Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-10
NATIONS OF EUROPE TRYING 10 CONTROL
 SUPPLY OF PETROL
So Warns Senator Harding in Speech Made in Okla
 hOma City
SAYS ADMINISTRATION
 HAS BEEN IDEALISTIC
Republican Nominee Declares the British Are Taking Advan- tage of II. s. and Have
 Grabbed Oil Trade

Oklahoma City, Okla. Oct. g. Agan thrustlng at the foreign poli- cy of the Wilson administration. Senator Harding told the voters of Democratic Oklahoma tonight that while the American government was beguiling them with idealistc mo- tions of new social era the other nations had reached out to dominate the commerce and industry of the world through control of the petro- leum supply.
 British interests in particular, de- clared the Republican president nominee, had put their hands on petroleum resources in many quar- ters of the globe, forseeing a day when oil would become the main spring of transportation and ma terial progress. He said it was high time the United States also gave at tention to material well being and stood behind American promoters in their efforts to give the nation a self reliant place in industry.
 Questioning whether other powers have taken very seriously" the "self- -abregating aims which the Washington government has been proclaiming the senator also as sailed again the Paris League of Nations and said he wanted no voter to be in doubt about his determina- tion to stay out of the covenant. In- spring as plan of world peace might be, he declared, the nations slogan in all its policies must be America first"
 Speaks in Wichita. Senator Harding's night speech, last of his midwestern trip was de- livered at the state fair grounds near Oklahoma City. Earlier in- the day he had made several rear plat form speeches on his way across Kansas and Oklahoma, and had de- tailed his agricultural and league of nations policies to gathering of several thousands in the Wichita forum.
 Cheering crowds greeted the nom inee at all of his stops and in Okla homa his train was met by throng which packed the streets for more than block away. Through the downtown section he was cheered by a crowd which extended far out beyond the curb. At Arkansas City, Kansas, the crowd covered the plaza about the railway station and at NPonca City, Okla, the gathering was so large that his voice did not car " to it's outskirts, Other cities in which he spoke from his train were South Winfield, Kan, and Perry, Guthrie and Edmond Oklahoma.
 At Ponca City, when farmer handed up printed circular quoting him as advocating dollar wheat, the candidate characterized the state ment as a miserable, silly old lie" and crumpling up the paper tossed it back into the crowd. He said the story started from his having re- marked in the senate once that he could remember when in normal times dollar wheat was very desir- able.
 "Why if you wanted to refer back to Bryan's day." he continued, while the crowd yelled again, "you would have shouted yo~r heads off to get dollar bushel. But that does not apply now"
 Going Back Home.
 Turning eastward from Oklahoma City late tonight, the candidates train will reach St. Louis tomorrow evening and Marion at noon Monday.
 Praising American genius and en-. terprise in it's development of Amer ican petroleum resources, the sena- tor denominated Oklahoma City in his fair grounds speech as "world's metropolis of Petroleum"
 But the star of petroleum's em- pire travels always from the ex- hausted fields to newly opened ter ritory," he continued. "New fields must be opened, and before many years we will be compelled to draw upon other countries, even tother continents, to provide for our own needs.
 "We must turn again, now, after an excursion of some eight years in- to the realm of lofty and no doubt most ennobling idealism, to a nation al consideration of some very plain practicalities of life. It has been a fine thing that so many should have been inspired during the war by the wish to effect arrangements that would prevent repetition of such conflict. But while our own admin istration has been seeking to pro- duce such an ideal situation, what have been the real activities, the dominating concerns of other na- tions?
 "Have we found them animated by the same lofty purposes and noble that have been proclaim ed by our own single track nation al leadership? l question whether other nations have taken very seri- ously the noble and self-abnegating aims which the Washington govern ment has been proclaiming. Thel plain fact is that while our govern
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