Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-23

supply and the fixing of extortionate
prices upon it.
Recognition Of Needs Of Agriculture
Our platform is an earnest pledge
of renewed concern for this mos'
essential and elemental industry
and in both appreciation and inter
est we pledge effective expression 1T
law and practice. We will nail tna'
cooperation which again will make
profitable and desirable the owner
Ship and operation OF comparatively
small farms intensively 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 discouraEement of farming
activity either through the govern
ment's neglect or its paralysis by
socialistic practices. A Republican
administration will be committed 90
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 rank
ed in American activities and fully
sharing the highest good fortunes of
American life.
Becomingly associated with this
subject are the policies of irrigation
and reclamation, so essential to
agricultural expansion, and the con-
tinued development of the great and
wonderful West. 1t is our purpose
to continue and enlarge federal aid,
not in. sectional Partially. but for
the good Of all America. We hold
to that harmony Of relationship be-
tween conservation and develop
ment which fittingly appraises our
natural resources and makes them
available to developing America of
today, and still holds to the con-
serving thought for the America of
the morrow.
The federal governments relation
to reclamation and development is
too important to admit of ample dis
cussion today. Alaska, alone, is rich
in resources beyond all imagination.
and needs only closer linking,
through the lines of transportation.
and a governmental policy that both
safeguard and encourages develop
ment to speed it to a foremost posi-
ton as a commonwealth, rugged in
citizenship and rich in materialized
resources.
Belief Respecting Some othsr Mat.
tiers
These things / can only mention.
Within becoming limits one can not
say more. Indeed, for the present
many questions Of vast importance
must be hastily passed, reserving q
fuller discussion to suitable occasion
as the campaign advances.
believe the budget system will
effect a necessary, helpful reforma-
ton, and reveal business methods to
government business.
believe federal departments
should be made more business-like
and sent back to productive effort
thousands Of federal employees, who
are either duplicating work or not
essential at all.
/ believe in the protective tariff
for it's saving Americanism again.
believe in great merchant
marine-I would have this republic
the leading maritime nation Of the
world.
I believe in a navy ample to pro-
tect it, and able to assure US depend
able defense.
I believe in small army, but the
best in the world, with a mindful
ness Of preparedness which will
avoid the uhutterable cost Of our
previous neglect.
l believe in our eminence in trade
abroad, which the government should
aid in expanding. both in revealing
1 believe in establishing standards
for immigration. which are con-
cerned with the future citizenship
OF the republic, not with mere man
power in industry.
1 believe that every man who dons
the garb Of American citizenship and
walks in the light Of American OPP
portunity must become American in
heart and soul.
1 believe in holding fast to every
forward step in unshackling child
labor and elevating conditions of
woman's employment.
l believe the federal government
should stamp out lynching and re-
move that stain from the fair name
of America.
I believe the federal government
should give it's effective aid in solv-
ing the problem of ample and becom-
ing housing of its citizenship.
I believe this government should
make its Liberty and Victory bonds
worth all that its patriotic citizens
paid in purchasing them.
believe the tax burdens imposed
for the war emergency must be re-
vised to the needs Of peace, and in
the interest Of equity in distribution
of the burden.
/ believe the Negro citizens of
America should be guaranteed the
enjoyment of all their rights, that
they have earned the full measure
of citizenship bestowed, that their
sacrifices in blood on the battle
fields Of the republic have entitled
them to all of freedom and oppor-
tunity. all Of sympathy and aid that
the American spirit Of fairness and
justice demands.
understanding With Mexico
I believe there is an eask and
open path to righteous relationship
with Mexico. 1t has seemed to me
that our undeveloped, uncertain and
infirm policy has made US a culpable
party to the governmental misfor.
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