The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-14
PROTECTION
IS PROMISED
TO FARMERS
Harding Reassures Citrus
Growers in Speech to Cali
fornians Considers Ques-
ton of Japs in America.
TARIFF AROUND FRUIT
(By Associated Press)

MARION. o., Sept. 14-To a dele
cation OF Californians Senator Hard
ing declared today that the nation
must stand behind" the states Of the
Pacific coast to relieve them of the
difficulties Of oriental immigration and
must see that only such aliens as can
be assimilated and imbued with thor
ough Americssnism are admitted.
The dangers Of racial conflict, said
the Republican nominee, must be rec
ognized and provision made to reduce
them to a minimum. He suggested
that such steps could be taken with
out offensive reflection on any race
and without raising the question Of
racial inferiority or inequality.
Discussing the race question as pre-
sented in the Pacific coast the can
did&-e said: II do not doubt that
Americans on the coast are troubled
IN their minds about the oriental ques-
ton as 1t is called.
THAT question raises every inter
pretation Of our watchword, America
first for 1t involves four sets Of obli
cations. 1t involves our obligations to
great foreign powers; 1t involves the
obligations Of all America toward one
group Of American states and their
peoples. But it also involves the OBJ
legations Of that group Of states to
the nation. There is abundant evil
dence Of the dangers which lurk in
racial differences.
Senator Harding said in part:
There is no sectionalism in the
United States. and if we ALL by toler-
ance and justice and patriotism, stand
together-the North and the South,
the East and the West-we will per-
petuate that spirit by which America
has had her being and her glories,
coming through stress and storm at
times, but always coming through.
America First That spirit, my
friends, is behind our individual citi-
Zenship which conceives government
as being the expression Of a commun-
ity Of interests and not a paternal or
uutocratic, or one-man source of pre-
tended benevolence. 1t is an absurd
idea that government may be the dis
tributor of magic resources. The only
resources of government are the re-
sources that its citizens put into it.
Let us not allow those who would
like to retain the autocratic power
which the war put into their hands to
deceive free Americans with the de-
lusion that democracy painted as a
sign over their works conceals the
fact that they have robbed us Of true
democracy. They have set up one
man dictatorship which they, Of course,
desire to perpetuate. and which finds
in their various spokes men the express
sion. We are in full accord
For Constitutional Government.
81 confess little patience with those
who complain about that which they
choose to call a senate 'oligarchy.'
Those who prefer autocratic, personal
government to the representative in
stitution which was inherited. and
under which we have wrought to the
establishment Of the world, naturally
oppose the senate exercising it's con-
stitutional functions. They do not like
representative government and its re-
Elective deliberation which discrimin-
ates between ephemeral passion and
popular fancies on the one hand and
dependable public opinion on the
other.
THE senate is not popular with
those who attempted to merge inspir-
ing nationality in paralyzing inter-
nationality; it is not in favor with
those who dreamed world-government,
backed by a military alliance. to be
preferable to the exercise of American
conscience which gave us eminence for
rare unselfishness. Those who rail at
the senate accept the constitutional
existence of senate and house only
when these bodies from the people are
in perfect accord to perpetuate die
tatorial rule But the people have
come to a new appreciation Of con-
gress, and find assurance in the renew
ed functioning Of those bodies.
All Are Interested
onH nv,
of the farmers of this country are
our own safety and prosperity and
permanence, no man, woman or child
in the United States can fail to have
an interest in protecting our basic in
dustry-that of agriculture-wher-
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