Great Falls tribune., 1921-12-07
URGES PROMPT ACTION ON TARIFF
MEASURE AND VOICES HOPE FOR
!. SUCCESS Of ARMS CONFERENCE
expeditions solution Of the urgent prob
lens of peace.
Should Outline Policies.

Should Outline Policies.
Granting that we are fundamentally
q representative popular government
with political parties the governing
agencies, / believe the political party
in power should strive to determine
upon policies in the conference which
supplements conventions snd election
campaigns and then strive for achieve
ment through adherance to the accept
ed policy.
There is vastly greater security, i'm
mensely more of the national view
point, much larger and prompter ac-
complishment where our divisions are
along party lines, in the broad and
loftier sense, than to divide geograph-
ically or according to pursuits, or per
sonal following. For a century and
third parties have been charged with
responsibility and held to strict ac-
counting. When they fail they are re-
lieved Of responsibility and the system
has brought us to national emlnence
no less than a world example.
Necessarily, legislation is matter
Of compromise. The full ideal is sell
dom attained. In that meeting OF
minds necessary to insure results there
must and will be accommodations and
compromises, but in the estimate OF
convictions and sincere purpose. the
supreme responsibility to national in
terest must not be ignored. The shield
to the public servant who adheres to
party policy is manifest, but the pur-
pose is the good Of the republic as a
whole.
Compliments Congress.
1t would be ungracious to withhold
acknowledgement of the really large
volume and excellent quality of work
accomplished by the extraordinary ses-
sion Of congress which so recently ad-
iourned. | am not unmindful of the
very difficult task with which you
were called to deal, and no one can
ignore the insistent conditions which.
during recent years, have called for
the continued and almost exclusive at
tention of your membership.
We are all agreed about the diff
culties and the inevitable divergence
Of opinion in seeking the reduction,
amerioration and readjustment of the
burdens of taxation. Later on, when
other problems are solved, / shall make
some recommendations about renewed
consideration of our tax program, but
for the immediate time before us, we
must be content with the billion dol
lar reOucLIOH III tue Lux UfdlL upon Luc
people and diminished irritations, ban
ished uncertainty and improved meth
ods of collection. By your sustain
ment Of the rigid economies already in
augurated, with hoped for extension of
these economies and added efficiencies
in administration, believe further re-
ductions may be enacted and hindering
burdens abolished.
Assisted by Budget.
In these urgent economies we shall
be immensely assisted by the budget
system for which you made provision
in the extraordinary session. The first
budget is before you. It's preparation
is signal achievement and the per-
fection of the system, thing impossi-
BILE in the few months available for its
initial trial, will mark it's fulfillment as
the beginning Of the greatest reforma-
ton in government practices since the
beginning Of the republic.
With the hands of the executive
branches held impotent to deal with
these debts, we are hindering urgent
readjustment among our debtors and
accomplishing nothing for ourselves. l
think it is fair for the congress to as
sumo that the executive branch of the
government would adopt no major pol
icy in dealing with these matters, which
would conflict with the purpose of
congress in authorizing the loans, GER
tainly not without asking congressional
approval, but there are minor prob