Arizona republican., 1920-07-23

needless spending and needless extrav- agance have marked every decay in the history of nations Give the assur- ance of that rugged simplicity of American life which marked the first century of amazing development and this generation may underwrite 9 sec ond century Of surpassing accomplish ment.
 Pledges Aid to Farmers
 The Republican party was founded by farmers, with the sensitive con- science born of their freedom and their simple lives. These founders sprang from the farms of the then Middle West. Our party has never failed in it's realization that agriculture is es sentiaIly the foundation of our very existence, and it has ever been our policy, purpose and performance to protect that essential industry.
 New conditions, which attend amaz- ing growth and extraordinary indus trial development, call for a new and forward looking program. The Amerl- can 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 never encountered before.
 In the rise of price levels there have come increased appraisals of his acres without adding to their value in fact but which do add to his taxes and ex- penses without enhancing his returns. His helpers have yielded to the lure of shop and city until, alomst alone, he has met and borne the burden of the only insistent attempts to force down prices. It challenges both the wisdom and the justice of artificial drives on prices to recall that they were effec- tive almost solely against his products in the hands of the producer and never effective against the same products in passing to the consumer. Contemplat- ing the defenseI essness of the indiYi dual farmer to meet the organized buy CTS of his products and the distributors of the things the farmer buys, l hold the farmers should not only be permit ted but encouraged to join in CO., operations associations to reap the just measure of reward merited by thelr arduous toiI. Let us facilitate CO., operatio to insure against the risks attending agriculture, which the urban world so little understands, and like cooperation to market their products as directly as possible with the con sumer, in the interests of all. Upon such association and cooperation should be laid only such restrictions as will prevent arbitrary control of our food supply and the fixing of extor- tionate prices upon it.
 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 co-opera- ton which again will make profitable and desirable the ownership and opera ton of comparatively small farms in tefsively cultivated, and which will fla r,v a T1rndI10finO of farm and orchard without the Ia mentable waste under present condi- tions.
 America. would look with anxiety on the discouragement of farming activity either through the governments neg | lect or its paralysis by soc1alistc prac- tices. A Republican administration 1 will be committed to renewed regard for agriculture, and seek the particl- 1 patton of farmers in curing the ills l justly complained of, and aim to place l the American farm where it ought tc 1 be-highly ranked in American actfvi- l ties and fully sharing the highest gooc 1 fortunes of American life.
 l Promises Federal Aid to Reclamation
 Becomingiy associated with this
 subject are the policies of irriga-
 ton and reciamstio so essential to agricultural expansion and the continued development of the great 1 ana WOf1QSff LII hI 10 OAf RN. pose to continue and enlarge fed erai aid, not in sectional partiality, but the qood Of all America. We hold to that harmony of relation ship between conservation and de- velopment which fittingly appraises
 our natural resources and makes them available to developing Amer ica Of today, and still holds to the
 conserving thought for the Amer ica of the tomorrow.
 i The federal governments relation tC l reclamation and development is too l important to admit of ample discussion 1 today Alaska, alone is in resources i beyond all imagination and needs only
 closer linking through the lines oi l transportation and a governments policy that both safeguards and en- l courages development, to speed 1t t6
 a foremost position as a common
 wealth. rugged in citizenship and ricl l in mineralized resources.
 These things l can only mention
 Within becoming limits one cannot say
 more. Indeed, for the present manl questions of vast importance must b' hastily passed, reserving fuller dis cussion to suitable occasion, as th' campaign advances.
 Declares For Budget System I believe the budget system will ef
 feet a necessary, helpful reformation
 and reveal business methods to govern
 ment business.
 believe federal departments shoul
 be made more businesslike and sem back to productive effort thousands o
 federal employees who are either du plicating work or not essential at all. I believe in the protective tariff pol icy and know we will be calling for it saving Americanism again.
 believe in a great merchant ma
 rine I would have this republic tn 7 leading maritime nation of the world , | I believe in a navy ample to proteC