Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-12
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.


the party sages% Doubtless, it is neither and BOTH
The compromise Judgment of group of men is apt
TO be saner than the judgment of any one person
on the other hand, conflicting opinions often strike
ridiculous compromises.
A few hours spent upon the Geographic copy OF
the platform leads to feel it, in the main, to be
sane and statesmanlike. We wonder how the dem
ocratic party possibly do as well without re-
pudiating their car the president. They will be
handicapped by his folles.
The criticisms of our unpreparedness for war
are a just indictment against the democratic party
If our allies had not protected us for year while
we went into national gymnasium and put our
selves into condition dreadful calamity would nave
overtaken
The end of the war found unprepared for
peace as for
The clinging of the president to his wartime
powers has upset the checks and balances of our
government and has set precedents of danger to
our Institutions A return constitutional govern
ment is first great task
None will criticize the determination to stop war
time exravagances and the bringing of our finances
to sounder footing.
The attention given to agriculture and its en-
couragment, by loans and protective legislation
shows statesmanhke insight into the fundamentals
of our being a self-sustaning nation.
We wish the platform had emphatically af-
firmed the belief in industry being "a co-partner-
ship in a common task" instead of doing so only
by inference The industrial planks reasonably
firm and just They show that the evolution toward
economic justice is on the way. radically ad-
vanced position hardly to be expected and, per-
haps, would have been unwise
The criticism of the executive for his veto of the
budget system was just denunciation. The pro
posed program of readjusment and reorganization
of bureaus is Of vast and vital interest If economy
of administration is to be had.
One of the commendable features of the plat
is the frank confession that taxes must con-
tinue TO be high No effort at demogogery was
made by promises incapable of fulfillment.
saner taxation policy is possible and is promised
Many inequalities and annoyances and will be
eliminated
The banking and currency readjustments prom
ised are sane and businesske and will result in
increasing the value of the Liberty bonds in the
hands of the people. The denunciation of the poiti-
cal methods of the Federal Reserve Board were
deserved. Political banking is indeed. obnoxious
as domination by financial combnations under the
old system Our federal banking system must be
free from both.
The cost-of- living plank is frank, statesmanlike
and free from the usual play upon hopes and preju-
dices. A change from the absurd hide and -go-seek
political methods of Attorney General Palmer can
and will be had.
The American mandate deserves, and will re-
ceive, separate treatment by us.
Upon the ideas of a tariff upon the principle Of
protection merchant marine under our own flag
and carefully supervised immigration to assure as
Sanitation of the newcomers are quite agreed
The stand taken for free speech and its limta-
ton only when preaching the overthrow of the
government will meet approval from thinking
people.
The policy of encouraging road building for both
economic and military reasons, is a forward-Iooking
program, is the policy of the leasing of public
mineral lands conservation and reclamation.
Or especial interest to New Mexico is the promise
of the equalization of benefits in road construction
in states where large tracts held from taxation
through being in forest reserves
We approve the demand that republican states
complete the ratification of womans suffrage.
The Mexican plank, accidentally omitted from
the text yesterday but printed into todays issue is
firm, dgnified and lacking in any threat Our flag
must be respected citizens must be safe. More
action and less talk is the program outlined. Mexico
will understand what the republican party means
and will bend to the inevitable. Firmness avoids
war; weakness invites it,
Photographic explanations of the accidental abb
sence of prohibition plank fail to appeal to us.
The facts may eliminate a suspicion of manipula-
ton.
The League of Nations plank meets our approval
We favor League Of Nations, but not the League of
Nation covenant brought home by President Wilson.
We favor International relations being based
upon law, exactly as human relations are SO based
in America. We provide code. in our American
commonwealths, that each person may know ex-
pcity what the law is For its violation there is a
punishment meted out after formal trial and
viction.
International law is, at present, not only
written but undetermined. The nations should
upon what constitutes the law of nations and
should put it into CODE public sentiment is built
up to approve new and more enlightened provisions
should be added Every nation should know when
1t is within the law
International courts should try offending nations
and the strong of all should enforce its de-
crees Such basis is Such basis is be-
eved in by Elihu Root. the great international
statesman and lawyer, who wrote this plank.
By such traditions be preserved
entangling alliances be avoided the issue of the
hour can determine course; viii be com
mitted to nothing except the enforcement of law.
We believe in League of Nations We believe
we owe duty to our allies to stand by them to the