The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-06-18

IA Declares for policy of encour
aging and developing of water trans
portation service and facilities.
10 Approves existing federal legis.
iation against monopoly and combina.
tions In restraint of trade but calls TO,
pIan Tor determining in advance as
to whether proposed combination is
or is not lawful.
10 Reaffirms its belief in the pro-
tective principle and pledges itself to
revision Of the tariff as soon as con-
ditions make it necessary for the
preservation of the home market for
american labor. agriculture and in
dustry.
IL Provides for merchant marine
OF the best type of modern shipping,
tiying the American flag, managed by
american seamen, owned by private
capital and operated by private ener-
gy.
lS Favors workmen's compensa-
ton acts.
~ Favors the passage of American
ships and American merchant marine
through the Panama canal without
premium of tolls.
~ Favors existing policy for the
practical exclusion of Asiatic immi.
grants
Il Favors free speech, free press
and free assembly. but no man may
advocate resistance to the law or
violent overthrow of the government.
~ Favors coal. oil and phosphate
leasing bills, and water power bills.
saving of the national forests, recla-
nation.
23 Pledges to discharge to the full
the obligations which a grateful ma
ton should fulfill to the defenders of
the nation.
"a Favors liberal and general
foreign policy, providing for the Just
regard of the rights of other nations.
20 Mexico-Favors consistent, firm
and effective policy. Forcing respect
for the American flag and protection
of American citizens rightfully in
Mexico.
rs Opposed mandate for Aremia or
any other country in Europe or ASIA
| ~ Favors better pay for members
Of the postal service.
| % Favors woman suffrage.
| 20 Favors federal child labor law
and its rigid enforcement and equal
pay for equal work in all branches of
the government. $50
30 The League Plank-The repub-
lican party stands for agreement
among the nations to preserve the
peace of the world. We believe that
such an International association must
be based upon international justice
and must provide methods which shall
maintain the rule of public right by
development of law and the decision
OF impartial courts, and which shall
secure instant and general internat-
iOnal conference whenever peace shall
be threatened by political action, so
that the nations pledged to do and in
sist upon what is just and fair may
exercise their influence and power for
the prevention of war.
We believe that all this can be done
without the compromise of national
independence, without depriving the
people of the United States in advance
of the right to determine for them
selves what is just and fair when the
occasion arises. and without involving
them as participants, and not as peace
makers in multitude of quarrels, the
| merit of which they are unable to
judge.
The covenant signed by the presi-
dent in Paris, failed signally to accom-
plish this purpose and contained stip-
ulations not only intolerable for an
Independent people, but certain to pro-
duce the injustice, hostility and con-
troversy among nations which it pro-
poses to prevent.
The covenant repudiated to degree
wholly unnecessary and unsatifiable
| the time honored policy in favor of
peace, declared by Washington and
Jefferson and Monroe and pursued by
all American administrations for more
than a century, and 1t ignored the uni
versal sentiments of America for gen.
eratiOns past in favor of international
law and arbitration and it rested the
hope Of the future upon mere eXped-
ency and negotiation.
| The unfortunate insistence of the
president upon having his own way
without any change, and without any
regard to the opinion Of majority OF
the senate, which shares with him in
the treaty making power, and the pres
ident's demand that the treaty should
be ratified without any modification,
| created a situation in which senator's
we're requested to vote upon their con-
science and their oaths according to
their judgment upon the treaty as 1t
was presented, or submit to the COM
mands of dictator in matter where
the authority under the constitution
was theirs and not his.
The senators performed their duty
faithfully. We approve of their conduct
and honor their courage and fidelity,
and we pledge the coming republican
administration to such agreement with
the other nations of the world as shall
meet the full duty of America to CIV
ilization and humanity in accordance
with American ideals, and without sur
rendering the right of the American
people to exercise it's judgment and Its
mower in favor of justice and peace.
The small boy and the fire cracker
are already getting in their work TINS
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