Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-20
PROTECTIVE TARIFF
LAUDED BY HARDING
Senator Contrasts Democratic
y 'Phrase-Making' and G. o. P.
Performance In Address
BEGINS TW0-DAY SWING
BY the Associated Press


Jackson. o., Oct. 2O.-DemocratiC
"phrase- making" and Republican per
formance" were contrasted by Senator
Harding In a speech here today lauding
the protective tariff policy as an example
OF Republican accomplishment.
The truth is he said. that with
all the progressive tongues and all the
literary idealism of our opponents, 1t is
still the Republican party. not only
es to tariff protection, but as to every
other kind of protection. which stands
as the safeguard of America.
"ft is a simple matter TO make
phrases; IL is much more difficult tn
perform. but it is on their respective
records as phrasemakers and as per.
formers that the Democratic forces Of
this campaign and the Republican party
oppose each other.
Speaks at Barbecue
The Republican nominee. making a
speech at a political barbecue. gave par ,,
tieular attention to the iron and steel
industry as it has developed in this sec .
tion of Ohio. This industry, through
out the country, he said, had given an
illustration of the success which at
tends the combination of the hands and
brains of workers whose interests are
so bound together in common COuse
that upon the part of all there will be
profound realization of the need for mu
tual consideration.
''As an illustration of the common
interest which binds those engaged in
that industry in a public policy, he
continued, II wish to cite the truth
that the growth and opportunity for in,
yestment of capital and the labor oi
men in the iron and steel industry has
~aCtnA ,nlitipol ,,pltHr
'You know that it is a fact that the
Republican policy of tariff protection
given to our home industries, has been
the safeguard and stimulus of our Amer
ican iron and steel production.
Impulse for Men to Labor
with all the natural resources anC
the goOd fortune of geographical posi-
tion. the growth and perhaps the pros.
porous existence of the 600 or more
companies which are making iron and
steel in the United States is based upon
the impulse given men to labor This
impulse to labor, ] trust, will always
be made up in part of the love of mer
to expend their energies in creative pro
duetion; but of necessity men Labor
for living.
II would like to see the standards OF
living among foreign nations raised "
to our standards OF nNlug, puL &c
not intend to see our prosperity and oul
standards of living lowered to meet IN,
competition of foreign countries mar
kets.
"Sympathetc as | may be with oul
tbrothers in foreign nations, We stanc
for proper policy Of American protec
ton, flexible. subject TO readtustments,
fair to our consumers and yet protecting
American investments and the interests
and standard of living of those American
laborers who do their part by giving us
100 per cent efficiency in their pro
ductive effort.
Senator Harding came here frou
Marion on q special train. Jackson wa
the FIRST stop in n two day speakinj
trip that will wind up tomorrow nigh
with an address at Buffalo, \. Y. Nor
than twenty special trains brought tn
crowds here from this and neighborint
states and thousands arrived by aro'
mobile 70 hear the Republican nominee.
Senator Harding 5 train will make {
two hour stop in Columbus this eve
ming. but no address is scheduled i
Is due at Rochester. y. y, at 9:3C
a. m. tomorrow, and will leave ther,
for Buffalo at ) p- M, after an after
noon meeting.