The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-05
THE BRIDGEPORT TIMES
MIR. HARDINGs INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

PRESIDENT HARDING enters on gov I ernment at most favorable period The great war IS is well under way He takes office the midst period of unemployment but this favorable the political at least it better administration that there should be panic at the be- ginning rather than at the If the present depreciation follows course will entirely just Mr. Hardngs expires, and just then the country will be tering of those cycles of maximum prosperity which is feature of modern industrial life.
 assumed that MT. Harding has difficult 5problems ahead of him. He has Nobody knows how many Nobody knows just what form these problems His speech is quite characteristic of the times part speech statesman would have made be- fore the war;
 We have such old friends that rigid and yet economy combined with fiscal justice"
 "When there an executive taking office who did not declare for economy in public expenditures He speaks TOT Frightened tax burdens Another old refrain And for an end to the governments experiment in business This is the rephrasing very principle, indvidualism which combs American politics through and through.
 really not been engaged in business experiment It engaged in the conduct of gigantic war and incident to the did by public effort things railroads which had heretofore been done by private effort.
 Says Mr. Harding My most reverent for America is for industrial peace revolution is bent established let other peoples make the tragic pertinent there is place for it in America
 plainly that he also harbors the apprehension many minds Europe is not far away The war proved Europe revolution in Europe may prove to be just as close to Surrounding this problem President has referred briefly yet distinctly most of the perpexites with which he must struggle during the period of his term.
 berays that conflict between yesterday and today which is the mind of "We ask heesays "no part in directing the destines of the old world"
 Again says Our will be deaf to the call of civilization
 the civilization" has to do with the desnies part the dreo- j ton of that destiny and must
 a deusion that the left many things they before that the hands of the clock be turned back that what time has established may be dsesabshed by the desire that things may be otherwise than they
 Those who expected to find in the inaugural address reaction will not be entirely disappointed But the reactionary less might be expected.
 frequently happens that express old doctrines while they things, unconscious that the action is conflict with the principle The dogma this asserts that "Our dangerous tendency to too much a time to do it too lile" The thing present ought do to find guard against the peris penalties of unemployment" "We want" he says, "an America of homes"
 This the old doctrine things America has not hitherto unemployment the business of the That Harding regard evidence that his mind touched progress and consciousness of duties which the has imposed upon government
 If the administration wrestles with the problem of poymen if it provides housing where housing will be successful administration, if it accompshes little else.
 great evils which destroyed before Civilization fairly be said to have into her
 President Wilson desired to end and perhaps has the machinery which before long will end it. If President Harding unemployment raionaizing industry will have place the hall of fame and in the memory his fellow who gave him the largest majority given of the United largest majority any candidate for any office whatever much the of the immediately hidebound partisan wish were for his ae that administration auspciousy gun shall be prosperous and useful to the end.
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