, 1922-06-05
Indiana Endorses

THE PLANK in the Republican state platform of
l. Indiana dealing with national affairs is
worthy of the study of every voter, especially those
who may have any lingering doubt that the Re.
can make a successful fight this year
based on the record of the Republican congress and
Republican president. The plank sums IN the
achievements of the last fifteen months in a man.
ner to bring conviction of success TO the Republi.
cans and CONSERVATION TO the Democrats.
The plank follows:
"We congratulate President Harding upon the
accomplishments of the first year of his admins.
tration which have left his fellow countrymen and
the world his debtors. Under his leadership there
was initiated AMI carried to a successful conclusion
the greatest single move ever made toward the end
OF all war-the conference for the limitation of
ornaments conceived and called by President Hard
ing, its product being promptly ratified by a Re.
publican senate.
1--WE have the treaties agreed upon in that con.
ference as great forward steps in the interest
OF the world and humanity.
I'VE commend the business administration of
President Harding. The increase in value of gov
eminent securities and the abolition of the nui-
sance taxes, as well as the improvement in general
business, are due to the culminative effect of the
policies of the Republican administration.
THE enactment of the splendid budget law by a
republican congress, in response to a request of a
Republican president is but typical of the hearty
cooperation and harmony which exist between the
legislative and executive branches of the govern.
ment under its administration by the Republican
party.
we commend our Republican congress for its
splendid record; for the several acts which extend
legitimate aid to the basic industry of agriculture:
for the laws for the revision and reduction of
taxes.
w commend congress for handling the indus.
trial situation as a problem in which all Americans
are vitality concerned, and for its avoidance of all
efforts to cure industrial depression with radical
and socialistic remedies which would only work
greater injury to the wage earners. BY lifting the
burden OF taxation congress benefited the work
eng men particularly because they are the ultimate
consumers who bear the brunt of the heavy taxes.
AS a result, business is experiencing a revival.
The number of unemployed is less than half of that
OF a year ago, industry is on the upgrade, payrolls
are being increased and the wage earners are as.
sured that relief is at hand from the industrial de-
preston in which the Democratic administration
left them.
favor the earliest possible repeal of the pres
ent Democratic tariff law, under which there has
been widespread depression and unemployment be-
fore and since the world war, and the enactment
OF a protective measure extending to American la
Dor and enterprise tariff rates fully equalizing the
cost of production at home and abroad. We pre-
dict that the enactment of a tariff law adequately
protective of American labor, in conjunction with
the other constructive measures of the Harding
administration, will be followed by a complete re,
sumption of industry and an era of prosperity with.
out parallel in our national history"