The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-11-19
HARDING URGES A
RETURN TO PLAIN
LIVING BY PEOPLE
Delivers Address in New Or
leans Before Leaving for Vacation Voyage
to Canal Zone-Calls for Support of
THRIFT, Honor and Common Sense
Great Crowds Cheer

new south for score of years and
more. 1t is new in spirit, new in
development. 1 would like to see il
new liberalization. I would like to
acclaim a southland with added good
fortune and greater self reliance thru
diversified agriculture and l would
like to see a southland afame with
industry, with transportation ever q
tgrowing problem.
/ No Jealousy.
This land of raw materials ought
to manufacture and locate its factory
by mine, farm and orchard. There
will be no jealousy in the north be-
cause your greater glory will be glor-
ious victory.
Here We are today at one of the
great gateways of Latin-America
Some how I feel that the western
hemisphere is our special field of in
fluence and trade. Commerce marks
the highways of friendship, as well as
rivalry. Our trade routes by sea to
the south ought to be as dependable
as our railway routes at home and
there ought to be sufficient and re-
assuring comfy and concord among
Americans-Central and North Bind
our friendship with the ties of trade
and we shall make it indissoluble.
we, have ships now, we have the
commercial foundations, our future
lies in policies and practices. We
must buy as we'll as sell, to be sure,
but we need the expanding trade of
policy, its efficient agents in sales
men and credits and the simple, prac-
tical understanding that commerce is
the life blood of material existence.
Great assurance at home lies in a
virile, intelligent, resolute people in
land unravaged by war, at enmity
with no people, envy none, coveting
nothing, seeking no territory striving
for no glories which do not become
righteous nation. This republic
cannot, will Aot, fail if each of US
does his part. If we but work and
use thrifitly and seek that under
standing which reveals mutually Of
interest no difficulties can long abide.
Such solution can not come out of
the greedy thoughts Of the profiteer
of the revolutionary agitation of
those who would destroy. These are
but surface disturbances. We choose
the deep and ever onward currents of
normal America for the course of the
republic"
There has been a wild contempla-
ton of earnings, whether in wages or
dividends, in terms of dollars rather
than in terms of purchasing power.
We must be more concerned with the
substance of reward for activity in
this coin measurement. And our con-
Germ must be in a dependable pros
perity which is righteously shared.
No law can alter nature or change
varying moods. We haven't yet learn
ed to combat destructive weather,
and the law of supply and demand is
eternal. But we may soften their rig
ors and minimize their penalties.
We want fortune a common posses
sion in America. We want the cot
ton grower of the south TO have his
becoming reward with tine. wool grow
er and the wheat farmer of the north.
We want southern factories TO pc
tuned to the music of mills of the
north. We want your ports to send
their cargoes under the American
flag, to bear messages of peace and
good will to all the marts of the
earth. There is no sectionalism in
righteous American ambition. 1t is
this wonderful and Incompatible
United States of America which sets
our hearts aglow with becoming as
pirations and patriotic love-the
America of the constitution, free and
confident of the morrow"