Connecticut western news., 1920-07-22
THE MAIN ISSUES
 OF THE CAMPAIGN
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 Magistrate in the White House at that time; a man who could feel the call of humanity, rather than the call of Party; man who really de- sired to make the world safe for Democracy; a man who was willing to submerge self that others might benefit? A Lincoln, for instance. Can you doubt what would have happened? Personal pride and par ty glorifcation in demanding that Congress accept the League just as MT. Wilson brought it back with him from Europe, would never have been allowed to becloud these higher and more important obligations.
 Moreover, the reservations are in line with our policies for generations past. A true statesman would have recognized this fact and would have yielded the smaller to have obtained the larger result.
 Mir. Lincoln often submitted to what amounted almost to insults on the part of some members of his Cabinet, because he recognized that these smaller minds were in reality staunch, patriotic Americans and that their childish spleen was un- worthy of his attention. Can you conceive MT. Wilson rising to this height of magnanimity? Let the changes in his Cabinet answer. In the history of our country there has never been so many Cabinet changes. Why? Unless MT. Wilson's opinions are accepted by every department, the head of that department finds other occupation more congenial.
 This is common knowledge.
 It would have been interesting if MT. Cummings had explained these unexampled Cabinet changes. It might, however, have been a deli cate matter to discuss. The point to remember is that MT. Wilson's acts have demonstrated beyond question that he considers himself equal to determining all international as we'll as national problems of importance.
 The majority of American citizens will not agree with this contention. No man is great enough for such a task. A successful Chief Magistrate is compelled by the very necessities of the position to select men of ability integrity and force as mem bers of his Cabinet and then to en- trust to them the responsibilities of their several offices. Since MT. Will son personifes the Democratic Party, at least it's majority, accord ing to Mir. Cummings, it is but fair to analyze Mir. Wilson's policies and to take due note of his arbitrary, autocratic, narrow-minded and most self-willed methods of dealing with questions which should be considered above and beyond Party issues.
 But is the League of Nations the prime issue of the campaign? No doubt it ought to be. We are not, however, considering what ought to be, but what is. The vast majority of our citizens are soul-sick and heart-weary of war and the unsettled conditions in our economic system due to the war. Labor and capital, business demoralization, strikes, Bolshevism, l. W. W.-ism, rank socialism, undigested theories for curing these internal ills, profteer- ing, high cost of living, the ominous tendency toward idleness, and the equally dangerous spirit of waste and spending on the part of our workers, as we'll as on the part of nearly all classes; ;-these are the burning, insistent, predominating questions which occupy the thought and which demand the attention of every thinking American.
 Our country is nearer a crisis than the shallow-minded can under stand. But the majority of our citizens are not shallow-minded. 'You can't fool all the people all the time." Therein lies our hope for future sanity and prosperity. Our country has been brought to this pass largely through the visionary, and most un-businesslike, adminis- tration we have ever experienced. What else could be expected, when the President, who is the dominating influence at Washington, has spent his life among books, lectures, theories and writing? He is abso- lutely out of touch with business methods and business requirements.
 Has the history of the Democratic Party proven its ability to enact legislation suitable for business sta- bility and prosperity?
 The Federal Reserve Act is one glowing exception, which proves the rule of incompetency, superfciality, and lack of comprehension. Another four years of similar administering, and our country will deserve the fall 1t is rushing toward.
 MT. Harding is man among men He has fought his way up by indus try, integrity and perseverance. He