New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-07-23
A BUSINESS A
George B. Lockwood in The Ma
tional Republican.

Warren G. Harding, next Presi-
dent OF the United States. will be
the iirst business man. by occupa-
ton to become president of the
United States.
There have been u Presidents.
holding the office of chief execu-
tive throughout a period OF ISL
years all soldiers, lawyers, planter.
or publicists by profession not
business man by occupation in the
whole long line. Warren G.. Hard
ing will be the first business man
and the first newspaper mar to
succeed to the office.
Yet the office of President deaf,
with the biggest business concern
on earth-the United States OF
America. The American government
IS a great corporation in which a
hundred and ten million people are
stock holders From that corpo-
ton the people must draw dividends
or to IT they must pay assessments,
II deals vitality with the welfare o.
private trade and Industry, -
which depends the material pros
perity of all these millions. Yet
until now, IN all our century and a
third Of history hot one business
man by occupation for the biggest
business post on earth.
Under the present national ad-
miniStration the government has
broken down completely on the
business side. Il was a Demo-
cratic senator who declared that
under The present management
every department had collapsed.
Through lack OF competent bust
ness direction the machinery of
the government has been so incom-
pctcntlv handled that the situa-
ton calls loudly for the services Of
a salvage corps. Waste, eXtrava-
Pance, incompetency, 'nefficiency,
have cost the people billions. They
have heaped burdens of taxation on
the backs of the people. They have
undermined the faith OF the people
in their government. They nearly
lost the war through the tail
IRE to furnish our soldiers at The
front with proper equipment, AMI
through a dcbauch OF waste AT home
that brought initiation, prolific ring
Generalization in public and pri-
vate affairs in its wake. These
abuses, due to lack OF business
sense on the part, primarily OF the
OF the United States, still
menace the very solvency and safe
ty Of the nation.
Along with all this break down
in the management of the nations
own business affairs, has been a
wrong attitude on the part
of the government toward legit
mate business enterprise, accom-
by an effort to make tn
government itself the universal en-.
and provider. The machir-
cry of government has been utilizfd
the camouflage of war neceS-
sity to politicalize industry. More
interested in politics than in bust
ness, for which the head OF the ad-
ministration confesses aristocratic
scorn, the aim has been to build m
the public p%ayrolls and destroy the
payrolls of the country. We
had, as someone has we'll put
too much of politics in business
and too little Of business in poll
Out of the chaos comes loudly the
call for the reconstructing hand OF
a real business man n who has ac-
tually wrought in the field OF prar-
teal business affairs. The answ r
10 that call is the Republican nomi-
nee for President. Warren &. Hard
ing, who in a typical American
community, built a large and thriy-
ing business. under adverse condi-
lions, from the ground up. and who
through wars of actual contact
with men and things in the business
world. knows what business means
and how it should be properly CON
There is a world of theories and
words. and a world of things and
lie eds. Too many protesting to b.
dwell the former and
100 often charged with great re
,ponsibility. they make a mess OF
PRACTICAL affairs. Warren u Hard
ng is a product of the school Of
PRACTICAL experience: a graduate o.
the university OF hard knocks
The great business problems Of
government, now foremost because
If the oppressive burdens OF taxa
ion. the vital necessity OF reorg--
the government on a busi-
less basis, and the immediate need
giving to American business en- ,
.erpri>e and American agriculture .
md American labor the encourage :
nent essential TO ward off Wild
pread commercial calamity as the
Iftermath of war-these conditions
all for a mar in the Presidency
Who in the world of practical al
airs has learned to deal with f.,
business problems in a business :
way. ;
And so. in response TO this imme
pressing uced, Warren G ,
Harding will be the nations frs ,
usiness man BY occupation in the |
Presidency of the United States.