The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-03-16
CONGRESSMAN FESS
REVIEWS ADM.
Domestic and Foreign Policies Have
Restored Confidence, Peace,
and Prestige

"One year ago Warren G Harding
found the nation with her relations
with many foreign countries strained
to almost the breaking point, her fun-
damental principles under discussion,
her historic significance in question,
her population surfeited with the pro-
fits OF wal and wild extravaganza. her
Industries inflated by over-expansion
from war demands, and problems OF
reconstruction, complicated and immi-
nent.
To-day he sees peace again estab-
lished with all countries, foreign rela-
tions resumed with honor to ourselves
and complete justice to others, the
finest attitude of the world toward our
moral leadership as evinced in the
arms conference, a policy of proper
regard for the defenders of the ma
tons rights, an economic administra-
ton upon the soundest principles Of
economy, a reduction OF u public
funded debt to the amount of $4,000
090, 900 and a reduction of our floating
debt of $40, 000, 900, a reduction of yer
three quarters of a billion dollars per
year, a rejuvenated agriculture and
industrial fabric sorely distressed by
the havoc of war, the prospect of gen
eral employment of American labor in
American industries, the only country
which is not only balancing its budget
but has really reduced the war debt,
has restored her credit, and displays
signs of promise on all hands OF a re-
sumption again of our happy and pro-
missing stage which preceded the in
%auguration of the Democratic foibles
of the new freedom and policies Of
suspicion and persecution of success.
such Is the achievement Of the first
year Of the Harding administration,
which, in the main, has resisted inch
by inch by a solid Democratic vote,
and with which we gladly go to the
country for the peoples verdict. We
gladly accept the challenge Of u
friends, the enemy, to make their stand
on the League Of Nations as their
remedy in REIMBURSEMENT and present
the record of this administration for
the peoples decision. or the result
there. can be no doubt. The people
are too close TO the last administra-
ton to fail to connec effect back to
cause"
This sufinct summing up OF the
first year of Republican administra-
ton marked the close OF a speech by
Congressman Simeon Fess, chairman
OF the Republican Congressional Com
mittee, giving a mastery review of the
accomplishments of the Legislative and
--z4l-- -. - tln rrnxnr ~ ant
since March 4, 1921.
Mr.. Tess outlined the conditions ex-
listing when the Republicans took
charge of the government a year ago.
These conditions were critical. Agri-
cultural interests were facing bank
ruptcy, involving directly one-hHlf OF
the nations populatian. Business re-
flected this serious condition; indus
tries we're halted; finances were In a
deplorable state; unemployment was
increasing; sources Of revenue were
being dried up and credit was being
deranged. Immediately the executive
and legislative branches or the new
administration co~operated to put into
effect a program OF economy and re-
Mobilization.
One year has witnessed a transfor-
nation in economic conditions. Agri-
culture has passed its crisis and is
facing a prosperous year; employment
i'm basic industries is increasing; Gre
dit has been stabilized; interest rates
have been lowered; finances OF the
government have been ordered; ex-
penditures of the government have
been reduced; the budget system o.
handling public finances has been
installed. Out of a condition OF utter
decentralization the Republican admin
istration has wrough a situation that
inspires confidence in all classes and
insures economy and sanity in the adj
ministration of public affairs.
Congressman Fess reviewed the re-
cord of the administration in inter-
national affairs and summed it up as
follows:
at is with pardonable pride that
out Of this caldron of almost univer-
sal warfare, with every relation more
or less strained, this nation has en-
erged with it's sovereignty and indie
Ipendence intact, its rights all conserv-
ed, its disputes all composed, its RI
~valries all allayed, its friendships with
all nations strengthened, and its mo-
raj leadership universally conceded. l
challenge the record to produce a
greater achievement In the history OF
diplomacy