The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-06-18

to provide surplus for future needs
and contingencies. For the attainment
of that ultimate objective, we look to
the energy, self-reliance and charac-
ter of our people and to our system of
free enterprise.
Society has an obligation to promote
the security of the people by affording
some measure of protection against
involuntary unemployment and Deepen
dency in old age. The New Deal policies
while purporting to provide social Sc
curity, have, in fact, endangered it.
We propose system of old-age Sc
curity, based upon the following prin-
ciples:
I've approve a pay-as-you-go pol
icy, which requires of each generation
the support of the aged and the deter
mination of what is just and adequate.
EVERY American citizen over six
ty-fve should receive the supplement
tary payment necessary to provide a
minimum income sufficient to protect
him or her from want.
Bach Stat eand Territory, upon
complying with simple and general
minimum standards, should receive
from the Federal Government a grad
uated contribution in proportion to
it's own, up to a fixed maximum.
FISCAL POLICY.
ITO make this program consistent
with sound fiscal policy, the Federal
revenues for this purpose must be pro-
vided from the proceeds of a direct tax
Io1x laa
fitted and all should contribute.
We propose to encourage adoption
by the States and Territories Of hon.
est and practical measures for meet
ing the problems of unemployment
insurance.
The unemployment insurance and
old-age annuity sections of the pres
ent Social Security Act are unworka-
BILE and deny benefits to about two
thirds of our adult population, includ-
ing professional men and women, and
all those engaged in agriculture and
domestic service, and the self-em-
ployed, while imposing heavy tax bur-
dens upon all. The so-called reserve
fund, estimated at AT billion dollars
for old-age insurance, is no reserve at
all, because the fund will contain moth
ing but the Governments promise to
pay, while the taxes collected in the
guise of premiums will be wasted by
the Government in rockies and extrav-
agant political schemes.
LABOR.
The welfare of labor rests upon in
creased production and the prevention
of exploitation. We pledge ourselves
to:
Protect the rights of labor to organ
ize and to bargain collectively through
representatives of it's own choosing
without interference from any source.
Prevent governmental job holders
from exercising autocratic powers
over labor.
Support the adoption of State laws
and interstate compacts to abolish
sweatshops and child labor and to pro-
tect women and children with respect
to maximum hours, minimum wages
and working conditions. We believe
this can be done within the Constitu-
ton as it now stands.
AGRICULTURE.
The farm problem is an economic
and social, not a partisan problem,
and we propose to treat it accordingly.
Following the wreck of the restric-
tive and coercive AAA, the New Deal
Administration has taken to itself the
principles of the Republican policy of
soil conservation and land retirement.
This action opens the way for a nom
political and permanent solution. Such
a solution cannot be he'd under New
Deal Administration which misuses
the program to serve partisan ends, to
promote scarcity and to limit by coer-
Give methods the farmers control over
his own farm.
BALANCED BUDGET.
Our paramount object is to pro-
tect and foster the family type of farm,
traditional in American life, and to
promote policies which will bring
about an adjustment of agriculture to
meet the needs of domestic and for
eign markets. AS an emergency meas
ure, during the agricultural depres-
sion, Federal benefit payments or
grants-in-aid when administered with
in the means of the Federal Govern
ment, are consistent with a balanced
budget.
We propose:
Ito facilitate economical produc-
ton and increased consumption on a
basis of abundance instead of scar
city.
PA national land-use program,
including the acquisition of abandoned
and non-p productive farm lands by
voluntary sale or lease, subject to ap-
proval of the legislative and executive
branches of the States concerned, and
the devotion of such land to appro-
pirate public use, such as watershed
protection and flood prevention, refor-
estation, recreation, and conservation
of wild life.
3-That an agricultural policy be
pursued for the protection and resto-
ration of the land resources, designed
to bring about such a balance between
soil-building and soil-depleting crops
as will permanently insure productiv-
ity, with reasonable benefits to cooper
ating farmers on family-type farms,
but so regulated as to eliminate the
New Deals destructive policy towards
the dairy and livestock industries.
AID TO FARMERS.
ITO extend experimental aid to
farmers developing new crops suited