Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-23

lieve tax burde7s. but because it will be omy in private life.
 In all sincerity we promise the preven- ton of unreasonable profits, we challenge prof1teering with all the moral force and the legal powers of government and peo- pie, but it is fair. aye, it is timely, to give reminder that law is not the sole corrective of our. economic ills
 Party Founded by Farmers.
 The republican party was founded by farmers, with the sensitive conscience 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 agriculture is essentially tlie foundation of our very existence, and it has ever been our policy, purpose and performance to protect and promote that essential in- dustry.
 New conditions which attend amazing growth and extraordinary industrial de- velopment call for a new and forward looking program. The American farmer had hundred and twenty millions to feed n the home market, and heard the cry Of the world for food and answered it, trough he faced an appalling task amid handicaps never encountered before
 In the rise of price levels there have come increased appraisals to his acres without adding to their value in fact but which do add to his taxes and expenses without enhancing his returns. His help CTS have yielded to the lure of shop and city until almost alone, he has met and borne the burden of the only insistent at tempts to force down prices It chal- lenges both the wisdom and the justice of artificial drives on prices to recall that they were effective almost solely against his products in the hands of the producer and never effective against the same pro- ducts in passing to the consumer Con- templating the defenSelessness of the indi- vidual farmer to meet the organized buy CTS of his products and the distributors of the things the farmer buys. I hold that farmers should not only be permitted but encouraged to join in cooperative asso- ciauon to reap the just measure of re- ward merited by their arduous toll. Let us facilitate cooperation to insure against the risks attending agriculture. which the urban world so little understands. and a i like cooperation to market their products as directly as possible with the consumer. in the interests of all. Upon such asso- citation and cooperation should be laid only such restrictions as will preveGt ar bltrary control of our food srnply and the fixing of eXtortionate or;cn upon it. Our platform is an earnest pledge of ! renewed concern for this most essential and elemental industry, and in both ap- preciation and interest We pledge effective 1 expression in law and practice We will ] hail that cooperation which again will make profitable and desirable the owner ship and operation of comparatively small 1 farms intensively cultivated. and which will facilitate the caring for the products ] Of farm and orchard without the lament able waste unGe: present conditions Irrigation aud Reclamation. Becomingly associated with this subject are the policies of irrigation and reclarna- tion, so essential to agricultural expan- ! sion. and the continued developnlent of 1 the great and wonderful west. It is our l purpose to continue and enlarge federal i aid, not in sectional partiality. but for the 1 good of all America We hold to that i harmony of relationship between conser- 1 yation and development which fttingly ! appraises our natural resources and makes them available to developine i America of today, and stilI holds to the
 conserving thought for the America of ! the morrow.
 The federal governments relation tc
 reclamation and development is too i'm ] pOTtaIl lO ddfilll Ol ample QiScuSSlOn to- i day Alaska, alone. is rich in resources beyond all imagination. and needs only
 closer linking. through the lines of trans portation. and a governmental policy that 1 both safeguards and encourages develop ment, to speed it to a foremost position as a commonwealth. rugged in citizenshi, and rich in materialized resources.
 | Questions of Vast Importance, These things I can only mention. With
 in becoming limits one cannot say more Indeed. for the present many questions o
 vast importance must be hastily passed
 reserving a fuller discussion to suitabI
 occasion as the campaign advances | I believe the budget system will effec 8 necessary, helpful reformation and re
 veal business methods to government bus mess.
 l believe federal departments should b
 made more business-like and send bac
 to productive effort thousands of federe
 employees who are either duplicating wor
 or not essential at all.
 I believe in the protective tariff poIic z and know We will be calling for it's savin . Americanism again.
 , I believe in 9 great merchant marine I would have this republic the leadin
 maritime nation of the world
 l believe in a navy ample to protect y and able to assure us dependable defens e ] believe in small army. but the be. 5, in the world, with a mindfulness for pr,