Arizona republican., 1920-07-16

tons of nearly half of the democratic senators. that the Republicans wei come the issue. and will prove from ] Democratic statesmen that the league ! Of nations is full of danger 10 Amer | lean institutions. The president began | his activities in the settlement of the l war with the great hlunder of going abroad himself. instead of staying al home and sending a delegation of men | of both parties such Lansing, and | Taft and Justice White and Elihu Root l He made the mistake of not taking with him the members of the commit tee on foreign affairs in the senate. because t was necessary to convince the senate as to the wisdom of any ac- ton taken at Paris before such action could be approved. He did not take with him the members of the commit tee and therefore he has nobody to ] blame but himself for the certain fail ure of his pet scheme. He made an. other blunder in attempting to tie up the league of nations with the treaty of peace. This has kept us in a tech- nical state of war with Germany and Austria for more than a year after the armistice. He has forced the fight upon the people to defend the SOW ereignty of their country.
 The Democratic convention well il- illustrates the old saying that platforms are made to get in on. not to stand on. The platform of a party adopted at ] promises and wrong conclusions. The Democratic party has generally staked its success upon something which it called a paramount issue which was wrong in principle. Tn 1896 the orator from Nebraka declared that the para mount issue was free silver. but the Republican party followed the advice of Mir. Mckinley and opened the mills instead of the hints. and forever set tied the question of 16 to l. Tn 1900 Mir. Bryan insisted that the paramount issue was imperialism, but the Repub- lican party has given free government to Cuba and the Philippines and Porto Rico, and that while IL yet may have to take care of Mexico in order to establish free government there, it will still be the party that stands for the individual liberty of the citizen and for the protection of his life and property The Democratic platforms as you see have been full of sound and not sense They are often full of promises which are not fulfilled. In 1912 the Demo- cratic platform adopted at Baltimore calls for free toll for American ship ping through the Panama canal and the president himself made speech in it's favor in support of the law which gave the owners of American shipping free passage through the Panama canal on the theory that the Panama canal furnished merely an extension
 
 that ships can not be charged for the right to pass from one American port to another. But the administration of Woodrow Wilson was hardly a year old before the president forced his party leaders in both houses to adopt and enact a law repeating the act which gives American shipping free passage through the canal because the British government demanded it, on the ground that the law was a viola tion of the Clayton -Bulwer treaty. American money had paid for the canal but a foreign power was able to force the administration to violate it's own. platform. and put our own ship ping at a serious disadvantage with foreign shipping, notorious for under pay and inferior working conditions for the searnen.
 Billions Instead of Millions
 And then. the Democratic platform promised the country a budget system, but in seven years in which the presi- dent and his party controlled the ad- ministration and congress. absolutely nothing was done. This led to the vast and indescribable extravaganza of con gress and it became necessary to oper- ate the government in billions in- stead of millions. It was not until a budget law was passed. on then most wonderful to tell. strange as it is shocking, the president elected in 1913
 
 system vetoed the bill because it con- tained, he said, a provision which in vaded his executive rights and was therefore unconstitutional. There was nothing to prevent his signing the law if he really desired the system to be put into operation, and let the courts declare where it was invalid. as they could have done without impairing the operation of the law. But that would have meant that the republican party would have won the credit of estab- fishing the system so badly needed from the standpoint of economy and he seized upon a pretense to kill the bill, even though the public debt in terest is now more than the entire cost of the government prior to 1914 when the war broke out, and even though the new system would have enabled the administration, if it had been adopted before we got into war to save billions of dollars a year."
 Americanism
 In the study of the principles of this campaign, you as party workers, should insist that every speaker stand true to the principles of our govern ment. So far as I am concerned in my work for the election of Harding and Coolidge, | intend to drive home upon the heart and conscience Of everyne who listens to me the first paragraph of the Declaration of In
 
 | our liberties is found. I wish it would | be engraven upon the heart Of every American. We believe, it says, that all men are created free and equal: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights-among which are Life, Liberty and the pursuit 1 of happiness It is my intention to ] throw the high lights of patriotism upon the word Inalienable. I intend to explain to everyone who may listen to me that the Life, Liberty and Pur- l suit of Happiness obtained for us by the blood of the heroes of TIC cannot 1 be wasted away, or frittered away, or l given away, or voted away. l intend 1 to insist that the rights which are in alienable, and which we did not win 1 for ouselves, are ours to enjoy in fee l only while we live, and that when we die we must transmit them unchanged l uninjured and pure and true as they 1 were when we were born to enjoy their l blessings. They are ours now to enjoy but what we have enjoyed we must transmit to our descendants. But some 1 will say, it is possible that We have -I-.-