The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-22

must not destroy the equally SACRED
| right of the individual, in his neces sary
! 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-
tons 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
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 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.
viii 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 for
thrift and economy, for denial and sac
rifice if need be, for a nationwide
drive against extravaganza and luxury,
to a recommittal to simplicity of liv-
ing, to that prudent and normal plan
of life which is the health of the re-
public
New conditions, which attend amaz-
ing growth and extraordinary indus
trial development, call for new and
forward looking program. The Ameri-
can farmer had a hundred 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 handicaps new
er encountered before.
Contemplating the defenselessness of
the individual farmer to meet the or
ganized buyers of his products and the
distributors of 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.
Aid to Farmer Pledged.
Our platform is an earnest pledge
Of renewed concern for this most e.
sential and elemental industry and in
both appreciation and interest we
pledge effective expression in law and
practice We will hail that coopera-
ion which again will make profitable
ind desirable the ownership and OPP
grafton of comparatively small farms
ntensively cultivated, and which will
facilitate the caring for the products
If farm and orchard without the Ia
nentable waste under present condi-
ions
America would look with anxiety on
he disbursement of farming activity
either through the governments neg
ect or its paralysis of socialistic prac-
ices A Republican administration
will be committed to renewed regard
or agriculture and seek the partici-
ation of farmers in curing the ills
Justly complained of, and aim to place
he American farm where it ought to
ranked in American activ-
les and fully sharing the highest good
of American life.
Becomingly associated with this sub
ect are the policies of irrigation and
so essential to agricul-
ural expansion, and the continued de- i
elopment of the great and wonderful l
nd enlarge federal aid and not in sec
onal Partially, but for the good of ali e
merica.
Budget System Favored. Q
/ believe the budget system will eff
sct necessary, helpful reformation, !.
Id reveal business methods to govern
tent business. l believe federal de- !
artments should be made more bust :,
sss like and send back to productive :
fort thousands of federal employees, :
no are either duplicating work or
0t essential at all.
l believe in the protective tariff pol y,
y and know we will be calling for y
5 saving Americanism again !"
/ believe in a great merchant marine = :,
would have this republic the leading :.
aritime nation of the wsrld. | be- =
ave in navy ample to protect it and 2
lie to assure us dependable defense. =
believe in a small army, but the best y
the world, with mindfulness for -
eparedness which will avoid the I'M =
terable cost of our previous neglect. ?