The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1922-10-05


for all that is implied in the oath OF
office, which each will be required to
subscribe to, as follows:
81 do solemnly swear that will
support, obey and defend the Con.
stitution of the United States and the
Constitution Of the State of Oklahoma,
and will discharge the duties Of my
office with fidelity"
We deplore the injection Of racial,
fraternal and religious questions into
the primary campaign of the opposi-
tion. We denounce all attempts to
continue this agitation into the fall
campaign We stand for a govern.
ment which is the union Of all the
people constitutional orderly. and
Just, and for the Bill OF Rights, which
is the American citizens richest leg.
acy.
We stand for more business in gov.
ernment and less government in bus.
mess, and oppose:
All attempts to put the state
into business, which the experience Of
mankind throughout the ages has
shown can be conducted successfully
only as private or cooperative enter
prises, such as farming, store keeping,
warehousing, and manufacturing.
2-All attempts to have the State
Government take over the business
OF banking. and we submit that the
present condition of the State Guaran.
ty Fund proves the necessity OF the
| States cleaning up its existing obli-
cations before taking on more of the
personal financial responsibilities Of
the citizens.
We maintain that cooperative meth
DDS supply the only sound basis on
which changes in existing methods OF
production, marketing and distribu.
ton should be attempted, and pledge
our candidates to such legislation as
is needed to permit and protect CO.
operative enterprises OF all kinds to
the fullest degree.
We pledge an administration OF state
government which, first of all will
seek to improve the agricultural stu.
alton in Oklahoma, thru enacting into
law the matured demands of organic,
ed farmers who actually farm. Among
these demands are: That the state
put in tannery and leather
goods factory at the state peniten.
tiary: that motor vehicle taxes be
collected in the counties where the
motor vehicles are used; that the
school transfer law be amended; that
an anti-discrimination law be enacted.
and that state laws relating to grad
ing and warehousing of farm products
be administered in cooperation with
Federal laws and supervision.
We are committed to an administra-
ton of state departments, and espe-
cially OF the Department of Agricul.
ture, which will seek to protect tenant
farmers against encroachments of spec
ulators in land and in leases on Indian
lands. Those who bear the heavy
burdens of labor, whether on farms,
in workshops, or elsewhere, should be
sustained and encouraged by public
officers who know from personal expe.
rience the problems of those who tos
Our candidates know these problems
from personal experience and have
personal as well as public interest In
their just solution.
Before placing the credit of the
state back of home ownership law,
and thus further involving IT in finan.
cial difficulties, the government of the
state should first demonstrate its
ability properly to administer the mag.
nificent endowment for the support of
education which the United States
gave to Oklahoma--5 million dollars
and the proceeds from 2,S117S7 acres
of land. The State Constitution pro-
vides that preference in investing
these funds shall be given to first
mortgages on good and improved farm
lands within the state. This has not
always been done, and the state has
made investments in bonds which Il
cannot sell. Farmers have been
promised repeatedly that they will be
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not farm, when loans are made from
these funds. This has not always been
done. We pledge our candidates for
state offices who will be charged with
the administration of the School Land
Department, that these funds will be
invested as the Constitution provides
and lent only to persons actually en-.
gagged in the cultivation of the land
mortgaged-to persons whose princi-
pal income is derived from farming
first of all to those seeking to estab-
lish homes on small farms. These
funds will be supplemented by those
available under the present home own
ership law in making loans on tracts
on which families actually are strlv-
ing to establish homes. They viii
not be used to facilitate the opera.
tions OF those with land for sale or