The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-10-13
THEN-NOW.
Conditions as the Democrats Lent
Them; as They are After a Year
and a Half of Repubiicanism.


Did you ever let your house for Two
seasons to tenants who did not Keep
it at all as you would have kept 1t !
When they vacated the property, did
you find holes in the plaster, floors
marred, woodwork scratched, wall
paper trn, the furnace rusted, the
plumbing clogged, corners dirty, the
cellar full of rubbish, the shrubbery
trampled and the lawn weedy.
If so, you can appreciate somewhat
the task which the Republican party
faced when it assumed the response
bility of our government on March 4,
1921.
Things needed housekeeping, over
hauling and reconstructing. We were
in disrepute with our neighbors'
! Waste extravaganza and inefficiency
had piled up an enormous war debt.
Our burden of taxation was distress
| ing. A host of immigrants was com
ing in to eat the bread which should
belong to the children. Unemploy-
ment, no markets, bankruptcy and
panic added to our miseries. Inter
| ference and paternalism made bust
ness afaid to expand There was no
confidence nor stability, and the soil
was fertile for the radicalism which
sprang up and endangered our in
dustries.
The war had been over for "a
months. Had the Democratic party
made any attempt to clean up the
debris ? AS conditions grew worse,
all it did was to acknowledge and
bewail'
The prospect was not pleasant
one; but the party of Lincoln, which
had readiusted chaotic world after
one war, rolled up its sleeves and
plunged into the Herculean task.
Now.
We are at peace with the world
Better still, we have, by the limlta-
, ton of arms conference, started a
, new era when disagreements may pc
. settled around the conference table
: instead of an the battlefield we
, have cut the entanglements which
, bound us to do police duty in foreign
: wars. We have established the doc
trine that we are a sovereign people
: and will determine our own destiny
= We have won respect and Leadership
} among nations.
;. We have reduced our debt one bill
e lion dollars, and arranged for lower
| rate of interest on it. We have
t eliminated extravaganza, revised ta'
: laws and thereby saved the taxpayers
= one billion dollars in actual taxes.
We have established the bulge
system, putting government ON bus
mess basis We are recognizing tn
executive departments and lettlns
out unnecessary government EN-
y ployes.
e We have restored confidence U
l. business such that it dares expan'
It and we are now facing a period o
h unprecedented prosperity. The lac
e that the value of Liberty bonds ha
e risen from IS cents on the dollar t
= above par is an indication of bushes
soundnesS.
J. We have restricted immigration
" and restored employment condition
n to normal.
With funds, disqualification, an
ir vocational training, we are earn
'e for the ex-soldier as no other natlo
IN has ever cared for them. =,
m BY credits, the emergency tarit
at and other measures designed especla
Iv for his benefit, we have lifted tn
n farmer from encouragement al
lg started him on the road to prospe
of ity.
to We have taken steps to save nee
gh less deaths among mothers and Ii
hit fants.
to We have provided protection to i
ng dustries and to agriculture and a
at sufed ourselves the home market +
he our products, thus laying the found
la tions of prosperity.
of No voter, comparing conditions
en- recent Democratic times with conc
lions today, will hesitate long
marking his ballot. 1t would be i
sanity to cripple Republican recoo
structive activities by giving. to t
m executive a Congress out of syl
es- pathy with the administration.
ne The $4,000 negro farms boys enro
l. rtc oll he