Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-05-26
FARMER ENTITLED
TO HELP, HARDING
SAYS IN ADDRESS
President Repeats Assurance
Of Support For Farmers Of
Nation in New York Speech
Would Inaugurate Pc
riod of Understanding.

New York, May ga President
Harding repeated his assurance Of
support for the farmers of the ma
1ion, in a speech here last night. A.
mong other things he said:
II would like for you captains of
industry to know an aspiration Of
the present administration-it is to
inaugurate an era of understanding.
! want an understanding between the
governments and the people, an un-
derstanding between nations.
II want our America to have moth
ing to do with any nation that is not
willing to sit at the table and show
its cards"
Must Unitc on Reconstruction
Agriculture, labor and business
management. the president declared,
must stand together in the confident
purpose of reconstruction. He as
serted that although the United
States did not want to live in isola-
tion and selfishness, it's duties to the
rest of the world could best be per-
formed by giving it's attention first
to the rehabilitation OF its own re-
sources.
lAC
portance of agriculture, the president
asserted that the farmer was entitl-
ed to "all the help the government
can give him without injustice to
others" ..
For the wage Garner he asked SUI
ficient compensation for comfort,
education and a margin of savings,
while for every other element in in
dustry he urged Il fair opportunity
to do it's 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
reconstruction period be so formulat-
ed as to protect the gold standard.
All Must Get Back to Work
Assuming that these things may
be laid down as fundamentals he
|said, lit 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
humanity ever confronted in carry
ing on the war. We will have no
problem hereafter greater or more
difficult than that was. Therefore
we are entitled to every confidence
that we will cope successfully with
the problems that lie ahead OF us"
Vicc-Prcsidcnt Coolidge
Warns Against Radicalism
Respect for the law and opposition
to radicalism were urged upon Amer
leans last night by Vice-president
Calvin Coolidge, in an address at the
125th anniversary celebration OF tho
New York Commercial.
Any class or organization, he said,
undertaking to obtain for itself priv
ileges not open to any other class
or organization was hostile to Amer
ican institutions and American liber-
ty.
There is right of contract OF
agreement and association among in
dividuals which is protected so long
as the end sought is equal justice"
he continued "Any effort which
contemplates coercion and force is
an interference with our conception
of American liberty and is justly de-
nounced by American law. 1t is true
that We hold to the theory of equal
ity, not Of character or possession
but of quality or opportunity ana
equality before the law. This does
not mean that the government guar
anteees any standard of achievements
to it's citizens, but that in its deal
ings with them it will grant to all an
opportunity to be heard and the right
to decision based on the evidence
and the law, without favor and with
out prejudice. 1t is the belief OF an
American that he creates opportun-
ity, that his achievement, his des-
tiny, his greatness, lie not in others,
but in himself.
"There is need to resist radicalism
mot because it may overthrow the
government. but because it is dis
|turbing and wasteful element in So
|ciety.
."This does not mean resistance to
the growth and expansion of our con-
Istitution but it does mean resistance
to any charge in its underlying prin-
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