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Land Grants
And Loans for
Fighters Urged
Wilson Administration Is
Scored for Failing to Pro?
vide Relief for Ex-Soldiers
in Face of Crying Need
Great Tracts Now Idle
-.
System of Making Farmers
of Heroes Advocated in
Interests of Production
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Tho ration is confronted with
the most menacing economic problem
?ince the days of the anti-slavery agi?
tation. The profiteer apparently has
arrived to stay for several years. He
has nothing to fear in the attitude of
the preseent Administration, which sees
more in Article X, unmodified and un?
qualified, than in the crying demand
for reiief against the buccaneers of
high rent?. Inch taxes and high pricc3.
Mr. Wilson's fixed place in history
seems to be of more concern to him
than a people comfortably housed, fed
and clothed. But the Administration
ir.av be right in ascribing a part of the
high cost of living to underproduc?
tion; but w'.iat has the Administration
done to augument production?
Let mo say that the Interior De?
partment, the land boards of the sev?
eral public land states of the ^West,
the various commercial and civic or?
ganizations in the Western states,
Congressmen. Senators, Governors and
war relief organizations throughout
the country, have been fairly be?
sieged with inquiries from ex-service
men as to what they should do to?
take up homesteads in the public land
states of America Kansas, Nebraska,
the Dakotas. Colorado, Arizona, New
Mexico. Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Wyo?
ming, Montana, Oregon?even the
rrtumpage lands of Louisiana and the
swamp lands of Florida. They are
told that there are millions of acres
of unoccupied public lands in those
states upon which they can file and
that their honorable discharge from
service gives them, in some instance,
a preferential right in the United
States Land Ornees; but as for obtain?
ing the means with which to purchase
tools, machinery, building material
and livestock, they are advised that
the government has done nothing to
provide. The result?the '"bonus"
system now threatens to become a
burning issue in the coming national
campaign because the government has
shown no interest in its soldiers.
I suggest that the Republican party,
in national convention assembled,
adopt a plank declaring as a paramount
obligation to the former service men
a policy of assistance in the settlement
of the public domain under which they
will have a preferential standing:
1. As to selection and location of
homestead entries.
2. All entries for homesteads to be
free to honorably discharged soldiers,
sailors and marines, as well as to
those who served in war relief work
overseas with? the army and navy.
3. AU former service men of the army
?id navy shall be given such advances,
under direction of the government, as
yril enable them to buy necessary
fuming equipment, the loans to be pay?
able at option or to run for a long term
of years at a low rate of interest?
say, 3 per cent per annum?and be
guaranteed by the government, with
provisions to protect the government
and the banks against those who can?
not fulfill their obligations.
4. The creation of a bureau of gov?
ernment to take this particular busi
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Conditions of the
Platform Contest
The Tribune invites you to write
planks for a Republican platform
and to write letters about planks
proposed by other readers through
its columns.
For tho best planks and letters
The Tribune offers these prizes:
For the best plank:.$309.00
For the second best plank.. 250.00
For each of the eight next
beat planks . 100.00
For the beet letter a dally
prize of . 10.00
For the best letter la the
whole competition . 1004)0
The Tribune will make np a plat?
form of ten planks to be determined
by your votes. The ten issues re?
ceiving the most votes will be the
planks. The ten planks that best
1 express the chosen issues will be
?elected for tne prize awards.
Each plank is limited to 100 wards.
Of two planks or letters o? equal
merit the shorter will be chosen.
Every plank and letter must bear
the name and address of the sender,
although a nom de plume will be
published if the writer desires.
The contest will close at midnight,
April 80, 1820. Manuscripts will not
I be returned.
The judges of the contest will be
three of The Tribune's editors. They
will base their decisions on sound
thinking and brevity, clearness and
?trength of statement.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: It would seem that the Re?
publican party must be prepared to
absolutely' make over the United
States. To me it appears that the
Republican party cannot do better
than to correct palpable mistakes, as
we learn much by our errors.
It appears to an onlooker inter?
ested in the political drama that
agriculture has been relegated to the
background by manufacture. Vari?
ous established works offer, apVmr
ently, a speedier road to affluence
than is found in tillage to a large
rtumber of men. This looks plausi?
ble, but diligent application to
tillage for a number of hours equal
to the time demanded in shops
would surprise those' men who quit
farming. They "unite" to force up
wages in business and also in mining,
demanding food, plenty of food, at
moderate prices, of the comparative?
ly few who heroically till the ground
. and feed tte world.
This unreasonable selfishness has
reached the acute stage. The great
governmental mistake fn offering ex?
cessive wages at the beginning of
the war is accountable for the*
chaotic conditions of wages and
prices. If the government had of?
fered $4 instead of $8, men who were
getting $1 a day would have fol?
lowed the lure and left the farms as
willingly. Eight dollars a day de?
moralized workmen. They figured
that they could work four days, five
days or one, and have more than
ever before.
ness in hand arid to extend its benefits
to others than former service men, sub?
ject to their preferential rights.
And, finally, I suggest that the con?
vention pledge its Presidential nominee
and Republican candidates, for Con?
gress to make this matter the first duty
it owes to the people of the United
States. JESSE PERCY.
101 Monroe Street.
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No T-Bone Steaks
For 'Red9Plotters
System of Court Martial
for AU Spies in Time of
War Is A dv o cated
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Republican party will be
given an opportunity at the Chicago
convention to lay before the electorate
the Wilson administration's conception
as to how alien enemies, especially
notorious German spies and plotters,
should be dealt with and of prescrib?
ing, definitely, just how alien enemies
shall be disposed of in future when ap?
prehended as spies and plotters in
time of war.
You will recall.that Mr. Wilson was
very wroth and his Attorney General,
Thomas Gregory, threatened to resign
when a proposal was m_,de in Con?
gress to turn the investigation and trial
of military crimes and criminals over
to the military and naval authorities.
The country was incensed over the ac?
tion of the Administration in merely
interning desperate German con?
spirators in detention barracks, where
they were dined on the fat of the land.
But Mr. Wilson's third term bee,
which commenced to buzz the very day
of his second inauguration, told him
that, as "he kept us out of the war,"
it would be advisable to pursue a
policy of benevolence toward German
spies and plotters, as the German
! American vote was essential to his
i further political aspirations, and the
worst any apprehended German spy or
plotter got was ham and eggs, sauer?
kraut, roast pork, T-bone steak?, ice
cream and moving pictures in the de
. tention barracks.
Let there be no policy of benevolence
hereafter toward enemies of the nation
The men left to work the farms
clamored for extortionate raises,
hearing of the phenomenal pay re?
ceived by others. In this manner
the farms were denuded of sufficient
forco to produco the food necessary
to sustain life.
The Republican party must pledge
itself to correct this injustice. Many
idle men could be forced to work
on the farms at a fair wage, for fair
work, or a farm of sufficient acreage
might be held by the government and i
worked by the unemployed collected
at the nation's capital, together with
many soldiers and sailors able to do
light labor and lacking the education
needed for office work.
I observe that illiterate men are
receiving a living wage while they
struggle with advanced studies in an
attempt'to fit them for positions for
which they are totally unfit. This
is a colossal' governmental blunder.
These young men were drafted from
the farms and should return to the
farms with the monthly stipend.
Educate, but educate the manliness
that wiirnot shirk good hard work
to help feed the world. Heroism is
the courage to face death, or life as
it is laid upon us, atid life is effort.
Idleness is death to a heroic life, as
inaction destroys action. There is
work for millions more of men and
women on the acres of land that re?
main to be tilled. It would be reaj
heroism to grub and dig.
P. L. WARD. .,
3600 Macomb St., N. W., Washing?
ton, D. C.
apprehended in time of war, and let
the Republican party so declare, that
the military authorities who, during
the war found it easy to court mar?
tial some of our own soldiers and sen?
tence them to twenty years of hard
labor, will be entrusted exclusively in
future war times to mete out justice to
enemy spies and plotters. H. R. B.
Good Old Pre-War Days
Create Longing in America
To the Editor of The Tribune.
. Sir: During the coming election the
keynote of ,the Republican party should
be "Americanism." The people of the
country are tired of seeing our rights
trampled on in the peace parleys. They
want to get back to the good old days
when America always held aloof from
European wrangles.
The Republican party should also
stand for a bigger army and navy. We
should never again be caught unpre?
pared as we were in 1917.
EDWARD SCHOEN.
199 Ninety-fifth Avenue, Queens, L. I.
New Religious
Temper Urged
To Cure Unrest
Gradual Reformation of
Present Systems Along
Lines of 6*Law and Order"
Called Only True Process
Rivalry Seen as Menace
Wage Slavery Is Depicted
as Industrial Disease
Which Is Held Curable
To the Editor of tho Tribune.
Sir: There is no use in attempting
to disguise tho fact that probably the
outstanding issue before tho country
in the coming election is the relation
between capital and labor. The eco-,
nomic bases of the world's life have
been shaken to the very roots.
In these excited times doctrinnaireB
are everywhere, propounding new the?
ories, and sincere and earnest men are
following them. But the materialists
of Russia are beginning to find by
actual experience that turning every?
thing topsy turvy does not make mat?
ters better, but infinitely worse.
It is a well-known historical fact
that not through revolution, but
through the gtadual acceptance' of
Christian ideals, slavery and other
evils gradually passed away from the
ancient world. Every real reform in
the history of the United States has
been brought about by orderly, legal
processes.
I challenge any one to point to a
single instance in history for proof
that any kind of true and permanent
progress can possibly be achieved by
a repudiation of the principles of law
and order, without which natural and
orderly social evolution is impossible.
Now suppose we should admit that
our present economic system is based
upon wage-slavery. If this is so, it
must be evident to any one that to
abolish wage-slavery by any means
except that of a very gradual process,
through the natural reaction of an
awakened social conscience upon legal
machinery, would mean instant chaos
and the hopeless paralysis of industry.
Let the Republican party stand for
the progressive principles of Theodore
Roosevelt and incorporate into its plat?
form the following radical but thor?
oughly American plank:
"We stand united in a demand for a
new relation between capital and labor!
?for a relation of cooperation as op-j
posed to rivalry, for a new and thor-'
| oughly Christian sense of duties on the
; part of master's and workmen in short,
j for a new religious temper in the eco-j
I nomic relations of men with each!
other." W. A. STREET,
i 600 West 122d Street. j
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Some Suggested Planks
Among the mass of suggestions for planks in the Republican
platform, are the following:
Real Pan-American Union
To formulate, establish and main?
tain a just and fair policy as re?
gards Latin-Amcjkan republics, such
a policy to be made clear and under?
stood perfectly by them and all tho
world; to stimulate, encourage, pro?
mote and protect legitimate invest?
ments for the development of their
vast resources; and to maintain a
diplomatic and consular service so
efficient as to render possible tho
carrying out of the above in a man?
ner which'will inspire confidence and
friendly feeling and gradually to
bring about a real "Pan-American
Union" based on mutual interests
and perfect understanding.?II. F. T.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
More Direct Food Sales
It long has been a recognized
fact that faulty and wasteful
methods are employed in handling
food supplies as they pass from the
farmers to the people of our great
cities, working injustice to both the
farmers and consumers. We advo?
cate legislation that will out a stop
to this waste and insure more direct
methods of communication between
farmers and consumers.?A. P. F.
Know the Constitution
To circumvent the purposes and
discredit the arguments of Bolshe?
vistic propaganda, and to defeat the
subtle appeals of demagogues, we
declare for a comprehensive educa?
tion of the people in the funda?
mentals of Republican government,
and as a first step thereof impress
upon Republican candidates ani
speakers the importance of knowing
both the spirit and the letter of the
Constitution, of preaching its prin?
ciples, and of exposing the futility
of Socialism, Bolshevism or other
forms of mob government.?A. H.
Laidlaw, 425 Tenth Street, N. W.,
Washington,-D. C.
Division of Profits
Recognizing the enormous pos?
sibilities for graft and corruption
that exist in the possession of vast
sums, of undistributed corporate
earnings, we fav*r enacting legisla?
tion that will compel all companies
engaged in interstate commerce to
distribute to their stockholders,
each three months, all earnings in
excess of a 10 per cent surplus after
dividends and interest have been de?
clared. -Arthur Lenox. Lock Box
1214, Washington, D. C.
Promote Child Welfare
If the supremacy of the Anglo
Saxon race as the best exponent of
civil liberty is to be maintained,
those who come after us must be
still further grounded in those high
ideals that were bequeathed to us by
our fathers. The Republican party
believes that there is a growing need
for a more unified and comprehen?
sive plan for the promotion of child
welfare and we will, as far aa hu?
manly possible, endeavor to bring
about conditions that will fully meet
that need.?Fred N. Parks.
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Supremacy of the Ballot
That whenever a proposed amend?
ment to the Constitution of the
United States receives approval of
three-quarters of the state legisla?
tures said proposed amendment be
submitted to a popular vote of all
citizens of the United States and
territories. This vote to be final, and
in case proposed amendment is nega?
tived it cannot be resubmitted again
for ten years.?Harold Channing, 520
East Seventy-seventh Street.
Equal Rights in Education
The advancement of a country de?
pends upon education. Men born
free' and equal should have free and
equal opportunities to acquire a
thorough education. To improve and
extend the educational system we
advocate high standards of morality,
ability and training as qualifications
for teachers and compensation for
the teacher equivalent to that of
other occupations requiring equal
qualifications. We also advocate
substantial financial assistance to all
institutions of higher learning that
charge no tuition fees and are recog?
nized as of the first rank by the
Commissioner of Education.?A. S. R
Encourage Immigration
We believe that immigration should
be encouraged in order that un?
skilled labor may be more plentiful,
and that the test should be one of
sound mentality, physical health and
moral purpose.?Rev. Allen Jacobs,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Stick to the Constitution
To the Editor of The Tribune:
The Republican party pledges sup?
port to legislation on strictly con?
stitutional methods affecting in?
dustrial, # social and economic
problems, which, due to an admin?
istration of injustice, has left in its
wake a mass of dissatisfied, be?
wildered and betrayed citizenship.?
N. C. M.
Efficient School System
A school system that spells United
States efficiently with an adequately
compensated force of preceptors
safeguarding the fundamentals of a
patriotic and stabilized democracy.?
"The Westerner."
America Should Be Fair
In Dealing With Aliens
Compulsory Naturalization Op?
posed as Contrary to United
States Principles
To.the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The question of naturalization
and Americanization is frequently re?
ferred to in the discussions about the
Republican platform. Americanization
is an unfortunate word in the sense in
which it is so frequently used. I am
opposed to any compulsory naturaliza?
tion. Sometimes I think the word com?
pulsory is not consistent with our
ideals of democracy. One writer has
pointed out the psychology involved in
any coercion of this sort.
We have made a grave mistake in our
treatment of the foreigner by our as?
sumption that, he knows nothing, and
we know it all, by not permitting him
to bring what he already has and there
to begin our teaching, there to make
our approach.
Neither, do I think we should expect
them to forget their own language,
their native tradition, but I do think
that should be the very foundation for
their learning English, and for their
eventually absorbing something of their
adopted country. Our attitude will
have much to do with the kind of
American he will become.
C. T. RYAN.
Bishopville, Md.
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Apply "E Pluribus Unum"
Government for Whole People
, Demanded in America
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: America sorely needs an eco?
nomic application of her political motto,
"E Pluribus Unum." Class distinctions
and the demand for special rights be*
cause of them, havo no place in truly
republican institutions.
The welfare of the whole people
must become in fact, as in theory, the
primary objective of government. Ob?
viously, it is America's privilege to
justify her prosperity in the continuing
liberality of her foreign relations.
It rests with Republican statesmen to
permanently entrench this prosperity
in a wise adjustment of relations be?
tween the various elements comprising
the members of our own body politic.
C. U. G.
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Favors League, Wants
Sovereignty Preserved
America Urged to Maintain Its
Place in the World as the
Champion of Oppressed
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We are in full accord with the
principle of a league of nations for
the prevention of war. As an experi?
ment in the progress of civilization we
believe it is well worth a trial.
But having accepted the league of
nations in theory we must say further:
No government worthy of the name
should put itself in a position where
there is the remotest possibility of the
rights of its citizens being curtailed or
its sovereignty as an independent na?
tion hampered.
The United States is able and will?
ing to go to the assistance with bread
or iron of any people in distress, but
we should be glad to do so as an ex?
pression of fraternity, and not because
it is "so nominated in the bond."
With these reasonable reservations,
which we consider justified by our dig?
nity as a first-class power, we are pre?
pared to enter into the covenant and
to pledge our moral and material sup?
port to the undertaking.
FRED N. PARKS.
21 Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y.
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BROADWAY ART GALLERIES
AUCTIONEERS
Will Sell at
PUBLIC AUCTION
Work? of
Professor ?talo Giordani
(55 Paintings and 10 Aquarelles)
to be held at his
Studio, 140 West 57th St.,
on March 25th and 26th.
The Auction Sale begins at 8:30 P. M.
A Rodin and a Monticelli will also
be offered for sale.
Auctioneers' Oftice.
1262 Broadway. Now York.
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