Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-08
Party Keynote
Sounded by Lodge
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heirs and assigns. or anybody that is his.
anybody who with bent knee has served
his purposes, must be driven from all
control, from all influence upon the
Government Of the United States.
They must be driven from Office and
power, not because they are Democrats,
but because Mr.. Wilson stands for a
theory Of administration and govern :
ment which is not American. =.
'The return of the Democrats to
power with Mr.. Wilson or one of his
disciples still the leader and master of
great party, which before his advent
possessed both traditions and principles.
would be long step in the direction
of the autocracy for which Mr.. Will
son yearns and a heavy blow to the
continuance Of free representative gov
ernment as we have always conceived
and venerated it.
"Mr. Wilson and the autocracy he
represents, and all which those who be :
| lieve in his doctrines and share his
spirit represent. must be put aside and
conclusively excluded from any future
control.
THE defeat of the present admins
tration and all it means, transcends in
Importance every other question and all
| immediate and dominant issues are
bound up with it. Without that defeat
every chance of the right settlement of
the mighty questions before US, so
sorcly needed now and not later, will
depart.
ITO maintain law and order and a
stable government where justice rules
and the right Of all men, high and low
rich and poor, shall Je protected, we
must have a government of the people
duly chosen by the people, and never
must there be permitted any govern :
ment by a single man or by group OF
men, or by an organized minority.
Economic Reform Necessary
"Many vital economic measures, and
especially protective tariff legislation tc
guard our industries, are impossible
with Democratic free trader of social :
istic proclivities in the White House. TIC
accomplish such measures as these. we
must have, as we intend to have, Re-
publican President, in sympathy with q
Republican House and Senate.
The rise of prices, the high cost oi
living which reach daily into every
home, is the most pressing, as it is the
most difficult and most essential prob
lem which confronts us. Some of the
sources of this trouble can be reached
by legislation, although not all. but
everything that can be effected by law
should be done at once.
'Profteering. the charging Of extor
tionate and unjustified prices, which /!
stupid as we'll as unlawful. are sub
ject now to ample punitive laws. Those
laws should be enforced, others II neces
sary added, and the offenders both great
and small should be pursued and pun
ished.
'"Thc most essential remedy for higl
costs of living, Is to keep up and IN
crease production and PARTICULAR!
should every effort be made to advance
the productivity of the farms.
THE phrase government ownership
means not only that the government
shall own the railroads, but also, 1t Il
to be feared, that those who run tn
railroads shall own the government
General government ownership unde
our political system would inevitabl!
bring the mastery of the government b!
those who operate the machinery o
, transportation or of any other industries
which come into government possession
The rights of the general public, TO
whom all industries exist, would disap
pear under this scheme and nothing
would be left to the people except tn
duty OF paying taxes to support tn
roads.
Mexican Outrages Unheedod
"0ver 600 Americans have been mur
dered in Mexico. Carranza insulted tn
American Government in every possibl
way and still nothing was done. w
fell 40 low that when an American wa!
seized by one of the many bands o
brigands and held for ransom, all tina
the government of the United State
would do was to offer to be the chan
mel for conveying the ransom Of thei
} citizens to the highwaymen who ha
seized him. wt
i We have watched and waited lon