The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1920-10-21
Tells 10000 Women He Favors
Department in Defense OF
Mothers, Childhood and
Public Health.
TO ADVANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE.
Emphasizes Need OF Safeguard
ing Women on American Farms.
Stands for Enforcement of Law

clai justice TO O,UoU women WHO came
to his front porch from all points of
the compass.
Such q department, said Senator
Harding, must 'avoid the fearful re-
suits OF bureaucracy. There can be
no more efficient way of advancing q
humanitarian program" he said, than
by adapting the machinery of our Fed
eral Government TO the purposes we
desire to attain. While others may
have their eyes fixed upon some par
ticular piece of legislation or more par.
ticular policy of social justice which
calls for the sympathetic interest of Us
all, say. without hesitation, that
our primary consideration must be the
machinery of administration, and that
when the time comes for US to re-
organize our administrative govern
ment In Washington we must all stand
together for the creation of Depart
ment of Public Welfare
Il pledge myself today" he said. ito
support with all that is in me whatever
practical policy of social welfare and
social Justice can be brought forward
by the combined wisdom of all Ameri-
cans Nothing can concern America.
and nothing can concern me as an
American, more deeply than the
health, the happiness and the enlight-
eminent of every fellow American.
Must Avoid PaternaIisn.
1.-THE social justice that conceive is
Il l. A..
make Ii so, and dangerous indeed TO
the best spirit that Americans can
hage-the spirit of expressing by the
individual free will ones own merits,
capacity and worth. We do not want
government to suppress that express
sion of free wlll even by benevolence.
but we do mean TO preserve in Amerl-
ca an equal opportunity and pre-
paredness for self-expression therein,
even though we use the government
| to do 1t.
II believe that there is no step more
practical, no step which will mean
more to the growth of Americas so
cial welfare; no step which will guar.
antee better Americas social justice,
than one which l propose to you.
Dangers to BE Avoided.
II have no doubt that there will be
some who will find In this proposal
cause for calling me an extremist, but
when we have task to do, which has
been dictated by our conscience and
approved by eur wisdom, let us
straightway find the way to do 1t.
do net say this without a word of
caution. ] recognize certain dangers
which are always presented when gov
ernment undertakes large and detailed
tasks"
Tasks OF Social Justice.
Senator Harding pointed out the
necessity of going forward upon
sure footing and declared:
when making the proposal for
department es public welfare to
America, am aware that have made
a step In advance of any platform.
"We all know that we face tasks of
social justice, which we must under
take with dispatch and efficiency. Who
can suggest one Of these tasks which
rank which foresight and wisdom will
give that Of the protection OF our ma
ternity?
"The protection Of the motherhood
OF America can not be accomplished
until the state and the nation have en-
acted and, by their example, have en-
forced customs, which protect won.
anhood itself know full well that
there are women who insist that wom-
en- shall be treated upon the same
basis that men are treated"
Senator Harding discussed the need
Of adequate protection for women In
industry and expressed his belief In
the wisdom OF an eight-hour day for
women workers. He emphasized the
need OF safeguarding the women on
American farms. He proposed putting
the Children's Bureau under the sug
gested Department of Public Welfare
and urged prevention Of abuses OF
child labor.
II must not fall" Senator Harding
| went on, ito speak TO you today of one
| OF the measures OF sAcia! Mjusfice and
social welfare not often cntiiog,ied in
this manner, but perhaps more impor.
tant than any we have considered
refer to the enforcement OF law II
| will not be my business when elected
to decide what laws shall be. II will
be legitimate for me to invoke public
opinion for their enactment, but such
q call to public opinion must be based
moro upon the duty OF the Executive
OF the nation to give facts to the peo-
| pie than upon his desire to give opin-
ion, theory and propaganda The en-
| forcement Of the law II IN Executive
| responsibility and must be under
taken BY the Executive without regard
for his personal approval or disap
proval Of the law, which Il has he
the psople's Will 70 enact