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

"The worker has been returned
to the road to freedom and pros
perity. We will keep him on that
road.
Business
eve have taken the American
business man out Of the red. We
have saved his bank and given it
a sounder foundation; we have ,ex-
tended credit; we have lowered in
terest rates; we have undertaken
to free him from the ravages of
cut-throat competition.
"The American business man
has been returned to the road to
freedom and prosperity. We will
keep him on that road.
Youth
eve have aided youth to stay in
school; given them constructive
occupation; opened the door to op-
portunity which IL years of Re-
publican neglect had closed.
"Our youth have been returned
to the road to freedom and pros
perity. We will keep them on
that road.
Monopoly, Concentration of
Economic Power
"Monopolies and the concentra-
ton of economic power, the crea-
ton Of Republican rule and privi-
lege, continue to be the master of
the producer, the exploiter of the
consumer, and the enemy of the
independent operator. This is a
problem challenging the unceasing
effort of untrammeled public Off
Gals in every branch of the gov
eminent. We pledge vigorously
and fearlessly to enforce the Grim
inal and civil provisions of the
existing antitrust laws, and to the
extent that their effectiveness has
been weakened by new corporate
devices or judicial construction, we
propose by law to restore their
efficacy in stamping out monopo-
listic practices and the concentra-
ton of economic power.
Aid to Those Overtaken by
Disaster
eve have aided and will contin-
ue to aid those who have been
visited by widespread drouth and
floods and have adopted a nation
wide flood control policy.
Unemployment
I'VE believe unemployment is a
national problem, an that it is an
unacceptable obligation of our gov
eminent to meet it in a national
way. Due to our stimulation of
private business, more than $780,
900 people have been re-employed
and we shall continue to maintain
that the first objective of a pro-
gram of economic security is max
imum employment in private in
dustry at adequate wages. Where
business fails to supply such en-
ployment, we believe that work at
prevailing wages should be pro-
vided in cooperation with state
and local governments and useful
public projects, to the end that the
national wealth may be increased,
the skill and energy of the worker
may be utilized, his morale main
tanned and the unemployed assur-
ed the opportunity to earn the ne
cessities Of life.
The constitution
THE Republican platform pro-
poses to meet many pressing ma
tional problems solely by action of
the separate states. We know that
drouth, dust storms, floods, mini
mum wages, maximum hours, child
labor and working conditions in in
dustry, monopolistic and unfair
business practices cannot be ade-
quately handled exclusively by 48
separate state legislatures, 48 sep
arate state administrations and AZ
separate state courts. Transactions
and activities which inevitably
overflow state boundaries call for
both state and federal treatment.
eve have sought and will con-
tinue to seek to meet these prob
lens through legislation within
the Constitution.
IF those problems cannot be eff
fectively solved by legislation
within the Constitution, we shall
seek such clarifying amendments
as will assure to the legislatures
of the several states and to the
congress of the United States,