The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-30
HARDING TAXES
 MIDDLE GROUND
 ON LABOR ISSUE
(Continued From Page one)

pie IS tlrmly and tlnaliy committed 1 to the ideal of preserving the fullest rights of private initiative and pri- vate enterprise, together with the right of organization on both sides of the line between capital and la bor, and always consistent with the right of the public to be served eff ficiently and at q reasonable cost. ] Sheltered From Revolution.
 We have come thus far, and thus fortunately, through the most diff cult period of reconstruction that We have ever known. We have been sheltered against the world storm of tendency to social revolution. The best test of policy is by results By that test, We ask no more than a fair and reasoned verdict on our program We ask that it's results be compared with the showing, in these atter-war years, that can be presented by any other country on the face of the earth
 For our vindication We point to great nation, it's credit preserved its industries crowded to the point Of capacity production, it's people employed, it's wage scales high be- yond all comparison with any other In the world it's banking system standing as the final bulwark Of sound money and the gold standard and its average level of comfort and i races of men.
 If l could make the fortunate picture stand out by offering con trast, l would speak of Russia and the colossal failure of it's mad ex- periences. The dissatisfied working forces of America, where there are such. and the parlor theorists who Have yet to create single thing | useful to aspiring human kind; will find there less of freedom much nf ..I
 much proclaimed emancipation.
 Hold rnst To 2 pro,eD. o o
 Apart from the tragedy of 1t all l am glad Russia is making the ex- pertinent If twenty centuries of the Christian era and its great story of | human progress, and the countless centuries before the light of Chris tianity famed have been lived and recorded upon mistaken theories of a righteous social order. then every thing is wrong, Christianity a fail ure, and all of civilization failuer l think Russia is going to rivet anew our belief in established social order. Meanwhile We know ours is the best the world has revealed, and I preach the gospel of holding fast to that which has proven good, ever trying In good conscience to make it better and consider and treat as an enemy
 
 haven in which to assail the very institutions which shelter him." A large part of Mir. Harding's ad- dress was devoted to discussion of the change in the relation of woman to the social and political organiza- ton. The President said he was one of those "old-fashioned' people who would be glad if the way could be found to maintain the traditional re- lations of father. mother, children ~'", but that very plainly these
 re ir process of great at~..aa#5 t=#et1ie.s
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 ea IS of industry and
 H% anable the mothers #9 'u The { of their lessened orrest la tot ea ping the lives and
 fs pt IL ei ldren. We must
 t NJ aH'zt make it possible. e. fil' ot assume, when their ba.eA rday become the schooiboys ana olgirls of today. that the responsibility of the mother is ended, and that the teacher, the
 Hool authorities, the college the
 .e I'll henceforth assume it. The 'nn rt be placed in such po-
 t1aa al 1g tie their obligations 7.t--tae - nome " shall not have flt' '-'SAt boHi-Slic TeSpOn- ''tN Rather means must be
 EHUiIe hem, through the Nttl- stf alities which so- e5 .tH. UH5z quip themselves for z' Hatts rSe of their respon-
 he children of the
 Nho tirelessly seeks l.4 her own children, to instI. n that indefinable es- sence Whi~ know as good breed ing. will be performing this service rot alone for her own children, but in only less measure for the children who come from homes less blessed with the finer things of life. Herein is the supreme advantage of the pub lie school system. l have never been able to find much satisfaction in the good fortune of families who when they are able to do it. prefer to take their children out of the pub lie schools and give them the doubt ful advantage of more exclusive edu- cational methods. l think we should cling to the democracy of the public schools.
 InstiH Fundamentals.
 Tn the home must still be per formed the duty of insulting into the child those fundamental concepts of religion and of faith which are es- sential to rightly shaping the char acter of citizens, and therefore of the nation. Mankind never has stood more in need than it does now of the cancellations and rcassurances WlIch derive from firm religious faith. We are living in a time of many un- certainties, of weakened faith in the efficiency of institutions, of indus trial systems, of economic hNpotheses, of dictum and dogma in whatever sphere. Yet we all know that there are certain fundamental truths of life and duty and destiny which will stand eternal, through the evolution and the revolution of systems and societies founded by mankind. There must be no mistake whereby we shall confuse the things which are of eter-