Connecticut western news., 1920-07-22
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It would be the blindness of folly to ignore the activities In our own coun- try which are aimed to destroy orr economic system, and to commit Es to | the colossal tragedy which has de- stroyed all freedom and made Russia impotent. This movement is not 70 be halted Tn throttled liberties. We must not abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of press, or the freedom Of assembly, because there Is no r-'ohllse | in repression. These liberties are as sacred as the freedom of religious be- l lief. as inviolable as the rights Of life and the pursuit of happiness. We do | hold to the right to crush sedition, to stife a menacing contempt for law, to stamp out a peril to the safety 'f | the republic or Its people, when eme-- gency calls, because security and the | majesty of the law are the first es- sentials of liberty. He who threatens destruction of the government by .rSse or fiaunts his contempt for lawful authority, ceases to be a loyal citizen and forfeits his rights to the freedom cf the republic.
  | of the wage-earner. To us his good | fortune is of deepest concern, and we seek to make that good fortune per manent. We do not oppose but ap- prove collective bargaining, because that Is an outstanding right, but we 1 are unalternbly insistent that its exer- i else must not destroy the equally sa- cred right of the individual, In his nee essary pursuit of livelihood. Any American has the right to quit his em- 1 ployment, so has every American the right to seek employment The group must not endanger the individual, and we must discourage groups preying upon one another, and none shall be allowed to forget that the governments obligations are alike to all the people.
 No Strike Against Government. We are SO confident that much of the present-day insufficiency and ineficien- cy of transportation are due to the whitening hand of government opera tion that we emphasize anew our oppo- sition to government ownership, we want to expedite the reparation and make sure the mistake is not repeated. A state of inadequate transporta- ton facilities, mainly chargeable to the failure of governmental expert ment, is losing millions to agriculture, it is hindering industry, 1t Is menac- ing the American people with a fuel shortage little less than a peril. It em- phasizes the present-day problem and suggests that spirit of encouragement and assistance which commits all America to relieve such an emergency.
 Gross expansion of currency and credit have depreciated the dollar just as expansion and imitation have dis credited the coins. of the world. We inflated in haste, we must defiate in deliberation. We debased the dollar in reckless finance, we must restore in honesty.
 In all sincerity we promise the pre- vention of unreasonable profits, we challenge profiteering with all the mor- al force and the legal powers of gov ernment and people, but it is fair, aye, 1t is timely, to give reminder that law Is not the sole corrective of our eco homie ills.
 Drive Against Extravagance.
 Let us call to all the people for thrift and economy, for denial and sac rifice If need be, for a nationwide drive against extravaganza and lux ury, to a recommittal to simplicity of living, to that prudent and normal plan of life which Is the health of the re- public.
 New conditions, which attend amaz- ing growth and extraordinary indus trial development, call for a new and forward-looking program. The Ameri- can farmer had hundred and twenty millions to feed in the home market. and heard the cry of the world for food and answered it, though he faced an appalling task amid handicaps never encountered before.
 Contemplating the defenselessnesso of the individual farmer to meet the1or- ganized buyers of his products and the distributors of the things the farmer buys hold that farmers should not enly be permitted but encouraged to jDin in cooperative association to reap the Just measure Of reward merited by their arduous toll.
 Our platform Is an earnest pledge of renewed concern for this most essen tfai and elemental industry and in both appreciation and interest we pledge effective expression in law and practice. We will hail that co-opera- tlon Which again will make profitable and desirable the ownership and op- eration of comparatively small farms fntensively cultivated, and which will facilitate the caring for the products of farm and orchard without the lamentable waste under present condi. lions.
 America would look with anxiety on the Encouragement of farming ac- titity either through the governments npC1aot ar fife DarolySic Inv eocfo1ictfto