The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-28
RECKONING DUE
WHEN WAR OVER
Harding Warns Ohio Against
COuntry'S Danger.
WHEN PEACE is DECLARED

Declares Wilson viii Come to Be
Five-Hour-a-Week President If Pres.
ent Policies Continue, Because Sum
Total of Our Activity Will Not Re,
quire Longer Hours.
Dayton, o.. Sept. Ex-senator Hard.
ing in his'speech at the opening of tho
Republican campaign here t2Iay said:
Fellow Citizens OF Ohio-Ohio never
has failed the nation in the hour Of
need, and will vote for its preservation
under stable, representative govern
ment in November. No nation can re-
main half socialist and half individ
ualist, and the Republican party and
its nominees have proclaimed them
selves for the preservation of repre-
sentative government and the policies
under which we Americans hav2
wrought to the establishment of tn! !
world.
Someone has said that the Repuhll
can party has created no issue in thin
campaign, that we have proposed
nothing constructive. There are times,
my countrymen, when things preserv-
atiye are more important than things
constructive. We propose the policies
which shall preserve our boasted
America, aglow with the triumphant
American spirit, and offer a nominee
who has the courage of heart and
loftiness of mind and steadfastness Of
purpose to lead the American people,
representative in form, or an alleged
democracy which surrenders safety
and its fixed principles at the call Of
seeming political expediency.
We raise the issue that class legis-
lation, whether it is legislative in
crease of pay, taken from the purse Of
! private ownership, on the one hand.
or penalizing taxes to cover blunder-
ing fiscal policies, on the other hand,
has been the entering wedge to tie
overthrow Of popular government
since the world began. Democracy
stands sponsor for this menace and
we offer our earnest opposition.
We raise the issue Of preserved
American rights. uttered in the very
beginning and proudly maintained I'M
til undervalued and ignored by the
Wilson administration, and we pledge
the restoration and the attending pres
ervation of American self-respect. We
believe and we proclaim that q GEM
finely American voice, speaking unal-
terably for merely our just due, would
have added to respect for US abroad
held our rights secure, enhanced our
self-respect at home. and added to the
glory of American citizenship. More,
It would have held US honorably Sc.
cure from war instead of dwelling in
humiliating avoidance.
We raises e6he issue of preserved and
protected American material good for.
tune, and speak for a stabilized pros
perity, founded on peace and main
tanned in American encouragement
We warn a nation Of the perils Of in
toxication in the refiexs of European
war. Though lawfully neutral, we are
supporting our government by a tax
ing partnership in munitions, and our
exhilirating activity and the inflow OF
gold can not drown the dying gaspS
Of Europe as she pays. After the fren
zied and fictitious fight of prices and
the fever of war production, there
must come a reckoning and readjust
ment while Europe rehabilitates, and
we utter a most solemn warning that
the existing economic policy which
brought us to danger in 1914 will lead
US to disaster when peace in Europe
Is restored. The Democratic party
knows It, and has actually confessed
| It in its restored tariff on sugar and
the provision for a, tariff commission
The anomaly of a tariff commission
created by a party which reaf1rms its
| faith in the Underwood tariff for rev
enue only. and proclaims all protec
tion a robbery. must touch the risibili
ties Of the country and ought to pro
claim anew the depths of Wilsoniar
insincerity. But the quickly changins
pedagogic mind jOllies the southerI
free traders vita assurances that tht
commission only soothes the bushes!
mind, and then assures business tha
our relations are being watched.
The waiting" will come later.
There are those, who belittle o.
avoid this issue, So would II
were q Democrat or q prospering i'm
porter, But. n t-a sober reflections o