The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-10-21
Harding and Coolidge
AND
Good Government

TO THE AMERICAN VOTER:
Are you satisfied, even content, with existing conditions of life?
OF course you are not.
You are budened with taxation and the high cost of living.
For everything entering into your daily life you are paying a abb
norma pnce-an unprecedented price.
Why?
Largely if not altogether, because Of the extravaganza of government
at Washington-because of padded payrols-because of colossal waste
following the war-because of looseness, laxiy, inefcency and ncom-
potency in handling the countys affairs.
You re paying the bills for all this = you, Americans, men and
women, who make up the good citizenship of this nation.
You are paying, and paying dearly, for all this.
Your Liberty Bonds-th@e l. O. VI of Uncle Sam-in which you
invested so proudly, SO generously, So periodically, to help win the war,
are today below par. You made sacrifices, some of you, most of you, to
buy them. and now, with the war long over, but with peace not yet fully
established, you must make further sacrifices, if compelled to sell those
Liberty Bonds, in order to meet the abnormal conditions confronting you
and entering into your daily life at every turn.
Think of the tragic climax thus put upon your patriotism!
WAR MEANS WASTE. WAR is WASTE. BUT WAR WASTE
SHOULD HAVE ENDED WITH THE ENDING OF WAR. 1t did not
end then-it has not ended. 1t ha, gone o. prodigaly-shameful.
And you, longsufering American citizens, are paying the bil-payins in
taxes and high cost of living the price of it all
Is not time to call a hat-high time?
A Republican Congress cutaled governmental extravaganza to the
extent of TWO BILLIONS or more-reduced the department estimates
to that extent in spite of the resistance and obstruction of the Wilson
Administration. Think of that! But that vas just the beginning of re-
uenchment and reform which cannot be effected fully until the Executive
and Legislative departments of the government are working together e-
6cenhy and in unison to bring about retrenchment and reform. And this
means A COMPLETE CHANGE AT WASHINGTON-the substitution of
efficiency for inehciency, capacity for incapacity, all along the line.
Then, and then only, will you be relieved of the burdens you ar car
ying today.
You are hearing talk about Americas duty to the world. Much Of
it is intended solely for campaign purposes and is as full of deception as
the cry, HE kept US nut of war" the Democratic slogan of 1916, when
the Administration at Washington knew full well that no power under
Heaven could keep US out of war, and that in fact at the very moment
when ar election was being scaniy won by false pretences, the Nation
was even then virtually at war;.
America do her duty to the wondi
When, pray, did America ever fail to do her duty-her full duty
in any crisis or contingency affecting mankind? Never!
And America can be counted upon as confidently in the future as
she has been counted upon in the past.
AMERICA is A DUTY DOING NATION. Any suggestion to the
contrary-whatever the individual view as to the adjustment of world
affairs, whether through a League of Nations or not-is an afront to
every true American and must be dealt with as such.
The Republican Party pledges you Good Government. 1t pledges
to you efficiency, economy, courage and the square deal. 1t pledges you
IN American govenment-he sort of government that a long and ilustr-
JUS line of Republican Presidents have given this Republic.
DO NOT ALLOW YOUR COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN THE
RESULT TO KEEP YOU FROM THE POLLS ON ELECTION DAY.
Do v0r duty Al a ciizen-an alert .wde-awake, American citizen