Arizona republican., 1920-07-03

appropriations through independent ! bills. The appropriation bills should i be considered by single tax commis- siOns of the senate and house. The ! audit systems should be consolidated 1 and it's powers expanded so as to pass l upon the wisdom of. as well as the au- | thority for, expenditures.
 A budget bill was passed in the clos ing days of the second session of the sixty-six congress, which, invalidat- ed by plain constitutional defects and defaced by considerations of patronage. the president was obliged to veto. The house amended the bill to meet the executive objection. We condemn the Republican senate for adjourning with out passing the amended measure, to this urgent public business a budget system could have been provided.
 Senate Rules
 We favor such alteration of the rules of procedure of. the senate of the United States as will permit the prompt transaction of the nations leg islative business.
 Agricultural interest
 To the great agricultural interests of the country the Democratic party does not find it necessary to make promises. It already is rich in it's rec ord of things actually accomplished. For nearly half century of Republi- can rule not a sentence was written into the federal statutes affording one dollar of bank credits to the farming l interests of America. In the first term l of this Democratic administration, the 1 national bank act was so altered as to authorize loans of five years maturity on improved farm lands. Later was 1 established a system of farm loan 1 banks, from which the borrowings al- | ready exceed $500 100000 and under which the interest rate to farmers has been so materially reduced as to drive out of business the farm loan sharks which formerly subsisted by extortion upon the great agricultural interests Of | the country.
 Thus it was a Democratic congress in the administration of Democratic president which enabled the farmers of America for the first time to obtain credit upon reasonable terms and in- sured their opportunity for the future development of the nations agricul- tural resources. Tied up in supreme court proceedings. in a suit by hostile interests the federal farm loan system, originally opposed by the Republican candidate for the presidency, appealed in vain to a Republican congress for | adequate financial assistance to tide over the interim between the beginning and the ending of the current year, awaiting final decision of the high est court on the validity of the con- tested act. We pledge prompt and con- sistent support of sound and effective measures to sustain, amplify and per feet the rural credits statutes and thus to check and reduce the growth and course of farm tenancy.
 Not only did the Democratic party put into effect great farm loan sys
 tenn of land mortgage banks, but il passed the Smith Lever agriculture eX- tension act, carrying to every farmer in every section of the country, through l the T1ndinrlo of trained md hy demonstration farms, the practical knowledge acquired by the federal az
 ricuItural department in all things re-
 lating to agriculture. horticulture and |. animal life; it established the bureau of markets. the bureau of farm man
 agement and passed the cotton flu lures act the grain grades bill. tho
 cooperative farm administration aci
 and the federal warehouse act.
 The Democratic party has vastly i'm proved the rural mail system and has built up the parcels post system to sCci | an extent as to render it's activities anl } its practical service indispensable tC the farming community. 1t was this wise encoura agement and this effective concern of the Democratic party for tn; l farmers of the United States that en. abled this great interest to render sucI essential service in feeding the armie. of America and the allied nations of thu l war and succoring starving population: f since Armistice day.
 Meanwhile. the Republican leaders a | Washington have failed utterly to pro pose one single measure to make rura , life more tolerable. They have signal r ized their fifteen months Of congres r sional power by urging schemes whicl
 would strip the farms of labor by a l sailing the principles of the farm IoaI 7 system and seeking to impair it's eff ciency; by covertly attemnt:ng to de 5 stroy the great nitrate plant at MuscI f Shoals, upon which the governnsnt hai 7 expended S7o,000.000 to supply Aneri
 can farmers with fertilizer at reason , able cost; by ruthlesslv cripplfn. [ nearly every branch of agricultural en l deavor, literally crippling the pro1rc v tive mediums through which the peopl 2 must be fed
 We favor such legislation as vii
 confirm to the primary producers of tn f nation the right of collective bargain . ing; and the right of co-operativ p handling and marketing of the product n Of the workshop and the farm and suc : l legislation as will facilitate the ex n portation of our farm products.
 We favor comprehensive studies o
 farm production costs and the uncen
 sored publication of facts found in sue s studies
 n Labor and Industry
 n Ihe Democratic party is now, a e ever, the firm friends of honest labo q ana the promoter of progressive indus = try. It established the department O
 labor at Washington and Democrat
 president called to his official counc V board the first practical workingma Q who ever held a cabinet portfolio Un , der this administration have been es = tablished employment bureaus to brin n the man and the job together; hay : been determined many bitter dispute
 between capital and labor; wer
 passed the child labor act the work
 lngmans compensation act, (the exten
 slon of which we advocate so as { | include 1aborers engaged in loadin
 and unloading ships and in interstat
 commerce), the eight hour law, the aC
 Tor vocational training and a code c
 other wholesome laws affecting tn
 liberties and bettering the conditions c
 the laboring classes. In the departmen
 or labor the Democratic administra
 ton established a woman's burea,
 which Republican congress destroye
 by withholding appropriations.
 LaDor is not a commodity; it is hu
 man. Those who labor have right
 and the national security and safet
 depend upon a jQst recognition z