The Sun and the New York herald., 1920-09-26

N""eNN ~ oAeoutlNo pOWefhi enouHh OF
autooratio government unwilling TO heed
counsel and advice enough OF govern
ment which ignores the representative
branch and It's close contact with the
popular will, | want It very explicitly
understood that my election 10 tho eX-
eeutlye office means complete change
from the one man policy which has
characterized our, national Government
uurms the past teven years,
Promises Complete Change,
II believe that the people are cog
nizant or tho terrible waste which came
from our unpreraredneas for war and
our unprepnredness Tor peace, ! believe
that tho American people know full well
mat while an administratiye/voioe was
preaching the courses OF conduct to for
eisn nations our own home affairs were
] being no neglected that We we'll nigh set
a bad example, rather than good eX-
ample, TO all mankind.
u believe that the'peoplo OF America
need not be told that they pay tho bills
OF administrative government whose dis
tension for war Btill remains oyerdis-
tended Tor peace, II has become COM
mon knowledge that there are between
aoVen hundred and eight hundred thou
hhnd persons on the payroll Of the
United states, who viii DO kept there.
OF course, unless we have a new man
hbement, because the party which hired
VIII never be the party TO bring the
number Of excess employees down again
toward the 10000 who were on tho
| payroll In 1916,
Tho people know very we'll that only
an intelligent opposition prevented the
present Administration from making an
| expenditure OF over eleven billions OF
dollars In peace year and the eleven
billions would have been reasonably
! large draft upon a people who In 1915
raid ono billion dollars for their cur
rent expenses OF government The peo-
PIE know that only Republican opposl-
ton 10 this reckless programme reduced
! the appropriations by moro than one
third and saved TO the people OF the
United states, who directly ~ taxyapcrs
q indirectly az 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 busl-
ness was facing disruption and the
American working man unemployment,
ana that another year OF folly now
would mean Industrial plants cold In
ldlenesS and laborers walking among
them looking In vain for the Joy OF a
days productive work,
Almost Cost OF CivlI War.
"The taxpayers know fun well that
inc Democratic administration OF the
american railways cost the people OF
thls country an amount almost equal
90 tho amount spent by Us from 1861
10 1865 10 preserve the Union. The
people are just beginning 10 learn that
me action Of the Democratic Admlnla-
| lration stood IN the way OF purchasing
from Cuba sugar crop 'at six and one
Ralf cents pound and Of saving 10 tho
pcoplo Of the United States nearly a
billion dollars
"A nation which prldes itself upon, rs
business sense has been forced to soc It's
| Government, which badly needed eff
c'ency ana reorganization, twisted into
II monstrosity Of waste and sllpshoddl-
ness.
And that Administration, almost In
| nocent, We may say. Of business prin-
ciplc, has not stopped there but has
gone ofleld to NEEDLE abroad IN such a
way as to create enmity whore It's med
ding has been uninvited. and to create
dlsscnsion at home among our popula-
| tion OF forclgn blood.
But that Is not allan Adminlstrn-
tlon which could not attend TO It's own
business we'll, with new economic the
ories, with experiments, with activities
In which II was never intended govern
ment should participate and with laws
and executive orders which failed 10
curb profitecrlng or contribute to our
high standard OF American business, has
reached out It's hndering hands in
menace 10 American business and Amer
lean prosperity.
From that unfortunate picture We
must now turn away. We must set our
faces toward the tasks before us. We
must br9vcly meet our practical prob
lens, so hong neglected, while we have
been gazing upon impractical visions.
look forward TO an America where all
Americans will put their shoulders to
the wheel and In united purpose re-
store their nation to the course OF good
sense on which progress must and Will
be made. by dcods rather than by words,
rs Il then not high purpose, indeed,
even though II may be Il simple one, TO
do the primary work Of this nation well?
Government ana Business.
"It is because you are the forerunners
OF activity OF our economic life, OF
American business. which Is not big
business but everybody's business, that
| speak particularly OF those PRINCIPLES
which we propose shall be- applied to the
treatm OF American business By the
Goyernment's good sense, and also the