Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-04
Class Appeal Peril
Cited by Harding
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where the great world experiment was
leading; frankly, no one could know.
We are only learning now. 1t would
be sorry day for this republic if we
allowed our activities in seeking for
peace in the old world to blind us to
tile essentials of peace at home.
Appeal to Glass Menace
There is another thought relating
to concord SO essential to continued ad-
Vancemcnt. 1t was said the other day
that the Democratic party meant espe-
claliy to appeal to the farmers and the
wage. earners and let America forget
the failure of the world experiment.
III America can be made to forget the
attempted barter Of nationality, well
and good. 1t would better if we could
forget. but when nationality Is sur
rendered to Internationally little else
matters and all appeal is In vain. There
u only one other menace no threaten
ing to our tranquility. That menace is
the appeal to class in determining what
our government Is to be. ] would hold
i spoke an appeal to either farmers or
wage earners because Of their larger
numbers. We wish the confidence Of all.
You said, Judge Taggart, this dele
COTTON comes from shop, store. factory.
office and farm. We could not we'll get
along without any of them. We must
exchange as well a' produce, and we
must teach and preach in order to at
tain as well as to acquire.
There isn't any governmental part
in fixing pursuit. profession or employ
ment. Perhaps ought to modify that
and says except during war government
did interfere for the war and we want
to end that interference. We want n
free America again. We want America
free at home and free In the world. We
against nation we wish to silence the
cry Of class against class, and stifie
the party appeal 70 class so that we
may insure tranquility in our freedom.
If could choose but one, had rather
have industrial and social peace at home
than command the international peace
Of all the world.
Congress Only Can Declar> War
"In the study of the great world
tragedy, some one has pointed out that
the world war might have been avoided
II united Germany had adopted that
feature of our constitution which gives
Congress the right to declare war. Many
advocates of pacifsm think our safe
guards are not enough. that there should
be a referendum to the people befor.
war. The other extreme is found among
those who seriously propose that "A
council of foreign powers shall summon
the sons of this republic to war any
where in the world. emphatically
agree that no authority other than Con-
gress may call our boys to battle. Ac-
cepting this truth. why make a cove
nant which violates the good faith of
nationS"
Suppose that under the military
alliance and the superauthority Of Ar
ticle y program of armed force is
agreed upon and the Congress of the
United States declines to respond. The
executive would be called upon to carry
on a war without constitutional au-
thority, or we should prove our compact
no more than q scrap of paper.
eve are on the side of both safety
and honor to hold for ourselves the de-
cision of our obligation to the world.
We have ever played a becoming part
in human progress; we will not fail to
play 1t in that freedom of conscience
and Dction which BELTS confident re-
pubic. Men prate about violated obli
cations to the nations of the earth. The
solemn truth is that our part in the
world war was an obligation to our
selves. performed in sympathy with as
socatpd not allied powers. and our
splendid part in helping to win the war
was the armed manifestation Of Amer
lean conscience. not the fulfillment of n
written obligation.
"Oncc more. Judge Taggart. | want
to revert to your reference to your
community as community of homes.
Such is the ideal community. The pio-
nccrs whom ] was recalling wrought
their homes out of the wilderness The
possession of homes was their inspira
ton. In these modern days homes are
wrought through industry and thrift.
We have progressed to the modern
standards, outside the great cities.
where home owning is the first step to =
WARD competence and wholesome con-
tentment.
''The American system, with it's
equality of opportunity, has opened the
way, and the American constitution.
with it's guaranty of civil liberty. makes
possession secure. A home coming peo-
pie might well be the great goal of the
republic. because at every tireside CEN
tcrs all Of hope, all of ambition. all of
education. all of aspiration. The big
thing in our land il this Offering of
opportunity. and the Republican party
means to maintain government and
make secure conditions which will guar