Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-21
RALSTON SAYS
G. 0. 2. FAILS
ON PROBLEMS
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Government seeks to give them. In other
words, the law that provided them with
bonus also should make certain the
ability of the Government to discharge
its obligation to these boys by spe-
officially providing how the money should
be raised"
In part the speech follows:
1.-THE records of business failures are
crowding court dockets and prosperity
has disappeared from the land. A polit-
zeal party having the right conception of
duty should apply itself to the service
Of the country rather than to the pun
ishing of an individual, no matter what
that individuals. shortcomings may have
been
BUSINESS CONDITIONS
UNSATISFACTORY.
$50 unsatisfactory have business condi-
lions become under the Administration
that Senator Beveridge, who opened his
campaign for the senatorship in this city
a few weeks ago, proposed as a slogan
for his party: Forward to Prosperity
Not only for the past two years, but
for the past four years, the real slogan
Of the Republican party-the object to
which ii has devoted all its efforts-was
'Dlscredlt Woodrow Wilson The fact
stands out plainly in every problem the
Republican leaders have undertaken to
solve-in every measure that has been
debated in Congress-the one controlling
and dominating Republican idea has been
to oppose anything the former President
favored and favor anything he opposed.
Il do not mean TO be understood as
saying that what the last Administra-
ton did could not have been improved
upon, but l do maintain a great political
party entrusted with power in this coun-
try, should address itself to promoting
he welfare of the country and not to
wreaklng vengeance upon an individual
who has incurred its i'll will. 1t can al
most be said in truth the present Admin
istration has done nothing but play
politics and play politics on the same
bitter lines it played when President
Harding was an influential member Of
the United States Senate
IF the United States had gone into
the League Of Nations, which q Repub-
lican Senate prevented, business would
have adjusted itself on that basis, and
would by this time have been proceeding
normally. Not only business in this
country but business in a large part OF
Europe, where revival of prosperity has
position Of the one great creditor nation
of the earth.
by playing politics the Republican
party has prevented the payment of in
terest on the debt OF foreign nations to
! the United States, and made it more
difficult for any country to pay Its
principal.
SUBSTITUTE FOR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS?
"And what have they offered as sub
stitute for the League Of Nations? They
| have made an alliance with three other
world powers to control conditions In
the Pacific and Asiatic countries, at
which even Republican Senators baked.
Personally, I am anxious to see their
scheme given a fair try out, and l am
hoping that It will result in such good
that all the world will be justified in
commencing them for it. l am willing
TO take a long chance on an alliance,
| league, an association of nations, or
whatever you want to call it, that will
afford a reason for hoping 1t will help
| to keep the peace of the world.
| "And yet we must not be blind to
possibilities. This alleged association OF
| nations, embracing but a small number OF
nations compared with all the nations
/ Of the earth. proposes to control con-
| ditions in half of the world. May not
our association with these few nations
against all the other nations be looked
upon as a violation OF our traditional
policy. and suggest to them the wisdom
of their forming counter alliances?
while l am hoping this four-power
pact will be a forceful factor in the
maintenance of peace. I am not blind TO
the fact 1t was conceived to avoid enter
ing the League Of Nations TO enforce
peace, which has now in its membership
every nation on earth, but the United
States, Germany, Mexico and Russia
League of Nations which Is now
functioning successfully in many re-
spects, and correcting former inter
national abuses. The Harding Admin
istration has recently refused to take
any part in the Genoa conference, in
order to avoid any recognition Of aid
to that league
FORCED TO INDORSE
WILSON POLICIES.
while Mr. Harding's party has let no
opportunity go by to belittle the former
President, and condemn his Administra-
tons, he has frequently found himself
compelled to indorse the Wilson policies.
striking illustration OF the Republican
system Of playing politics Is shown in
the complete reversal by President Hard
ing of every position taken by Senator
Harding IN regard to Mr.. wilson's for
eign policy.
ION Aug. 10, 1920 Senator Harding
said The Republican party expects a
Republican Administration to make a