The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1920-06-17
Here's Two
Viewpoints
of G.. O. p.
Candidate

as given in a recent address, the sec
ond by W. ]. Bryan. Each is good
reading. One, naturally. is putting
the best foot forward" by the nominee,
the other pointing out OF alleged
faults by an able critic:
BY Senator Harding.
Many have thought the ratification
OF the peace treaty and its League OF
Nations would make us normal, out
that is the plea OF the patent medicine
fakir, whose one remedy marvelously
viii cure every i'll Undoubtedly formal
peace win help, and | will gladly speed
the day, If we sacrifice nothing vitality
American. Yet, as a matter OF fact,
actual peace prevails and commerce
has resumed its wonted way.
Normal thinking will help more.
The world does deeply need to get nor
NAL, and liberal doses of mental
science freely mixed with resolution
win help nightly. / do not mean the
old order will be restored. 1t VIII new
er be again. But there is sane nor
malcy due under the new conditions,
to be reached in elaboration and I'M
Outstanding. And all men must under
stand and join in reaching it. Certain
fundamentals are Interchangeable and
everlasting.
Life without toll never was and
never can be- There can be no excel
lence without great labor. Lowered
cost of living and increased cost of
production are an economic fraud.
Capital makes possible while labor
produces, and neither ever achieved
without the other. and both Of them
together never wrought a success
without genius and management. No
one of them. through the power Of
great wealth, the force of knowledge
or the might of great numbers is above
the law, and no enc OF them shah DOM
mate a free people,
AS TO the reds" he says:
THE insistent prohlela CT the day,
magniffed in the madness Of war and
{ revealed in the extreme reaction from
I hateful and destroyed autocracy to
misapplied and bolshevist democracy,
like the pathos Of impOtent Russia, is
the preservation of civil liberty and
its guarantees. Let Russia experiment
in her fatuous folly until the world is
warned anew by her colossal tragedy.
And let every clamorous advocate OF
the red regime go to Russia ard re-
vel in its crimson reign.
We have been hearing lately OF the
selfishness OF nationality. and 1t has
been urged we must abandon 1t In or
der TO perform our full duty to human
ity and civilization. We do not mean
to hold aloof. choose no isolation, we
shun no duty. But | have & confidence
in our America that requires no coun-
ell of foreign powers to point the way
OF American duty.
We wish to counsel. cooperate and
contribute. but we arrogate to our
selves the keeping of the American
conscience and every concept OF our
moral obligations. II is fine to ideal
lie, but it is very practical to make
sure our own house is in perfect order
before we attempt the miracle Of Old
World sterilization
In his reply to questions put by E.
J Miller. secretary of the Baltimore e.
Ohio local federation OF Newark. o..
he said: Il do not believe in any class
domination and the long fight to re-
move the domination Of capital, now
fairly won. is lost If labor domination
is substituted in its stead" He said
on the Cummins bill:
If the government representing all
the people cannot guarantee transpor-
tation service under any and all condi.
tions ii fails utterly. II the same gov
eminent cannot provide Just consider
alton of the wOrkmen operating the
transportation systems. it fails again.
It ought and must do both
By w. j. Bryan.
Chicago, June 14.-Senator Hard
ing fits the platform. He was one OF
the prominent reacJionaries before the
convention. Big business would have
preferred Governor Lowden. but the
investigation showed so large an in
vestment Of his own money in the
campaign and such reckless use of
it that a convention made up of lot
of representatives of the corporate
class, even as bold as these in a con-
vention. feared to risk the issue be-
for the people.
Senator Harding's record is consist
entity standpat 1t will be remem-
bered that he belonged to the Taft
side of the controversy with Roose-
welt, and presided at the convention
which nominated Justice Hughes.
He viii have Wall Street with him
without the loss Of a man; he will raj
ly about him all Of the privilege hunt
ers and the profiteers. His nomina-
ton. with the platform ON which he
runs, will make the Republican side
of the issue clear. There will be no
Disgusting of the situation which the
voters have to meet.
Now the representatives of wealth
can move from the Blackstone TO San
Francisco. where they will undertake
TO manipulate the Democratic eonven-
tion as they have this. The interim
Of two weeks win enable them to
travel lelsurely, stopping IN the noun
tains TO rest up so they viii be fresh
and ready for business when the con-
vention opens. Westward interest,
| like the star Of the empire. takes its
course, and the question is can they
succeed at San Francisco Labor will
be hostile to Senator Harding and his
/ platform
The Democratic party has a great
opportunity If il viii improve il. Some
party must take the peoples side. If
the Democratic party does not, the
Socialist party and the newly organ
lied Labor party win have a large
summers growth And, it may be
added, Mr.. Harding's attitude on the
liquor question, coupled with silence
on that subject in the platform. gives
me Democratic party a chance TO
t araW 3 large number Of prohibition
Republicans ~ tra na~s~es~~aff-. stand