Book/Printed Material The Democratic text book, 1920
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Image 1 of The Democratic text book, 1920
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 2 of The Democratic text book, 1920 GIass_j_J Book 1*12 .0 Co-f^S
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 3 of The Democratic text book, 1920
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 5 of The Democratic text book, 1920 ,p yi is- QiytUi. lj.tr f Prosperity! THE DEMOCRATIC TEXT BOOK 1920 Issued by The Democratic National Committee The Democratic Congressional Committee PRICE, 25 CENTS
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 6 of The Democratic text book, 1920 Senator Harding, as the Republican candi- date for the Presidency, proposes in plain words that we remain out of it (the League). As the Democratic candidate, I favor going in.»_GOVERNOR COX in...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 7 of The Democratic text book, 1920 WHERE DOES O ARDING STAND TKZ3I2 I promise you formal and effective peace (a separate peace) so quickly as a Repub- lican Congress can pass its declaration for a Republican executive to...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 8 of The Democratic text book, 1920 Dollar wheat makes it a very profitable business. Much of the sentiment uttered concern- ing our part in the war is balderdash. He (Senator Hiram Johnson) appears at close view to be...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 9 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS Herewith are presented the platforms of the Democratic and republican parties. One looks forward; the other backward. The Democratic platform outlines the policies of a party with a constructive and...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 10 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS America broke away from traditional isolation and spent her blood and treas- ure to crush a colossal scheme of conquest. It was upon this basis that the Pres- ident of...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 11 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS By every accepted standard of international morality the President is justified in as- serting that the honor of the country is involved in this business; and we point to the...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 12 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS Thus to that which Mr J-odge, m saner moments considered the blackest crime he and his party in madness sought to give the sanctity of law; that which eighteen months...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 13 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS as we are of ours, is a suffi- cient refutation of such charge. The President re- peatedly has declared, and this Convention reaffirms, that all our duties and obli- gations...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 14 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS CONDUCT OF THE WAR During the war President Wilson exhibited the very broadest conception of liberal Americanism. In his conduct of the war, as in the general administration of his...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 15 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS We commend the patriotic men and women who sustain- ed the efforts of their gov- ernment in the crucial hours of the war and contributed to the brilliant administrative success...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 16 of The Democratic text book, 1920 to THE PLATFORMS FINANCIAL ACHIEVEMENTS A review of the record of the Democratic Party during the administration of Wood- row Wilson presents a chap- ter of substantial achieve- ments unsurpassed in the...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 17 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS 11 nop oly of the currency credits oi the Nation. Already there are well-defined indications of an assault upon the vital principles of the system in the event of Republican...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 18 of The Democratic text book, 1920 12 THE PLATFORMS of value throughout all the world, and the United States is the one great country in the world which maintains a free gold market. We condemn the attempt of...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 19 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS 13 taxes and their modification and simplification with a view to secure greater equity and justice in tax burden and im- provement in administration. PUBLIC ECONOMY Claiming to have effected...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 20 of The Democratic text book, 1920 14 THE PLATFORMS the pregnant fact that the Congress authorized the use of one and a half billion dol- lars in the hands of various departments and bureaus, which should be added...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 21 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS IS armistice inflation the world over. It has denied the de- mand of the President for necessary legislation to deal with secondary and local causes. The sound policies pursued by...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 22 of The Democratic text book, 1920 16 THE PLATFORMS We pledge the Democratic party to a policy of strict economy in government ex- penditures, and to the enact- ment and enforcement of such legislation as may be re-...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 23 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE \ATFORMS 17 ownership; we reduced the cost of postage and increased the pay of the postal em- ployees the poorest paid of all public servants; we pro- vided pensions for superan-...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 24 of The Democratic text book, 1920 18 THE PLATFORMS THE TARIFF We reaffirm the traditional policy of the Democratic party in favor of a tariff for revenue only and we confirm the policy of basing tariff re- visions...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 25 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS 19 ers expanded so as to pass upon the wisdom of, as well as the authority for, expendi- tures. A budget bill was passed in the closing days of the...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 26 of The Democratic text book, 1920 zX) THE PLATFORMS Senate of the United States as will permit the prompt transaction of the nation s legislative business. AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS To the great agricultural interests of the country the Democratic...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 27 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS 21 final decision of the highest court on the validity of the contested act. We pledge prompt and consistent sup- port of sound and effective measures to sustain, amplify and...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 28 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS which would strip thi farms of labor by assailing the principles of the Farm Loan system and seeking to impair its efficiency; by covertly at- tempting to destroy the great...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 29 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS 23 csts. We are using our for- est resources faster than they are being renewed. The re- sult is to raise unduly the cost of forest products to consum- ers...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 30 of The Democratic text book, 1920 24 THE PLATFORMS servation of the strength of the workers and their fami- lies in the interest of sound- hearted and sound-headed men, women and children. Laws regulating hours of la- bor...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 31 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS trive, if possible, and put into effective operation a fair and comprehensive method of composing differences of this nature. In private industrial dis- putes, we are opposed to compulsory arbitration...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 32 of The Democratic text book, 1920 26 THE PLATFORMS WELFARE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN We urge cooperation with the States for the protection of child life through infancy and maternity care; in the prohibition of child labor and...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 33 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS 27 moval of illiteracy, for the in- crease of teachers salaries and instruction in citizenship for both native and foreign- born; increased appropriation for vocational training in home economics, re-establish-...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 34 of The Democratic text book, 1920 28 THE PLATFORMS The Democratic Adminis- tration wisely established a War Risk Insurance Bureau, giving four and a half mil- lions of enlisted men insur- ance at unprecedentedly low rates and through...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 35 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS 29 only grossly inadequate, but shamefully outworn. Unifi- cation practices overcame these initial handicaps and provided additions, better- ments and improvements. Economies enabled opera- tion without the rate raises that...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 36 of The Democratic text book, 1920 ao THE PLATFORMS IMPROVED HIGHWAYS Improved roads are of vi- tal importance not only to commerce and industry, but also to agriculture and rural life. The Federal Road Act of 1916, enacted...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 37 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS 31 or devices in mail transpor- ation in rural territories. MERCHANT MARINE We desire to congratulate he American people upon he re-birth of our Merchant Marine which once more naintains...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 38 of The Democratic text book, 1920 32 THE PLATFORMS our cities. A nation of home owners is the best guaranty of the maintenance of those principles of liberty, law and order upon which our gov- ernment is founded....
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 39 of The Democratic text book, 1920 THE PLATFORMS 33 We therefore favor a liber- l1 and comprehensive policy or development and utiliza- ;ion of our harbors and in- erior waterways. FLOOD CONTROL We commend the Demo- cratic Congress...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920
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Image 40 of The Democratic text book, 1920 34 THE PLATFORMS tion of demonstrated success, whereby formerly arid and wholly unproductive lands now sustain 40,000 prosper- ous families and have an an- nual crop production of over $70,000,000, not including...
- Contributor: Democratic Congressional Committee (U.S.) - Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
- Date: 1920