The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-23
Senator Harding Throws Aside
Political Questions During
His Address To
day.
BUSINESS NOT MONSTER
Best Social Welfare Worker Is Ono
Who Does an Honest Days
F Toll, He
Says. . a..H .
tBy Raymond Clapper United Press
IL Staff Cnrresnnndent L

by Raymond Clapper United Press
Staff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, Sept. 23.-Ihe
conscience of American business
must be awakened to new interest
in human welfare, Warren G. Hard
ing said in little lay sermon deliver
ed from his front porch to a mis-
cellaneous delegation today.
Throwing aside political questions
for the moment Senator Harding
pleaded for greater recognition OF
human values in business and indus
try.
American business is not mon
ster, but the expression of Goo
given creative impulse, he said, in
sisting, however, that business mus,
be not only honest-it must be
Genuine love of toll cannot come
until the love of man flows throug1,
industry, he said, adding human and
material Interest are linked together
in a "benepolent circle"
The best social welfare workers,
Harding said, is he who does an
honest days work. But on the other
hand, employees must not be treated
as commodities, he warned. The
welfare oaof Americas human re-
sources must be, insured by law if
necessary, Harding declared.
"The conservation of human re-
sources is even more important that
the conservation of material resource,
but | desire to call your attention
to the fact that the two form benev-
olent circle Harding said. There
are those with a strong sentiment to
improve the conditions Of the less
fortunate, or by policy more wise,
to prevent the development OF unjust
social conditions or low standards of
health and education and to maintain
our position as land OF equal Op-
portunity. So fixed do some of their
eyes become on the human resources
of America and on occasional misery
and suffering that they even become
impatient with those who are work
ing to build up by industry, whole
some business enterprise and pro-
ductivity, the material resources and
the standards of living
of our own people,
"On the other hand there are other
people who in the main, l believe,
are not heartless or selfish, but who
are so intent on their tasks of manu-
featuring and commerce driven per
haps by that impulse for creation
which is so often misinterpreted as
mere money hunger, that they forget
that the men, women and children
about them, sometimes in their en-
ploy, are not mere commodities and
are not even mere machines to be
are not mere commodities
and are not worn out, treated with
out love and tossed aside, but are
human beings whose welfare in the
end is so intertwined with that of
every other human being that the i'm
perfection, the poor health and the
neglected old age. and the childhood
and the failure of motherhood in any
one of them becomes an injury and
I menace to us all
Let us awake the conscience and
of the social reformer
and even of the discontents, and the
agitators who, sometimes, with fine
zeal for the good of mankind, never
he-less go too far and do gross harm
% mankind by spreading the idea
hat business is evil, and selfish
These are not symbols of evil nor
ire business and industry, express
ng the toll of head and hand, the
enemies of mems welfare They are
he sources of mans welfare"