South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-01-30
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Is THIS YOUR CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT?
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Sen Harding of Ohio trying desperately hard just
now % qualify with the sordd interests this
try with the view to the presidential nomination in
1920. His speech in the senate last week most
remarkable exhibition. 1t evidently prepared with
the utmosS 1t has the smell of many midnight
lamp Ii suggested long walks and the coming of cpl
grams under the trees be strung together make
an impression Of briancy. the underlying thought
throughout il ali was that Pres't Wilson has served
mankind poorly by exatng the ideals, albeit they
American ideals and that the thing do to sacrifice
all ideals and down the real thing making
money right And here the elemental difference
between politician of Hardings type and statesman
of Wilson's SppCars quite clearly. Wilson, too,
thinking of prosperity But he is thinking of the
pery which should come TO all through the opportun-
ity of men to work out their salvation
Another illustration of the elemental differences OF
the types Harding arraigns president
he not Immediately on reaching Europe get peace
Now there is something Of shortsighedness in this
and PERHAPS something of partisan chicaner II it lad
adopted and the conference adjourned it would have
meant that the United States and the entente had
whipped Germany-that is all.
Is that all the mothers of want? Isn't it true
that they want the sacrifices Of their boys to mean
something than the whipping of Germany-to
mean the whipping Of the the whipping of tyran-
ny the whipping of international injustice and Oppres-
sion which must result in more war?
But is Sen Harding honest? Would he have the
country believe that Prest Wilson has been standing
in the way ths peace? Does he Pres't
Wilson and the American delegation Paris by COM
mon consent of all the gathering agencies and
the European press have been impatient over the de-
lays in the beginning of the conference?
The truth is that the United states has been the
least dllatory u all the natlons-and Harding should
know it. he know that ne has much
TO learn before aspirin TO the presidency.
And how he whines because the president received
the homage OF the nations attempting in perfectly
dishonest fashion to create the impression that the
beginning of the conference had wait
turn to Paris
Is 1t possible that Harding does know that the
conference OF the president with the leaders Eng
land France and Italy did clarity the atmos-
phere pave the way for the opening Of for
NAL conference than anything else could done
lis Harding honest?
VIII ne when he says was a lie
from the beginning allow the impression 10 go out
that we were fighting the sake of democracy"
Here again have the two men illustrated: VIII
son and is fighting for democracy, and Hard
what does this candidate for president mean BY
saying: You can't have popular dictated
by the force of numbers
Does ne think have popular government die
tated bv a small majority?
What is popular government but the rule Of the
people?
president preached revolution the central empires
during ware Wasn't the success of the preaching
largely responsible for the collapse OF the kaiser's
cause? Is he o5jecng TO the overthrow Hohenzol-
lern and the Hapsburgs?
And does ne think that ne presents the measure
ments a statesman and leader when he strikes the
demagogic criticism OF the food appropriation
by saying that ought TO be thinking tax pay
He objects to the continued building Of the merchant
marine? Is it because he is still thinking shipping
trust?
The speech was intended beyond question to make
favorable impression powerful interests 10 which
money making everything and ideals nothing:
20 curry with the small class which is powerful
by virtue colossal fortunes in its possession and
which looks governmental agencies a personal
tool the increasing Of it's fortunes the expense
majority Of the people. II brutaIIy frank
hid for reactionarv SUPPORT