Albuquerque morning journal., 1921-08-20
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BY DEMOCRATS AT DUKE CITY
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soldiers are still on the Rhine.
The appointment Of Harvey.
We repudiate with indignation
the assertion of our ambassador to
Great Britain that this country
took arms in the great war m
splred only by selfish ana sordid
motives, and we heartily condemn
his un-American utteranees IN
minimizing the accomplishments
of our army and navy In the world
war. AS these statements have
gone unrebuked we must assume
that Colonel Harvey voiced the
sentiments of the administration.
Tariff.
We condemn the republican ad-
ministration for its passage of the
Fordney tariff bill, which Is in the
interest of big BUSINESS, protecting
them, but not protecting the pro-
dueers and consumers, and we
heartily commend Senator A. A.
Jones for the heroic effort which
he made to amend the Fordney
tariff bill, which amendment would
have afforded protection to the
stock growers, and which amend
ment failed of passage by only two
votes.
Taxation.
We condemn the republican con-
gress for it's arrogant refusal to
follow the recommendations of the
democratic president to revise the
revenue law and for its utter fall
ure to keep its campaign promise
| to reduce federal taxes.
Equal Rights To Women.
We reaffirm our unfaltering
faith In the creed of democracy.
We confidently believe in its prae-
tical justice, industrial as well as
political; for women no less than
for men. We pledge ourselves to
give enthusiastic support to legisla-
| tive efforts, state or federal. call
culated to wipe out such arbitrary
discrimination against women as
still obtained under existing law.
The Interests of Labor.
The democratic party reasserts
Its devotion to the cause of labor.
1t Is true that many who work with
their hands apparently voted for
lnormalcy in the last election; but
they are rapidly being dtsillusion-
led. We remind them that it was
democratic congress that wrote the
ilaw which proclaims that labor Is
| not a commodity"
Moreover, we are persuaded that
| the workers shGsld share more
generally and more authoritatively
| in the government Of industry II
is not enough that they should re-
ceive living wages and be granted
reasonable hours; Industrial justice
demands that they should have
some voice in the counsels that de-
ltermine both wages and hours,
| Reclamation OF Arid Lands.
| We call attention to the fact
| that New Mexico Is a public land
| state, with many thousands of
acres of federal lands within its
boundaries, idle and barren; yield
ing no tax to the state.
We urgently recommend the in
auguration of a sound and ration
/ al policy of reclamation; that the
! plentiful waters of its streams be
impounded; that its arid acres be
put under cultivation and made
to yield sustenance for the millions
| who should, and would, come to
dwell within our borders.
We recommend that every OPP
portunity be afforded ex-service
| men to share in the ownership and
employment of these reclaimed
lands, for surely a grateful coun-
try should take some practical
steps to demonstrate its apprecla-
ton Of those who did not stop to
count the cost to themselves when
Iduty called them to their country's
service, and we favor the enact
ment of legislation which will pre-
vent the transferring of real estate
into the possession of persons
who are ineligible to citizenship.
We urge the ratification of the
law which will permit the legisla-
ture to exempt from taxation prop
erty of each head of q family to
the amount of two hundred dol
lars, and the property of very
honorably discharged soldier, sail
lor, or marine and army nurse,
land the widow of every such
soldier, sailor or marine, who
served in the armed, forces
lof the United States at any
time during the period when the
United States was regularly and Of
ficially engaged in war, In the
sum OF two thousand dollars.
Soldiers Adjusted Compensation
Act.
We commend and endorse the
able fight made by Senator A. A.
Jones to pass the soldiers ad-
justed compensation bill, as rec-
commended by the American le-