New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

collars, The people have seen an ad-
t;ian'stratlon t;'.u which is lavish in exeeu-
sh I'VE orders. utterly fail to know enough
Aoout the reason for the high price Of
coaI TO give the American people clear
mounting.
Nation Drifts Toward Chaos
In good sense and in good con-
science, it has been necessary for all
o1 US to recognize that we have been
dragged toward chaos. A nation which
prldes itself upon it's business sense
mas been forced to see it's governm emit
winch badly needed efficiency and reor-
ganlzatlon. twisted into a monstrosity
OF waste and slipshodness. And that
administration, almost innocent, we
may say, Of business principle, has not
stopped there, but has gone afield to
meddle abroad in such way as to Gre
ate enmity, where its meddling has
oeen unlimited, and to create dissen-
sion at home among our population OF
foreign blood. But that is not allan
administration which could not attend
TO Its OWE business well, with new eco
nomic theories, with experiments, with
tended government should participate
and with laws and executive orders
which failed to curb profiteering OF
contribute to our high standard OF
American business, has reached out its
hindering hands in menace to Amer.
lean business and American prospe rity
From that unfortunate picture we
must now turn away. We must set our
faces toward the tasks before US. We
must bravely meet our practical prob
lens, so long neglected, while we have
been gazing upon impractical visions
l look forward to an America where
all Americans will put their shoulders
to the wheel and in united purpose
restore their nation to the course OF
good sense on which progress must and
will be made-by deeds rather than by
words.
els it, then, not a high purpose in
deed, even though it may be simple
one, to do the primary work Of this na-
tion WELL? 1t is very practical,
everyday problem to make we'll done
our task at home. When through you
| hope to spread into all corners of
America program of efficiency, am l
not asking for that idealism which goes
forward to lay brick upon brick, rath-
yer than to place capstone in the air
eve have, have said, 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. In going forward to propose,
create or take our becoming part in a
reconstructed association of nations we
America. In restoring American agri-
culture to health we will need the
counsel Of the farmers. In putting
American business again upon steady
feet, 80 that it may serve the welfare
of all of US, so that business may learn
the way of peace between employer
and employee and maintain fair play
IN service to the consumer. we need the
counsel of all the elements best fitted
to guide US. We need, in the reorgani-
cation of our government and in the
prevention of waste in Washington and
IN obtaining guarantees that there
shall be no more prodigality, the help
Of the engineer, the trained technical
man and the abilities which may be
drawn from the skill of the great in
sense of the toiler. Of one-man judg-
ment we have had enough. We call
aloud again for the meeting Of minds
of united country.
Wisdom Marks Principles
at is my belief that our joint wis
dom will stand behind the principles
which l have been chosen to represent
1t is because you are the forerunners
of activity, of our economic life, of
American business, which is not big
business but everybody's business, that
| speak particularly of those princi-
Piles which We propose shall be applied
to the treatment Of American business
by the governments good sense, and
also the treatment which the govern
ment so badly needs by American busi-
ness sense.
II like to think of a government
which guarantees to the people Of the
United States the maintenance of q
high standard of business honor wh ;ch