The Washington times., 1920-06-10


tion.
Trusts-Urges legislation to de-
fine more specifically, the actual linn
itations of monopolies and combina-
tons in restraint OF trade, to give
business an opportunity to know in
advance what is and what IS not law
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Merchant marine-Urges great mer-
chant marine, privately owned, as
necessary adjunct to a real navy, and
demands that coastwise trade vessels
OF the American merchant marine pay
no Panama Canal tolls.
Tarriff-Reaffirms Republican ad.
herence to a protective tariff as a
means of preservation of home mar
kets.
Excludes Orientals.
Immigration-Uphol policy OF ex-
cluding Orientals, and wants higher
physical and mental standard tests
for immigrants. who should be ad-
mitted in no greater number than
can be assimilated. Wants better dis
tribution of aliens. All aliens should
be required to register annually un-
til they become citizens.
Observation-Disclosures independent
naturalization of married women and
III.
Free speech-Declares all American
citizens should not be deprived of the
right of free speech, but aliens are
not entitled to the same considera-
ton, when their speech is directed
against the governmental institutions
of the country. Adequate public
hearings should be given all aliens
to be deported.
Fayorp Suffrage.
Woman suffrage-Urges Republican
governors to get ratification OF 10th
amendment
Conservation - Denounces Presi-
dent Wilson for failure to sign the
water power bill and urges discov-
cry of means to preserve forests.
Postal service-Condemns Demo-
cratic administration for failure to
pay adequate wages to efficient and
expert employees, and destruction OF
efficiency of the postal service and
the telegraph and telephone services
while under governmental control
Education and health-Endorses
principle of Federal aid to States for
vocational and agricultural training.
Does not mention member of cabi-
net on education, or other sugges-
tions embodied in demand OF teachers.
says physical education of all youths
up to the age of nineteen would rem
edy conditions revealed in the draft.
Urges better coordination of scat
tered activities of Public Health Sery-
ice. which Is condemned now as
wasteful
Child Labor Plank.
Women workers-Urges creation OF
Women's Bureau in Department OF
Labor; approves principle of equal
pay for equal service and limitation
of hours of employment in intensive
occupations, products of which enter
into interstate commerce.
Child labor-Approves rigid laws
against child labor
Liauor-Approves policy OF party
In standing by the Constitution and
the supreme Court.
War powers-Declares that vii.
sons policy of clinging tenaciously to
war powers "is intolerable."
Other planks urged the study of
Federal departments and bureaus
with view to consultations and
economies: the ending OF lynching:
liberal appropriations for highways,
taking Into confederation the losses
In taxation to States which contain
great Federal forest preserves:
axed policy of reclamation, especially
OF Western arid lands; conservation
OF human resources through study
and Federal and state legislation:
and study OF the housing situation
the country, with data AL
ways up to date and availabN, to pro. |
mote home owning in the country.
There also II n reaffrmation OF ap-
proval OF the civil service laws