The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-10-22
IDEALS WILL
SAVE NATION
SAYS COOLIDGE
Nc Scheme of Government Can
Relieve People of Necessity
~ of Work
PRODUCTION NEEDED
Cannot Lag If Wages and Stand
ard of Living is to be Kept
Up

Charlotte, N. c., Oct. 22.-America
is synonymous with service, declared
Governor Coolidge in an address here
today brimful of illusions to the hon
or and dignity Of work. He said he
spoke of service in the spiritual as
we'll as the material sense and cor
tinued THAT people will fail which
devotes itself exclusively to the ac-
cumulation of wealth and which
makes property the chief end of man,
That people will become strong and
vigorous whose work is measured by
the ideals of right and justice and
liberty"
CheriSheS No Decisions.
The Republican party, he said,
"cherishes no delusiOns that any
scheme of government or any change
in the organization of society could
relieve the people from the necessity
OF work. The rules Of nature cannot
be set aside. Observed they point the
way to success and character" Sue
cessful democracy, he said, can be
achieved only at the price of con
slant effort" 1t is a law to disre
gard which, he continued, lis to invite
destruction and anarchy and to OBJ
serve which is to develop power and
government"
The American people, the Govern
or went on, have always exalted la
Dor, whether of the head or hand.
The old Europe, he said, sharply dit.
ferentiated between it's peoples and
established their rank and social pos
ition by the kind Of work performed
I'VE shall have no such artificial
standard here" he said. '"To us the
tiller of the soil and the skilled me
chanic are measured by the same re-
gard as are the doctor or lawyer or
banker. We demand that each Of us
shall do his work and do it with all
his skill and might and energy. And
we can demand promptly in return
that the conditions under which the
work is done shall be fair and decen:
with adequate reward for accomplish
ment"
! s. Greater Production.
Touching on the alleged need oi
greater production which, he de-
scribed as "the sure cure of profiteer-
ing" he said:
| '"The world is never very far ahea
of starvation; bitter experience has
| cl, ho oh I,pt vfct,
between fuel and freezing. We, who
have the fields and the mines and
who are blest with order under law,
have supreme duty to ourselves ana
to humanity as whole. That duty
is to secure maximum output in agri-
culture and industry and in return to
pay the reward to which such action
is justly entitled. Production is a
moral obligation as we'll as a mater.
ial necessity. 1t is the sure cure ul
profiteering. TO evade it is to injure
ourselves as we'll as our fellow man.
"We have been living under tre-
mendously rising tide Of wages. Our
progress in this respect in the last
four years has almost exceeded the
progress made in all previous time.
| 1t has put existence on a new stand
ard. Never before was there any
| thing to compare with it. This has
raised grave question as to Wheth-
er production has been equal to dis
tribution, whether wages are being
earned by the combined enterprise Of
labor, management and capital, OF
whether they are being paid in part
out of capital. Wages can increase
as long as they are earned.S Whe,.
not earned but paid from capital. uls-
aster is at hand, disaster sure 70
bear with the greatest severity on the
wage Garner and his dependents.
There are two things that are i'm
portant to wage earners. The first
is to put sufficient effort into their
employment so that the present scale
of wages will not be reduced. So
ciety has determined rightly that be-
fore there is any general reduction
in our wage scale, every effort shall
be made to, maintain it by a sufficient
intensity of work 70 this end can
ital, management and the wage earn
er must cooperate