The Arizona copper camp., 1920-11-06
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Inevitably, as other countries face
the necessity of exporting more than
they import in order to restore their
trade balance, they will endeavor to
undersell us in our own markets.
and it will be necessary for us to
return to the Republican policy of
protection, wisely adjusted, to meet
these particular conditions.
All these problems must be studied
carefully and intelligently We must
encourage agriculture, because that
is the basis of all industrial life. AS
have said heretofore, the number of
farms in America and their produc-
ing capacity are not increasing fast
enough to keep the country on a
self-sustaining basis as to foods and
other articles of agricultural produc-
ton. Therefore, we have need,
through processes of reclamation and
development, to increase the rate at
which we are opening new farms.
Inevitably We shall find that our
nation must continue large i'm
porter, and in order that the balance
of trade shall not be disastrously
against us we must seek to export to
new foreign markets. To that end
there. must be new commercial treat
les and international trade agree
ments, whereby our business men
may gain the largest possible trade
expansion in the foreign field.
The present administration has exer-
cised such extraordinary war powers
as have never before been conferred
upon the American government. AS
result of this exercise we find our
selves in a time of great initiation and
recognize that there has been per-
sistent encouragement to dangerous
ly radical economic thought. 1t is
going to require the sober sense and
coo1-headed judgment of the whole
American people to put us back on
the high road of progress; and when
we have accomplished that, we will
be safe in putting behind the mechan-
ism all the power and vitality of
American energy and enterprise, and
we may safely expect to go ahead
to new and greater achievements.
We must get back to the methods
of business, without the hampering
restrictions and bullying methods
that have been so extensively intro
duced. Instead Of suspicion and
hostility which in recent years have
marked the relations between auto
cratic government and business, we
must introduce a spirit of mutual in
terest, of understanding and of will
ingness to cooperate.
We have had more than enough of
the curious theory that government
and business are hostile to each
other. They ought mutually to sup
port and sustain each other. 1t is
true, of course, that special favors
to particular businesses are always
to be avoided; but it is equally true
that special antagonism to businesses
must not be permitted. We want
fair deal for everybody and every
business, and we are going to have
an end to the sort of "new free
DOM under which some interests
have been oppressed and overtaxed,
while others have been permitted to
enjoy the privileges of profiteering
and privateering.
The Case of Sugar
American common sense will read
lily enough recognize that nothing
could be more ridiculous than the
appeal for continuance of regime
wherein one element of the COM
munity has been outrageously over
taxed while another has enjoyed op-
,portunity to exact such prices as
have been imposed on the great con-
Stunning public A single illustration,
which might be multiplied many
times, is found in the country's ex-
perence with sugar in the past year
The president vetoed the proposal
to buy, on behalf of the government,
the Cuban sugar crop of 1919-1920