The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1936-07-02

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the power to enact those laws
which the state and federal legis-
latures, within their respective
spheres, shall find necessary, in or
der adequately to regulate COM
merce, protect public health and
safety and safeguard economic
security. Thus we propose to main
tain the letter and spirit Of the
Constitution.
Merit System in Government
"For the protection of govern
ment itself and promotion of its
efficiency we pledge the immediate
extension of the merit system
through the classified civil service
which was first established and
fostered under Democratic aus
pices-to all non-policy-making
positions in the federal service.
eve shall subject to the civil
service law all continuing posi-
tions which, because of the emer-
gency, have been exempt from its
operation.
Civil Liberties
eve shall continue to guard the
freedom Of speech, press, radio,
religion and assembly which our
Constitution guarantees; with
equal rights to all and special
privileges to none.
Government Finance
"The administration has stopped
deflation, restored values and en-
abled business to 60 ahead with
confidence.
when national income shrinks,
government income is imperiled.
In reviving national income, we
have fortified government finance.
We have raised the public credit
to a position of unsurpassed Sec
urity. The interest rate on gov
eminent bonds has been reduced
to the lowest point in % years.
The same government bonds which
in 1882 sold under 83 are now sell
ing over 104.
eve approve the objective of a
permanently sound currency so
stabilized as to prevent the former
wide fluctuations in value which
injured in turn producers, debtors,
and property owners on the one
hand, and wage earners and credi-
tors on the other, currency which
will permit full utilization of the
country's resources. We assert
that today we have the soundest
currency in the world.
1--WE are determined to reduce
the expenses of government. We
are being aided therein by the re-
cession in unemployment. AS the
requirements of relief decline and
national income advances, an in
creasing percentage of federal ex-
penditures can and will be met
from current revenues, secured
from taxes levied in accordance
with ability to pay. Our retrench-
ment, tax and recovery programs
thus reflect our firm determination
to achieve balanced budget and
the reduction of the national debt
at the earliest possible moment.
Foreign Policy
I'm our relationship with other
nations, this government will con-
tinue to extend the policy of good
neighbor. We reaffrm our opposi-
ton to war as an instrument of
national policy, and declare that
disputes between nations should
be settled by peaceful means. We
shall continue to observe a true
neutrality in the disputes of othe-
rs; to be prepared, resolutely to
resist aggression against our
selves: to work for peace and to
take the profits out of war: to
guard against being drawn, by
political commitments, interna-
tional banking or private trading,
into any war which may develop
anywhere.
1--WE shall continue to foster the
increase in our foreign trade
which has been achieved by this
administration; to seek by mutual
agreement the lowering of those
tariff barriers, quotas and embar-
goes which have been raised
against our exports of agricultural
and industrial products; but con-
tlnue as in the past to give ade-
quate protection to our farmers
and manufacturers against unfair
competition or the dumping on our
shores of commodities and goods
produced abroad by cheap labor or
subsidized by foreign govern
ments.