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ty should meet and give attention
to this drift from national moor
ings. Some of the concrete results
of these policies are already appar-
ent. The most solemn government
obligations have been repudiated.
The nation is faced with the great
est debt ever known to our country.
The currency has been rendered
uncertain. The government has
been centralized under an enor-
nous bureaucracy in Washington
which has dictated and limited the
production of our industries, in
creasing the costs and prices of
their products with inevitable de-
creased consumption. Monopolistic
a gigantic scale. Small business
men have been disabled and
crushed. Glass conflicts have been
created and embittered. The gov
ernment has gone into business in
competition with its citizens. Citi-
zenS have been coerced, threatened
ana penalized for offenses unknown
to all our concepts OF liberty. The
courts are proclaiming repeated vio-
lationS of the constitution.
Because of food destruction and
restraint of farm production, for
eign food is pouring into our ports,
purchase of which should have
been made from our farmers. The
cost of living is steadily advancing.
More people are dependent upon
the government for relief than ever
before. Recovery is still delayed
The productive genius of our people
which is the sole road to recovery
and TO increased standards of liv-
ing, is being stifled, the nation i'm
poveriShed instead of enriched. The
theories of this administration do
not work. They are no olnger a
propagandized millennium; they are
self lf-eXposed.
{. Duty of Party
"a. The people have right to an
opportunity to change these poll
cies. 1t is the duty of the Repub-
lican party to offer that opportu-
nifty. And beyond insistence upon
American foundations of govern
ment, it is the duty OF the party to
insist upon realistic methods OF re-
covery, real jobs for labor and real
markets for the farmer. Those
methods lie in removing the shack
les and uncertainties from enter
prise. After nearly six years of
depression, liquidation, restriction Of
all manner of purchases and i'm
provements we stand on the thresh-
old of great forward, economic
movement, If only the paralyzing
effects of mistaken governmental
3 policies and activities may be re-
moved.
THE present conception OF ma
tional economy based upon scar
, city must in all common sense be
reversed to an economy based up
esi production or workman, farmer
land businessman alike are defeat
Sed. Surely economic life advances
on,y through increasing produc-
ton by use of every instrument
science gave to us, through lower
ing of costs and prices with con-
sequent increase in production, and
through higher real wages to the
worker and real return to the
. farmer.
Effective reform of abuses in bus
mess and finance must be under
taken through regulation and not
through bureaucratic dictation or
government operation. Protection
to individual enterprise from mo-
nopolies m uSt be re-established
whereby the smaller businesses may
live. Sitting uncertainties of cur
rency manipulation must be re-
moved. Government expenditures
which, if continued ON the present
scale, can create only bankruptcy
or calamitous initiation, must be
curtailed.
1.-The effective participation of
the states and local governments in
relief under non-partisan admins
traitors must be reeStabl1Shed so
that waste, extravaganza and poll
tics may be eliminated and the
people better served.
Great social problems of better
safeguards to- the individual against
the dislocations OF advancing in
dustry. national calamity and old
age must be discovered. But these
problems of business, agriculture
and labor become much easier with
restoration of economic common
sense. Indeed, score OF econom-
ic and social questions must be
solved, and in their answers are
locked the real advancement of life
and the attainment of security and
contentment In the American home
for that is the ultimate express
sion of American life. But their
.oIntiou will MT ha fpttpd i'm Viola-