The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-05-24
GOVERNMENT
AID, NOT RUIN
ANY. BUSINESS
President Harding in New York
Address Opposed to Govern.
ment Ownership
SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL
Farmer Entitled to Help From
Administration Without
Injustice to Others

NeW 1Ork, way 24.-The COOpCra.
tion ofsevery factor of American bust.
ness and industry to put the nations
house in order after the dislocation Of
war was bespoken by President Hard.
ing last night at a ditiner here cele.
brating the 125th anniversary of the
New York Commercial.
Agriculture, labor and business
management, the President declared
must stand together in the confident
purpose Of reconstruction. He assert.
ed. that although the United States did
not want to live in isolation and self.
ishness. its duties to the rest of the
world could best be performed by Civ.
ing its attention first to the rehabili.
tation Of its own resources.
On the part of the administration
Mr.. Harding promised that govern
ment Interference with I, business
would be reduced to minimum, while
government cooperation with all prop
erly conducted businesses would be
expanded and broadened. He declared
his purpose to reverse the tendency
in some quarters ito regard business
as dishonest until it should prove itself
honest, and to regard bigness in bust
ness as a crime"
Importance Of Agriculture
Emphasizing the fundamental i'm
portance of agriculture, the President
asserted that the farmer was entitled
to "all the help the government can
give him without injustice to Others
For the wage Garner he asked suf-
ficient compensation for comfort, ed
ucation, and margin of savings, while
for every other element in industry he
urged a fair opportunity to do Its
part in the reconstruction task.
Mr.. Harding also suggested that the
nations loans to the Allies be put in
more tangible form, that facilities
Of exchange be bettered and that all
the financial policies of the recon
struction period be so formulated 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 dealt
with the greatest problem that human.
ity ever confronted in carrying on
the war. We will have no problem
hereafter greater or more difficult
than that was. Therefore, we are en-.
titled to every confidence that we will
cope successfully with the problems
that lie ahead Of u.s."
The text Of the Presidents address
follows in part:E
"The New York Commercial was
founded in the time when the young
republic was distracted by a division
Of opinion concerning our relations
with Europe. The noble Washington
was being harpooned and traduced be-
cause his administration was commit
ted to the lay treaty with Great Brit.
ain, first of the nations commercial
covenants. 1t represented an effort
to escape embodiment with the Old
World system, and In the period when
we were too weak to sustain foreign
conflict, it served to postpone that dis
aster. But only tG postpone 1t for
with every wish to preserve the peace
It was impossible. We fought wars
with France and England, as incidents
to the French revolutionary and Ma
poleonic upheaval. .
: An Old Story.
ut has been too often assumed that
our recent involvement in the troubles
Of Europe marked a new development
in our affairs. In fact It was an old
story. We never were and never will
be able to maintain isolation. But
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