Republican farmer., 1920-07-23
HARDING PLEDGES
 PARTY GOVERNMENT
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to run this great Republic. Our first committal Is the restoration of repre- sentative popular government, under the constitution, through the agency of the Republican party"
 Promising restoration of peace as soon as Republican Congress should send a peace declaration to a Republican President for his sigma ture, the candidate assailed the league covenant as brought home by President Wilson but declared the wars sacrifices would be "in vain if we cannot acclaim new order with ~ added security to civilization and peace maintained"
 I've Republicans of the Senate, he continued, when we saw the structure of a world supergoyernrhent taking visionary form, joined in a becoming warning of our devotion to this Republic. The Republicans of the Senate halted the barter of inde- pendent American eminence and i'm f1uence.
 We do not mean to hold aloof We do not mean to shun a single responsibility of this Republic. We were resolved then, even as we are today, and will be tomorrow, to pre- serve this free and independent Re- public. Let those now responsible. or seeking responsibility, propose the surrender, whether with interpreta- tions, apologies, or reluctant reserva- tions-from which: our rights are to be omitted. We welcome the refer endum to the American people on the preservation of America.
 with a Senate advising as the Constitution contemplates, would hopefully approach the nations of Europe and of the earth, proposing that understandings. which makes us willing participant in the consecra tion of nations to a new leadership, to commit the moral forces of the world, America included, to peace and international justice, still leaving America free. independent and self reliant but offering friendship to all : the world"
 Declaring railway employees ought to be the best paid in the world, the candidate emphasized the responsi- bility of such service and added:
 "The government might well stamp railway employment with the sanctity of public service and guar antee- to the railway employees that Justice which voices the American conception of righteousness on the one hand and assures continuity of service on the other."
 In his reference to prohibition and law enforcement he said:
 feOpl6 ever VIII ulllcI dDout ehC wisdom of the enactment of a law there is divided opinion regarding the Eighteenth amendment and the laws enacted to make it peraive--I but there can be no difference of opinion about honest law enforce ment. Modification or repeal is the right of a free people, whenever the deliberate and intelligent public sen timent commands, but perversion and evasion mark the paths to the failure df government itself"
 I Harding's Creed.
 I~beIieve the budget system will effect a necessary, helpful reforma- ton, and reveal business methods to government business.
 believe federal departments should be made more business-like and send back to productive effort thousands of federal employees, who essential at all.
 believe in the protective tariff policy and know we will be calling for its saving Americanism again.
 believe in a great merchant marine-I would have this republic the leading maritime nation of the world.
 tect 1t, and able to assure us depend- able defense.
 I beleive in a small army, but the best in the world, with a mindful ness for preparedness which will avoid the unutterable cost of our previous neglect.
 believe in our eminence in trade abroad, which the government should aid In expanding, both in revealing markets and speeding cargoes.
 T believe in establishing standards for immigration, which are con- cerned with the future citizenship of the republic, not with mere man power in industry.
 believe that every man who dons the garb of American citizenship and walks in the light of American op- portunity, must become American in heart and soul.
 forward step in unshackling child labor and elevating conditions of woman's employment. s,,s
 believe the federal government should stamp out lynching and re- move that stain from the fair name of America.
 believe the federal government should give its effective aid in solv- ing the problem of ample and becom- ing housing of its citizenship.
 believe this government should make its Liberty and Victory bonds worth all that Its patriotic citizens paid in purchasing them.
 I believe the tax burdens imposed for the war emergency must be re- vised to the needs of peace, and in the interest of equity in distribution of the burden.
 Believe the Negro citizens of America should be guaranteed the enjoyment of all their rights that they have earned the full measure of citizenship bestowed that their sacrifices in blood on the battle fields of the republic have entitled them to all of freedom and oppor- 'tunity, all of sympathy and aid that the American spirit of fairness and justice demands.
 believe there Is an easy and -epen path to righteous relation ship with Mexico. u has seemed to me that our undeveloped, uncertain and infirm policy has made us a cuipable party to the governmental