The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-06-08
REDEMPTION OF UNITED
STATES BY G. o. p.
SAYS LODGE
Continued from Page ~

"The estimates have been reduced
over a billion dollars The oilleasing
and water-power bills, two measures
of large effect and high Importance,
which have been hating and stumb-
ling for many years in the inca
pable hands of a Democratic major.
ity, have become laws. We have
passed the vocational rehabilitation
act for the benefit Of wounded sol.
diers and several acts for the disposi.
lion OF war material, very necessary
to our finances. We have amended
ana improved the federal reserve and
the farmers loan acts. We have
cared for the soldiers of the civil
war stratened in their old age
through the rise in prices, by an in
crease in their pensions. The civil
service retirement law. a long-de.
ierred act of justice to faithful ser
wants of the government, has been
passed an da minimum wage bill for
Oi""p9 III government employ
mas passed both houses. We have
been obliged to restore the army and
navy to peace footing, work as
diiflcult as it was necessary. We
nave met this by two most import
ant measures, the army and nayy
pay-bill and the law for the reoreani
zatlon Of the army on peace basis
TWO OF the most important acts OF
any period, the shpbuilding act for
me upbuilding Of the American ma
rlne and the settlement OF the af.
iairs Of the shipping board and the
measure of economy and sound finan-
law establishing the budget, a great
clai administration, are conspicuous
as our latest achievement ootHe
In referring to the high prices Sen.
ator Lodge said that profiteorine
should be punished mot in the head.
lines of newspapers after the man
ner of the present attorney general. |
but quietly, thoroughly and efficient
ly in the courts Of the United
States"
lie declared that though the II. c.
H. problem could be handled in some
measure through legislation, the real
remedy lies in increased production.
He said: Il have touched upon
this matter of prices and the high
cost of living because it is altogeth-
er the most important domestic aues-
tion now before the country and one
to which the Republican party should
addres sitself without delay in every
direction where help is possible" :
The speaker mentioned the rail.
road bill as "a single great law
which has been enacted and which in
any period would be sufficient to dis
tinguish congress as one of high
accomplishment" He stated that the
railroads must henceforth be under
adequate government supervision.
In touching upon the Mexican sit
u@,lo1 the speaker declared:
Mexico teemed with German
plots. The Mexican government
largely the offspring of Mr.. VIII
sons recognition did not support us :
in the war but gave aid so far as it :
was possible to the cause of our en- :
emies Yet we still continued to sup
port Carranza, His government sent
agents into this country, to foment :
industrial trouble and to bring on
strikes They allied themselves with 6
the bolshevist and anarchist ele- E
monts. Nothing was done by the :
United States. Carranba insuted the z
American government in every pos 8
sible way and still nothing was done :
We fell so low that when an Amer &
lean was seized by one of the many 8
bands of brigands and held for ran
som all that the government of the g
United States would do was to offer 8
to be the channel for conveying the 2
ransom of their citizens to the high 8
waymen who had seized them. The 8
mere statement seems incredible but =
it is in exact accordance with the g
facts in some case. Still nothing was 8
lone and we watched and waited =
Naturally we lost our influence in z
Mexico and what was far more I'M 8
lortant we lost the respect of the 8
Mexican people by the manner in 9
which we submitted to every sort of =
insult and outrage. 8
I'VE have watched and waited long e
,nough 1t is time that this condi- 8
ion, disgraceful to us and ruinous =
o Mexico, should cease. We need z
irm hand at the helm. We need 8
nan who will think not molly of the Z
lights of the United States but of the q
Welfare of Mexico The Mexican peo .
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