The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08

taEainst abuses in immigration. check
/ ing the undesirable whose irregular
I coming is his first violation of the law
! and at the same time, will facilitate
1.-THE needed Americanizing Of those who
mean to enroll as citizens
/ Dealing with foreign affairs, Mr.
Harding tells congress that American
relations are not OILY free from every
threatening clouu, but the country has
contributed its larger influence
toward making marked conflict less
likely.
1T has been our fortune. both to
preach and promote international
understanding" he adds. I'VE are
cognizant of the worlds struggles for
full readjustment and rehabilitation
and we have shirked no duty which
comes Of sympathy or fraternity or
highest fellowship among nations.
American ideals and sanctioned under
our form of government is willingly
met"
His Hearers Respond.
Again and again the president was
applaudeu as he outlined his recon-
mendations TO the senate and house
members assembled in joint session in
the hall of the house. His hearers re-
sponded particularly to his discussion
Of rural credits and the Americaniza-
ton of aliens. There was a craning OF
necks when the president launched
into his discussion of prohibition en-
forcement and some of his declarations
on the subject-that suggesting THAI
rigorous and literal enforcement of
the dry law would concentrate public
attention on any requisite modification
was applauded.
Abstract of Speech.
The president began his address by
calling the attention of congress to
general world conditions which he
said still were seriously disturbed as
a result OF the war. He asserted that
''the inevitable readjustment of the
social and economic order is not more
than barely begun" and continued:
There never again will be precisely
the order; indeed. I Know of no one
who thinks it TO be desirable For out
of the old order came the war itself, !
and the new order established and
made secure, never will permit its re-
currence-
Passing Thru n Crisis.
''It is no figure OF speech to say we
have come to the test of our civiliZa-
ton. The world has been passing-is
today passing-thru a great crisis. The
conduct of war itself IS not more diff
ficult than the solution of the prob
lens which necessarily follow. L am
not speaking at this moment of the
problem in its wider aspects of world
reha bilitation or of international re-
own social. financial and economic
problems at home. These things are
not to be considered solely as prob
lens apart from all international re-
lationship but every nation must be
able to carry on for itself. else its in
ternational relationship will have scant |
Importance.
"Dolbtless our own people have |
emerged from the World war tumult |
less impaired than most belligerent
powers; probably we have made larger |
progress toward reconstruction Had
we escaped the coal and railway strike
which had no excuse for their begin
ming and less justification for their |
delayed settlement, we should have
done infinitely better. But labor was
insistent on holding to the war
heights, and needless forces of reac-
tion sought the pre-war levels, and |
both were wrong. The railway strike |
accentuated the difficulty of the
American farmer.
\ National Ill Fortune.
The first distress of re-adjustment
came to the farmer and it will not be
a re-adjustment fit TO abide until he |
is relieved. The distress brought to
the farmer does not affect him alone. |
Agricultural i'll fortune is a/hational
i'll fortune.
This congress already has taken
precipitates deflation brought to
American agriculture. Your measures
OF relief and the reduction of the fed
eral reserve discount rate undoubtedly
saved the country from widespread
disaster.
The very proof of helpfulness al
ready given is the strongest argument
for the ! ornament establishment OF
widened credits. heretofore temporar-
lily extended thru the war finance cor
pOration.
The farm loan bureau, which al
ready has proven its usefulness thru
the federal land banks, may well have
its powers enlarged to provide ample
farm production credits, as well as
enlarged land credits. 1t is entirely |
practical to create a division in the
federal land banks to deal with pro- |
duction credits. with the Limitation of
time so adjusted to the farm turnover /
as the federal reserve system provides
for the turnover in the manufacturing
and the mercantile world.
Special provision NUT be made for /
livestock production ere Tits, aud the
limit of land loans be safely en-
larEed. Various measures are pending /
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