The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-10-28
SENATOR HARDING
PROPOSES Welfare
POST IN CABINET
Tells $1,000 Women He Favors
Department in Defense OF
Mothers, Childhood and
Public Health.
TO ADVANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE
Emphasizes Need Of Safeguard
inc Women on American Farms.
. Stands for Enforce aent of Law


Marion. O.-The creation of fed.
eral Department of Public Welfare 70
function in defense OF maternity child.
hood and public health was proposed
by Senator Harding in speech on 50
cial justice To- 5000 women who came
to his front porch froln all points ~
the compass
Such department, said Senator
Harding, must avoid the fearful re
suits OF bureaucracy. There can he
no more efficient way Of advancing
humanitarian program" he said, than
by adapting the machinery of our Fed
eral Government to the purposes wc
desire 70 attain. While others may
have their eyes fixed upon some par
ticular piece of Legislation or more par
ticular policy of social justice which
calls for the sympathetic interest of III
all, | say, without hesitation, that
. our primary consideration must be the
machinery of administration and that
when the time comes for us 70 re
organize our administrative govern.
ment in Washington we must all stand
together for The creation Of Depart
ment OF Public Welfare
al pledge myself today" he said, ITO
support with all tha. is in me whatever
/ practical policy of social welfare and
!. social justice can he brought forward
by the combined wisdom of all Ameri
cans Nothing can concern America,
and nothing can concern me as an
American, more deeply than the
health, the happiness and the enlight-
eminent Of evert fellow American
Must Avoid Paternalisn.
''The social justice that conceive is
not paternalism. 1t would be easy %
make II so, and dangerous indeed 20
the best spirit that Americans can
have-the spirit of expressing by the
individual free will ones own merits,
capacity and worth. We do not want
government to suppress that express
sion Of free will, even by benevolence
hut we do mean to preserve in Ameri
ca an equal opportunity and pre-
paredness for self-expression therein
even though we use the government
to do It.
II believe that there is no step more
practical no step which will NEAR
more TO the growth of Americas so
cial welfare; no step which will guar
antee better Americas social justice
than one which propose 10 YOU.
Dangers to Be Avoided.
'I haze no doubt that there will b.
!, Somc who will find in this PROPOSE
cause for calling me an extremist, bu
n when we have q task to do, which ha
l. been dictated by our conscience AM
approved by our wisdom, let u
II straightway find the way to do 1t.
II do not say this without word o
a. caution. | recognize certain danger
Y. which are always presented when gov
d eminent undertakes large and detaile
D. tasks"
Tasks Of Social Justice.
ID Senator Harding pointed out tn
e. necessity of going. forward upon
D. sure footing and declared:
le when making the proposal for
10 department of public welfare I
p America, am aware that have mad
q step In advance of any platform.
1--WE all know that we face tasks {
social justice, which we must unde
take with dispatch and efficiency. WI
can suggest one of these tasks whC
= can supersede In our hearts. or In I'll
rank which foresight and wisdom wi
lie give that of the protection of our M
II ternity?
d. THE protection of the motherhoC
g. of America can not be accomplisht
as until the state and the nation have e
nv hAir no a
forced customs, which project wor
" anhood itself. ] know full well tin
as there are women who insist that wor
en- shall be treated upon the san
OK basis that men are treated"
to Senator Harding discussed the net
or of adequate protection for women
nd industry and expressed his belief
Il. the wisdom Of an eight-hour day T
-, women workers. He emphasized d
need of safeguarding the women
American farms He proposed putin
III the ChIldrens Bureau under the su
co gesied Department of Public Welfal
aud urged prevention Of abuses
ID child labor
nd II must not fall" Senator Hardi
In went on, ITO speak to you today of %
nd of the measures OF social justice a
"a social welfare not often catalogued
this manner. but perhaps more imp'
tant than any we have considered
ie refer TO the enforcement of law.
me will not be my business when elect
he to decide what laws shall be. II "
RS. be legitimate for me TO invoke pnh
In opinion for their enactment, but su
ov- 0 call to public opinion must be bns
rye more upon the duty Of the Execut
nil Of the nation to give facts to the o
pie than upon his desire to give op
ion. theory and propaganda. The
Nv. forcement of the law is an Execut
Is responsibility and must be und
Ugh taken by the Executive without req
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