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amitous regime, which, though a few
men who are in perfect accord" seel,
TO perpetuate it, the American people
mean to put to an end with a sigh
of relief, and the exclamation, That's
over at last!'
I'VE must face the new tasks. We
have had a fever of high prices and
excessive production out of the sacli,
ficed billions of treasure and millions
of lives, but the reconstruction must
be sober business, founded on an un-
changing principle. We must summon
the best abilities of America to pu.
America back on the main road, and
to remove the debris of the last eight
years, and to keep our industries rum
ming, and to restore the proper ratio
of prosperity to our American agii.
culture so that it can again bid for
good standard labor. The day of the
one-man war-power form of govern
ment must yield to the sound pracice
of the republic.
I'VE must repeal and wipe out a
mass of executive orders and laws,
which failing to serve effectively that
purpose, serve only to leave American
business in anxiety, uncertainty and
darkness.
1--WE must readjust our tarif, and
this time with special regard for the
new economic menace to our Amerl-
can agriculture as well as factory.
Must Readjust Taxation.
1--WE must readjust our internal tax
alton, especially the excess profits
tax, to remove the burdens it imposes
upon the will to create and produce,
whether that will is the will of the
big corporation, the small corporation
or of the individual
I'VE must uproot from our national
government the yearning to undertake
enterprises and experiments which
were never intended as the work Of
our government, and which have
proved ineffective to point which
sickens us ALL and that our govern
ment is incapable of performing with
out wreckage of chaos. Of necessity,
the machinery of government expands
| as we grow in numbers as people,
but before government expands in bu-
| reaucratic control of business, its
sponsors ought first to demonstrate
| q capacity to conduct the business Of
government. When government Itself
|
lions a year, in times of peace, it has
business of it's own to look after
without seeking new fields TO conquer
until it has proven capacity Tor the
tasks it must perform.
I'VE must, instead of such expert
ments, establish a closer understand
ing between American government
| and American business, so that one
may serve the other, and the other
obey and seek cooperation.
| I'VE must give government cooper.
alton to business, we must protect
American business at home, and we
must aid and protect it abroad by the
upbuilding Of our merchant marine.
and a restoration of our self-respecting
measure Of American protection to her
citizens wherever they may go upon
righteous errandS.
Build into New Strength.
1--WE must build our economic life
into new strength and we must do 1t
so that our prosperity shall not be the
J prosperity of profiteers nor of special
privilege.
I'VE must do 1t so that abroad we
are known not as a nation strutting
one that knits friendly and peaceful
relations by the shuttle of honorable
deeds.
I'VE must do it so that at home our
economic life yields opportunity to
every man not to have that which he
has not earned, whether he be the
capitalist or the. most humble laborer,
but to have a share in prosperity
based upon his own merit, capacity
and worth-under the eternal spirit of
America First"
american business has suffered
from staggering blows because Of too
much ineffective meddling by govern
ment. and it is equally true that good
government has almost been allowed
to die on our hands, because it has not
utilized the first sound principles of
American business.
The American people have paid
and are paying. With return to
sanity we now have another task be-
fore us in making the administrative
part of our government one in which
a people, proud of their abilities in
: business, can take pride.
I'VE must not let our administrative
government crack under the load of its
new burdens or those that our future
may place upon it. 1t has been crack
ing badly, sometimes neglected during
, absence, and sometimes exploited at
J home by those who, now in perfect
accord" desire to perpetuate their
power To repair it is the business OF
every American-not only because of
pride, but also because he or she pays
.for it, and Is entitled to good govern