East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-07-22

honesty. Deflation on the one hand
and restoration of the 100 cent dollar
on the other ought to have begun on
the day after the armistice, but plans
were lacking or courage failed. The
for peace was little
less costly than unpreparedness for
war.
We can promise no one remedy
which will cure an i'll OF such wide
proportions, but we do pledge that
earnest and consistent attack which
the party platform covenants. We
will attempt intelligent and coura
geous deflation, and strike at govern
ment borrowing which enlarges the
evil, and we will attack high cost of
government with every energy and fa-
cility which attend republican capa-
city. We promise that relief which
will attend the halting of waste and
extravaganza and the renewal of the
practice OF public economy, not alone
because II will relieve tax burdens but
because II will be an example to stim-
ulate thrift and economy in private
life.
America would look with anxiety on
the discouragement of farming activ
ity either through the governments
neglect or its paralysis by sociaIistic
practices. A republican administra-
tion will be committed to renewed re-
gard for agriculture, and seek the par
ticipation 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 activi-
ties and fully sharing the highest good
farfnpao nf Anaarfpan life
Becoming associated with this sub
feet are the policies of irrigation and
reclamation, SO essential to agricultur-
al expansion. and the continued de-
velopment of the great and wonderful
west 1t is our purpose to continue
and enlarge federal aid, not In section
al partially but for the good of all
America. We hold to that harmony of
relationship between conservation and
development, which fittingly ap-
praises our natural resources and
makes them available to developing
America of today, and still holds to
the conserving thought for the Amer
lea of the morrow.
The federal governments relation
to reclamation and development is too
sion today. Alaska, alone. is rich in
resources beyond all imagination, and
needs only closer linking, through the
lines of transportation, and "a govern
mental policy that both safeguards and
encourages development. to speed it
to foremost position as a common
wealth, rugged in citizenship and rich
in materialized resources.
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 a
fuller discussion, to suitable occasion
as the campaign advances.
/ believe the budget system will eff
feet a necessary. helpful reformation,
and reveal business methods to gov
ernment business.
] believe federal departments should
be more business 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 pol
icy and know we will be calling for it's
saving Americanism again.
/ believe in a great merchant ma
rine-I would have this nation the
leading maritime nation of the world.
believe in a navy ample to protect,
and able to assure us dependable de-
fense.
believe in small army, but the
best in the world, with mindfuIness
for preparedness which will avoid the
unutterable cost of our previous neg
lect.
/ believe in our eminence in trade |
abroad, which the government should |
aid in expanding. both in revealing |
markets and speeding cargoes.
believe in establishing standards /
for immigration. which are concerned |
with the future citizenship of the re-
public. not with mere manpower in
industry.
/ believe that every man who dons
the garb of American citizenship and
walks in the light of American op-
portunity. must become American in
heart and soul
believe in holding fast to every
forward step in unshackiing child la
ans employment.
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should stamp out lynching and remove
hat stain from the fair name of Am
,rica-
I believe the federal government
hould give its effective aid in solving
he problem of ample and becoming
lousing of its citizenship.
I believe the tax burdens imposed
make its Liberty and Victory bonds
vorth all that its patriotic citizens
aid in purchasing them.
l believe the ia xburdens imposed
or the war emergency must be re-
ised to the needs of peace, and in the
1terest of equity in distribution of the
urden.
| believe the negro citizens of
merica should be guaranteed the en- :
,yment of all their rights, that they n
ave earned the full measure of citi- &
,nship bestowed that their sacrifices
blood on the battlefields of the re-
lblic have entitled them to all of
eedom and opportunity, all of SYM IS
tthy and aid that the American spir- M
of fairnaSS an1 iuSfica demands W