The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-07
CENSUS OF NATION HAS been C0MPL TED
|@[NAT0R HARDING SPEAKS N IOWA
IN FIRST STOP on WESTERN TRIP

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tfcn. or to 4 class In the republican
platform. There will be no such
appeal for support by the presiden-
tial nominee. l could say TO farmers
precisely what say to railway
, owners or railway workers. because
We can not prosper one body in
American activities and make that
prosperity permanent without we
prosper all. I have no plans for the
agricultural north which do not
south. We ought never to attempt
the governments limitation Of prices
in one section, and restrain that same
hand in dealing with another. Nor
ought we ever preach agricultural re-
Ihabilitation for the one, without the
same concern for the welfare of the
other. / want to see all Of farming
America come into its own, because
our self-reIiance and our future
security rest on American agriculture
answering the consuming needs Af
tho American people.
A seff,Reiiaat America
ike to think Of the self-suffifcffent,
self-refiant America, not in narrow
selfishness, but in abiding security.
! + would have it self-reliant in our
/ foods, and selffeliant in our indus
try. I would give a favoring market
to our farmers and our manufactur-
ers, always America First" I would
! protect when necessary, and finance
when Justified Farm and factory
are interdependent, and both deserve
| our unfailing interest.
!
reliant, wholly independent America
! politically. When the world war
ended and the president negotiated
| the league Of nations and builded q
treaty OF peace upon it, instead OF
reversing the order to expedite for
nal. .neace, 4 jainad your senators, in
\ the line of sworn duty, to make the
best Of difficult situation. We could
/ not make the treaty, but did faith
! fully endeavor to safeguard America
in dealing with the covenant he laid
before us. But president may use
his own discretion about what he
| lays before the senate and my rela-
ton will be a changed one. want
| it known shall be as Jealous OF the
executives rights as / have been
Jealous of the rights of the senate,
| because we need 8 new baptism OF
constitutiona1ism in the republic. The
constitution is the rock on which we
bui1ded;, it is the foundation on
which the republic will endure.
| Scrapped by Wilson.
Our opponents are persistently
| curious to know whether, i-or, per-
| haps / might better say, whenI am
| - "co1
league. 1t might be sufficient in re-
ply to suggest the futility of SCRAP
ping" something which is already
"scrapped." Whether President VIII
son is to be blamed or thanked for
the result, the fact remains that the
| Paris league has been "scrapped" by
the hand of its chief architect The
! stubborn insistence that it must be
ratified without dotting an j'T' or
crossing a "t," the refusal to advise
| that is, to counsel-with the senate,
in accordance with the mandate OF
! the constitution, is wholly response
BILE for that condition.
The issue, which our opponents are
endeavoring to befog, is singularly
| simple and direct. That issue, as
! made by the democratic president
| and the democratic platform and the
democratic candidate, does not pre-
| sent to the American people the
question whether they shall favor
some form of association among the
nations for the purpose Of preserving
international peace, but whether they
favor the particular league proposed
| by President Wilson. The demo-
| cratic platform and candidate have
! s~4i hy,f
! for 'tthat" association, and it is that
association and not some other which
we are promised will be ratified with.
| in sixty days if the democratic can
| didate is elected.
The platform, to be sure, approach
es it's endorsement with winding
words and sly qualifications calcu-
lated to betray the innocene and en-
trap the unwary; but it does, never
| theless, endorse the league as it
stands. It does not advocate or favor
/ any reservations or amendments or
changes or qualifications. 1t goes no
| further than to suggest that reserva-
tions will not be opposed which make
clearer or more specific the obliga-
tions Of the United States to the
D.. league.
| Strikes a Deadly Blow.
| But there is no need of reserva-
tions of this character. The obliga-
tions are clear enough and specific
! enough. 1 oppose the proposed
! league, not because I fail to under
stand what former member of the
democratic administration has said
eve are being let in for" but because
! I believe understand precisely what
! we are being let in for. do not want
to clarity these obligations; / want
to turn my back on them. 1t is not
Interpretation. but rejection, that
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