The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-09-17
SEES HARD TIMES
IN HARDING'S BACK
TO NORMALLY PLANS


Fair Play, Mo-, Sept. 10.-John S.
harrington, Judge of the Springfield
Court of Appeals, in a Democratic
campaign speech here today for the
National and State tickets, answered
the demand of Senator Harding that
the nation get back to normally" by
electing the Republican ticket this
fall. 1t was the first speech Judge
harrington has made in the campaign.
He himself is not a candidate.
Back to normally means back to
fixed standards" Judge Harrington
said, "and if Harding is to be cor
rectly understood he means to be a
party president, who, in taking Off
cial action, is to be governed by the
good sense of the Republican party
organization. Back to Normally with
him means back to standards which
were in force in this country at the
time the Progressives disapproved of
those standards and joined with the
Democrats in 1912 to get away from
the normancl or fixed standards as
then existing.
Recalls Panic of 1907
"Those of the faith of Harding have
not been well pleased with the change.
Ever since the government fell into
the hands of the Democrats, as they
view it, the country has been drifting
farther and farther away from nor
malcyI Let US see what he would have
US bark back to.
"Mr. Banker, do you want( those
days and those conditions to return,
when, at the call of the New York
banks, your credit within twenty-four
hours could be impaired? When, in
the very midst of the elusive full din
ner paid panacea, a money panic, such
as that in 1907, could be brought to
the whole country at the beck and
call of Big Business? Do you want
fixed standards referred to as normal
cy, when a condition could arise call
ing in the money frfom the West at
the very time your customers need
credit to move the annual crops?
Wheat was So Cents Bushel.
"Mr. Farmer, how does back to
normally suit you? What did you
get for bushel of wheat in 1912, the
last ditch of Republican good times?
You are having difficult problem to
get the proper amount of labor.
Things that you buy cost you more
than eyer before-sometimes out
rageOusly more-but, with all of that,
will you be satisfied to raise wheat for
63 cents a bushel, which is the price
to be received under normally?
81 know that in those good old days
you were overjoyed to get nickel a
pound for hogs, and the same proper
Tomato price for cattle, and 40 to so
cents for your corn, but / hardly
think you would swap those condi-
tions for these in which you live to-
day. If you do, you must give up the
automobile as a vehicle, the telephone
as an instrument of communication,
the college and university as a place
for the boy and girl. You will cover
your fields with mortgages instead of
fertilizers, for under the conditions
which normally afforded you couldn't
have money enough for these things.
Bankruptcy Cases Fall of.
"Mr. Merchant, what about normal
cy in your case? In this federal di-
vision of the Western District of Mis-
souri,, under two years of Republican
laws and the conditions produced
thereby, there were los bankruptcy
suits filed. In those times conditions
prevailed requiring 105 men to close
their doors and be classed under the
laws as bankrupts. Under two years
of Democratic administration, ten
years after, there have been filed just
forty-one bankruptcy petitions. Does
good business judgment dictate to you
that the good old normally bankrupt |
hazards are the proper overhead
risks?
"Mr. Wage-Earner, do you want
your wages decreased $50 per cent |
to make them conform to normally? |
l think not. If you do, you had bet
ter be practicing up on the goose step. |
"Mr. American, as you go back to
normally, you must abandon any new
tangled ideas that you may have
formed concerning international rela-
lions, such as to disarm tends to pre-
vent war, that secret diplomacy plants
the seeds of strife, that the big bully
has no right to take what his strength
will give, that justice, arbitration and
courts are good substitutes for force.
These new doctrines have no place in
Judge harrington made an elabo-
rate defense of the League of Ma
tions.