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Mounting Wages Demand Garner
Ciue Full Return in IT, s.
Production, Says Nominee.
appeals to Workers and Employers to Join
Hands i'm Toll as He Takes Shot at
Crime of Profteering.
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which menaces peace and threatens
all freedom. instead of adding TIC
their security. then we must speak
the truth for America and express our
hope for the fraterniZed conscience
of nations.
1t will avail nothing to discuss in
was conceived for world super-gov-
eminent, negotiated in mlSunder-
standing. and intolerantly urged and
demanded by it's administration spon-
SorS. who resisted every EFFORT 10
safeguard America, and who hnally
rejected when such safeguards were
inserted. If the supreme blunder mas
left European relationships mex,
tricably interviewer in the league
compact, our sympathy for Europe
in resisting involvement. 1t is better
to be the free and disintereSted agent
of international justice and advanc-
ing civilization. with the covenant OF
conscience. than be shackled by a
written compact which surrenders our
freedom of action and gives to a mill
tary alliance the right to proclaim
Americas duty to the world. No sur
render of rights to world council
or it's military alliance. no assumed
mandatory, however appealing. ever
shall summon the sons of this repub-
lie to war. Their supreme sacrifice
shall only be asked for America and
its call of honor. There is sanctlty
In that right we will not delegate.
Hold Our Own Interpretation.
When the compact was being writ
asked or ambition insistently be-
slowed. 1t was so good to rejoice
In the worlds confidence in our I'M
selhshness that I can believe our
evident disinterestedness inspired
Europe's wish for our association
quite as much as the selfish thought
of enlisting American power and re-
sources. Ours is an outstanding,
influential example to the world.
whether We cloak it in spoken mod
estv or magnify it in exaltation. We
want to help-we mean to he1p-but
We hold to our own Interpretation of
the American conscience as the very
soul of our nationality.
Disposed as We are, the way is
very simple. Let the failure attend
ing assumption, obstinacy, imprac-
ticability and delay be recognized,
and let us find the big, practical, I'M
selfish way to do our part, neither
covetous because of ambition nor
hesitant through fear, but ready to
serve ourselves. humanity and God.
With a Senate advising as the Con-
stitution contemplates. I would hope
fully approach the nations of Europe
and of the earth. proposing that I'M
Outstanding which makes us a willing
participant in the conservation of
nations to new relationship, to
commit the moral forces of the world,
America included, to peace and in
ternational justice, still leaving Amer
lea free. Independent and self-reliant,
but offering friendship to all the
world.
Must Be Americans First.
.If men call for more specific de-
tails. 1 remind them that moral COM
initials are broad and all-inclusive,
and we are contemplating peoples in
the concord of humanfty's advance
ment From our own viewpoint
the program is specifically Ameri-
can-and We mean to be Americans
hrst-to all the world
Appraising preserved nationality as
the first essential to the continued
progress of the republic, there is
linked with it the supreme necessity
OF the restoration-iet us say the re-
our reconstruction as an industrial
nation Here is the transcending task.
1t concerns our common veal at home
and will decide our future eminence
In the world. More than these, this
republic. under constitutional liber-
fortunate conditions for human ac-
tivity and attainment the world has
ever noted. and we are today the
worlds reserve force in the great
contest for liberty through security,
and maintained equality of oppor-
tunity and its righteous rewards.
Our Duty to Sober World.
1t is folly to close our eyes to out
standing facts. Humanity is FESTIVE,
lie in,
the agents of discord and destruction
have wrought their tragedy in pa
thetic Russia, have lighted their
torches among other peoples, and
great red conflagration. Ours is the
temple of liberty under the law, and
1t is ours to call the sons of oppor-
tunity to it's defense. America must
not only save herself but ours must
be the appealing voice to sober the
world.
More than all else the present-day
world needs understanding. There
can be no peace save through COM
posed differences. and the submits
sion of the individual to the will and
veal of the many. Any other plan
1t must be understood that toll
alone makes for accomplishment and
advancement, and righteous posses
sion is the reward o. toll and its in
centive. There is no progress except
in the stimulus of competition. When
ompetition-natural. fair. impeliing
conpetition-is suppressed, whether
by law, compact or conspiracy. we
halt the march of progress. silence
the voice of aspiration, and paralyze
the will for achievement. These are
but common sense truths of human
development.
Full Return for High Wages.
The chief trouble today is that
the world war wrought the destruc-
tion of healthful competition, left
our storehouSes empty. and there is
a minimum production when our need
is maximum. Maximums. not mini
NUNS. is the call of America. 1t
isn't d new story. because war never
fails to leave depleted storehouses
and always impairs the efficiency of
production. War also establishes it's
higher standards for wages, and they
abide. i wish the higher wage to
abide. on one explicit condition
return for the wage received. 1t is
the best assurance We can have for
a reduced cost of living. Mark you.
j am ready to acclaim the highest
standard of pay. but l would be blind
to the responsibilities that mark this
fatefui hour if l did not caution the
wage earners of America that mount
ing wages and decreased production
can lead only to industrial and eco
nomic ruin.
want, somehow. to appeal to the
sons and daughters of the republic,
10 every producer. to join hand and
brain in production, more produc-
ton, honest production, patriotic
production. because patriotic pro-
,duction is no less a defense of our
best civilization than that of armed
force. Profiteering is crime OF
commission. underproduction is a
crime of omission We must work