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Show A GOOD PROGRAM FOR 1932. Here's a good program for the United States for 1932: Keep the nation, at a time when there are more war-dogs than at any t:me since the World War, in what Washington called "a respectable posture pos-ture of defense." Put the unemployed to work by erecting such econmic defenses as will insure the American market for American competitive products as against foreign products made cheap by cheapening workers, and increase our foreign trade by the greater purchasing pur-chasing power for non-competitive imports that will thus be created. Drop the job of saving - Europe from itself and tackle the job of saving America for ourselves. Keep our nose out of foreign quarrels, quar-rels, thus keeping out of wars with the causes and purposes of which, wc have nothing to do. Stick to a sound currency, even if the rest of the world goes to using wampum for money. Let our foreign debtors pay or repudiate, re-pudiate, just as they wish, and take the consequences, since we cannot do anything about it anyway. Take a breathing spell in paying off the national debt until we get the money with which to do it. Use the axe on public expenditures until we are able to pay the bills past extravagance has created. Stir up a revival of old-fashioned patriotism and religion and get away from some of the fads and follies that have mussed up our national thinking. Impress' our statesmen and financiers finan-ciers that looking after the United States is a bigger job than they have been able to handle and that hereafter here-after they will be expected to look after the people from whom they got their power and their money. Get back to common honesty and common sense in private and public affairs. |