Republican farmer., 1920-07-09

sof post war conditions and are de-+ manding and receiving outrageous profits.
 We pledge the Democratic party to a policy of strict economy in govern ment expenditures and to the enact nent and enforcement of such legis- lation as may be required to bring profteers before the bar of criminal justice.
 The Tariff.
 We reafirm the traditional policy of the Democratic party in favor of a tariff for revenue only and to con firm the policy of basing tariff re- visions upon the Intelligent research of a non-partisan commission rather than upon the demands of selfish in terests, temporarily held in abey ance.
 Senate~ Rules.
 We favor such alteration of the rules of procedure Of the Senate of the United States as will permit the prompt transaction of the nations legislative business,
 Budget.
 In the interest of economy and good administration we favor the creation of an effective budget sys-
 tenn that will function in accord with tuS Pl AhSlplCo Ol LHe SoIloNAeSIASll. AAAC reform should reach both the execu
 tive and legislative aspects of the
 question. The supervision and pre-
 paration of the budget should be vest ed in the secretary of the treasury as the representative of the president. The budget, as such. should not be increased by the congress except by a two-thirds vote, each house, how ever, being free to exercise its con- stitutional privilege of making appro- priations through independent bills The appropriation bills should be con- sidered by single committees of the
 House and Senate. The audit sys- tenn should be consolidated and it's powers expanded so to pass upon the wisdom of as well as the author ity for expen ditures. A budget bill was passed in the 1 closing days of the second session of the Sixty-Sixth Congress which inval- dated the plain constitutional re- {, fects and defaced by considerations l of patronage, the president was opl1g- l ed to~veto. The house amended the bill to meet the executive objection. We condemn the Republican Senate I for adjourning without passing the l amended measure, when. by devoting 1 an hour or two more to this urgent | public business budget system could 1 have been provided. i Agricultural Interests.
 1 To the great agricultural interests 1 of the country the Democratic party does not find it necessary to make l promises It already is rich In its record of things actually accomplish ed. For nearly half a century of Republican rule not a sentence was written into the federal statutes aI- 1 fording one dollar of bank credits 10
 the farming interests of America ID ] the first term of this Democratic ad- l ministration the national bank act SC
 altered as to authorize loans of five years maturity on improved farm lands Later was established sys- tenn of farm loan banks from which 1 the borrowings already exceed $30o,' l 100000 and under which the interest 1 rate to farmers has been so mateflai- ly reduced as to drive out of business the farm loan sharks who formerly subsisted by extortion upon the grea
 agricultural interests of the country
 Thus it was a Democratic congress | in the administration of a Democratic | president which enabled the farmeri | of America for the first time to ob' tain credit upon reasonable terms ane 1 insured their opportunity for the fu l ture development of the nations az | ricultural resources. Tied up in su
 preme court proceedings, in a suit b5 | hostile interests, the federal farm 1 loan system originally opposed by th'
 Republican candidate for the pres1 dency, appealed in vain to Republi
 can congress for adequate fnancta
 assistance to tide over the interim
 between the beginning and the ending
 of the current~year, awaiting fina
 decision of the highest court on th' l validity of the contested act w pledge prompt and consistent suppor
 of sound and effective measures t' l-sustain. amplify and perfect tn
 rural credits statutes and thus t'
 check and reduce the growth ant
 course of farm tenancy.
 Not only did the Democratic part,
 put into effect great farm loal
 system of land and mortgage banks
 but it passed the Smith-Lever agri cultural extension act, carrying t l every farmer in every section of tn ! country through the medium o
 trained experts and by demonstration
 farms, the practical knowledge ac
 quired by the federal agricultura } department in all things relating t agriculture, horticulture and anima life; It established the bureal of mar , kets the bureau of farm manage
 ment and passed the cotton 1uture act the grain grades bill, the coop erative. farm administration act, an
 the federal warehouse act.
 The Democratic party has vastl improved the rural mail system t such an extent as to render its ac , tivities and its practical service in
 dispensibIe to the farming commun
 ity. It was this wise encouragement , and this effective concern of the Dem I ocratic party for the farmers of tn : United States that enabled this grea I i interest to render such essential ser s vice in feeding the armies of Ameri ca and the allied nations in the wa s and succoring starving population l since armistiee day.
 Meanwhile the Republican leader l at Washington have failed utterly t r propose one single measure to mak S Irural life more tolerable. They hay f ,signalized their IS months of con = gressional power by urging scheme a which would strip the farms of labor