Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-07-29

We must discourage groups preyins
upon one another and none shall be
allowed to forget that the govern
ment's obligations are alike to all the
people.
We are 80 confident that much OF
the present day insufficiency and In
efficiency of transportation are due to
the whitening hand Of government op-
Grafton that we emphasize anew our
opposition to government ownership.
We want to expediate the reparation
and make sure the mistake is not re-
peated.
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 fuel shortage
little less than a peril. It 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 imitation have dis
credited the coins of the world. We
inflated in haste, we must debate in
elaboration. We debased the dollar
In reckless finance. We must restore
in honesty. In all sincerity we pro-
mise the prevention of unreasonable
profits. we challenge profteering with
all the moral force and the legal
powers of government and people but
il is fair, aye, It is timely, to give re-
hinder that law is not the sole correc-
tive of our economic ills.
Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy. for denial and
sacrifice il need be for a nation wide
drive against extravaganza and luxury.
to recommittal to simplicity of liv-
ing. to that prudent and normal plan
Of life which Is the health of the re-
public. New conditions which attend
amazing growth and extraordinary in
dustrial development call for a new
and forward looking program. The
American farmer had 120O0O,00O to
feed in the home market. and heard
the cry Of the world for food and an
swered it. though he faced an appall-
Ing task amid handicaps never en-.
cOuntered before. Contemplating the
defenselessness of the individual far
mer to meet the organized buyers Of
his products and the distributors of the
things the farmer buys, l hold that
farmers should not only be permitted
but encouraged to join in cooperative
associations to reap the Just measure
Of reward merited by their arduous
toll.
Our platform is an earnest pledge Of
renewed concern for this most essen
tial and elemental industry and in both
appreciation and interest we pledge eff
fective expression in law and practice.
We will hail that cooperation which
again will make profitable and desir-
able the ownership and operation of
comparatively small farms intensively
cultivated. and which will facilitate
the caring for the products of farm
and orchard without the lamentable
waste under present conditions.
America would look with anxiety on
the encouragement of farming activ.
ity either through the governments
neglect or its paralysis by socialistic
practices. A Republican administra-
ton will be committed to renew re-
gard for agriculture and seek the par
ticipation 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 activi-
ties and fully sharing the highest good
fortunes Of American life.
BecOmingly associated with this
subject are the policies Of irrigation
and reclamation. so essential to agri.
cultural expansion, and the continued
development of the great and wonder.
full west 1t is our purpose to con.
tinue and enlarge federal aid, not In
sectional Partially. but for the good
of all America.
l believe the budget system will eff.
feet necessary. helpful reformation.
and reveal business methods to govern
ment business.
believe federal departments should
he made more business-like and send
back to productive effort thousands OF
federal employees. who are either du.
plicating work or not essential at all
/ believe In reciprocative tariff Dol.
icy and know we will be calling for its
saving Americanism again.
l believe in a great merchant ma
rine. l would have this Republic the
leading maritime nation of the world
believe in navy ample to protect
it and able to assure US dependable de-
tense.
l believe In a small army but the
best In the world with a mindfulness
for preparedness which will avoid the
unutterable cost of our previous neg
lect
l believe in our eminence in trade
abroad. which the Government should
aid in expanding both in revealing
markets and speeding cargoes.
I believe in establishing standards
for immigration which are concerned
with the future citizenship of the Re
public not with mere man power in
industry