The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
Sena -Harding Talks to Dele
gf a of Old Friends and
Supporters To-
day.
EXCESS PROFITS TAX
Wealth Should be Made to Bear lts
Full Share Of Tax Burdens as
Well aa tho
Poor.

profits tax fixed during the wal
should be modified at an early date
Warren G. Harding, republican candi
date, declared in a speech to a dele
CATION Of old friends and supporters
from two nearby Ohio counties today
Harding said he would gladly rec
ommend change, but is not yet pre-
pared to suggest an equitable substi
tute.
Wealth, he continued, must bear it:
! full share of tax burdens, but Ameri
can production must not be paral3zet
by taxation at home or destructive
competition from aboard.
His speech today was the first
since he accepted the nomination a
week ago. He dealt entirely with
democratic issues today.
e. B. Cappeller, Mansfield pub
Usher, was spokesman for the dele.
cation.
"The especial thought in my mind
today is the interdepedence and the
mutually Of interest Of all our peo
ple," Harding continued.
"We must caution against class dis
tinction and class conflict at every
step. We cannot promote agriculture
alone, because the factory is neces
sary to the making of market. We
cannot foster the factory and ignore
agriculture, because the farm is our
base of food supply" Harding re-
called the days Of forty-cent wheat
and took occasion to deny charge
which has circulated during the cam
paign to the effect that he urged dol
lar wheat in the senate when thu
wheat guaranty was up.
Il was speaking of normal dayt
prior to the war" he said. "Ya
there are those today who seek to
convey that l said dollar a bushel
is enough for wheat today, l am not
so annoyed at the silly diversion as
l am distressed at the affront to ord1-
nary intelligence"
Mounting farm prices, mounting
wages and increased expenditures are
inseparably linked" Harding went
on.
There is no living today or tomor-
row according to the standards or
yesterday" he added.
every normal being is looking
forward ....
AS to taxation, Harding declared
that 1--WE ought to make wealth bear
its full share of tax burdens, and we
never will.
There is a growing tendency, he
warned, to look to the government
for all remedies instead of allowing
natural laws to operate to correct
evils.
There is opportunity for all who
are worthy and accept the spirit OF
American institutions, Harding as
serted.
Senator Harding's speech today fol-
lows, in part:
II am pleased that you come not
ONLY as republicans but as neighbors
and friends. We need to cultivate
friendliness and neighborliness. l
sometimes think that in this busy.
workaday world we are neglecting
those little acts of neighborliness
that make life sweet and worth while.
It is well enough for one to strive to
get ahead in a material sense, tor
through that ambition human prog
ress is wrought. To acquire and ac-
cumulate honestly is most laudabie,
but we should not forget that life's
greatest joys lie in the social con-
course of friends and neighbors. Out
of such relations grow mutual re-
spect, mutual sympathy and mutual
interest, without which life holds
little Of real enjoyment.
"The especial thought in my mind
today is the interdependence and mu-
tuality of interest of all our people.
One could underwrite the good for
tunes of mankind if he could guar
antee in prosperity that fraternity
and that common interest which is
born of adversely. The pilgrim fathers
laid their eternal foundations Of new
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