The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1920-08-04
<FHARDING'S SECOND
FRONT PORCHSPEEcH


ternationality, Senator Harding in his
second front porch Presidential Cam
paign speech today, declared that if
he could choose but one, he would
rather have industrial and social
peace at home than command the in
ternational peace of all the world"
He asserted it would be unwise for
this country to permit "our activities
in seeking for peace in the old world
to blind us to the essentials of peace
at home," and added that eff America
can be made to forget the attempted
barter Of Nationality, we.> and good"
but that "when Nationality is sur
rendered to Internationally, little
else matters, and all appeal is vain"
The address was delivered to dele
gation OF Wayne county, Ohio, re-
publicans.
Taking up the league of nations,
Senator Harding declared it to be the
other extreme to referendum on a
proposed declaration of war. "I en-
phatically agree" he said, 'that no
authority other than Congress may
call our boys to battle. Accepting
this truth, why make a covenant
which violates the good faith of Ma
tions."
Suppose, he continued, "that un-
der Article x, a program of armed
force Is group and the Congress of
the United States declines to respond,
the executive would be called upon to
carry on war without constitutional
authority. or we should prove our COM
pact no more than scrap of paper.
We are on the side of both safety and
honor to hold for ourselves the deci-
sion of our obligations to the world"
Senator Harding's address in part,
follows:
"There have came to me, not at all
unbecomingly, the expressed anxieties
OF Americans foreign born who are
asking our country's future attitude
on territorial awards in the adjust
ment of peace. They are Americans
all, but they have a proper and ma
tural interest in the fortunes of kins-
folk and native lands. One cannot
blame them. If our land is to settle
envies, rivalry's, calousis, and hatred
of all civilization these adopted sons
of the republic want the settlement
favorable to the land from which they
came.
"The MISFORTUNE is not alone that
1t rends the concord of nations, the
greater the pity it is that it rends the
concord of our citizenship at home.
1t is folly to think of blending Greek
and Bulgarian, Italian and Slovak, or
making any of them rejoicingly
American when the land Of adoption
sits in judgment on the land from
which they came.
Governor Coolidge spoke the other
day of the rescue of America from the
reactions of war. We also need to
be rescued from the visionary and
fruitless pursuit of peace through
super government. do not want
Americans of foreign, birth making
their party alignmentsr on, which we
mean to do for some nations of the
nations of the old world. We want
them to be republican because of what
we mean to do for the United States
of America. Our call is for unison
not rivalling sympathies our need is
concord, not the antipathies of long
inheritance.
"Surely, no one stopped to think
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 the essentials of peace at home.
"There is another thought relating
to concord so essential to continued
advancement. 1t was said the other
day that the democratic party meant
especially to appeal to the farmers
and the wage earners, and let America
forget the failure of the world expert
ment. That America can be made to
forget the attempted barter of Ma
tionality, well and gaad. 1t would be
better if we could forget. But when
nationality is surrendered to interna
tionahty, little else matters, and all
appeal is in vain. There is only one
other measure so threatening to our
tranquility. That menace is the ap-
peal to class in determining what our
government is to be. l would hold
myself unworthy of your confidence
If l spoke an appeal to either farmers
or wage earners bcause of their larger
numbers. We wish the confidence of
all.
"You said. Judge Taggart. this dele
cation comes from shop. store. fac
tory, Office and farm. We could not
well get along without any of them.
We must exchange as well as produce,
and We must teach and preach in order
to attain as well as to acquire.
There isn't any governmental parG
In fixing pursuit profession or en-
ployment. Perhaps ought to madify
that and say-except during war. gov
ernment did interfere for the war and
we want to end that interference.
We want free America again. We
want America free at home and free
in the world. We want to silence the
outcrv of nation against nation, in
the fullness of understanding. and we
wish to silence the cry of class against
class and stifle the party appeal to
class SO that we man insure tranquil
ity in our freedom. If / could choose
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