Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-30
Broken Promises
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rode to the hall at the head Of a pa
rade in which many marching clubs
participated.
On his way from Akron he made
short speeches at Ashland, Green
Camp, Redwood. North Lewisburg.
Urbana. and Hamilton. ,reiterating
his position on the League Of Ma
tons and arguing for constitutional
government. At Dayton the home
town of Governor Cox, no speech had
been arranged, but during . short
stop there the nominee and Mrs.
Harding alishted from their train
and shook hands with several scores
of men and women.
A gospel of understanding" that
should insure domestic tranquility
and honest politics was preached by
Senator Harding at Urbana and
when some one in the crowd passed
up to him broom made at an Ur-
bana factory, he said he was pleased
at the gift because it symbolized the
political house cleaning to be ac-
complished on Nov. 2. In his speech
in Music hall, the senator gave ma
jor attention to domestic questions,
but also restated his position on the
League and asserted that only by
giving the proper example to the
world could the nation fulfill its mis-
sion and pay its debt to civilization.
Lincoln once said that our nation
could not endure half slave and half
free" he said, and by the same
token and in the same sense the
economic world can not long endure
half bankrupt and half solvent. half
subject and half-free. This is OBJ
vious to all who consider the sub
ject status of hundreds Of millions of
people under the fxed and practical
~ unalterable conditions of the YER
sailles compact, dominated by the
creditor nations of the world.
Here are the seeds Of future wars;
the only. release from intolerable
conditions. This. we like to think. is
progressing world. a developing
civilization. Universal peace must
come not from fixed boundaries and
exchanging restrictions, not from
leagued and armed force, but from
enlightened and expanded human
nature. broadened acquaintance and
understanding.
Let US do our part in the world
first by giving the world hitting
example of SELF government. COM
petently conducted. Before we reach
for the stars let us sweep the. hearth.
while there has been a great deal
said in this campaign about the heart
Of the world. surely something is due
to be said about the heart Of Amer
lea. From the beginning Of this
campaign there has been a persistent
effort upon the part Of our opponents
to divert attention from the most
important issues Of the campaign, to
concentrate the interest Of the voters
upon speculative proposition with
reference to but foreign relations.
But we do not propose that they
shall evade the discussion or ignore
their responsibility for the condi-
tons which confront US.
We have. for the past eight years
had an administratio which has
been more concerned with theory
than with performance. more inter-
ested internationally than in ma
tionality. We have had an admins
tratien always abroad at home and
never at home abroad. The admin
istration placed in power by the
Democratic party In 1912 has again
to make report Of its stewardship.
In 1919 the Democratic party
went into power with promise to
reduce what was then considered the
high cost Of living. They made it the
paramount premise. what Of the
fulhlimeRt? They lowered the bar
riers OF trade, threw open the world
70 unfair world competition and
brought Us to the verge OF industrial
paralysis.
They went into ONCE with pledge
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