The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-22

deliberation. We debased the dollar
in reckless finance, we must restore in
honesty.
In all sincerity we promise the pre-
vention of unreasonable profits, we
challenge profiteering with all the NOR
al force and the legal powers of gov
eminent and people, but ii Is fair, aye,
II is timely, to give reminder that law
Is not the sole corrective of our eco
nomic ills.
Drive Against Extravaganza.
Let US call to oil the people for
thrift and economy, for denial and sac
riflce If need be, for nationwide
drive against extravaganza and lux
ury, to a recommittal to simplicity Of
living, to that prudent and normal plan
of life which is the health of the re-
public.
New conditions, which attend amaz-
ing growth and extraordinary indus
trial development, call for new and
forwardlooking program. The Ameri-
can farmer had hundred and twenty
millions to feed in the home market,
aud heard the cry of the world for
food and answered it, though he faced
an appalling task amid handicaps
never encountered before.
Contemplating the defenselessness Of
the individual farmer to meet the or
ganized buyers of his products and the
distributors of the things the farmer
| hnyS I hnlI thot Fl CHI
only be permitted but encouraged to
! join in cooperative association 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 effective expression in law and
practice. We will hail that co-opera-
ton which again will make profitable
and desirable the ownership and OPP
GRAFTON 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 cond-
! tons.
America would look with anxiety on
the Encouragement Of farming ac-
| tivity either through the governments
neglect or its paralysis by sOcialistc
practices. A Republican administra-
ton will be committed to renewed re-
gard for agriculture, and seek the
participation Of farmers in curing the
! Ills justly complained Of, and aim 10
! place the American farm where 1t
ought to be-highly ranked in Ameri-
can activities 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 wondcr-
full West 1t is our purpose to con-
tinue and enlarge federal aid, not i'll
sectional partially, but for the good
of all America.
believe the budget system VIII ef-
feet a necessary, helpful reformation,
: and reveal business methods to gov
! eminent business.
I believe federal departments should
be made more busness-like and send
back to productive effort thousands
of federal employees, who are either
duplicating work or not essential at
all.
believe in the protective tariff
policy and know we will be calling for
its saving Amercanism again.
believe in great merchant ma
rine. would have this republic the
leading maritime nation of the world.
believe in navy ample to pro-
tect it, and able to assure us depend
able defense.
believe in a small army, but the
best in the world, with mindfulness
for preparedness which will avoid the
unutterable cost of our previous neg
lect.
| believe in our eminence in trade
abroad, which the government should
aid in expanding, both In revealing
markets and speeding cargoes
l believe in establishing standards
for immigration. which are concerned
with the future citizenship of the re-
public, not with mere man-power in in
dustry.
| believe that every man who dons
the garb of American citizenship and
walks in the light of American Oppor-
tunty, must become American in
heart and soul.
/ believe in holding fast to every
forward step in unshackling child la
Dor and elevating conditions of wom-
ans employment.
l believe the federal government
should stamp out lynching and re-
move that stain from the fair name of
America.
l believe the federal government
should give its effective aid in solving
the problem Of ample and becoming
housing of its citizenship.
l believe this government should
make its Liberty and Victory bonds
worth all that it's patriotic citizens
paid In purchasing them.
Taxes Must Be Reduced.
l believe the tax burdens imposed
for the war emergency must be re-
vised to the needs of peace, and in the
interest Of equity in distribution Of the
burden