The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-07-23

pAoNS SOIlCStlNc DdI EdluluS a
that is an outstanding right but we
are unalterably insistent that its ex-
ercise must not destroy the equally
sacred right of the individual in his
necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any
American has the right to quit his
employment; so has every American
the right to seek employment. The
group must not endanger the indi-
vidual, and we must discourage groups
preying upon one another and none
shall be allowed to forget that the
governments 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
operation that we emphasize anew our
opposition to government ownership.
We want to expedite the reparation
and make sure the mistake is not
repeated.
A state of inadequate transportation
facilities, mainly chargeable to the
failure of governmental experiment, is
losing millions to agriculture. 1t is
hindering industry, it is menacing the
American people with a fuel shortage
little less than a peril. 1t emphasizes
the present-day problem and suggests
that spirit of encouragement and as
sistance 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 debate in
d~eliberation. We debased the dollar
in reckless finance, we must restore in
honesty. In all sincerity we promise
the prevention of unreasonable profits,
we challenge prOfteering 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 lot the sole corrective of Our
economic ills.
Let US call to all the people for
thrift and economy, for denial and
sacrifice if need be for a nationwide
drive against extravaganza and lux.
ury, to Il recommittal tO simplicity of
living, to that prudent and normal
plan Of life which is the health of the
republic. New conditions which at.
tend amazing growth and eXtraordin.
airy industrial development call for q
new and forward looking program
The American farmer had a hundred
and twenty millions to feed in the
home market, and heard the cry of the
world for food and answered it
though he faced an appalling task
amid handicapS encountered be.
fore. Contemplating the defenseleSS
ness of the individual farmer to meet
the organized buyers of his products
and the distributors of the things the
farmer buys, | hold that farmers
%cOuraged to join in cooperative associ
alton to reap the just measure of re
ward merited by their arduous toll.
Our platform i~ an earnest pledge
of renewed concern for this most es
sential and elemental industry and il
'''' w tl" lltNINS wv
pledge effective expression in law an,
practice. We will hail that coopera
ton which again will make profitabl,
and desirable the ownership and op
GRAFTON of comparatively small farm,
intensively cultivated. and which vii
facilitate the caring for the products
of farm and orchard without the la
mentahle waste under present cOndi
tons.
America would look with anxiety OF
the Encouragement of farming activ
ity either through the government
neglect or its paralysis by socialist
practices. A Republican administra
ton will be committed to renew regart
for agriculture, and seek the partici
patton of farmers in curing the i'll
justly complained of, and aim to plac,
the American farm where it ought t,
be highly ranked in American activi
ties and fully sharing the highest goo,
fortunes of American life.
Becomingly associated With thi
subject are the policies of irrigation
and reclamation, SO essential to agri
cultural expansion, and the continue,
devffopmcnt of the great and wonder
full west. 1t is our purpose to continu
and enlarge federal aid, not in sec
tional Partially, but for tie good o
all America.
| believe the budget system vii
effect a necessary, helpful reformation
and reveal business methods to gov
eminent business.
believe federal departments Shoul
he made more h~uSincSSlike and sen,
back to productive effort thousands o
federal employees, who are either du
plicating work or not essential at al
believe in the protective tariff
policy and know we will he calling fo
its saving AmerieauiSm again.
believe in a great merchant ma
rinc. | would have this republic tn
leading maritime nation of the worlt
l believe in Il navy ample To protcc
and able to assure US dependable dc
Tense.
l believe in a small army but III
best in the world with Il mindfulneS
for preparedness which would avoi
the u%nutterahlc cost of our previou
neglect.
| believe in our eminence in trad
abroad. which the government shout
aid in expanding both in ~revcaIin
markets and speeding carGoc<.
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