The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-03-11
Republican Candidate for President Pleads for Sane Con
seryatism in Dealing With Great Problems
Now Before the Nation.
WANTS LEAGUE THOROUGHLY AlIERICANIZED
Calls Upon People Stand Steady on the Ground with
Ideals High and Hold to Policies and Traditions
of the American People.

"We want budget system in this
country. It will tend to national econ
omy, to a more efficient expenditure
of the republic funds. It is rather im-
portant thing. We have got to econ
omize and rigidly economic in nation
al administration now, to try to get
back on our feet financially, to get
this burden of taxation off of us. We
should go back to those thrifty war
habits. It is no time now to sag
away from them; we wart to hold
them up. We waste enough for ma
tion to live on. sent to cultivate
thrift, to cu!tsgs habits Of economy,
We have heavy load Of national debt
to bear, and f we viii only do these
things it will help us tremendously.
Must Defend School.
"fr COUNTRY rests largely upon
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level of efficiency. These men and
women who today are teaching the
youth of this country, the children of
our land, are forming the characters
of the men and women of tomorrow
As they are taught today so viii they
be thinking and acting tomorrow
"Our teaching force is fighting that
silent battle against ignorance and
prejudice, upon the outcome of which
depends in no small measure the sta
bility of this republic. They know
they are underpaid, and we know it.
They are unhappy and disconnected,
and great many of the best men and
women in the teaching force are Ieav-
ing. They are going into other lines
of endeavor. They feel they have
right to make the best use of their
talents and to find position where
they can earn reasonable return for
their labors. Where they can afford to
have a little bit of pleasure, Co marry,
to raise a family and to give tEuir
children a reasonable opportunity.
Labor and Capital.
"Then we have the questions of la
Dor and capital. There is a lot of in
sincerity on both sides in discussing
those questions. The whole thing
comes down to an application, in the
relations between those who work and
those who direct the work, of the basic
principles of the Golden Rule. do
unto others as you would have others
do unto you.
Honesty, honesty on the part of the
employers and when I say honesty, I
mean by that a man who is honest
enough to give those who work for
him good wage, living wage,
wage, which with thrift and industry
will enable him to lay aside something
for stormy day. to marry, to have
a family and to give their children a
chance in the world. We have got not
only to let people live, but if we are
the right kind of men and women we
must help them to live.
"You will find, at least have found,
and / know you will find that 95 per
cent of American labor is square and
wants to run straight. They are I'M
der alien leadership in most instances
where you find trouble.
Labor must have square deal.
You remember what Lincoln said: LA
Dor is older than capital. Capital
comes from labor, but both are equally
entitled to protection. Both are en-
titled to the protection of their prop
erty, whether they be rich or wheth-
er they be poor. A man must work for
what he gets. We want to give him
the most favorable condition posi-
Bile under which to work You remem-
Der also what Lincoln said to them al
the close of that remarkable address
away back in the early sixties: Let
not him who is houseless pull down
the house of his neighbor; but rather,
let him strive diligently to build one
for himself, thus, by example, show
ing confidence that his own when built
will stand
"There you have the sane and sound
doctrine without any camouflage, with
out any humbug.
Must Guard immigration.
''Now, we have been talking bit
about this. disorderly element among
us. l think the time has come, and
I believe American labor will agree
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