Omaha daily bee., 1920-02-24
CHARTER Diet
HEARS WOOD ON
U. S. PROBLEMS
Sets Forth Principles in Trib-
ute to Washington Re-
garded by Many as His
Platform.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 25.-(Special) }
Major General Leonard Wood
speaking before the state constitu-
tional convention this afternoon,
paid tribute to George Washington
and, in so doing, set forth principles
which were regarded by many as a
summary of his own campaign plat
form for the republican presidential
nomination.
Previously he addressed the local
Wood fdt President club and lat
er in the day he inspected the Uni
versity of Nebraska cadets.
At the constitutional convention,
General Wood said:
Washington was one of the great
founders and builders We are the
inheritors. The problem which con-
fronts Us is one OF keeping alive and
holding on to traditions and policies
which have made us what we are.
They are basic and elementary, as
basic and elementary as the ten
commandments and, from the stand
point of or nat.oral life, as i'm
portant -..
Protection for Industry.
I'VE must adhere absolutely to a
government under the constitution,
avoid class legislation, uphold the
rights of property, the law, the
constituted authorities. We must not
permit the establishment in this
country of an autocracy of either
wealth or of labor.
We must do all in our power to
promote good business, to increase
production, which is the only reme-
dy for the high cost of living.
We must extend the largest
measure of opportunity to each and
every citizen. We must establish
conditions which will insure to every
sound and normal man and woman
fair and workable chance to earn
a living, to receive what each earns
fair and workable chance to mar
~ and support family and give
the children reasonble opportunity
Tor a reasonable start
Must Extend Agriculture.
We must extend and maintain in
a ilourishing condition our agricul-
ture, for it is the main source of
our wealth and stability.
We must establish industrial JUS
tice. with square deal to both lab
or and capital
I'VE must free business from the
strangle hold of the excess profit
tax
We must spread the.wa burden
over a longer period of years.
We must strive to have friendly
relations with all nations. and en-
tangling alliances with none. We
mast preserve our freedom of ac-
ton, our freedom to respond to the
only mandate which we, as a free
people, can recognize-the mandate
which comes from the American
eonscience-American public opin-
ion. ar....
I'VE must maintain a good and
efficient army-not large one
ar i an ever-ready navy.
Rigid Economy Needed.
I'VE should conduct our govern
ment on lines of rigid economy,
each department of the government
functioning strictly within its own
constitutional limitations.
I'VE must build up merchant
marine as means of developing
our commerce and as reserve for
our navy.
I'VE must give our youth some
form of brief training for national
service-training which will COM
bine industrial, vocational and citi-
zenship- training with a limited
amount of military instruction. Dur
ing this period of instruction we
must take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to correct physical defects of
the men through proper physical
training and to rid them of diseases
which threaten society and to teach
them personal and general santa
ton.
I'VE must maintain our judiciary
free from intimidation and free
from political Influence.
"Our foreign policy should be a
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