Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24
the one hand, and assure continuity
of service on the other.

the one hand, and assure continuity
of service on the other.
Transportation Problem
The importance of the railway re-
Mobilization is so obvious that ref
renee seems uncalled for. We are
so confident that much of the pres
ent-day insufficiency and inefficiency
of transportation are due to the with
ering hand of government operation
that we emphasize anew our oppOSi-
ton to government ownership, we
want to expedite the reparation, and
make sure the mistake is not re-
peated
1t is little use to recite the story
of development, exploitation, govern
ment experiment and it's neglect, gov
eminent operation and it's failures
The inadequacy of trackage and ter
minal facilities, the insufficiency OF
equipment and the inefficiency of OPP
eration-all bear the blighting stamI
of governmental incapacity during
federal operation. The work of re-
Mobilization under the restoration OF
private ownership deserves our best
encouragement. Billions are needed
in new equipment, not alone to meet
the growing demand for service, but
to restore the extraordinary deprecia-
ton due to the strained service OF
war. With restricted earnings and
with speculative profits removed
railway activities have come TO the
realm of conservative and construc-
tive service, and the government
which impaired must play it's part
in restoration. Manifestly the re-
turns must be so gagged that neces-
sary capital may be enlisted, ana we
must foster as we'll as restrain
We have no more pressing PROB
lem A state of inadequate trans
able to the failure Of governmental
experiment, is losing millions tc
agriculture, it is hindering industry
it is menacing the American people
with a fuel shortage little less than
a peril. 1t emphasizes the present
of encouragement and asslsLance
which commits all America 10 re-
lieve such an emergency.
The one compensation amid attend,
ing anxieties is our new and needeo
realization of the vital part trans
portation plays IN the conP ta 4hi ,1 !,
of rails alone, but highways IRON
farm to market, from railway 70
farm, arteries of life-blood to pres
ent-day life, the quickened ways 70
communication and exchange, the
answer of our people to the motor
age. We believe in generous federal
with assurances of maintenance that
will put an end to criminal waste OF
public funds on the one hand ana
give a guaranty of upkept highways
on the other.
Water transportation
Water transportation is lnsep-
arably linked with adequacy of ia
cilities, and we favor American emil
nence on the seas, the practical de-
velopment of inland waterways. the
upbuilding and coordination of all
to make them equal to and ready
for every call of developing and
widening American commerce.. like
that recommitta1 to thoughts OF
Americas first which pledges the
Panama canal, an American creation,
to the free use of American shipping.
1t will add to the American reawak-
ening.
One can not speak of industry and
commerce. and the transportation on
which they are dependent without an
earnest thought of the abnormal cost
of living and the problems in It's
wake 1t is easy to inveigh, but that
avails nothing. And it is far too
serious to dismiss with flaming but
futile promise.
Eight years ago, in times of peace,
the Democratic party made it an is
sue, and when clothed with power
that party came near to it's accom-
plishment by destroying the peoples
capacity to buy. But that was cure
worse than the ailment. 1t is easy
to understand the real causes, after
which the patient must help to eff
feet his own cure.
Gross expansion of currency and
credit have deprecated the dollar
just as expansion and imitation have
discredited the coins OF the world
We inflated in haste, we must debate
in elaboration. We debased the dol
lar in reckless finance; we must re-
store in honesty. Defation on the
one hand and restoration of the 100
cent dollar, on the other ought to
have begun on the day after the ar
miStice, but plans were lacking or
courage failed. The unpreparedness
for peace was little less costly than
preparedness for war.
We can promi sc no one remedy
which will cure All i'll of such wide
proportions, but we do pledge thai
earnest and consistent attack watch
rh& party platform covenants. We
Will attempt intelligent and couraoe-
Gus defiation, and strike at govern
,nent borrowing which enlarges the
eylJ and we will attack high cost CT
government with every energy and
facility which attend Republican ca
pacity. We promise that relief which
will attend the hating of waste and
extravaganza, and the renewal of the
pIdCllC0 OIL pubic SCOHO11y, IlOL alone
because it will relieve tax burdens
but because it will be an example to
stimulate thrift and economy in pri-
Vate life.
Thrift and Economy
I have already alluded to the ne
cessity for the fullness of produc-
ton, and we need the fullness of
service which attends the exchange
of ~ II. ~
REPUTABLE truth, high wages and re-
duced cost of living are in utter con-
tradiction unless we have the height
Of efficiency for wages received.
In all sincerity we promise the
prevention of unreasonable profits,
we challenge profiteering with all the
moral force and the legal powers or
government and people, but it is
fair, aye, it is timely, to give re-
hinder that law is not the sole cor
receive of our economic ills.
Let us call to all the people for
thrift and economy, for denial and
sacrifice if need be, for nationwide
drive against extravaganza and lux
ury, to a recommittal to simplicity
of living, to that prudent and nor
NAL plan of life which is the health
Of the republic. There hasn't been
a recovery from the waste and alb
normalties of war since the story of
mankind was first written, except
through work and saving, through
industry and denial, while needless
spending and needless extravaganza
have marked every decay in the
history of nations. Given the assur-
ance of that rugged simplicity of
American life which marked the first
century of amazing development, and
this generation may underwrite a
second century of surprising accom-
pishment.
The Republican party was founded
by farmers, with the sensitive con-
science born of their freedom and
their simple lives. These founders
sprang from the. farms of the then
middle west. Our party has never
failed in it's realization that agri-
culture is essentially the foundation
of our very existence, and it has ever
been our policy, purpose and pei
torrance to protect and promote
that essential industry.
New conditions, which attend
amazing growth and extraordinary
industrial development, call for a