Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-04

phases Of our great business. for q
weak moment err. We promise
efficient government. by servants, in
the overwhelming majority OF cases,
| rurposeful and strong, though some-
| times hampered by procedure that
| when fully tested proves restrictive
and not helpful.
The founders Of the Republic pro-
posed, and for years We conducted
this government by selection OF pub
lie servants, through the instrument
| tally Of representatives, a. success
full corporations select their en-
ployees: and careful, unparalleled
study by the voters of Maine should
be given to the question whether or
not our irresponsible Senate and
House OF Representatives, at WASH
, ington, are not the direct and natural
result Of method OF selection, con-
demned and avoided by business
I'VE FsarisssIy Pledge"
We fearlsssiy pledge you party
| government.
Why party government? Because
party government entails RESPONSE
biiity.
We will not yet. In Maine descend
TO bloc government. nor to bloc leg
isiation.
Our fathers gave US party govern
ment; our laws recognise no other
government than government by
party.
Bloc government Is not only sell
fish, neSlectfui Of the well being and
even the necessities Of those without
the pale; bloc government 70 wrong.
| IT the foot shall say, Because I
i n mi hA - 30
body: Is 1t therefore not OF the body
And X the ear shall say, Because /
am not the eye, am not OF the body:
Is II therefore not Of the body?"
Bloc government is cowardiy.
Coming to legislation or to office
, in the garb and uniform of a portion
| OF the people who are banded to-
| gether under the name Of a party, q
bloc member obstructs, cajoles, in
timtdates, throws his influence, or
casts his vote. to effect q certain OBJ
tect. and. II the outcome is unsatis-
| factory. disavows his connection
with it. repudiates 1t. and shirks the
responsibility that election to Office
| places on q mans shoulders.
.ehlrk No Responsibility
Republicans assume entire respon-
sibility for legislation and govern
| Eent when they are in the majority.
! And, even now, with whole State
delegations in Congress classed as
Republicans, but voting always in
opposition to the Republican policies,
\ We still acknowledge our response
billy for government activities.
Yea, even when We attempt to
| operate under a Democratic statute
to supply battleships with fuel and
| are betrayed by Judas, late Of the
Democratic fold. we do not seek to
evade responsibility.
An unworthy secretary OF the in
terror leaves the departmental is
our job to see the great work of the
department through.
This is the Republican idea of the
government OF the fathers,-party
government.--the units submerging
their individuality for the good Of
| the greatest number.
It's the stream that carries car
goes toward port: the blocs, that float
| upon it, surface. but idly bump into
each other and against passing
| cOnmsycs.
And we are entitled to credit for
what we have accomplished since,
] three short years ago, we came into
| our own and took over the reins of
national government.
| DlSCTcultyA DcCuuSe OF the I'M
practical gesture OF the administra-
| government: suspected and mis-
trusted by every foreign government
: when we took Office; the dignified.
I traditional policy Of America in
foreign affairs, reinstated by the la
mented Harding and gently, but
firmly insisted on by Coolidge, the
| unafraid, has won for us again the
respect and confidence of the world.
Our bonds were at about eighteen
per cent. discount in 1920. our indus
tries straining to hold their own, our
workmen unemployed.
BY 30 we had brought back our
liberties, practically to par.
Our revenue legislation has been
so wisely planned and effectively ad-
ministered, that in tho brief time
We've had charge of the treasury we
have reduced our bonded indebted
ness by nearly four billion dollars,
n monumental task, and so well done
that we insist upon a material reduc-
ton in the character and rate OF
present. after the-war taxes.
No Boast
We make no boast that we have
changed treasury balances from con-
tlnuous and repeated deficits to a
surplus OF more than $500. 00O, 900 for
the past twelve months: but we de-
mand that the people be given the
benefit OF the reduction In taxes
which this surplus and the Coolidge
economies so amply Justify.
We glory in leadership that out
lined for an approving world, the
program of a naval holiday. and
brought agreement among the ma
tons concerned in the problems of
the farthest East. agreements that
shall postpone. perhaps forever, the
| war that seemed two years ago in
evitable in that region.
And as We gladly follow our
mighty Secretary of state in foreign
affairs, so we, as readily. subscribe
to the truths set out by our great
secretary of commerce..
1T Is simply q truism to say that
We must have an American mer-
chant overseas marine.
I'VE must have ships IL we would
expend our exports on sound lines.
and we must have them as An
auxiliary to our national defense.
Our international trade Ii one Of
the very foundations Of our stand
ards Of living. ....
I'VE need q constant expansion
OF our export markets to give
stability to our internal production
by . wider range of customers.
ITO secure export markets we
must have some sound proportion of
American. con trolled shipping to as
sure us against combinations in
rates which would prejudice our
goods Ia competitive markets. Nor
have our merchants been without
the experience Of finding that the
transport OF our goods N foreign
bottoms has been taken advantage
OF by our competitors to learn the