Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-04

structive proposals to take the place
of those things he has done which
represent encouragement, deceit
and disaster to the country's eco
nonic life.
There will be no gain for the Re-
publicans in 1888 elections if they at
tempt to ride two or three different
horses as they did in 1886. For ex-
ample, they cannot do as Candidate
Landon did, to wit, call for bal
anced budget in one speech and adj
vocate being Santa Claus in anoth-
er; they cannot blow hot and cold,
and, therefore, they must be either
conservative or radical.
It seems to me the Republicans
can probably plan for an immediate
balancing of the national budget. In
that connection, they can with justi-
fication demand curtailment, if not
entire elimination, of many govern
mental functions inaugurated under
the New Deal. They can offer con-
structively a proposal to legislate
out of existence some 20 or 80 fed
eral agencies for which there never
has been and is not now any ex-
cuse for their existence.
Another question that is crying
for attention is the huge national
debt, now at $751;
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Debt highest in history.
That debt must be
reorganized and placed on a basis
that will permit gradual liquida-
ton of it. The Roosevelt admins
tration has done nothing regard
ing the debt except to build it higher
and higher.
If the Republican party wants to
do a constructive job it ought to
set to work to examine all of the
statutes enacted by congress in the
last ten or twelve years and espe-
cially those enacted in the haste of
the emergency with view to re-
pealing of many of them. Some
can and should be rewritten to make
them workable. Those statutes
placed on the books by the Roose-
welt administration constitute out
standing evidence of the lack of
opposition. We all know many of
those bills were written in execu-
tive departments and sent to con-
gress with instructions to pass them
unchanged. Bad legislation has re-
suited many times and checkup
surely is indicated.
AS regards legislation now on the
statute books, it seems to me we
will never have sound prosperity I'm
til certain laws that increase pro-
duction costs are eliminated. mean
by this that there are numerous
laws which have the effect of widen
ing the spread between the price of
the raw materials and the price of
the manufactured products. Legis-
lation of this kind is bound to force
down the prices paid to the pro-
ducers and, in my opinion, the re-
suits are beginning to be reflected
on products of the farm.
Probably the most delicate ques-
ton with which the Republicans are
confronted relates to wages and
hours of labor. Business interests
have been shortsighted. Too many
times employers have overworked
their employees and have shown but
little consideration for the rights of
labor. The result is that labor is
demanding consideration in the
shape of protection at the hands of
it's national government and the Re
publicans, whether they desire to
or not, must take stand.
Among other principles upon
which I think the Republicans as
Then, There's party surely can
These agree is that there
is too much gov
eminent in business. The govern
ment itself is engaged in many lines
of commerce and industry and it is
breaking down private enterprises
in countless ways. I regard the
function of government as thing
to be confined to matters and enter
prises which individuals cannot do
as individuals. We might use the
postal service as an example. No
one would be so silly as to say that
the postal service could be operated
satisfactorily in any other way than
as an agency of the federal govern
ment. In contradistinction to the
postal service, however, we can
point to such things as the building
of model homes for private citi-
zens. I think the government has
no business at all in that field. This
is so, first, because of the tremen-
dous waste accompanying any gov
ornamental operation and, second,
for the reason that private persons
who are holders of funds whether
the amount is great or small recog-
nize real estate mortgages as sound
investments. l need not mention
the red tape or the politics that
can choke up any such thing as a
government housing development.
could 60 on and mention numer-
Gus other general principles upon
which there can be honest diff
ferences of opinion. 1t is upon these
questions where differences are hon
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