The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-30
HARDING DELIVERS
 OPENING ADDRESS ID 4 PHONOGRAPH
Canned" Campaign Speech Declares Nation Needs No Council of Foreign Pow
 CTS to Point Out Duty
By Associated Presa

Washington. June 29.-Declarng the nation requires no council of foreign powers to point the way of American duty" Senator Harding, republican nominee for President. in his first campaign speech. today urged the preservation of Americanism as the first and highest endeavors of all citi- zens of the republic.
 The candidates first utterance ot
 the campaign was heard by no audi ence today. being made for a phono- graph record to be released on the
 Fourth of July and to be used through
 out the campaign. A copy of the sem ators address was made public at his office, and with it speech made last
 week by Governor Coolidge of Massa- chusetts, the partys vice presidential
 nominee, for a similar purpose
 Senator Harding chose "American- ism as his subject while Governor Coolidge spoke on law and order''
 America. MT. Harding said. does not
 mean 10 hold aloof. chooses no iso-
 lation and shuns no duty but, he con- tinued. we arrogate to ourselves the keeping of the American contirea. an.l every concept or our moral obligation . The presidential candidate added that
 it is very practical to make sure our
 house is in perfect order before we at 1 tempt the miracle of oid world stabil ization."
 NEED FAITH IN MEN In urging maintenance ofa law and order. Governor Coolidge defined the need of America as "a broader, firrper.
 deeper faith in people--a faith that
 men desire to do right. that the gov ernment is founded upon a righteous ness which will endure"
 The first torch of Amerfcanisrn :,
 said Senator Harding. was lighted in framing the federal constitution in l1S1. The pilgrims signed their sim pie and majestic covenant a full cen tury and a half before and set afIame their beacon of liberty on the coast of Massachusetts. Other pioneers of new, ! world freedom were rearing their new standards of liberty rom Jamestown
 and Plymouth for five generations be- fore Lexington and Concord heralded | new era. It was all American in the destined result. vet all of 1t lacked tha soul of nationality. In simple truth. there was no thought of nationalitv i, the revolution for American independ- enee. The colonists were resisting s wrong, and freedom was their solace once IL was achieved. nationality was the only agency suited to its preserva : tion.
 mericanism really began when robbed in nationalitv. The Amer< ca n re public began the blazed trail of rep- resenfative nopular government Rep resentative democracv was proclaimed the safe agency of highest human free l dom. America headed the forwarl procession of civil human and re- 1 ligious liberty. which ultimately vii. effes~ tbe liberation or all mankind
 The federal constitution is the very 1 base of all Americanism the ark of 1 the covenant of American liberty. the l lyery temple of equal rights The con- 1 stitution does abide and ever win. so | lono as 6 +Na rerr,hfic ~.,-,-'s-a= NEVER FAILED HUMANITY 1 Let l;s hesitate eese-e ,ge r.'r-ender lthe nationality which is the very sou ! of highest Araericanism This republic 1 has never failed humanity nor endan-
 gered civilization.
 sswe have heen tariv sometimes. liks i when we were rrac,aasug democrac, and neutrality while we ignored our na.
 <rc-tfu,,ed m Pawe Threel