New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-08

sim and uncovered to act, and seem
inglv ever ready TO testify obedience
However, Congress undertook 70 pro
vide an army for defence, ana the ma
joritv wabbled between paciilcatlon anu
preparedness until the Republican M,
noritv i'm the Senate put something rear
in the pending measure.
eve Republicans made rational re
sponse to the call OF the lanu ou'
Democratic insuffciency and inehcieney
are recorded in the conference amended
act. and a Federal nitrate plant 10 sup
plv powder 70 the patriots and pap TO
Inc naternalists and Federal fertilizer
n the farmers in competition with rfl-
waite enterprise il the great tiuc,
tive offering Of Democratic majority.
America. the Senator said. pro.
claimed Justice and loved peace. ana
we are not too proud TO fight for them.
Turning 10 economics, the Senator
pleaded for a return to the protective
tariff policy. He chose. he said, the
economic policy which sends the Amer
lean workingman to the savings banks
rather than the soup houses
Prefers Prosperity of Peace.
"No one" the Senator said, disputes
a
dav. But il is sectional in its factory
aspect. abnormal in its fevered rush,
fictitious in its essentials and pervert-
ing in its tendency. Worse. it is the
gold sluiced from the river of blood
poured out by the horrifying saerince
of millions Of our fellow men. God
forbid that we should boast q prosper
ity wrought in such waste Of human
LoI
prosperity of peace
Discussing the Democratic party
briefly. the Senator said 1t had pro
clamed the sacredness OF its pledges
and then profaned them" that II had
"espoused the freedom Of the seas and
wrought only the freedom of the Pan
anna Canal" and had "professed econ
omy and is staggered by its own eX-
travagance.
He attacked the shipping bill because
Of its government ownership feature
and the attempt OF Democratic forces
10 extend independence TO the Philip
pines. "to set adrift an island empire
in violation OF our obligations to the
world, to the Philippine people and
ourselves"
Senator Harding concluded with a
iaudatlOn OF Amerlcanlsm, Wnlcn ne
said begins at home and raCiates
abroad The Republican conception
gives the first thought TO free reople
and a fearless people. and bespeaks
conditions at home for the highest hu-
man attainment. We believe in Amer
lean markets for American products,
American wages for American work
men, American opportunity for Ameri-
can genius and industry and American
defence for American soil.
American citizenship is the reflex
of American conditions, and we believe
our policies make for fortunate peo-
pie, for whom moral, material and ed
vocational advancement is the open way.
The glory of our progress confirms.
The answered aspirations OF New
World civilization acclaim. We have
taken the ideal form OF popular gov
eminent and applied the policies which
had led continent 10 the altais Of
liberty and glorifed the Republic We
have justified pride and fortified hope.
We need only to preserve and defend
and go unfalteringly on. Power is the
guarantor OF peace and conscience the
buckler OF everlasting right. Verify. il
is good to be an American. And we
may rejoice to be Republicans"