The Holly chieftain., 1920-07-22

of life which is the health of the re-
public.
| New conditions which attend amaZ-
| ing growth and extraordinary indus
| trial development call for new and
forward looking program.
The American farmer had 4 hun
dred and twenty millions to feed in the
home market, and heard the cry Of the
world for food and answered it, though
he faced an appalling task amid handi
caps never encountered before.
Contemplating the defenselessness
of the individual farmer to meet the
organized buyers of his products and
the distributors OF the things the farmer
buys, hold that farmers should not
only be permitted but encouraged to
join in cooperative association to reap
the just measure of reward merited
by their arduous toll.
Our platform is an earnest pledge
of renewed concern for this most es-
sential and elemental industry and in
both appreciation and interest We
pledge effective expression in law and
practice We will hail that cooperation
which again will make profitable and
| desirable the ownership and operation
of comparatively small farms inten-
sively cultivated and which will facili-
tate the caring for the products of
farm and orchard without the lament
able waste under present conditions.
America would look with anxiety on
the encouragement of farming act
ivity either through the governments
neglect or it's paralysis by SOcialistic
practices. A Republican administra-
tion will be committed to renewed re-
/ n,,I for osyrio 1t,,ra nd th6a r..
tiSipation of farmers in curing the ills
justly complained of and aim to place
the American farm where it ought to
be, highly ranked in American activi-
ties and fully sharing the highest good
fortunes of American life.
Becoming!y associated with this sub
ject are the policies of irrigation and
reclamation so essential to agricultural
expansion and the continued develop.
ment of the great and wonderful west.
1t is our purpose to continue and en-
large federal aid not in sectional par
tiality but for the good of all America.
l believe the budget system will eff
feet necessary helpful reformation
and reveal business methods to govern.
ment business.
believe Federal Departments
should be made more business-like and
send back to productive effort thou
sands Of federal employees who are
either duplicating work or not essen
tial at all.
l believe in the protective tariff
policy and know we will be calling for
its saving Americanism again.
l believe in great Merchant Mar.
inc. I would have this republic the
leading maritime nation Of the world.
I believe in navy ample to protect
it and able to assure us dependable de-
fense. T believe IN small army, but
the best in the world, worth a mind
fulness for preparedness which will
avoid the mutterable cost of our pre-
vious neglect
l believe in our eminence in trade
abroad, which the government should
aid in expanding, both in revealing
markets and speeding cargoes I be-
lieve in establishing standards for Inn
migration, which are concerned with
the future citizenship Of the republic,
not with mere man-power in industry.
/ believe that every man who dons
the garb Of American citizenship and
walks on the light of American op-
portunity, must become American in
heart and soul.
I believe in holding fast to every
forward step in unshackling child
labor and elevating conditions of
woman's employment. believe the
| lynching and remove that stain from
! the fair name of America. / believe
| the Federal Government should give its
effective aid in solving the problem Of
! ample and becoming housing Of its
citizenship.
1 / believe this government should
make it's Liberty and Victory Bonds
/ worth all that its patriotic citizens
paid in purchasing them. believe the
tax burden imposed for the war
emergency must be revised to the
needs of peace and in the interest Of
iniquity in distribution of the burden.
| I believe the negro citizens Of Amer
| lea should be guaranteed the enjoy
Aant of all their rights that the,
have earned the full measure Of citi-
zenship bestowed, that their sacrifices
| in blood on the battlefields Of the re-
public have entitled them to all Of
freedom and opportunity, all of sympa-
thy and aid that the American spirit
of fairness and justice demands.
believe there is an easy and open path
to righteous relationship with Mexico.
1t has seemed to me that our undevel-
oped, uncertain and infirm policy has
made us culpable party to the gov
! ernmental misfortunes in that land.
Our relations ought to be both friendly
and sympathetic. We would like to ac-
claim a stable government there and
| offer neighborly hand in pointing out
| the way to greater progress. believe
4 In law enforcement. If elected I mean