The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-22

miss With banning but fstils
promise.
Eight years ago IN Hmes q
peace, the Democratic party made
s IN issue, and when clothed with
power that party came near 70 ~
accomplishment By destroying. he
peoples capacity to buy. But thai
wSs : cure worse than the ailment,
Il 10 easy to understand tn real
causea after which the patient
must help to. effect his own care.
Gross expansion OF currency ana
credit have deprecated the dollar
lust as expansion and imitation have
discredited the coins Of the world.
We inflated In haste, We must do
fate in deliberation. We debased
the dollar In reckless finance. We
must restore In honesty. Denatt0n
on the ono hand and restoration OF
the 100-cent dollar on the other
ought to have begun on the day
after the armistice, but plans we're
lacking or courage failed. The un-
preparedness for peace wy little
less costly than unprepAredness
for war.
VIII Attack Prices.
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 cour-
ageous defiation, and strike at gov
eminent borrowing which enlarges
the veil, and we will attack high
cost Of government with every en-
ergy and facility which attend Re
publican capacity. We promise that
relief which will attend the hating
of waste and extravaganza. and
the renewal Of the practice Of pub
lie economy, not alone because 1t
will relieve tax burdens but be-
cause it will be an example to
stimulate thrift and economy in
private life.
have already alluded to the
necessity for the fullness OF pro-
ductidh, and we need the fullness
of service which attends the ex-
change of products. Let us speak
the irrefutable truth, high wages
and reduced cost of living are in
utter contradiction unless we have
the height of efficiency for wages
received
Will Cut Profits.
In all sincerity we promise the
prevention of unreasonable profits,
we challenge profiteering with all
the moral force and the legal pow
ers 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
sacrifice il need be, for nation
wide drive against extravaganza
and luxury, to a recommittal to
simplicity of living. to that prudent
and normal plan of life which is
the health Of the republic. There
hasn't been a recovery from the
waste and abnormalties 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 history of ma
: tons. Give the assurance Of that
rugged simplicity Of American life
which marked the first century of
amazing development and this gen
Grafton may underwrite second
century OF SURPRISING accomplish
ment.
Heed Needs Of Farmers.
The Republican party was found
ed by farmers, with the sensitive
conscience born Of their freedom
and their simple lives. These found
ers sprang from the farms Of the
then middle west Our party has
never failed in it's realization that
agriculture is essentially the found
alton of our very existence, and it
has ever been our policy, purpose
and performance to protect and
promote that essential industry.
New conditions, which attend
amazing growth and extraordinary
industrial development, call for a
new and forward-looking program.
The American farmer had a hun
dred and twenty millions to feed in
the home market, and heard the
cry of the world for food and an
swered it, though he faced an ap-
palling task amid handicaps never
encountered before.
Between Two Fires.
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 insistent attempts to force
down prices. 1t challenges both
the wisdom and the justice Of arti-
fetal drives on prices to recall that
they were effective almost solely
against his products in the hands
Of the producer and never effective
against the same products in pass
ing to the consumer. Contemplate
ing the defenselessness Of the in
dividual farmer to meet the organ
lied buyers Of his products and the
distributors Of the things the farm
er buys, hold that farmers should
not only be permitted but eacour-
aged to Join in cooperative ossocia-
ton to reap the Just measure Of
reward merited BY their arduous
toll. Let us facilitate cooperation
to insure against the risks attend.
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