Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-25
HARDING PROMISES
MILLENNIUM ADVENT
WHEN HE TAKES JOB
Tells Drunnr1crs There Will be No
More "Meddling" With Pri-
vate Enterpsise.
SEE SWEEPING CHANGES

Marion. Ohio. Sept 25.-An err f
business stability and ~ business like
government was promised by Senator
Harding today in a front porch speech to
n gathering of several thousand CONNER
rial travellers who came from all parts Of
the country under the auspices Of the
Harding and Coolidge travelling mems
league.
The business methods Of the Democratic
administration, both in the conduct 81 its
own affairs and in its relations 70 private
enterpriaes were denounced by the Re
puhiiran nominee as 'neddlInp and auto
cratic to a degree threatening industrial
chaos He outlined Q policy Of common
council IN contrast 10 "one man ludg-
ment. and pledged himself 10 an ideai-
ism based on such sense that 10 does not
treat the nations business with sns-
pieson and contempt
"T believe that everywhere IN the land,
said Senator Harding, there - the opinion
that We have had enough Of government
excessively centralized IN executive
powers; enough Of government which
ignores the representative and its close
contact with the popular will. want II
very explicitly understood that my eiec-
tion to the executive office means q com
plete change from the one man poilcywhich
has characterized our national govern
ment during the past seven years.
II believe that the people Of America
need not be told that they pay the bills
of administrative government whose dis
tension for war still remains over-dls-
| tended for peace. II has become common
| knowledge that there are between 100000
and 500. 600 persons on the payroll OF the
| United States. who win be kept there, Of
. course. unless We have q new management.
| The people know very well that only an
| intelligent opposition prevented the pres
| ent administration from making an
I expenditure of over eleven billions OF
| dollars in a peace year and the eleven
/ billions would have been reasonably
/ large draft upon people who IN 1915
paid one billion dollars for their current
! expenses of government.
1'The people know already that when
| the war came upon Us American business
/ faced disruption and the American work
| ing man unemployment and that another
year of folly now would mean Industrial
/ plants cold in idleress and laborers walk
| ing among them looking IN vain for the
| Joy Of days productive work.
IA nation which prides itself upon Its
business sense has been forced TO see its
government. twisted into a monstrosity Of
| Wall Street and shpshoddiness. And that
administration almost innocent, We may
say, Of business principle, an admlnlstra-
| tion which could not attend TO its own
| business well, with new economic theories,
with experiments, with activities IN which
| il was never intended government should
| participate and with laws and executive
| orders which failed to curb prohteering
/ or contribute TO our high standard Of
| American business has reached out its
| hindering hands IN menace to American
| business and American prosperity.
'From that unfortunate picture we
must now turn away. We have great
| tasks before us and my first principle of
/ performance in any task is to summon
| the best counsel that can be drawn from
| any activity or any quarter of America.
Il desire that you shall tell the Ameri-
can people that | believe as firmly IN the
idealism of doing we'll the tasks which are
set before us as | disbeheve in idealism
whose only results are discomfort, prodlgal-
ity and disappointment. All who love
America the best viii believe in the idealism
which is not too proud TO work We
Americans turn our faces toward an
idealism based upon such sense that II
does not treat the nations business with
suspicion and contempt, but IN the kind
of idealism that sees in Americas busl-
ness the every day tasks of the American
people, which sees in it the labor of 8
nation, which sees In it the hope of high
standards of living, which sees in it the
preservation of equal opportunity fol
Levery man, woman and child, which see:
| American business to be the great fabri,
of our activity, woven by threads o
every human being effort"