Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-08

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rich and poor. shall be protected. we
must have a government of the peo-
pie, duly chosen by the people, and
never must there b permitted n
government by a single man or by a
group OF men or by an organised mi
nority. Tyranny turks in them all
and T freedom withers when they
ascend h throne. There must be but
one. law In this country and that Is the
law framed by the men chosen by the
people themselves to make the laws.
The chief magistrate must understand
that 1t Is his duty not only to enforce
but to abide by the laws, the laws
made by h representatives Of the
people, and when those laws are once
made they mus be obeyed until the
people mt to change them. The
will of the people, expressed in law
ful through the government
OF h United States, must be supreme,
for h government Of, the United
States car neither suffer revolt nor
81 bmit to any question Of its au-
thority on the part Of any man or any
group of men or any minority of the
people. When free government fails,
autocracy and revolution and the
downfall of civilization as we have
known 1t are at hand. Progress will
cease n h decline to lower stages
or development will have begun. True
progress must rest upon and proceed
from the sound principles which sus-
tain all free government and to such
progress the Republican party always
has been committed. Loyalty to the
United States and obedience to the
peoples laws are the corner-stones of
n republic and should be sustained
and upheld by every man and women
in every corner of our great land.
Keep these principles sacred and un-
ouched and all the rest will follow,
Let me turn, first to the economic
and confused by the war, which affect
our daily life, are essential to our
business and upon which our material
prosperity and all the benefits, both
mental and moral. which flow from it
when honestly acquired. SO largely de-
pend. Already a beginning has been
made by a Republican congress, work
ing under all the difficulties and OPP
position imposed by a hostile execu-
tive. Many vital economic measures
and especially protective tariff lesis-
lation to guard our industries are i'm
possible with a Democratic free
trader Of Socialistic proclivities in the
White House. To accomplish such
measures as these we must have, as
we intend to have. a Republican
president, in sympathy with a Repub-
iican house and senate. Great reduc-
Cons in expenditures have been eff
rected but we nave been met with
resistance in some of the departments
and also by habits OF waste backed by
maladministration. by sacrifice of eff
hclency to political purposes, never SO
reckiessly INDUCED in before. and in
certain by an incompetence so
marvellous that it canont be due to
nature but must be. the result of art.
Yet despite all these lettering condi-
lions an amoun OF work has been
done which in days of peace would
nave been considered remarkable but
now passes almost unnoticed because
great events have so crowded on each
others heels in the years of world
probation Of legislative accomplish
ment are we'll nigh lost. Let me give
a few examples of what has been ac-
complished.
The estimates have been reduced
over a billion dollars. The o~il-leas-
ing and water-power bills. two meas
ures of large effect and high impor-
lance, which have been halting and
stumbling for many years in the in
capable hands of a Democratic ad-
min1stration have passed both houses
but the president vetoed the water
power bill. We have passed the vo-
cational rehabilitation act for the
benefit of wounded soldiers and sew
eral acts for the disposition of wal
material, very necessary to our fin
ances. We have amended and i'm
farmers loan acts. We have cared
for the soldiers of the Civil war,
straitened in their old age through
the rise in prices, by an increase in
their pensions. The civil service re-
tiren1ent law. a lon%g-deferred act OF
justice to faithful servants of the
government, has been passed. We
have been obliged to restore the army
and navy to a peace footing. a work
as difficult as it was necessary. We
nave met this by two most important
measures. the army and navy pay-bil1
and the law for the reorganization OF
the army on a peace basis. Two OF
the most important acts Of any Pc
Rod. the shipping act for the up
building OF the American marine and
he settlement of the affairs of the
shipping board and the law establish
ing the budget, a great cas- OF
economy n sound financial admin
lstration, are conspicuous as our lat
est achievements. The budget bill
was vetoed by the president at the
last moment on the grounds that it
interfered with his power Of appoint
ment and removal.
The list of beneficial laws. passed
under adverse circumstances, might
be largely extended did not time for
bid. But these are enough to show
the far-reachinE results of the labors
OF this congress, whose time is but
little more than half spent. Some
OF the master minds of the Demo
cratic party are now chirruping away
like incessant little birds that 1.-THE
Republicans have done nothing ]
should be glad, emitting the two years
OF war when both parties worked to.
gether, to put the recorded accom-.
plishrnent of the five years OF com
plete Democratic control beside tina,
OF u eighteen months hampered b,
an inimical administration. Let ms
assure you that we do not fear tn
comparison. 4,
We have made a remarkable BEGIN.
ming, but we are fully conscious tina!
1t Is only a beginning. Much ha.
been done, much more remains to. dc
and We pledge ourselves to exert al
our energies to deal with what Ia still
undone. The wreck and confusio,
of a great war, in business. financ,
and all economic conditions, canno
be cleared away and fully readjustet
In = year n a haf nor indeed IL
twice that time. Reconstruction
must be steady and energetic but /
oi0O uei1auVS care IL II ID TO O0 o.
lasting value. The rise Of prices, tn,
high cost of living which reach dali,
into every home, Is the most pressing
as it Is the most difficult and mos
essential problem which confronts US
Some OF the sources Of this troubl,
can be reached by legislation, al
though no all, but everything tina
can be effected by law should b,
done at once. Proffteering, thu
charging Of extortionate and 5unjus
titled prices. which 10 stupid as vel