The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1920-07-30
OUTLINES HIS POLICY
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cur economic system, ana TO commit
us to the colossal tragedy which has
destroyed all freedom and made Rus
STA impotent. This movement is not
to be halted in throttled liberties. We
must not abridge the freedom of
speech, the freedom of press, or the
freedom of assembly because there is
no promise in repression. These lib
critics are as sacred as the freedom of
religious belief, as inviolable as the
rights of life and the pursuit of happi
ness. We do hold to the right to crush
sedition to stifle menacing contempt
for law, to stamp out a peril to the
safety of the republic or its people,
when emergency calls, because secur
ity and the majesty of the law are the
first essentials of liberty. He who
threatens destruction of the govern
ment by force or flaunts his contempt
for lawful authority, ceases to be
loyal citizen and forfeits his rights to
the freedom of the republic.
No party is indifferent to the well
fare of the wage Garner. To us his
good fortune Is of deepest concern and
we seek to make that good fortune
permanent. We do not oppose but APP
prove collective bargaining, because
that is an outstanding right, but we are
unalterably insistent that it's 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 employment,
so has every American the right to
seek employment The group must
not endanger the individual, and we
must discourage groups preying upon
enc another and none shall be allowed
to forget that the governments obliga-
. lions are. alike to all the people.
We are so confident that much of
the present day insufficiency and in
efficiency of transportation are due to
the whitening hand of government OPP
GRAFTON 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 transportation
facilities mainly chargeable to the
failure Of governmental experiment, is
losing millions to agriculture, it is him
dering industry, it is menacing the
American people with a fuel shortage
little less than a peril. 1t emphasizes
the present day problem and suggests
that spirit of encouragement and as
sistance which commits all America
to relieve such an emergency.
Gross expansion of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar just
as expansion and initiation have dis
credited the coins of the world. We
inflated in haste, we must debate in
deliberation. We debased the dollar
in reckless finance, we must restore
in honesty.
Will Prevent Unreasonable Profits.
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, it is timely, to give reminder that
law Is not the sole corrective of our
economic ills.
Let us call to all the people fo''
luLlll duu SSOuO1nyt lOI uGllldl dllu btlI
rifice If need be, for a nationwide
drive against extravaganza and luxury
10 a recommittal to simplicity of liz
ing, to that prudent and normal plan
of life which is the health of the ra-
public.
New conditions, which attend amaG
ing growth and extraordinary indus
trial develonment call for n now arr
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 fo
food and answered it, though lie facet
an appalling task amid handicaps new
err encountered before.
Contemplating the, defenselessness o.
the individual farmer to meet the or
ganized buyers of his products and Il q
distributors of the things the farmc'
buys, l hold that farmers should nc
only be permitted but encouraged Il
join in cooperative association to rear
the just measure of reward merited b,
their arduous toll.
Aid to Farmer Pledged.
Our platform is an earnest pledge
of renewed concern for this most ees
sential and elemental industry and il
both appreciation and interest VI
pledge effective expression in law ant
practice. We will hail that coopera
ton which again will make profitabl,
and desirable the ownership and OPP
Grafton of comparatively small farm