The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-04-22
Declares America VIII Have
No Part in the Existing
League of Nations.
SEPARATE PEACE Is DEMANDED
Calls Upon Congress to Adopt Resolu-
tion Ending War With Germany and
Suggests Measures to Lower
Taxes and Reduce Prices Of
Goods to Consumers.

gress follows:
Members Of the Congress:
You have been called into extraor-
binary session to give your considera- |
ton TO national problems far too press
ing to be long neglected.
We face our task of legislation and |
administration amid conditions as diff |
ficult as our government ever contem-
plated
Under our political system the peo-
pie of the United States have charged
the new congress and the new admin
istration with the solution-the read
justment, reconstruction and restora-
ton which must follow in the wake of
war
Invite All to Join.
1t may be regi cited that we were
SO lily prepared for wars aftermath,
so little made ready to return to the
ways of peace, but ~e are not to be
discouraged. Indeed, Ne must be the
more firmly resolved to undertake our
work with high hope, and invite every
factor in our citizenship to join in the
effort to find our normal onward way
again.
The American people have APP
praised the situation and with that toll
erance and patience which go with
understanding they will give to us the
influence of deliberate public opinion
which ultimately becomes the edict of
any popular government. They are
measuring some of the stern neceSSi-
ties and will Join in the give and take
which is SO essential to firm reestab-
lishment
Home Problems.
First in mind must be the solution
OF our problems at home, even though
some phases of them are inseparably
linked with our foreign relations. The
surest procedure in every government
is to put its own house in order.
| know of no more pressing prob
lem at home than to restrict our ma
tional expenditures within the limits
of our national income, and at the
same time measurably lift the burdens
OF war taxation from the shoulders
OF the American people.
one cannot be unmindful that econ
omy is much employed cry, most fire.
quently stressed in prediction APP
pealS, but it is ours to make it an
outstanding and ever-impelling pur.
pose in both legislation and admins
tration The unrestrained tendencies
to needless expenditure and the at
tending growth of public Indebtedness
extending from federal authority tC
that of state and municipality and in
Guiding the smallest political subdivi
sion, constitute the most dangerous
phase of government today
Nation as Exempiar.
The nation cannot restrain excep
in its own activities, but it can b,
ememp1ar in a, wholesome reversal.
The staggering load of war deb
must be cared for in orderly funding
and gradual liquidation. We shall
hasten the solution and aid effectivel,
in lifting the tax burdens If we strik
resolutely at expenditure.
1t is far more easily said than done
In the ferver of war our expenditure
were so little questioned, the emer
gency was so impelling, appropria
ton was so unimpeded that we littl
noted millions and counted the treas
ury inexhaustible. 1t will strengths
our resolution if we ever keep in min
that continuation of such a cours
means inevitable disaster.
Our current expenditures are rur
ming at the rate of approximately S.
OO0,O00,OO0 year and the burden
unbearable. There are two agencies t
be employed in correction: One
rigid resistance in appropriation an
the other is the utmost economy i
administration. Let us have both.
have already charged departmer
heads with this necessity. 1 am sur
congress will agree; and both congres
and the administration may safel
count on the support of all right mine
ed citizens, because the burden
theirs.
Thrift For All.
The pressure for expenditure, swei
ing the flow in one locality viii
draining another, is sure to defeat IL
imposition of just burdens and the e
feet of our citizenship protesting on
lay will be wholesome and helpful
wish it might find its reflex in econ
my and thrift among the people ther
selves, because therein lies quicker r
covery and added security for the
ture.
The estimates Of receipts and e
penditures and the statements as
the condition of the treasury viii,
the secretary of the treasury Is pr
pared to present to you will indica
what revenues must be provided
order to carry on the government
business and meet its current requii
ments and fixed debt charges. Unle
there are striking cuts in the fmpo
ant fields of expenditures, receip
from internal taxes cannot safely
permitted to fall below S4,000,000,0
{ In the fiscal year 1922 and 1928.
Cost of Living.
One who values American prosp,
fty and maintains American stapaar
OF wages and living can have no sy
pathy with the proposal that easy {
try and flood of imports will cheap
our costs Of living 1t is more Xix,
10 destroy our capacity to buy. Tod
American agriculture is menaced a
Ms products are down to prewar n
mails. YET We are endangerlng our II
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