The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-03

fof post war conditions ana are de-S manding and receiving outrageous profits.
 We pledge the Democratic party to
 a policy of strict economy in govern
 n1ent expenditures and to the enact | ment and enforcement of such 1egis- lation as may be required to bring profiteers before the bar of criminal justice.
 Tho Tariff.
 We reaf1irm the Traditional policy of the Democratic party in favor of a tariff for revenue only and to con | firm the policy of basing tariff re- I visions upon the intelligent research ! of a non-partisan commission rather | than upon the demands of selfish in | terests, temporarily held in abey- lance.
 Senate Rules.
 We favor such alteration of the rules of procedure of the Senate of the United States as will permit the | legislative business.
 Budget.
 In the interest of economy and good administration we favor the l creation of an effective budget sys- | tenn that will function in accord with | the principles of the constitution. The reform should reach both the execu- | tive ana leS1S1dl1Fe dSpeClS Ol tliS 1 question. The supervision and pre- paration of the budget should be vest | ed in the secretary of the treasury as the representative of the president. The budget, as such, .sh ou1d not be | increased by the congress except by | two-thirdS vote, each house, how ever, being free to exercise it's con- | stitutiona1 privilege of making appro | priations through independent bills. 1 The appropriation bills should be con-
 sidered by single committees of the | House and Senate. The audit sys | tenn should be consolidated and its | powers expanded so as to pass upon 1 the wisdom of as well the author 1 ity for expenditures.
 ] A budget bill was passed in the | closing days of the second session Of | the Sixty-Sixth Congress which inval- 1 idated the plain constitutional re- <, fleets and defaced by considerations 1 of patronage, the president was obl1g- l ed to veto. The house amended the 1 bill to meet the executive objection. l We condemn the Republican Senate for adjourning without passing the | amended measure, when by devoting 1 an hour or two more to this urgent l public business a budget system could | have been provided.
 | Agricultural Interests.
 To the great agricultural interests l of the country the Democratic party i does not find it necessary to make promises It already is rich in it's record of things actually accomplish ed. For nearly half a century Of Republican rule not a sentence was
 written into the federal statutes af- fording one dollar of bank credits to the farming interests of America. In the first term of this Democratic ad- | ministration the national bank act so
 altered as to authorize loans of five years maturity on improved farm lands Later was established a sys- tenn of farm loan banks from which
 the borrowings already exceed $3o0,- OOO,OO and under which the interest
 rate to farmers has been so material
 ly reduced as to drive out of business
 the farm loan sharks who formerly
 subsisted by extortion upon the great
 agricultural interests of the country. Thus it was a Democratic congress
 in the administration of a Democratic | president which enabled the farmers
 of America for the first time to ob-
 tain credit upon reasonable terms and
 insured their opportunity for the fu-
 ture development of the nations az
 ricultural resources. Tied up in su-
 preme court proceedings, in a suit by | hostile interests, the federal farm
 loan system originally opposed by the
 Republican candidate for the presl-
 dency. appealed in vain to a Repubh-
 can congress for adequate financial | assistance to tide over the interim
 between the beginning and the ending
 of the current year, awaiting a final
 decision of the highest court on the
 validity of the contested act we i, pledge prompt and consistent support | off m tC
 sustain. amplify and perfect the rural credits statutes and thus to check and reduce the growth and
 course of farm tenancy.
 Not only did the Democratic party } put into effect a great farm loan system of land and mortgage banks ) but it passed the Smith-Jever agri- cultural extension act, carrying te : every farmer in every section of the
 l country through the medium o1
 trained experts and by demonstration
 farms, the practical knowledge ac'
 quired by the federal agricultura ) department in all things relating te : agriculture, horticulture and anima f life; it established the bureal of mar ? kets, the bureau of farm manage : ment and passed the cotton future act the grain grades bill, the coop erative farm administration act, ane
 the federal warehouse act
 The Democratic party has vastl! improved the rural mail system tt such an extent as to render it's ac tivities and it's practical service in dispenSib1e to the farming commun
 1 ity. It was this wise encouragement 1 and this effective concern of the Dem ! | ocratic party for the farmers of tn
 l United States that enabled this grea I interest to render such essential ser
 | he iaS of Aroo orj r. ca and the allied nations in the wa S and succoring starving population s since armistice day. = Meanwhile the Republican 1eader l at Washington have failed utterly t r propose one single measure to mak S trural life more tolerable. They hav' f ,signalized their 5 months of con - gressional power by urging scheme n which would strip the farms of labor