Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-30
HARDING POINTS OUT NEEDS OF COUNTRY

do our part, make our contribution to the stabilization and rehabilitation of world civilization.
 All of these require not only high ideals lofty principles, assured loyalty and patriotism and inspired statesman ship, but administrative capacity, busi- ness experience and ability and a large measure of practical common sense. All these are not to be found in combination in the democratic party leadership of to- day.
 Half Subject, Half Free.
 Lincoln once said that our nation could not endure half slave and half free. and by the same token and in the same sense the economic world cannot long endure half bankrupt and half solvent, half sub ject and half free. This is obvious to all who consider the subject-satus of hun dreds of millions of people under the fixed l and practically unalterable conditions of l the Versailles compact, dominated by the creditor nations of the world. Here are the seeds of future wars-the 1 only release from ihtolerable conditions. l This, we like to think, is a progressing ! world, a developing civilization. Univer- l sal peace must come not from fixed boun- daries and unchanging restrictions, not 1 from leagued and armed forces, but from enlightened and expanded human nature. l l ing.
 We Want Retrenchment. 1 We need retrenchment in expenditures. We need efficiency in government. We ] want to unshackle business from it's bur dens of taxes, heavily and inequitably and unScientifically imposed. We want to establish our lines of transport and com | munication on a basis which -will make | them adequate to the ever increasing de-
 mands of our development and needs. We l want an educational system which will
 offer free opportunity to every aspiring 1 mind; we want policy of social justice
 which will be response to the Sermon
 on the Mount. We want an American
 merchant marine which will carry Aneri- can products in American bottoms under
 the folds of "Old Glory" to every port in I the world we want an agricultural de- l Velopment which will furnish food in plenty and find profit and pleasure, in the
 doing; we want high standard of living
 based on a high rate of wages, honestly
 earned and reflected in high production
 and protected against unfair competition of foreign goods produced under inferior l working conditions. We want a free and 1 clean press We want a nation of home
 owners and home lovers. We want a re.
 ligieus people. Tree to worship according l to their conscience~ We want tolerance as well as liberty We want wholesom,
 recreation to Tighten our toll and keep u: q in touch with Gods out-of-doors All of these we have in measure, anC 1 all of these we may have in full if, we vii work as well as wish.
 Good Government Remember that good government is O the people. It is theirs of right. an, , they can command it if they are willinj : to deserve 1t, work for it and support 1 f [ It is in this faith that we ask that yol place an American government in powe . at Washington-a government which wi V assemble at Washington men of experl n ence and constructive minds; govern Q ineat pledged to economy an efficiency: l. government in which the executive an l. legislative departments will work togeth
 CT in the interest of all; a governmer
 which will work for pace at home an
 abroad but which will enter into no d 7 dances to nortgaee our independence c surrender our heritage.
 To such government I am commi U ted in heart, in conscience and in patrio Y ism. and it is in that committal I as e your suffrages.