The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-10
HARDING |NVADES
 DEMOCRATIC STATE
Says While U. s. Dreaming of New Era Other Nations Try
 ing to Dominate Commerce

Oklahoma, City, October 9.-Again thrustingsat the policy of Wilson. Senato' Harding told the voters of democratic Oklahoma tonight that while the Ameri- can government was beguiling them with dealstic notions of new social era, the other nations had reached out to domi- nate the commerce and industry of the world through control of the petroleum supply.
 British interests in particular, he de- clared, had put their hands on petroleum resources in many quarters of the globe. foreseeing day when oil would become the handspring of transportation and ma terial progress. He said it was high time the United States also gave attention to material well-beng and stood behind American promoters in their efforts to give the nation a self-reliant place in industry.
 Questioning whether other powen have taken very seriously the self. abnegating aims which the Washington government has been proclaiming,' th' Senator also assailed again the Paris League of Nations, and said he wanted | no voter to be in doubt about his de- termination to stay out of the covenant. Inspiring as plan of world peace might be- he declared, the nations slogan in all it's policies must be America | first''
 | Senator Hardings night speech, last | of his midwestern trip, was delivered al the state fair grounds near Oklahoma City. Earlier in the day he had made several rear platform speeches on his way across Kansas and Oklahoma and I had detailed his agricultural and League 1 of Nations policies to a gathering of several thousand in the Wichita forum GREETED WITH CHEERS l Cheering crowds greeted the nominee | at all of his stops, and at Oklahoma City his train was met by throng At Ar. kansas City, Kan. the crowd covered | the plaza about the railway station, ano | at Ponca City, Okla. the gathering was 1 so large his voice did not carry to its outskirts. Other cities in which he spoke from his train were South Wlnfleid Kan. and Perry, Guthrie and Edmond | Oklahoma.
 l At Ponca City, when a farmer hande{ up a printed circular quoting him as ad | yocating dollar wheat, the candidate I chara cteriZed the statement as a mlser l able. silly old le and crumpling up the | paper. tossed it back into the crowd. Ht said the story started from his havinf remarked in the senate once tldt III could remember when in normal tlme dollar wheat was very desirable.
 Turning eastward from Oklahoma Cit! late tonight. the candidates train wil reach St. Louis tomorrow evening an' Marion at noon Monday.
 Praising American genius and enter prise in it's development of Americal petroleum resources, the Senator denom mated Oklahoma City in his fair ground speech as the worlds metropolis 0 petroleum"
 "But the star of petroleum's empir
 travels always from the exhausted field
 to newly opened territory he con
 tinued. New fields must be opened an
 before many years we will be compelle to draw upon other countries.
 "We must turn again now after a
 excursion of some eight years into tn ' realm of lofty, and, no doubt. most en
 noblng idealism, to a national consider
 ation of some very plain practicalities c life. It has been fine thing that many should have been inspired durin
 the war by the wish to effect arrange
 ments that would prevent repetition Q
 such a conflict. But while our own ad
 ministraton has been seeking to produc such an ideal situation, what have bee
 the real activities. the dominating con
 cerns of other nations?"