Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-12-05
ADMINISTRATION
HAS NOT STOOD
BY THE PUBLIC
HONESTY IN BUSINESS NECEa
SARi SAYS GOVERNOR. AFTER
EXAMINATION.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec. 4-Thc necessity
Of observing the laws Of morality In
business was emphasized here tonight
by Governor Coolidge. Of Massachu.
setts e.Presldent Elect In an address
before the Business Mems Republican
Association.
Tcrming the action of the presen.
Democratic administration during tho
years before America entered the 1u
rOpean war an example Of what should
not be done by business men-thI
avoidance of moral obllgatlOna-Goy.
ernor Coolidge denounced practices "
similar avoidance In business relations
who. he said, seek their own profit 70.
Rardless Of Justice to others,
He cited recent wholesale cancclla.
ton OF orders for merchandise rs al
example of improper business methods.
This course, he said. resulted from ex.
trayagant ideas assimilated during the
prosperity of recent years.
From 1919 10 Iggv Americans have
believed themselves In easy circuni
stances" he saold. true, prices were
high. hut IN rewards Of effort seemed
higher still. All seemed NO easy that
people came 20 a condition where they
dill not care. There Seemd TO b an i'm.
possible demand for all human endeav.
or. II maitered little then whether du
ties We're done. there was compleij
spirit of take II or leave II. Il is all you
Will get. of quality OF quantity In goods
or in service This meant that peopl |,
were not insisting on OF meeting thcis
obligations. Such a condition couli
have but one result"
The result experienced. Governor
Coolidge said. has been disastrous
I'VE are In an era of deflation aud
the public II trying to put all the bur.
den ~ II ON the producer by refusing
10 carry out Its bargain" he declared.
The worst manifestation Of this "a
the cancellation ~ orders. he snid. 'can.
celled not because II was supposed their
cost could not be met but because IL
was thought Il would not he profitable
ta meet such cost"
at was not the result of inability 10
act hut failure because action might
cost something" he continued.
'our whole economic structure has
been dlsarranged.
We have sought In our economic 70.
lations false independence and false
freedom. Men are not and cannot be
In any Of the relations OF life independ.
ent of the moral laws. The only free
dom men can ever enjoy In self dircc'
ton In doing right"
OF the Wilson administration. Cover.
nob Coolidge said:
1T failed because II did not meet the
moral requirements Of the American
pople."
III IL gone now. ! would be the last
to cavil M IL, But It's lessons must ID
remembered. II asked In the first place
that America disregard It's obligations
because Il was more profitable 10 do 80
so wonder the country felt duped when
In the end II had 10 do It's duty at ad
ditlonal cost or perish"
lie quoted what Roosevelt declared
he would have done when Germany In
vadcd Belgium and added:
"The administration said II kept th,
peace. What America should have re
quired was no, the keeping Of the peace
but IN keeping 81 Its soul II was th'
process. not the result that counted
Nathan Hale and Joseph Warren d.,
not Keep the peace. Nor did Washing
ton or Lincoln. but they kept the faith
'Thc great lesson Of economic AM
past experience IL that people and pat
ties and nations must observe the mora
standards.
They have been disrcgarded In bus
ness with disaster. In politics with dc
feat and by the nation with rcsultlnl
war II there be any advantages 60 >
gained from these experiences Il vii
b by n renewed determination OF tl
people and the government to met
their obligations. Germany has foun
out the obligations assumed by ou
platform by our suggestion but mos
of all those Imposed by the everlas,in
necessity of righteous conduct let th
result be what u will. are 10 he ampl
and fully discharged by the RepublIca
party"