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Ineffective Government Med
ding With Business Win
End, He Promises.
By the Associated Press.

MARION, Ohio, September lin a
double -barrelled attack on the ad-
ministration Senator Harding charged
today that democratic ofHcials had
been guilty of reckless inefhciency"
In their conduct of the nations busi-
ness affairs and had sought through
"duplicity or misunderstanding" to
have the United States surrender its
Monroe doctrine in becoming a MEM
ber of the league of nations.
His own policy toward the busin ess
world, he declared, would put an end
to "ineffective meddling" by the gov
ernment,' wipe out many wartime re-
straints. seek readjustment of tariff
levies and taxation and establish a
new cooperation between govern
ment and private enterprise.
VIII Restore Sober Business.
Having restored a condition of
sober business" again. he added. he
would summon the aid of the ablest
administrators of the country to put
the government itself on an efficient
basis.
Assailing the Conspiracy of per-
feet accord" between the administra-
tion and the democratic presidential
nominee to perpetuate war powers of
clared the government had been so
twisted out of shape" that reor-
ganization in many of its departments
was necessary before it could again
function properly.
Discussing the Monroe doctrine the
republican nominee asserted that the
English and French texts OF the
league covenant apparently were In
direct contradiction. the former bear
ing the intimation that the doctrine
| was not to be overridden by any
provision of the covenant, while the
French phraseology clearly would
make the doctrine subordinate to the
covenant. In any case of dispute. he
added, the league council undoubtedly
would decide the French text was the
official one.
Critieizes Discrepancy.
"One wishes to be both charitable
and considerate." he continued, but
! it is hard to believe that this very
marked discrepancy was perpetrated
The senator's declarations on the
Monroe doctrine and on business
issues were made in two front-porch
speeches to delegations Of business
men from Chicago and several Micht-
gan and Indiana cities. Through
message of reinsurance to all Ameri
cans interested in business.
| Deprecating the tendency to think
of business only in terms of "bie
business" the nominee declared sue
cess in financial affairs should nc
longer be held a crime, but that the
people should realize that sound fnan'
cial conditions were for the common
| good. He advocated the establish
ment of budget system in the
federal government. declared the
postal service must be put on a new
basis. and continued:
Would Repeal Orders.
! I'VE must repeal and wipe out a
mass of executive orders and laws
which. falling to serve effectively that
purpose. serve only to leave Ameri.
can business in anxiety, uncertainty
/ and darkness.
I'VE must readjust our tariff al
this time with especial regard fol
! the new economic menaces to oul
American agriculture as well as fac.
tory.
I'VE must readjust our internal
taxation. especially the excess profits
tax, to remove the burdens 1t i'm
poses upon the will to create and
produce. whether that will is the will
of the big corporation, of the small
corporation or Of the individual. gov
| erning themselves under and in ac.
cordance with their own constitution
/ Granted Great Powers.
when the war began the American
people granted powers to the execu-
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