Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-08-06

has the right to quit his employment
so has every American the right to
seek employment. The group must
not endangsr the individual. and We
must discourage groups preying upon
enc another and none shall be allowed
to forget that the governments obliga.
tons are alike to all the people.
We are 80 confident that much Of
the present day insufficrency and in
efficiency Of transportation are due to
the whitening hand Of government OPP
Grafton that we emphasize anew our
opposition to government ownership
we want to expedite the reparation
and make sure the mistake is not re-
peated.
A state of inadequate transportation
facilities, mainly chargeable to the
failure OF governmental experiment, is
losing millions to agriculture, 1t is him
dering industry, 1t is menacing the
American people with fuel shortage
little less than q peril. 1t emphasizes
the present day problem and suggests
that spirit of encouragement and as
to relieve such an emergency.
Gross expansion of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar just
as expansion and initiation have dis
credited the coins of the world We
inflated in haste, we must deflate in
deliberation. We debased the dollar
in reckless finance, we must restore
in honesty.
Will Prevent Unre asonable Profits.
In all sincerity we promise the pre-
yention of unreasonable profits, we
challenge profiteering with all the
moral force and the legal powers of
government and people, but it is fair,
aye, it is timely, to give reminder that
law is not the sole corrective of our
economic ills
Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy for denial and sac
rifice II need be, for a nationwide
drive against extravaganza and luxury
to recommittal to simplicity of liv-
ing, to that prudent and normal plan
CT life which is the health of the re
public.
New conditions, which attend amaz-
lg growth and extraordinary indus
rial development, call for a new and
forward looking program. The Ameri-
can farmer had 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 new
err encountered before.
Contemplating the defenselessness of
the individual farmer to meet the or
sanized buyers of his products and the
distributors of the things the farmer
buys, l 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.
Aid to Farmer Pledged.
Our platform is an earnest pledge
of renewed concern for this most e.
sential and elemental industry and in
both appreciation and interest we
pledge effective expression in law and
practice. We will hail that coopera-
ton which again will make profitable
and desirable the ownership and op-
Grafton of comparatively small farms
intensively cultivated, and which will
facilitate the caring for the products
of farm and orchard without the Ia
mentable waste under present condi- |
tons.
America would look with anxiety on |
the encouragement of farming activity
either through the governments neg.
lect or its paralysis of socialistic prac.
tees. A Republican administration
will be committed to renewed regard
for agriculture and seek the partici-
patton of farmers in curing the ills
justly complained of, and aim to place
the American farm where 1t ought to
ranked in American actiy-
tiles and fully sharing the highest good
fortunes of American life.
Becomingiy associated with this sub.
lect are the policies of irrigation and
reclamation, so essential to agricul.
tural expansion, and the continued de.
velopment of the great and wonderful
west. 1t Is our purpose to continue
and enlarge federal aid and not in sec
tional Partially. but for the good of all
America.
Budget System Favored.
| believe the budget system will Of.
rect a necessary, helpful reformation
and reveal business methods to govern.
ment business. / believe federal dc.
partments should be made more bnsi.
ness 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 mol.
ICY and know we will be calling fo-
is saving Americanism again.
believe in great merchant marine
would have this republic the leading
maritime nation of the world. | he.
leve in navy ample to p. otect it and
lbie to assure us dependable defense
believe in small army, but the best I
II the world, with mndfuiness for {
Preparedness which will avoid the nm.
ltterable cost OF our previous neglect
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