Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1920-08-06

American the right TO seek employ
ment. The group must not endanger
the individual and we must discourage
groups preying upon one another and
o shall be allowed to forget that the
governments obligations are alike to
all the people.
We are so confident that much Of the
present day insufficiency ard ineffi-
cheney of transportation are due to the
whitening hand of government opera
ton that we emphasize anew our oppo-
sition to government ownership. We
want to expedite the reparation and
make sure the mistake Is not repeated.
A state of inadequate transportation
facilities. mainly chargeable to the
failure Of governmental experiment,
is losing millions to agriculture It Is
%hindering industry 1t is menacing the
American people with a 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
d~eliberation. 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
moral force and the legal powers Of
government and people; but it is fair,
aye, 1t is timely, to give reminder that
law is not the sole corrective Of u
economic Ills.
Let us call to all the people for thrift
and economy, for denial and sacrifice
II need be. for q nationwide drive
against extravaganza and luxury to a
recommital to simplicity of living, to
that prudent and normal plan of life
which is the health Of the republic.
New conditions which attend amaz-
Ing growth and extraordinary indus
trial development. call for a new and
forward looking program. The Ameri-
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.
Contemplating the defenselessness Of
the individual farmer to meet the Or
ganizsd buyers Of his products and the
distributors Of the things the farmer
buys, / hold that farmers should not
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 earnes 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 opera
ton Of comparatively small farms in
tenSively cultivated, and which will
facilitate the caring for the products of
farm and orchard without the lament
able waste under present conditions.
America would look with anxiety Oh
the Encouragement of farming activ-
ity either through the government ne
glect or its paralysis by socialistic prac-
tees. A Republican administration
will lie committed 10 renew regard for
agriculture and seek the participation
of farmers in curing the ills justly
complained Of and aim to place the
American farm where 1t ought 70 be,
highly ranked in American activities,
and fully sharing the highest good for
tunes of American life.
Becomingly associated with this sub
tect are the policies Of irrigation and
reclamation so essential to agricultural
expansion and the continued develop
ment Of the great and wonderful West.
II Is our purpose to continue and en-
large federal aid, not in sectional par
hality, but for the good of all America.
l believe the budget system will eff
feet a necessary helpful reformation
and reveal business methods to govern
ment business.
l believe federal departments should
be made more businesslike and send
back to productive effort thousands of
federal employees who are either dupli-
eating work or not essential at all.
l believe In the protective tariff pol
Icy and know we will be calling for
Its saving A~mericanism again.
/ believe In a great merchant marine.
I would have this republic the leading
maritime nation of me world.
/ believe In q navy ample to protect
1t and able to assure us dependable de-
Tense.
| believe In "A small army, but the
best In the world, with Il mindfulness
for preparedness which will avoid the
unutterable cost of our previous
neglect.
| believe in our eminence in trade
abroad, which the government should
aid in expanding, but in revealing mar
kets and speeding cargoes.
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