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in social public expenditure. Economies on a large scale will 

 be brought about if the cost of war establishments can be cur- 

 tailed and if municipalities and commonwealths will lop off a long 

 list of unnecessary expenditures which make for higher taxes. 

 We don't want to be niggardly or miserly, but just provide full 

 measure of plenty and stop there. But first of all, drive deeper 

 into the public conscience the determination to make economy, 

 honesty, simplicity and efficiency the "watchword in the adminis- 

 tration of the people's business. 



We must help to fight for less technicality and speedier 

 justice in the courts; for a system that will simplify legal pro- 

 cedure and make justice free in fact as well as in theory, to the 

 poor as well as the rich; protect the rights of men, lift up the 

 fallen and help the down and out; imprison the big thieves as 

 well as the little ones; impartially enforce all of the laws and 

 insure a greater, larger measure of popular government, of 

 human welfare and social righteousness. We are making too 

 many laws and enforcing too few of them. The courts must 

 reform their procedure, a relic of the Middle Ages, or the people 

 will reform the courts. 



We must stand for more equitable division of profits on 

 farm products by the elimination of grain gamblers, the beef 

 trust and all other jugglers of markets, the interlocking director- 

 ates and financial pirates who play the watered stock game, so 

 that the producer and the consumer will be in a position to get 

 more and the manipulators less. 



We must lose no time in taking our prisons and charitable 

 and reformatory institutions from under the control of politics 

 and put them on a broad and lofty humanitarian basis, an 

 honest, well-managed business basis, rather than under the 

 domination of selfish partisanship. No man is more active for 

 partisan administration of the prison or reformatory than is the 

 politician. The professional politician has always been found 

 fighting to maintain the old order of things, fighting to keep 

 out those reforms which surely destroy graft; fighting against 

 the open and above-board methods of handling public business, 

 and they will have their way every time if the apathetic citizen 

 does not wake up. 



The curse of intemperance must be utterly banished from 

 America. And let me say in passing that, in my judgment, one 

 of the greatest blessings ever bestowed on the State of Kansas, 

 and the law which is doing more to make useful men and women 



