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NEW BUSINESS ERA
| SEEN BY HARDING
President Calls on Industry to
Clean House for Coming
Revival.

Washington, May lS.--Presidcnt
Harding struck at conscienceless com
mrcial practices in an address TO tho
United States Chamber of Commerce
here yesterday afternoon and proclaimed
n new industrial era. More than bust
ness revival is imminent, he declared.
The World War permanently changed
human affairs, he said, and there will be
no return 10 the old orders of industry
and exchanges IN trade.
The President declared that the coun-
try "at this very moment is on the
threshold of new era" that business is
reviving and the country is finding IT.
self. "
The government, he said, was greatly
interested in restoration of normal
world business and economic conditions,
and he added that there was no dis
position on it's part to hold aloof from
other nations. American industry,
however. he said, should not be de
stroyed to build up the commerce of
other lands.
'1f there is any one realization -
said the President, which fixes itself
more firmly than another in the mind
of one charged with great response
bility, il is the conviction that the
business life of the republic is the
reflex of all its good fortunes think
/ can venture TO say that commerce
and civilization 90 hand in hand; and
were il not for commerce there would
he no civilization.
! He asked commerce to take note of
/ the change. He gave American business
/ two important admonitlons in a speech
which covered the field of the attitude
/ of government toward business and
dealt specifically with American CONNER
cial policies, relations with other ma
tons, the pending tariff measure and the
Administration proposal for mer-
chant marine.
He spoke for "a commerce with con-
science" charging his hearers with the
task of eliminating from commerce,
those who do not have conscience,
whose constituencies practices bring
that criticism which sometimes attends
our American activities"
At the moment when you are soon
to resume our onward sway" the Presi-
dent admonished those of business re-
sponsibility to keep in mind the new
state of human affairs and the awak-
ened aspirations of men"
The President spoke in an old con.
ventlon hall In a remote corner of the
down town section to an appreciatlve
body of listeners composed of represent.
atives Of chambers of commerce from
every part of the country. He was fire.
uuently interrupted by applause.
TIL, hoe allracual 20
sions to the relations of American
business to world commerce, which gave
the appearance of the President more
than usual significance at meeting O
the kind One member of the Cabinet
of Woodrow Wilson, President Newton
d. Baker, of the Cleveland Chambe'
: of Commerce, was amontg he hearer
} Mr.. Harding might have been talkin
! to Congress when he spoke of the tarif
and his aspirations for merchant ma
rine. Aside from addresses to Congress
, he has dealt with the subject of Amer
, lean commerce no more fully in an
address since he entered the Whit
House.
The President said commerce find
place in all the considerations of an
people. 1t undoubtedly had much to d.
with the bringing about of the Worl,
War, he held, and observed that Il
was never once forgotten in the nego
> tiation of peace"
America, he continued, has the fright
? eous determination" to be commercial
q one of the foremost nations of the worlc
If the commerce of America were a
3 ways conscientious there never woul
o be a single excuse for government i
American business" he said nnsitiual-