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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Encourages Farmers 10 Organize
To Protect Themselves i'm Market

win attend the hating of waste and
extravaganza, and the renewal of the
practice of public economy, not alone
because it will relieve tax burdens
but because it will be an example
to stimulate thrift and economy il
private life.
have already alluded to the ne
cessity for the fullness of produc
ton, and we need The fullness of
service which attends the exchange
of products. Let Us speak the IL
REPUTABLE truth, high wages and re-
duced cost Of living are in utter con-
tradiction unless we have the height
of efficiency for wages receiN ed.
In all sincerity We promise the
prevention Of unreasonable profits,
we challenge profiteering with all the
moral forces and the legal powers Of
government and people, but it is
fair, aye, it is timely, to give re-
hinder that the law is not the sole
corrective of our economic ills.
Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy, for denial and
sacrifice if need be, for nationwide
drive against extravaganza and lux
of living, to that prudent and nor
NAL plan of life which Is the health
of the republic There hasn't been
recovery from the waste and abb
normalties of war since the story of
mankind was first written, except
through work and saving, through
industry and denial, while needless
spending and needless extravaganza
have marked every decay in the his
tory of nations. Give the assurance
of that rugged simplicity of Amer
lean life which marked the first CEN
tury of amazing development and
this generation may underwrite sec
ond century of surprising accom-
piishment.
The Republican party was founded
by farmers, with the sensitive con-
science born of their freedom and
their simple lives. These founders
sprang from the farms of the then
Middle West. Our party mas never
failed in its realization that agri-
culture is essentially the foundation
of our very existence, and it has ever
been our policy, purpose and per-
formance to protect and promote that
essential industry.
New conditions, which attend
amazing growth anG extraordinary
industrial development, call for a
new and forward looking program.
The American 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 never encountered
before
In the rise of price levels there
have come increased appraisals to
his acres without adding to their
value in fact, but which do add to
his taxes and expenses without en-
HANGING his returns. His helpers
have yielded to the lure of shop and
city, until, almost alone, he has met
and borne the burden of the only in
sistent attempts to force down prices.
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another, and none shall be allowed to
forget the governments obligations are
alike to all people"
8. "The strike against the government
Is properly denied the nominee said.
Passing to the railroads, he declared
that he would like to see the railway
worSmen the "best paid" and added:
"fhe government that has assumed so
much authority for the public good
might we'll stamp railway employment
with the sanctity of public service. y
In this some of his hearers understood
the nominee TO mean that he hoped
to see the railroads lifted above all
question of industrial strife
He spoke of highways from farm to
market, CT the development of inland
water transportation and, more inn
portant, I'VE favor American eminence
on the seas" and then gave hint as to
how this might be accomplished by
saying:
Il like that recommittal to thoughts
OF America first. which pledges the
Panama Canal. an American creation,
TO the free use of American shipping. y
Nearly score of important declara-
tons were covered in a series of brief
paragraphs, with promise that more
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lon OF burdens upon peace-loving
humanity We wish to give of Amer
lcan influence and example; we must
give of American leadership to that
Invaluable accomplishment.
l can speak unreseryedly of the
American aspiration and the Re-
publican committal for an associa-
tion of nations, cooperating in sub
hme accord, to attain and preserve
peace through justice rather than
force, determined to add to security
through international law, so clari-
fled that no misconstructon can be
possible without affronting world
honor.
This Republic can never be un-
mindful of its power, and must
never FORGET the force of its example.
.Possessor of might that admits no
fear, America must stand foremost
for the right. If the mistaken voice
Of America, spoken in unheeding
haste, led Europe, in the hour Of
deepest anxiety, into a military alli-
ance which menaces peace and
threatens all freedom, instead of
adding to their security, then we
must speak the truth for America
and express our hope for the fra
ternized conscience of nations.
League BIunGers
1t will avail nothing TO discuss in
detail the league covenant, which
was conceived for world super-gov-
eminent, negotiated in misunder-
standing and intolerantly urged and
demanded by its administration spon-
sors, who resisted every effort to
safeguard America, and who finally
rejected it when such safeguards
were inserted. If the supreme blunder
has left European relationships in
eXtrlcably interviewer in the league
compact, our sympathy for Europe
only magnlhes our own good fortune
in resisting involvement. 1t is better
10 be the free and disinterested agent
of international justice and advanc-
ing civilization, with the covenant
of conscience, than be shackled by a
written compact which surrenders
our freedom of action and gives to
military alliance the right to pro-
claim Americas duty to the world.
No surrender of rights to a world
council or its military alliance, no
assumed mandatory, however appeal
ing, ever shall summon the sons of
this Republic to war Their supreme
sacrifice shall be asked only for
America and its call of honor. There
is a sanctity in that right we will
not delegate.
When the compact was being writ
ten. | do not know whether Europe
asked or ambition insistently be-
slowed. It was so good to rejoice in
the worlds confidence in our UNI
selfishness that can believe our
evident Observation-Disclosures inspired
Europe's wish for our association
quite as much as the selfish thought
of enlsting American power and re-
sources. Ours is an outstanding, in
fuential example to the world,
whether we cloak it in spoken mod
esty or magnify it in exaltation. We
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
Crush Seditio1n, but DON'T Abridge
Freedom of the Press and Sneecg1

The menacing tendency Of the
present day is not chargeable wholly
to the unsettled and fevered condi-
tons caused by the war. The mani
fest weakness in popular government
lies in the temptation to appeal to
grouped citizenship for political ad-
vantage. There is no greater peril.
The Constitution contemplates no
class and recognizes no group. 1t
broadly includes all the people, with
specific recognition for none. and
the highest conservation we can
make to-day is a committal of the
Republican party to that saving Con-
stitutionalism which contemplates
al. America as one people, and holds
Just government free from influence
on the one hand and unmoved by
intimidation on the other.
1t would be the blindness of folly
to ignore the activities in our own
country which are aimed to destroy
our economic system and to COM
nit us to the colossal tragedy
which has both destroyed all freedom
and made Russia impotent. This
movement is not to be halted in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23

modification of this underlying rule,
but no majority shall abridge the
rights Of minority. Men have a
right to question our system in
fullest freedom but they must al
ways remember that the rights Of
freedom impose the obligations
which maintain it. Our policy is
not of repression but we make APP
peal to-day to American intelligence
and patriotism, when the Republic
is menaced from within, Just as we
trusted American patriotism when
our rights were threatened from
without
We call on all America for steadi-
ness, so that we may proceed de-
liberately to the readjustment which
concerns all the people. Our party
platform fairly expresses the CON
science of Republicans on industrial
relations. No party is Indifferent
to the welfare of the wage Garner
To us his good fortune is of deepest
concern, and we seek to make that
good fortune permanent. We do not
oppose but approve collective bar
gaining, because that is an outstand-
ing right, but we are unalterably in
sistent that its exercise must not
destroy the equally sacred right of
the individual in his necessary pur-
suit of livelihood. Any American has
the right to quit his .employment so
has every American the right to seek
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
II. R. Men Ought To Be Best Paid,
But Constant Service Must Be Given

The railway workmen ought to be
the best paid and know the best
working conditions in the world
Theirs is an exceptional response
bility. They are not only essential
to the life and health and all pro-
ductive activities of the people, but
they are directly responsible for the
safety Of travelling millions. The
government, which has assumed so
much authority for the public good,
might well stamp railway employ
ment with the sanctity of public
service and guarantee to the railway
employees that justice which voices
the American conception of righteous
ness on the one hand and assure
continuity of service on the other
The Importance of the railway re-
Mobilization is so obvious that ref
erence seems uncalled for. We are
so confident that much of the present
day insufficiency and inefiiciency of
transportation are due to the wither-
ing hand of government operation
that we emphasize anew our opposi-
ton to government ownership; we
want to expedite the reparatlon, and
make sure the mistake is not re-
peated.
1t is little use to recite the story
Of development, exploitation, govern
ment experiment and its neglect,
government operation and it's fail
ules. The inadequacy OF trackage
and terminal facilities, the insult
ticiency of equipment and the in
efficiency of operation-all bear the
blighting stamp of governmental IN
capacity during Federal operation
The work of rehabilitation under the
restoration of private ownership de-
serves our best encouragement. Bill
hons are needed in new equipment
not alone to meet the growing de
mand for service, but to restore the
extraordinary depreciation due to the
strained service of war. With re-
stricted earnings and with specula-
tive profits removed, railway activi-
ties have come to the realm of con-
servative and constructive service,
and the government which impaired
must play its part in restoration.
Manifestly the returns must be so
gagged that necessary capital may
be enlisted, and we must foster as
we'll as restrain.
We have no more pressing prob
lem. A state of inadequate trans
pcrtation facilities, mainly charge
able to the failure of governmental
experiment, is losing millions to
agriculture, it is hindering industry,
it is menacing the American people
with fuel shortage little less than
Il peril. 1t emphasizes the present
day problem and suggests that spirit
Of encouragement and assistance
which commits all America to re-
licve such an emergency.
The one compensation amid at
tending anXieties is our new and
needed realization of the vital part
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the assurances which were rended in
the clyomal war.
1t was not surprising that we went
far aheld from safe and prescribed
paths amid the war anxieties. There
was the unfortunate tendency be-
fore; there was the surrender of
Congress to the growing assumption
of the Executive before the World
War lmperiled all the practices we
had learned to believe in; and in
the war emergency every safeguard
was swept away. In the name of
democracy we established autocracy.
We are not complaining at this
extraordinary bestowal or assumption
IN war; it seemed temporarily nee
essary; our alarm is over the fail
IRE to restore the Constitutional
methods when the war emergency
ended.
For a Cabinet of Capacity
Our first committal is the restora-
ton of representative popular gov
eminent, under the Constitution.
through the agency of the Republi-
can party. Our vision includes more
than a Chief Executive; we believe in
Cabinet of highest capacity, equal
to the possibilities which oar sys-
tenn contemplates, in whose councils
the Vice President, second official OF
the Republic, shall be asked to par
ticipate.
The same vision includes a cordial
understanding and coordinated activ-
tiles with House Of Congress, fresh
from the people, voicing the convic-
tons which members bring from di-
rect contact with the electorate. and
q OIL
restored functions of the Senate. fit
to be the greatest dcliberative body
Of the world. Its members are the
designated sentinels on the towers
OF Constitutional governments The
resumption OF the Senate's authority
saved to this Republic its independ-
emit nationality when autocracy mis-
Interpreted the dream Of world
experiment to be the vision of a
world ideal
1t is not difficult, Chairman Lodge,
to make ourselves clear on the ques-
ton of international relationship.
We Republicans of the Senate, con-
scious of our solemn oaths and mind
full Of our Constitutional obligations.
when we saw the structure of a
world uper-Government taking Vi
sionary form, Joined in a becoming
warning Of cur devotion to this Re
public. If the torch of Constitu-
tionalism had not been dimmed, the
delayed peace of the world and the
tragedy of disappointment and Eu-
ropes misunderstanding Of America
easily might have been avoided. The
Republicans of the Senate halted the
barter of independent American
eminence and influence, which it was
proposed to exchange for an obscure
and unequal peace in the merged gov
eminent of the world. Our party
means to hold the heritage Of Amer
lean nationality unimpaired and un-
surrendered
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transportation plays in the complex
tiles of modern life. We are not to
think of rails alone, but highways
from farm to market, from railway
to farm, arteries Of fe-blood TO
present-d day life, the quickened ways
to communication and exchange, the
answer of our people to the motor
age. We believe in generous Federal
cooperation in construction, linked
with assurances of maintenance that
will put an end to criminal waste
of public funds on the one hand and
give a guaranty Of upkept highways
on the other.
Water Transportation is insepara-
bly, linked with adequacy OF facili
tics, and we favor American eminence
on the seas, the practical develop
ment Of inland waterways, the up
building and coordination of all to
make them equal to and ready for
every call of developing and widen
ing American commerce. | like that
recommitta to thoughts of America
first which pledges the Panama Canal,
an American creation, to the free use
of American shipping 1t will add to
the American reawakening.
One cannot speak Of industry and
commerce, and the transportation on
which they are dependent, without an
earnest thought of the abnormal cost
OF living and the problems in its
wake. 1t is easy to inveigh, but that
ayails nothing. And it is far too
serious to dismiss with flaming but
futile promise.
Eight years ago, in times of peace,
the Democratic party made it an
issue, and when clothed with power
that party came near to it's accom-
plishment by destroying the peoples
capacity to buy But that was a cure
worse than the ailment. 1t is easy
to understand the real causes, after
which the patient must help to effect
his own cure.
Gross expansion of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar
just as expansion and imitation have
discredited the coins of the world
We inflated in haste, we must de-
hate in deliberation. We debased
the dollar in reckless finance, we
must restore in honesty. Dehation
or the one hand and restoration of
the l00-cent dollar on the other ought
to have begun on. the day after the
armistice, but plans were lacking or
courage failed. The appropriateness
for peace was little less costly than
We can promise ny one $emedy
which viii cure an i'll of such wide
proportions, bat we do pledge that
earnest and consistent attack which
the party platform covenants. We
will attempt intelligent and cour-
ageous denation, and strike at gov
eminent borrowing which enlarges
the evil, and we will attack high cost
Of government with every energy and
facility which attend Republican ca
pacity. We promise that relief which
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If men call for more SPECIFIC de-
tails, | remind them that moral COM
initials are broad and all inclusive,
and we are contemplating peoples in
the concord of humanity's advance
ment. From our own viewpoint the
program is specifically American,
and we mean to be Americans first,
to all the world.
Appraising preserved nationality
as the first essential to the continued
progress of the Republic, there is
linked with it the supreme necessity
of the restoration let us say the
e-revealment-of the Constitution,
and our reconstruction as an indus
trial nation. Here is the transcend
ing task. 1t concerns our common
veal at home and will decide our
future eminence in the world. More
than these, this Republic, under Con-
stitutional liberties, has given to
mankind the most fortunate condi-
lions for human activity and attain
ment the world has ever noted, and
we are to-day the world reserve
force in the great contest for liberty
through security and maintained
equality OF opportunity and its right
eous rewards.
Must Face Facts
1t is folly to close our eyes Nto
outstanding facts. Humanity is rest
i've, much of the world is in revolu-
ton, the agents Of discord and de-
struction have wrought their tragedy
in pathetic Russia, have lighted their
torches among other peoples, and
hope to see America as part of the
great Red contlagration. Ours is the
temple of liberty under the law, and
it is ours to call the Sons Of OPP
portunity to its defense. America
must not only save herself, but ours
must be the appealing voice to sober
the world.
More than all else the present
can be no peace save through com
posed differences and the submits
sion of the Individual to the will
and veal of the many. Any other
plan means anarchy and its rule of
force.
1t must be understood that toll
alone makes for accomplishment and
advancement, and righteous posses
sion is the reward of toll and its
incentive. There is no progress ex-
cept in the stimulus of competition
When mpcttion-natural, fair, i'm
polling competition-is suppressed,
whether by law, compact or CON
spiracy, we halt the march of prog
ress, silence the voice of aspiration
and paralyze the will for achieve
ment. These are but common sense
truths of human development.
Cautious Wage Farmers
The chief trouble to-day is that
the World War wrought the destruc-
ton of healthful competition, left
our storehouses empty, and there is
a minimum production when our
need is maximum. Maximums. not
mirimums, is the call of America. 1t
isn't new story, because war never
falls to leave depleted storchouses
and always impairs the efficiency of
production. War also establishes its
higher standards for wages, and they
abide. | wish the higher wage to
abide, on one, explicit condition
that the wage Garner will give full
return for the wage received. 1t is
the best assurance we can have for
a reduced cost of living. Mark you,
| am ready to acclaim the highest
standard of pay, but would be blind
tc the responsibilities that mark this
fateful hour if | did not caution the
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1t challenges both the wisdom and
the justice of artificial drives on.
prices to recall that they were eff
fective almost solely against his
products in the hands of the produ-
Ger and never effective against the
same products in passing TO the CON
sumer. Contemplating the defense
lessness of the individual farmer to
meet the organized 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 merted by their arduous
tell.
Let us facilitate cooperation to in
sure against the risks attending agri~
culture, which the urban world so
little understands, and like CO.
operation to market their products
as directly as possible with the con-
sumner, in the interests of all Upon
such association and cooperation
should be laid only such restrictions
IS viii prevent arbitrary control of
our food supply and the fixing Of
extortionate prices upon it.
Our platform is an earnest pledge
of renewed concern for this most
essential and elemental industry, and
In both appreciation and interest we
pledge effective expression in law
and practice. We will hail that CO.
operation which again will make
profitable and desirable the owner
ship and operation of comparatively
small farms intensAyely cultivated,
and which will facilitate the caring
for the products of farm and orchard
without the lamentable waste under
present conditions.
America would look with anxiety
on the Encouragement of farming
activity either through the govern
ment's neglect or its paralysis by
socialistlc practices. A Republican
administration will be committed to
renewed regard for agriculture and
seek the, participation Of farmers in
curing the Ills Justly complained Of,
and aim to place the American farm
where it ought to be-highly ranked
in American activities and fully shar-