The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-07-22

tune permanent we 10 not oppose,
but approve. collective bargaining, be-
cause that Is an outstanding right, but
we are unalterably insistent that its
exercise must not destroy the equally
sacred right of the individual in his
necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any
American has the right to quit his en-
ployment; SO has every American the
| right to seek employment. The group
must not endanger the Individual and
we must discourage groups preying
upon one another, and none shall be
allowed to forget that the govern
ment's obligations are alike to all the
people.
We are so confident that much of
the present-day insufficiency and in
efficiency of transportation are due to
the whitening hand of government OPP
| GRAFTON that we emphasize anew our
opposition to government ownership
We want to expedite the reparation
and make sure the mistake is not REL
peated.
A state of inadequate transporta-
tion facilities, mainly chargeable to
| the failure of governmental expert
ment, is losing millions to agriculture;
1t is hindering industry; it is menac-
ing the American people with a fuel
| emphasizes the present-day problem
and suggests that spirit of encourage
ment and assistance which commits all
America to relieve such an emergency.
Gross expansion of currency and
| credit have deprecated the dollar just
as expansion and initiation have dis
credited the coins of the world. We
inflated in haste; we must deflate in
deliberation. We debased the dollar
In reckless finance; We must restore
In honesty.
In all sincerity we promise the pre-
| ventiOn Of unreasonable profits; we
challenge profiteering with all the
moral force and the legal powers Of
government and people, but it is fair
aye it is timely-to give reminder
that law is not the sole corrective of
our economic ills.
Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy. for denial and sac
rifice IL need be. for simplicity of liv-
ing to that prudent and normal plan
| of life which 10 the health Of the re-
public
New conditions which attend amaz-
ing growth and extraordinary indus
trial development call for a new and
forward-looking program.
The American farmer had hun
dred and twenty millions to feed in the
home market, and heard the cry of the
world for food and answered 1t, though
he faced an appalling task amid handi-
caps never encountered before.
Contemplating the defenselessness
of the individual farmer to meet the
organized buyers of his products and
| the distributors OF the things the farmer
| buys, hold that farmers should not
only be permitted but encouraged to
join In cooperative association to reap
the just measure of reward merited
by their arduous toll.
Our platform is an earnest pledge
of renewed concern for this most es-
sential and elemental industry and in
both appreciation and interest we
pledge effective expression in law and
| practice. We will hail that cooperation
which again will make profitable and
| desirable the ownership and operation
| of comparatively small farms inten-
| sively cultivated and which will facili-
tate the caring for the products Of
firm and orchard without the lament
able waste under present conditions
America would look with. anxiety on
| the discouraeement Of farming act
ivity either through the governmeat's
| neglect or Its paralysis BY S0cialistic
practices. A Republican administra-
| tion will be committed to renewed re-
gard for agriculture and ssek the par
ticipAtion Of farmers in curing the ills
| justly complained Of and aim to place
the American farm where It ought to
| he, highly ranked In American Iactivi-
ties and fully sharing the highest good
| fortunes Of American life.
Becomingly associated with this sub
| ject are the policies Of irrigation and
| reclamation SO essential to agricultural
| expansion and the continued develop
ment of the great and wonderful west.
| 1t Is our purpose to continue and en-
| large federal aid not in sectional par
tiaiity but for the good OF all America.
believe the budget system will ef
feet a necessary helpful reformation
and reveal business methods to govern
-ment business.
believe Federal Departments
| should be made more businessrlike and
send hack to productive effort thou
sands of federal employee who are
| tial at all. esas ia-
l believe ia the protective tAriff
policy and know We Will be calling for
its saving Amsricanism again.
/ believe II great Aeschant Mar
Inc. w0uld have this republic the
leading maritime nation Of the world.
| I believe In a navy ample to protect
II and able to assure us dependable de-
Tense. believe In 4 small army. but
the best In the world, worth q mind
fulness for preparedness which will
avoid the unuttsrabse cost Of our pre-
vious neglect.
I-beiieve in our sminence In trade
abroad, which the government should
aid in expanding both In revealing
markets and speeding cargoes. l be-
lieve In establishing standards for i'm
migration, which are concerned with
the future citizenship of the republic,
not with mere man-power In industry.
halIaua that every man who dnna