Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-07


great mileage of third class. or
rural roads should be devised.
We commend the firm stand
of President Harding for sound
and systematic. road improve.
ment and maintenance and heart
lily endorse the Federal Aid act
recently passed by Republican
Congress. The State Of Maine
has taken advantage of all Fed
eral Aid for highways and will
continue to do so.
HUMAN WELFARE
We endorse the Mothers Aid
Law which enables the home to
be retained and leaves the child
to the care of the mother. and
we recommend the work be fur
Their extended; we also endorse
the Children's Guardian Law and
commend the care taken of our
dependent children hereunder
and approve the work being done
by the State in caring for all
our dependents and unfortunates.
PROHIBITION
We reaffirm the long estab-
iished principle of the Republican
Party of strict enforcement of
the prohibitory laws. and urge
an honest and efficient admins
tration thereof in State and
Nation. And since prohibition
became part of our fundamental
law by constitutional enactment
we believe it becomes the patri-
otto duty of every loyal Ameri-
can to faithfully obey it and to
honestly support the officers
charged with it's enforcement.
WATER POWER
We recognize that the estab-
lished policy of this State Is to
retain Names hydro electric
energy within the State for the
use of our people and our in
dustries.,
We believe that the full de-
velopment of the Water Powers
OF Maine would stimulate in
dustry and would prove of, great
benefit to our citizens and to the
agricultural and business in
terests of the State; and
We pledge to the people OF
Maine that the Republicans in
the S1st Legislature will give to
all phases of Names Water
Power problem the careful and
impartial consideration its i'm
portance demands.
FORESTRY
We recognize that the conser-
walton of our forest resources is
essential for the continued de-
velopment of the industrial, agri-
cultural, and recreational pos
sibilities of the State. We recog-
nize also that under present con-
sditions the forests are not hold
ing their own, and that because
of the longtime nature of the
forest crop special precautions
and State participation are nee
essary to insure it's continued
productivity. We therefore af-
firm our belief in. and will en-
deavor to bring about increased
protection Of the forests from
fire, insects and disease. assist
ance in reforestation through
the production and sale at cost
Of larger quantities of forest
nursery stock; extension work in
farm forestry; more effective
public instruction: and the en-
couragement of their use with
out waste and destruction OF the
growth of the forests.
LABOR
We believe that the peace and
prosperity Of this State are to
Il large extent dependent upon
the relations that exists between
employer and employee; that
both those who work and those
who pay should approach the
difficult economic ard industrial
problems of the present day
keeping in mind the others point
OF view; and that the ideal State
is one wherein every citizen can
secure employment at a fair
wage. for which is given an ade-
quate return, and we pledge the
Republican Party to aid in the
realization of these ideals.
FARMING
We believe that our citizens
engaged in agricultural pursuits
form the backbone of the COM
nunity, and that whatever af-
fects the interests favorably or
adversely in like manner affects
the interests Of the people Of our
state as whole, and we pledge
the Republican Party to support
those measures that will en-
courage agriculture in all Its
branches, and that will contri-
butte to the prosperity of those
who seek to obtain a living from
the soil.
DIRECT PRIMARY LAW
Whereas the Direct Primary
Law was enacted by the people
thinking it an improvement over
our former system.
And whereas it has been fair
ly tried and found unsatisfactory
Therefore We advocate the
submission to the people OF a
proposition for it's repeal.
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