Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-31

good fortune Is of deepest concern, and we seek to make that good for tune permanent. We do not oppose, but approve, collective bargaining, be- cause that Is an outstanding right. but exercise must not destroy the equally sacred right of the individual in his necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any American has the right to quit his en- 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 govern ment's obligations are alike to all the people.
 We are so confident that much of the present-day insufficiency and in- efficiency of transpo ortation are due to the whitening hand of government op- eration that we emphasize anew our opposition to government ownership We want to expedite the reparation and make sure the mistake Is not re- | peated.
 A state of inadequate transporta- tion facilities, mainly chargeable to the failure of governmental experi- 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 emphasizes the present-day problem and suggests that spirit of encourage ment 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 deflate 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 moral force and the legal powers of government and people, but it Is fair aye, 1t 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 sac rifice If need be, for simplicity of liv- | ing 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 new and fOrward-lOoking program.
 I The American farmer had hun dred 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 handi- caps never encountered before. Contemplating the defenselessness 1 of the individual farmer to meet the organized buyers of his products and the distributors or the things the farmer buys, I hold that farmers should not only be permitted but encouraged to join 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 es- sential and elemental industry and in both appreciation and interest we pledge effective expression in law and practice. We will hail that cooperation which again will make profitable and desirable the ownership and operation of comparatively small farms inten- Siyely cultivated and which will facili- tate the caring for the products of farm and orchard without the lament able waste under present conditions
 America would look with anxiety on the Encouragement of farming act ivity either through the governments neglect or its paralysis by SOcialistic practices. A Republican administra- tion will be committed to renewed re- gard for agriculture and seek the par ticipation of farmers in curing the ills justly complained of and aim to place the American farm where it ought to be, highly ranked in American activi- ties and fully sharing the highest good fortunes of American life.
 Becomingly associated with this sub- ject are the policies of irrigation and reclamation so essential to agricultural expansion and the continued develop ment of the great and wonderful west It is our purpose to continue and en- large federal aid not in sectional par tiality but for the good of all America
 I believe the budget system will eff feet necessary helpful reformation and reveal business methods to govern ment business.
 I believe Federal Departments should be made more business-like and send back to productive effort thou sands of federal employees who are either duplicating work or not essen- tial at all.
 I believe in the protective tariff policy and know we will be calling for it's saving Americanism again.
 I believe in a great Merchant Mar inc. I would have this republic the leading maritime nation of the world. I believe in navy ample to protect 1t and able to assure us dependable de- fense. I believe in a small army, but the best In the world, worth a mind fulness for preparedness which will avoid the unutterable cost of our pre- vious neglect.
 I believe in our eminence in trade abroad, which the government should aid in expanding, both in revealing markets and speeding cargoes. be lieve in establishing standards for iml migration, which are concerned with