The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-11

branches of the federal government in
which women employed.
Federal aid for vocational training
should take into consideration the spe
| cial aptitudes and needs of-women workers.
I'VE demand federal legislation to limit
the hours of employment of women en-
gagged in intensive industry. the product
of which enter into interstate commerce.
Housing.
1.-THE housing shortage has not only COM
PEELED careful tudy of ways of stfmulatinE
building but 1t has brought into relief
the unsatisfactory character of the housing
accommodations of large numbers of the
inhabitants of our cities. nation Of home
owners is the best guaranty of the malh-
tenanee of those principles of liberty ana
law and order upon which our government
is founded. Both national and state gov
ways the acquiring of homes by our citi;
zens. The United States government should
make available the valuable Information on
housing and town planning collected dur
ing the war This information should be
kept up to date and made currently avail
able.
"For Hawaii we recommend federal as
sistancc in Americanizing and educating
their greatly disproportionate foreign pop
ulation; home rule; and the rehabilitation
of the Hawaiian race.
Foreign Relntions-Mexico.
THE ineffective policy of the present
| administration in Mexican matters has
upon our border; for the loss of American
and foreign property: for the lowering of
American standards of morality and social
| relations with MeXicans, and for the bring
ing of American ideals of Justice and ma
/ tional honor and political integrity into
contempt and ridicue in Mexico and thru
out the world.
THE policy - wordy, futile written pro
tests against the act OF Mexican officials
explained the following day by the presi-
dent himself as being meaningless and not
intended to be considered seriously or en-
for hoe hut oil ta1 n
contempt and has earned for us sneers
and Jeers of Mexican bandits and added
insult upon, insult against our national
| Tho Service Men.
[ I'VE should not recognize any Mexican
| government unless it be q responsible
I government, willing and able to give suf-
Iicient guarantee that the lives aud prop
erty Of American citizens are respected and
| corrected and just compensation will be
made for injuries sustained. The Repub-
/ lican party pledges itself TO consistent,
| firm and effective policy toward Mexico
I that shall enforce respect for the Amezi-
can flag and that shall protect the rights
of American citizens lawfully in Mexico
1 to security of life and enjoyment Of prop
erty in connection with established inter
national law and our treaty rights.
The Republican party Is sincere TREND
of the Mexican people: In its insistenee
upon the maintenance Of order for the pro-
| lection of American citizens within ITS
| borders, great service will be rendered
the Mexican people themselves, for con-
| tinuation of present. conditions means dis
| aster to their interests and patriotic aspira-
Foreign Relations.
| "(a) League of Nations-The foreign
policy of the administration has been
| founded upon no principle and directed by
no definite conception of our nations
rights and obligations. 1t has been hui
initiating to America and irritating to other
/ nations, with the result that after period
| of unexampled sacrifice our motives are
suspected. our moral influence impaired
| and our government stands discredited and
friendless among the nations of the world.
Favor Liberal Foreign Policy.
eve favor liberal and generous foreign
policy founded upon definite moral anu
Understanding of and firm adherence to
our own rights and unfailing respect for
the rights of others. We should AFFORD
full and adequate protection to the life;
| liberty and\ property and all international
rights of every American citizen and should
require proper RESPECT ror the to naT
! fest just regard for the rights OF other
nations. -
| "A scrupulous observance of our inter
national engagements when lawfully as,
sumed is essential to our own honor and
self-respect and the respect of other ma
tons. Subject to a due regard for our IN
| ternational obligations, we should have
| our country free to develop Its civilization
along the line most conducive TO the nap
| piness and welfare of the people. and to
! cast its influence on the side of justice anu
right should occasion require
| Condemns Armenian Mandate.
ave condemn President Wilson for
asking congress to empower MN TO ae-
! ance of such mandate would throw the
United States into the very maelstrom
of European quarrels According to the
estimate of the Harbord commission,
organized by authority of President Will
son. we would be called upon to send
| and to expend S276 600, 900 in the first year
and SI50,000,O00 IN five years. This esti-
mate is made upon the superstition that
we would have only rowing bands to
| fight. but in case of serious trouble with
the Turks or with Russia. force exceed
! ing 100000 would be needed.
mo more striking Illustration can be
found of President Wilson's disregard
of the lives of American boys or Ameri-
can interests.
1--WE deeply sympathize with the peo-
pie of Armenia and stand ready to help
them in all proper ways, but the Re
after the acceptance Of a mandate for any
country in Europe or Asia.
League of Nations.
"The Republican party stands for agree
ment among the nations to preserve the
an association must be based inter
national Justice and must provide methods
right by development of law and the de-
cision of impartial courts. and which shall
secure instant ana general international
conference whenever peace shall be threat
ened by political action, so that the
lions pledged to do and insist upon what
is just and fair may exercise their in
flueNce and power for the prevention of
war. We believe that all this can be done
without the compromise of national indie
pendence. without depriving the people Of
the United States in advance of the right
to determine for themselves what is just
and fair. when the occasion arises and
without involving them participants and
not as peacemakers in n multitude ~ quar-
rels. the merits Of which they are unable
to judge.
1.-THE covenant signed by the president
at Paris, failed signally to accomplish this
purpose and contained stipulations not
only intOlerable for an independent peo-
! pie. but certain to produce the injustice.
hostility and controversy among nations
which 1t proposed to prevent.
Repudinted Q. S. Policies.
| "That covenant repudiated to n degree
/ wholly unnecessary and uuiustifiable tha