The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-12-17
A NATION COMING TO ITS OWN

In another column of this issue APP
pears reprinted the speech delivered
by P~resident-elect Warren G.. Harding
at the event of his last appearance in
Senate, on December 9Th. 1t is a mas
ter piece of an experienced executive.
1t is indeed an assurance to Congress
that the election to the presidency of
a man who has served in the National
Legislature was indeed a wise pro-
cedure. Cooperation, the key-not of
the President-elect's address is found
most manifest in his declaration:
when my responsibilities begin
IN the executive capacity / shall be
as mindful of the Senate's response
bilities as | have been Jealous of them
as a member, but | mean at the same
time to be just as insistent about the
responsibilities of the executive. Our
governmental good-fortune does not
lie in a surrender at either end of
the avenue, but in the coordination
and cooperation which becomes the
two in a great and truly representative
popular government"
1t is plain that no sentiment or init
nation of "Senate oligarchy" is to be
found in the clear-cut statements of
this mar who has seen actual and
fruitful service in the upper house of
Congress. Yet, on the other hand,
the little address breathes a determina-
ton to do away with the dictatorship
under which this hation has been Ia
boring for the past eight years.
Mr.. Harding further states: 81 like
the freedom, the association, the patri-
otto n of responsibility which
GhJ1nc bprp K A. X nn, ,nrr,;D,-
of the great place which Congress
holds under oar Constitution. and
particularly sensible to the obligations
of the Senate" Following this he
made a wonderful plea for cooperation
expressing "the wish of a colleague for
the confidence and cooperation of
the members of this body in the four
years which begin next March A."
Within a very short time after his
inauguration eight years ago, Mr..
Wilson had reduced his Democratic
Congress to sach a pitiful subservi-
ance, that it has been rightly named 4
rubber stamp" Congress. The conse~
upon the nation. This was a one-man
gressional cooperation with the eX-
l4CIlAS Tx lSSlSlJCINS liiSSS III
which the nation finds itself today.
His attitude of friendship toward
the opposition was manifest by Mr..
Harding when he stated: 81 am sure
that the necessity of wise solution will
inspire us to work together, to take
common counsel, to be tolerant of one
another and give the best which is in
all of us to attain the ends which be-
come our Republic at home and viii!
maintain its high place among the
nations of the earth" Admitting, of
course, that there could not always be
agreement, he hoped to find Common
ground in the spirit of service.
President-elect Harding's most re-
cent speech but again makes manifest
the bigness of the man who has been
selected for aUbig job. Indeed ever
those, who, in opposition, were appre-
hensive of his qualities have come to
see in him a mar of legislative X
perience who possesses a wonderful ca
pacity for growth under the weight
of large and increased responsibilities.
Because of his practical experience,
working together with the other law
makers of the nation for years, he
shows a keen understanding of the
necessity for a united nation in all
domestic matters as well as especially
those which pertain to our re-
%lationship with the other countries of
the world.
As March 4th approaches, a deep