Milford chronicle., 1922-07-14
A TALK 'BACK HOME"

| A TALK "BACk HOME"
On Tuesday, the fourth day of July,
President Harding talked to the home
folks, the kinsfolk and the neighbors.
He was back home in Marion, and
whether he is in the White House, in
the Senate or cruising on the May
flower, Marion is where his heart is.
In and through his homely, simple
address you somehow see the traveller
returned, the son who has come home.
His collar is loosened, an arm is
thrown over his chairback and the
home folks are sitting on the steps
and leaning on the porch railings,
| listening and prideful.
Warren Gamaliel Harding was glad
to be home. He Dragged a little about
the old home town and was sentimen-
tai, as most of us are when we come
back. His words were plain and un-
affected. 1t is only the poser with the
"exhibitionism complex" who talks
otherwise in his own home circle.
With his old neighbors about him,
how definitely and clearly this man
who came from country newspaper
Office to the seats of the mighty eX-
presses the average sentiments, the
national mood and the beliefs and
opinions that are uppermOst in the
national mind today!
have no fear about this Fepub-
lie. + + = The republic is secure.
That conviction is unsnaken in most |
of us. We know there are political |
earthquakes and Industrial landslides |
and ideas that avalanche across the |
world, but we have faith in our an
cient landmarks.
The Eighteenth Amendment de-
MES to a minority fancied sense
of personal liberty, but the senti-
ment is the will of America and
must be sustained by the Govern
ment and public opinion.
That is about the way the average
American talks about it as he sits on
his porch in the shadows of the sum-
mer night or as he sums it up before
his own fireplace. 1t is made up of
feeling rather than reasoned convic-
tions, but it is none the less power
full.
:
when any man is denied the right
to work and live by that right. 1t
does not matter who denies. A
free American has the right to
labor without any mans leave. 1t
would be no less an abridgment to
deny men to bargain collectively.
We think of Herrin's dead and mu-
e rf~rfr1 1ercf nNf
7ompers ilk and of the efforts OF Cap
tai to crush Labor and of Labor to
smash Capital and we agree. These :
wars are un-American and :
nhuman things. They do not square
With our racial and political tradi- 5
ions.
= + the clash of interests, the :
revelations of greed, the perfectly
natural tendency to defend self
interests. 1t has developed groups :
and blocs and magnifed class in :
clinations.
The tabor bloc" wants high wages 5
md short hours; the farm bloc" 5
wants a gross of things for the farm
r; the tariff bloc" wants tariff as
ligh as hawks nest, and the ''radi- 8
al bloc" wants everything changed. 3
mostly, wrapped in argu-
nents and clouds of steaming words
bout justice and human rights. When 8
n old neighbor returns from wrest- 3
ing with organized greed and in 8
rusted selfishness, we understand 2
nd agree with him as he tells of it. =
1t was so that the President talked 3
over with his neighbors and like =
linded people everywhere. 1t was not =
great speech as speeches go, but it
id not dodge the fundamentals. 1t s
hight have been even more frank if =
le world had not been standing =
round, eavesdropping at wireless
,wers and the ends of wires and 8
bles.-Philadelphi Ledger. 8