In order to increase the efficiency of transportation and decrease its cost to the shipper, railroad consolidation must be secured.
Calvin Coolidge
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Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A member of the Republican Party, he was known for his quiet demeanor and strong support for business and limited government. Coolidge's presidency is often associated with the economic prosperity of the Roaring Twenties, and he famously advocated for a hands-off approach to the economy, believing that government should interfere as little as possible in the lives of citizens and businesses.
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To advance the time when the Indians may become self-sustaining, it is my belief that the Federal Government should continue to improve the facilities for their care, and as rapidly as possible turn its responsibility over to the States.
The Congress should enact any legislation it can under the Constitution to provide for its elimination.
Every principle of order and law and liberty is opposed to this crime.
They have especially been made the target of the foul crime of lynching.
Nevertheless, they are too often subjected to thoughtless and inconsiderate treatment, unworthy alike of the white or colored races.
They have come up from slavery to be prominent in education, the professions, art, science, agriculture, banking, and commerce.
History does not anywhere record so much progress made in the same length of time as that which has been accomplished by the Negro race in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Inland Waterways Corporation is proving successful and especially beneficial to agriculture.
Flood control is clearly a national problem, and water supply is a Government problem, but every other possibility should be exhausted before the Federal Government becomes engaged in the power business.
All proposals for development should stand on their own merits.
An adequate plan should be adopted to prevent a recurrence of this disaster in order that the people may restore to productivity and comfort their fields and their towns.
It is necessary to look upon this emergency as a national disaster.
Any great increase in manufactured imports means the closing of our own plants.
The largest and best and most profitable market for the farmer in the world is our own domestic market.
The National Government has almost entirely relieved the farmer from income taxes by successive tax reductions, but State and local taxes have increased, putting on him a grievous burden.
Such legislation would lay the foundation for a permanent solution of the surplus problem.
The Government can, however, assist cooperative associations and other organizations in orderly marketing and handling a surplus clearly due to weather and seasonal conditions, in order to save the producer from preventable loss.
The most effective means of dealing with surplus crops is to reduce the surplus acreage.
Putting the Government directly into business is merely a combination of subsidy and price fixing aggravated by political pressure.
Price fixing and subsidy will both increase the surplus, instead of diminishing it.
It can not be sound for all of the people to hire some of the people to produce a crop which neither the producers nor the rest of the people want.
A Government subsidy would work out in the same way.
Government price fixing is known to be unsound and bound to result in disaster.
No plan will be of any permanent value to him which does not leave him standing on his own foundation.
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