New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
commercial edifiee was ever builded on
the changing sands of uncertainty.

commercial edifice was ever builded on
| the changing sands of uncertainty.
'In deplOring present-day conditions
do not mean to indulge in abuse
which can bear no good fruit, nor in
criticism which can only result in con-
tention. Undeniably, there is a feel
ing permeating the American mind that
great harm has been done by unwise
heads and prodigal hands. In seeking
the correction, the party for which !
speak means to appeal to the confidence
and the sober convictions of America,
else we do not wish to be committed
to the enormous tasks before US. We
want this confidence and conviction OF
America because we need the will of
the people in the sought-for solution.
u believe that everywhere in the
land there is the opinion that we
| have had enough of government ex-
cessively centralized in executive
powers; enough Of autocratic govern
ment unwilling to heed counsel and
advice; enough of government which
Ignores the representative branch and
its close contact with the popular will.
want it very explicitly understood
shat my election to the executive Of
the one-man policy which has char
acterized our national government
during the past seven years.
we have been driven toward chaos
1 believe, not only by the unsuccess-
ful attempts made to mortgage Ameri-
can rights, American fortunes and the
American conscience abroad, and to
check American nationality and Ameri-
can honor at the cloak room of the
Presidents League of Nations in
Geneva, but we have been driven
toward chaos at home. 1t become
necessary Tor us calmly to take ac-
count OF stock, and I believe that this
las been done already by the Ameri-
can people.
IL believe that they are ,cognizant
of the terrible wastes which came
from our unpreparedness for war and
our unpreparedness for peace. I be-
ileve that the American people know
full we'll that while an administrative
voice was preaching the courses of
conduct to foreign nations our own
nome affairs were being so neglected
that we we'll nigh set a bad example.
taeher than good example, to ali
100000 on U. s. Pay Roll
u believe that the people of Amer
lea need not be told that thev nav the
bills Of administrative government
whose distention for war still remains
overdistended for peace. 1t has be-
come common knowledge that there are
between 100000 and 100000 persons
on the pay roll Of the United States,
who will be kept there, of course, un-
less we have new management be- he
cause the party which hired will never
be the party to bring the number of
excess employees down again toward
tne 44o,OO0 who were on tn pay roll in
1915. The people know very wei! that
only an intelligent opposition pre-
vented the present Administration from
making an expenditure of over Sill
! Oo0, 100000 in peace year, and the
$1,000 100000 would have been rea-
sonably large draft upon a people who
IN 1915 paid $1,O00,O00,000 for their
current expenses of government. The
| people know that only Republican op-
position to this reckless program re-
duced the appropriations by more than
one-thlrd and saved to fhe people of
the United States, who directly as tax
payers, or indirectly as consumers, bear
the load-an amount greater than the
whole cost of the Civil War.
"The people know already that when
the war came upon US American busi-
ness was facing disruption and the
American working man unemployment
and that another year Of folly now
would mean industrial plants cold in
| idleness and laborers walking among
them looking in vain for the joy of a
days productive work
"The taxpayers know full we'll that
the Democratic Administration of the
American railways cost the people of
this country an amount almost equa!
| to the amount spent by US from 1861 to
1855 to preserve the Union. The people
are just beginning to learn that the
action of the Democratic Administra-
tion stood in the way Of purchasing
from Cuba sugar crop at 6h cents
of the United States nearly billion