married women. An American woman, resident in the United States, should not lose her citizenship by marriage to an alien.

"Free Speech and Alien Agitation.-We demand that every American citizen shall enjoy the ancient and constitutional right of free speech, free press, and free assembly and the no less sacred right of the qualified voter to be represented by his duly chosen representatives; but no man may advocate resistance to the law, and no man may advocate violent overthrow of the government.

"Aliens within the jurisdiction of the United States are not entitled of right to liberty of agitation directed against the government or American institutions.

"Every government has the power to exclude and deport those aliens who constitute a real menace to its peaceful existence. But in view of the large numbers of people affected by the Immigration acts and in view of the vigorous malpractice of the Departments of Justice and Labor, an adequate public hearing before a competent administrative tribunal should be assured to all.

"Lynching. We urge Congress to consider the most effective means to end lynching in this country, which continues to be a terrible blot on our American civilization.

"Public Roads and Highways.-We favor liberal appropriations in coöperation with the States for the construction of highways which will bring about a reduction in transportation costs, better marketing of farm products, improvement in rural postal delivery, as well as meet the needs of military defense.

"In determining the proportion of Federal aid for road construction among the States, the sums lost in taxation to the respective States by the setting apart of large portions of their area as forest reservations should be considered as a controlling factor.

"Conservation.-Conservation is a Republican policy. It began with the passage of the Reclamation act signed by President Roosevelt. The recent passage of the Coal, Oil, and Phosphate Leasing act by a Republican Congress and the enactment of the Water-power bill fashioned in accordance with the same principle, are consistent landmarks in the development of the conservation of our national resources. We denounce the refusal of the President to sign the

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Water-power bill, passed after ten years of controversy. The Republican party has taken an especially honorable part in saving our national forests and in the effort to establish a national forest policy. Our most pressing conservation question relates to our forests. We are using our forest resources faster than they are being renewed. The result is to raise unduly the cost of forest products to consumers and especially farmers, who use more than half the lumber produced in America, and in the end to create a timber famine. The Federal government, the States, and private interests must unite in devising means to meet the menace.

"Reclamation. We favor a fixed and comprehensive policy of reclamation to increase national wealth and production.

"We recognize in the development of reclamation through Federal action, with its increase of production and taxable wealth, a safeguard for the nation.

"We commend to Congress a policy to reclaim lands and the establishment of a fixed national policy of development of natural resources in relation to reclamation through the now designated government agencies.

"Army and Navy.-We feel the deepest pride in the fine courage, the resolute endurance, the gallant spirit of the officers and men of our army and navy in the World War. They were in all ways worthy of the best traditions of the nation's defenders, and we pledge ourselves to proper maintenance of the military and naval establishments upon which our national security and dignity depend.

"The Service Men.-We hold in imperishable remembrance the valor and patriotism of the soldiers and sailors of America who fought in the great war for human liberty, and we pledge ourselves to discharge to the fullest the obligations which a grateful nation justly should fulfill, in appreciation of the services rendered by its defenders on sea and on land.

"Republicans are not ungrateful. Throughout their history they have shown their gratitude toward the nation's defenders. Liberal legislation for the care of the disabled and infirm and their dependents has ever marked Republican policy toward the soldier and

sailor of all the wars in which our country has participated. The present Congress has appropriated generously for the disabled of the World War.

"The amounts already applied and authorized for the fiscal year 1920-21 for this purpose reached the stupendous sum of $1,180,571,893. This legislation is significant of the party's purpose in generously caring for the maimed and disabled men of the recent war.

"Civil Service. We renew our repeated declaration that the Civil Service law shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced and extended wherever practicable. The recent action of Congress in enacting a comprehensive Civil Service Retirement law and in working out a comprehensive employment and wage policy that will guarantee equal and just treatment to the army of government workers, and in centralizing the administration of the new and progressive employment policy in the hands of the Civil Service commission, is worthy of all praise.

"Postal Service.-We condemn the present administration for its destruction of the efficiency of the postal service, and the telegraph and telephone service when controlled by the government, and for its failure to properly compensate employes whose expert knowledge is essential to the proper conduct of the affairs of the postal system. We commend the Republican Congress for the enactment of legislation increasing the pay of postal employes, who up to that time were the poorest paid in the government service.

"Woman Suffrage. We welcome women into full participation in the affairs of government and the activities of the Republican party. We earnestly hope that Republican Legislatures in States which have not yet acted on the Suffrage amendment will ratify the amendment to the end that all the women of the nation of voting age may participate in the election of 1920, which is so important to the welfare of our country.

"Social Progress.-The supreme duty of the nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. Although the Federal jurisdiction over social problems is limited, they affect the welfare and interest of the nation a whole. We pledge the Republican party to the solution of

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these problems through national and State legislation in accordance with the best progressive thought of the country.

"Education and Health.-We endorse the principle of Federal aid to the States for the purposes of vocational and agricultural training.

"Wherever Federal money is devoted to education, such education must be so directed as to awaken in the youth the spirit of America and a sense of patriotic duty to the United States.

"A thorough system of physical education for all children up to the age of nineteen, including adequate health supervision and instruction, would remedy conditions revealed by the draft and would add to the economic and industrial strength of the nation. National leadership and stimulation will be necessary to induce the States to adopt a wise system of physical training.

"The public health activities of the Federal government are scattered through numerous departments and bureaus, resulting in inefficiency, duplication, and extravagance. We advocate a greater centralization of the Federal functions, and in addition urge the better coördination of the work of the Federal, State, and local health agencies.

"Child Labor.-The Republican party stands for a Federal Child Labor law and for its rigid enforcement. If the present law be found unconstitutional or ineffective, we shall seek other means to enable Congress to prevent the evils of child labor.

"Women in Industry.-Women have special problems of employment which make necessary special study. We commend Congress for the permanent establishment of the Women's bureau in the United States Department of Labor to serve as a source of information to the States and to Congress.

"The principle of equal pay for equal service should be applied throughout all branches of the Federal government in which women are employed.

"Federal aid for vocational training should take into consideration the special aptitudes and needs of women workers.

"We demand Federal legislation to limit the hours of employ

ment of women engaged in intensive industry the product of which enters into interstate commerce.

"Housing. The housing shortage has not only compelled careful study of ways of stimulating building, but it has brought into relief the unsatisfactory character of the housing accommodations of large numbers of the inhabitants of our cities. A nation of homeowners is the best guarantee of the maintenance of those principles of liberty, law, and order upon which our government is founded. Both national and State governments should encourage in all proper ways the acquiring of homes by our citizens. The United States government should make available the valuable information on housing and town planning collected during the war. This informa

tion should be kept up to date and made currently available.

"Hawaii.-For Hawaii we recommend Federal assistance in Americanizing and educating their greatly disproportionate foreign population; home rule; and the rehabilitation of the Hawaiian race.

"Pointing to its history and relying on its fundamental principles, we declare that the Republican party has the genius, courage, and constructive ability to end executive usurpation and restore constitutional government; to fulfill our world obligations without sacrificing our national independence; to raise the national standards of education, health, and general welfare; to reëstablish a peace-time administration and to substitute economy and efficiency for extravagance and chaos; to restore and maintain the national credit; to reform unequal and burdensome taxes; to free business from arbitrary and unnecessary official control; to suppress disloyalty without the denial of justice; to repel the arrogant challenge of any class and to maintain a government of all the people as contrasted with government for some of the people; and finally, to allay unrest, suspicion, and strife, and to secure the coöperation and unity of all citizens in the solution of the complex problems of the day, to the end that our country, happy and prosperous, proud of its past, sure of itself and of its institutions, may look forward with confidence to the future."

As in previous Republican conventions a minority report on platform was presented by the member of