The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-08-09
WarrenG. Harding

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United States is an event which tou-
ches the country so closely at home
and abroad as to justify frank dis
cussion of his official achievements
and failures. In such an impartial
review the magistrate to whom the
country has intrusted its direction
for four years must be considered
wholly in his public capacity.
Mr.. Harding was not in any sense
a superman. Nor was he so small
as bitter partisans have tried to make
us believe. We had known all along
that his limitations were numerous
and sometimes distressing. His lini-
tations as President, however, we're
not entirely his own. They were part
ly those Of circumstances and cOndi-
tons not Of his making. Whether any
other man, Republican or Democrat,
could have done better in the same
situation is open to question
When he came into Office the ocean
of human affairs was still rolling tu-
multuously from the dreadful storm
of war. He faced a world of gigantic
problems, mightier and more complex
than any statesman within Che his
toric memory Of mankind had ever
faced. The obvious and the only ccm-
edy was earnest, sincere, unselfsh
cooperation in healing the wounds of
war, in repairing the material losses
which it had inflicted. The answer
to the work Of Destruction was clear
ly found only in Reconstruction. and
to reconstruct it was necessary TO CO.
operate Fundamentally and honesty,
without stint or limit" as unreser-
vedly as we gave our strength to the
work Of destruction. Such Il task
would have been difficult enough,
even had the only rivalry been one Of
generous competition in making the
world sound and safe again
But what promptly happened was
repetition Of the parable of the
Tower of Babel. Not only was there
an almost immediate confusion Of
tongues before the ink had dried on
the signatures to the so-called Armis-
tice, but there was an alienation of
minds when the treaty-makers came
together at Versailles to rebuild a
continent broken in body and heart
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In this particular case the people
of the United States are debarred
from applying a too eAacting esti-
mate to Mr.. Harding's Administra-