cost of living and the
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inveigh, but that avails nothing,
and it is far too serious 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 it's
accomplishment by destroying the
peoples capacity to buy. But that
was a cure worse than the ailment
1t is easy to understand the real
causes. after which the patient must
help to effect his own cure.
Gross expansion Of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar
just as expansion and imitation have
dlscredited the coins of the world.
We inflated in haste, we must de.
f1ate in elaboration. We debased
the dollar in reckless finance. we
must restore in honesty. Denation
en- the one hand and restoration Of
the loo-cent dollar on the other
ought to have begun on the day aft
er the armrstice, but plans were
lacking or courage failed. The I'M
| preparedness for peace was little less
costly than unpreparedness for war.
Promise Halt to Waste and Ex.
travaganee
we can promise no one remedy
winch will cure an ill Of such wide
proportions. but we do pledge that
earnest and consistent attack which
the party platform covenants. We
VIII attempt intelligent and cour-
aseous denation, and strike at gov
eminent borrowing which enIarpes
the evil, and we will attack high cost
OF government with every energy ana
Iacliity which attend Republican "a.
pacity. We promise that ros;a,
"nlch will attend the haltine of
waste and extravaganza, and the re.
newai of the practice of public econ
Uihy' not alone because it will re.
,ieVe tax burdens but because il will
De an example to stimulate tbrift
ana economy in private life.
| nave already alluded to the me-
cessity Tor the fullness of nroduc-
'lon' and we need the fullness NJ
| service which attends the exchan..
Oh products. Let US speak tho ~
REPUTABLE truth, high wages and -.
ouced cost of living are in utter CO..
iaolctlon unless we have the heixh+
VI einclency for wages received
| In all sincerity we promise tho
prevention of unreasonab BILE nrofit.
we challenge proflteering with ali
the moral force and the legal nor,ar.
OF government and people. hut II 10
ralr, aye, it is timely, to give 70
minder that law is not the sol. 80.
receive or our economic ills.
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| thrilt and economy. for denial and
sacrifice if need be, for a nation
wide drive against extravagance ana
| luxury, to a recommittal to sim
pilcity OF living. to that prudent and
normal plan Of life which ia the
health OF the republic. There hasn't
| peen recovery from the waste and
apnormalities of war since the story
or mankind was first written. excent
! through work and saving, through
INDUSTRY and denial, while needless
spending and needless extravasance
nave marked every decay in the his
tory OF nations. Give the assurance
OF that rugged simplicity of Ameri-
can life which marked the first cen.
Jury OF amazing development and
this generation may underwrite
second century Of SURPRISING ar.
complishment.
Republican Party Founded by Farm.
Inc Republican party was founded
by farmers, with the sensitive con.
science born of their freedom and
their simple lives. These founders
sprang from the farms of the then
Middle West. Our party has never
tailed in it's realization that arri-
culture is essentially the foundation
or our very existence. and It has
ever been our policy, purpose and
performance to protect and promote
that essential industry.
New conditions, which attend
amazing growth and extraordinary
industrial development. call for a
new and forward-looking program
The American farmer had a hundred
and twenty millions to feed in tbe
nome market. and heard the crv Of
the world for food and answered -
though he faced an appalling task
amid handicaps never encountered
before.
In the rise of price levels tbere
nave come increased appraisals "a
MS acres without adding to their
value in fact but which do add to
MS taxes and expenses without an.
hancing his returns His helpers
nave yielded to the lure of shop and