The Snowflake herald., 1920-07-30

tune pSTIHdnGllJ. we Go not oppose,
but approve, collective bargaining, be-
cause that is an outstanding right, but /
we are unalterably insistent that its I
exercise must not destroy the equally i
sacred right of the individual in his I
necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any +
American has the right to quit his EN-
ployment; so has every American the I
right to seek employment. The group I
must not endanger the individual and I
we must discourage groups preying /
upon one another, and none shall be
allowed to forget that the govern
ments obligations 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 Wfthering hand of government Op-
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.
state of Inadequate transporta-
ton facilities. mainly chargeable to
the failure of governmental expert
ment, is losing millions to agriculture
y
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 deprecated the dollar just
as expansion and initiation 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 il is fair
aye if is timely-to give reminder
that law is not the sole corrective of
our economic ills.
Let us Gall 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.
ing growth and extraordinary indus
trial development call for a new ana
fo1ward-loolling program.
The American farmer had a 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 handl,
caps never encountered before.
Contemplating the defenselessness
of the individual farmer TO meet the
organized buyers of his products and
the distributors or the things the farmer
buys | 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 ana IN
both appreciation and interest we
+ pledge effective expression in law and
practice. We will hail that cooperation
which again will make profitable ana
desirable the ownership and operation
i cf comparatively small farms inten-
sivelv cultivated and which will facili-
fate the caring for the products OF
farm and orchard without the lament
able waste under present conditions.
America would look with anxiety ON
the discOura cement of farming act
ivitv either through the governments
neglect or it's paralysis by Sociallstlc
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
fbe American farm where it ought to
he. highly ranked in American actiVl-
ties and fully sharing the highest good
fortunes of American life.
Recominglv associated with this sub
iect are the policies of irrigation and
reclamation so essential to agricultural
expansion and the continued develop
ment OF the great and wonderful west
Tt is our purpose to continue ana en-
large federal aid not in sectional par
tiaIity but for the good of all America
believe the budget system VIII ell
feet a necessary helpful reformation
and reveal business methods to govern
ment bus ness.
I believe Federal Departments
should he made more business-like anc
send back to productive effort thou
sands of federal employees who are
either duplicating work or not essen
tial ut all. ;e
believe in the protective tarlI
policy and know we will be ealing lo'
its saving Americanism again.
/ believe in a great Merchant Mar
inc. | would have this republic III,
leading maritime nation of the Worid
believe in a navy ample to protec
if and able to assure us dependable oe
fense. / believe in small army n1
the best in the world, worm q lii.IIGi
fnIness for preparedness which Wi
avoid the unutterable cost of our pre-
vious neglect. a
believe in our eminence in trad
abroad, which the government Sil9,,'
aid in expanding. both in reVeal,hi
markets and speeding cargoes DC
Geye in establishing standards Tor III ~,
migration. which are concerned wv W..
} the future citizenship of the rePu2l.'
NOT with mere man-power in lnduSlIA
1,oliox-n that every man VINO uol