The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-22
Good Roads.

i The one COMPENSATION amid attend
/! ing anxieties is our new and neeoeo
! realization of the vital part ITanspor-
/ tation plays in the complexities o.
I modern life We are not TO think OF
rails alone. but highways from farm
/ to market, from railway TO farm, ar
teries of life-blood to present-day me-
! the quickened ways TO communica-
1 ton and exchange, the answer OF our
! people TO the motor age. We beiieIe
I In generous federal cooperation IN
construction, linked with assurances
! of maintenance that viii put an emo
4 to criminal waste OF public funds on
the one hand and give a guaranty OF
upkept highways on the other.
Water transportation is inseparaoiy
linked with adequacy of facilities, anu
we favor American eninence on the
seas, the practical development OF m
land waterways. the up-building ana
coordination of all to make them equal
to and ready for every call OF devei-
loping and widening American COM
merce. / like that recommiital 70
thoughts OF America first wnlcn
pledges the Panama canal, an Ameri-
can creation to the free use or Amer
I can shipping 1t will add TO the
American reawakening.
One cannot speak OF industry and
commerce, and the transportation on
which they are dependent without an
earnest thought OF the abnormal cost
of living and the problems in its wake.
1t is easy to inveigh, but that ayahs
nothing And it is far TOO serious
i TO dismiss with flaming but futhe
promise.
Eight years ago, In tines OF peace
the democratici party made II an Is
sue, and when clothed with power
/ that party came near to its accom-
plishment by destroying the people
capacity to buy. But that was cure
worse than the ailment. 1t Is easy
to understand the real causes, after
which the patient must help to eHecl
1 his own cure.
DEPRECATED Dollar.
! Gross expansion of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar
just as expansion and imitation have
/ discrediited the coins OF the world
We inflated in haste, We must denate
in deliberation. We debased the dollar
/; in reckless finance, we must restore
/. in honesty. Deflation on the one
hand and restoration Of the l0o-cent
dollar on the other ought to have be-
gun on the day after the armlstlce,
/ but plans were lacking or courage
failed. The unpreparedness 1or
peace was little less costly than un-
preparedness for war
J We can promise no one remedy
which will cure an i'll of such wide
proportions, but we do pledge that
earnest and consistent attack which
! the party platform covenants. we
Twill attempt intelligent and courag-
eous defation and strike at govern
iment borrowing which enlarges the
evil, and we will attack high cost OF
government with every energy and
facility which attend republican ca
pacity. We promise that relief which
will attend the halting of waste and
extravaganza, and the renewal OF the
practice of public economy, not alone
because it will relieve tax burdens
but because it will be an example to
stimulate thrift and economy in pri-
vate life
! I have already alluded to the neces-
sity for the fullness of production,
and we need the fullness of service
which attends the exchange of pro-
ducts Let US speak the irrefutable
truth, high wages and reduced cost
! of living are in utter contradiction
unless we have the height OF efficien-
cy for wages received.
i In all sincerity we promise the pre-
vention of unreasonable profits. we
icnallenge profteering with all the
moral force and the legal powers OF
government and people, but it is fair,
aye, it is timely, to give reminder that
law is not the sole corrective of our
economic ills.
! Thrift and Economy.
/ Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy, for denial and
sacrifice if need be, for nation wide
drive against extravaganza and lux
ury, to recommittal to simplicity of
living, to that prudent and normal
plan of life which is the health of the
republic There hasn't been q re-
icovery from the waste and abnormal,
tiles Of war since the story of man
kind was first written, except through
work and saving, through industry
and denial, while needless spending
and needless extravaganza have mark
+! ed every decay in the history of ma
lions. Give the assurance of that
rugged simplicity of American life
(which marked the first century of
amazing development and this genera
! ton may underwrite a second century
of surprising accomplishment.
i The 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
failed in it's realization that agricul-
ture is essentially the foundation of
our very existence, and it has ever
been our policy, purpose and perfor-
nance to protect and promote that
essential industry.
! New conditions, which attend
amazing growth and extraordinary in
dustrial DEVELOPMENT, call for a new