Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-22
CONSTITUTIONAL PARTY
GOVERNMENT, SAYS HARDING
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in reference to water transporta-
ton he said Water transportation
is inseparably linked with adequacy
of facilities, and we favor American
eminence on the seas, the practical
development of inland waterways,
the up-building and coordination OF
all to make them equal to and ready
for every call of developing and
widening American commerce. l
like that recommittal to thoughts of
American first, which pledges the
Panama canal, an American crea-
ton, to the free S of American
shipping. 1t will add to the Amer
lean reawakening."
1 The gross expansion of currency
4 called for the following comment
4 from the candidate:
Gross expansion of currency and
Bcredit has deprecated the dollar
just as expansion and imitation have
discredited the coins of the world.
We inflated in haste. we must de-
fate in elaboration. We debased
the dollar in reckless finance. W
must restore in honesty. Defation
on the one hand and restoration of
the 100-cent dollar on the other
ought to have begun on the day af-
ter the armistice, but plans were
lacking or courage failed. The I'M
preparedness for peace was little
less costly than unpreparedness FOR
a
1--WE can promise no one remedy
which will cure an i'll of such wide
proportions, but we do pledge that
earnest and consistent attack which
the party platform covenant. We
will attempt intelligent and cour-
ageous defation and strike at gov
eminent borrowing which enlarges
the evil, and we will attack high cost
of government with every energy
and facility which attend Republi-
can capacity. We promise that re-
lief which will attend the hating of
waste and extravaganza and the re-
newal of the practice of public econ
J omy, not alone because it will re-
slieve tax burdens but because it will
|be an example to stimulate thrift
and in private life"
Recalling that the Republican
party was founded by farmers, he
said:
"Our platform Is an earnest
pledge of renewed concern for this
most essential and elemental indus
try. and in both appreciation and
interest we pledge effective express
sion 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
facilitate the caring for the pro-
ducts of farm and orchard without
the lamentable waste under present
conditions.
America would look with ankle
ty on the encouragement of farm
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ernment's neglect or its paralysis
by socia1istic practices. A Repub-
lican administration will be COM
mitted to renewed regard for agri-
culture, and seek the participation
of farmers in curing the Ills justly
complained of, and aim to place
the American farm where it ought
to be-highly ranked in American
activities and fully sharing the
highest good fortunes of American
life"
In relation to Mexico, he said:
81 believe there is an easy and
that our undeveloped, uncertain
and infrm policy a made us a
open path to righteous Relationship
with Mexico. 1t has seemed to me-
culpable party to the governmental
misfortunes in that land. Our rela.
\ lions ought to be both friendly and
sympathetic; we would ike 10 &C
= claim a stable government there
and offer a neighborly hand IN
pointing the way to greater pro-
gress. 1t will be simple to have a
plain and neighborly understanding,
merely an understanding about re-
specting our borders, about pro
tecting the lives and possessions OF
American citizens lawfully within
the Mexican .dominions. There mus
be that understanding, else there
a be no recognition, and then the
understanding must be faithfully
kept"
In conclusion he said:
"With an unalterable faith and In
a hopeful spirit, with a hymn OF
service in my heart, I pledge fdel.
ity to our country and to God, and
accept the nomination of the Re-
publican party for the presidency
of the United States"