Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-10
HARDING CHARGES
BRITISH GRAB OIL
AS j. s. |DEAL|ZES
Declares Other Nations Have
Reached Out to Domi-
nate Commerce.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. October 9.
Again thrusting at the foreign pol
icy of the Wilson administration,
Senator Harding told the voters of
democratic Oklahoma tonight that
while the American government was
| lbeguiling them with idealistic notions
iof a new social era the other nations
had reached out to dominate the COM
through control of the petroleum
supply.
British interests in particular, de-
iclared the republican presidential
nominee. had put their hands on
petroleum resources in many quarters
loil would become the handspring Of
transportation and material progress.
He said it was high time the United
Estates also gave attention to material
lwell-being and stood behind Ameri-
can promoters in their effort to give
ithe nation a self-reliant place in in
dustry.
Assails Paris League.
Questioning whether other powers
Ihave taken very seriously" the self
Iton government has been proclaim
ling" the senator also assailed again
the Paris league of nations and said
he wanted no voter to be in doubt
about his determination to stay out
of the covenant. Inspiring as a plan
of world peace might be. he declared.
the nations slogan in all it's policies
must be America first"
Senator Harding's night speech. last
of his midwestern trip. was deliv-
lered at the state fair grounds, near
Oklahoma City. Earlier in the day
!he had made several rear platform
!speeches on his way across Kansas
jand Oklahoma. and had detailed his
Agricultural and league of nations pol
Iicies to gathering of several
thousand in the Wichita Forum. :
Cheering crowds greeted the nom
inee at all Of his stops, and at Okla
|homa City his train was met by q
|throng which packed thassstreets for
more than a block away. Through
the downtown section he was cheered
|by a crowd which extended far out
beyond the curb. AT Arkansas City,
Kansas, the crowd covered the plaza
about the railway station, and at
Ponca City. Okla. the gathering was
Is0large that his voice did not carry
Ito its outskirts. Other cities in which
he spoke from his train were South
Winfield, Kan, and Perry, Guthrie
and Edmond, Okla.
Farmer Hands Up Circular.
At Ponca city. when a farmer
handed up printed circular quoting
him as advocating dollar wheat. the
candidate characterized the state
ment as miserable, silly, old lie"
and. crumDling up the paper. tossed it
back into the crowd. He said the
story started from his having re-
marked in the Senate once that he
could remember when in normal times
dollar wheat was very desirable.
why, if you wanted to refer back
to Bryan's day." he continued, while
the crowd yelled again. you would
have shouted your heads off to get
a dollar a bushel. But that does not
apply now"
Turning eastward from Oklahoma
City late tonight. the candidates s
train will reach st. Louis tomorrow
evening and Marion at noon Monday.
Praising American genius and enter
prise in it's development of American
petroleum resources, the senator de-
nominated Oklahoma City in his fair
grounds speech as "the worlds me-
tropolis of petroleum.
i But the star of petroleum's empire
travels always from the exhausted
fields to newly opened territory" he
continued. New fields must be
opened and before many years we will
be compelled to draw upon other
continents to provide for our own
needs.
Doubts Lofty Purposes.
I'VE must turn again, now, after
the excursion of some eight years
into the realm of lofty and no doubt
most ennobling idealism, to a ma
tional consideration of some very
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