The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-08-19
Class Government
Under Democrats


ing the attitude of Harding and of VIII
son toward class government, the Re-
publican Publicity Asso ociatio
Through its president, Hon. Jonathan
Bourne, Jr., issues the following from
its Washington headquarters:
Although Senator Harding has
given assurance not only by his
speech of acceptance, but by his per-
sonal record as an employer. that ne
is friend of labor, yet he also has
made it distinctly clear that he is not
one of those INSCRIPTIONS politicians
who would endeavor to promote his
personal interest through appeal to
class prejudice In all his many years
of employment of labor in his pub
fishing establishment, Senator Hard
ing has never had a labor difficulty.
He has no warmer supporters than
those in his employ. He has been a
payer of good wages and a supporter
of good working conditions. But, in
his speech of acceptance, when he
spoke of the relations of employer and
employe, he qualified his statement:
I wish the higher wage to abide
with this explicit condition, that the
wage Garner will give full return for
the wage received A cheap politi-
clan would have limited his statement
to the declaration that he wished the
higher wage to abide. He would thus
have made his unqualified bid for the
labor vote. Every laborer must rec
ogniZe the justness and the economic
soundness of Senator Harding's quail
flying clause and must respect him for
his frankness and courage in defin-
ing the obligation which the laborer
assumes in return for the wage that
is paid.
In another portion of his address
Senator Harding pointed out the dan
ger that faces the American people
through the class government which
the Wilson administration has sought
to establish. Senator Harding said:
The menacing tendency of the pres
ent day is not chargeab'y wholly TO
the unsettled and fevered conditions
caused by the war. The manifest
weakness in popular government lies
in the temptation to appeal to grouped
citizenship for political advantage.
stitution contemplates no class and
recognizes no group
From the very beginning of mis-
administration President Wilson, with
the approval and support of his party
colleagues in Congress. separated this
country into groups. One of his first
acts was to call Congress info special
session for the enactment of new
tariff law which would remove those
protective duties which assured the
American producer that he would not
be brought into full competition with
the cheap labor of Europe and Asia.
When American business men saw
their Industries threatened and real
lied that the enactment of free trade
tariff law would close thir mills and
make it impossible for them to con-
tinue payment of wages to large num-
bers of employees, they went person
ally or sent their representatives TO
Washington to lay before the Demo
cratic Congress the facts regarding
their industries and the dangers they
feared. This was their right as
American citizens expressly guaran-
teed by that clause of the Constitu-
tion which assures men the right to
petition to their representatives in
Congress. But, exercising the great
power vested in him as the chief ex-
ecutive of the nation. President Will
son denounced those men as "insid-
ious lobbyists, and threatened to
hang them higher than Hannah He
branded as near-criminals men who
had been constructive business men
in their several communities: men
who had built up American enterprise
and furnished profitable employment
for millions of Americs1 lbore-s He
made group of l9rge number OF
American citizens and branded them
as outlaws. From that day to this
one of the characteristics Of the Dem
ocratic administration has been rec
ognition OF class interest and pander-
ing to group selfishness apparently
for political advantage.
"As Senate Harding mas well said:
"The highest conservation we can
make today is a committal of the Re-
publican party to that saving consti-
tutionalism which contemplates all
America as one people. and holds just
government free from influence on
the one hand and unmoved by intimi
dation on the othef.'"