Arizona republican., 1921-05-24

 ASKS COOPERATION IF ALL FACTORS IN REHABILITATION
Policy of Administration
 Outlined by Harding In
 Address at Dinner Of New York Commercial
[RepubIican A. p. Leased WIreI

NEW YORK May 23.-The CO., operation of every factor ofAAmerican business and industry to put the ma tion's house in order after the disio- cation of war was bespokep by Presi- dent Harding tonight at dinner here celebrating the 125th anniversary Of the New York Commercial.
 Agriculture. labor and business management. he declared, must stand together in the confident purpose of reconstruction. He asserted that al though the United States did not want to live in isolation and selfish ness its duties to the world could hest be performed by giving its attention first to the rehabilitation of it's own resources
 MT. Harding promised that govern ment interference with business would be reduced to a minimum, while government cooperation with all properly conducted businesses 1 would be expanded He declared his purpose to reverse the tendency in
 some quarters ito regard business as dishonest until it should prove itself iness as crime
 Emphasizing the fundamental i'm portance of agriculture, he asserted that the farmer was entitled to fall
 the help the government can give him without injustice to others For the
 wage earner he asked sufficient com spensation for comfort. education and
 a margin of savings. while for every
 other element in industry he urged
 a fair opportunity to do its part in
 reconstruction.
 Mir. Harding also suggested that the
 nations loans to the allies be put in 8 l.I ties of exchange be beftered. and that all the financial policies of the
 reconstruction period be so formulat-
 ed as to protect the gold standard Assuming that these things may
 be laid down as fundamentals" he
 said, it is for us all to get back to work. We must have confidence that things will come right We have
 dealth with the greatest problem hu- manity ever confronted in the war.
 We will have no problem hereafter
 greater or more difficult than that
 was. Therefore we are entitled to ev cry confidence that we will cope sue cessfully with the problems that lie ahead"
 The address follows in part: "The New York Commercial was
 founded when the young republic was distracted by a division of opinion
  The noble Washington was being llampooned and traduced because his : administration was committed to the
 Jay treaty with Great Britain, first of the nations commercial cove : nants It represented an effort to
 escape embodiment in the Old World
 system, and in the period when we were too weak to sustain a foreign conflict 1t served to postpone that ' disaster. But only to postpone it. Q for, with every wish to preserve the peace. it was impossible. We fought
 wars with France and England. as in . cidents to the French revolutionary
 and Napoleonic upheaval.
 Tt has been too often assumed tha. 2 our recent involvement in the troubles si of Europe marked new development in our affairs. In fact, it was an old I story. We never were and never will e be a ble to maintain isolation. But our e part and our place in international q affairs are strikingly changed. Our e frise in power and influence has i'm
 posed new responsibilities. Today our strength In the industrial. finan-