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THE BEE: UMAHA. KKIDAY, JULY 'J3, 1920, 5 Senator Harding Accepts the Republican Nomination Senator Harding, when formallyf notihcd ot lus nomination by the republican convention, as a candi date for the office of president of the United States, replied: Chairman Lodge, members of the notification committee, members of the national committee, ladies and gentlemen: The message yhich you have formally conveyed brings to me a realization of responsibility which is not underestimated. It is a supreme task to interpret the covenant of a great political party, the activities of which are so woven into the history of this republic, and i very sacred and solemn under taking toutter the faith and aspira tions of the many millions who ad here to that party. The party plat form has charted the way, yet, some how, we have come to expect that interpretation which voices the :aith of nominees who must assume specific tasks. Let me be understood clearly from the very beginning. I believe in party sponsorship in government. I believe in party government as distinguished from personal govern ment, individual, dictatorial, auto cratic or what not. In a citizenship of more than 100,000,000 it is im possible to reach agreement upon all questions. Parties are formed by those who reach a consensus of opinion. It was the intent of the founding fathers to give to this re public a dependable and enduring popular government, representative in form, and it was designed to make political parties not only the preserving sponsors but also the ef fective agencies through which hopes and aspirations and convic tions and conscience may be trans lated into public performance. Must Perpetuate U. S. Popular government has been an inspiration of liberty since the dawn of civilization. Republics have risen and fallen, and a transition from party to personal government has preceded every failure since the 'world began. Under the constitu tion we have the charted way to security and perpetuity. We know it gave to us the safe path to a developing eminence which no peo ple, in the world ever rivalled. It has guaranteed the rule of intelli gent, deliberate public opinion ex pressed through parties. Under this plan a masterful leadership becom ingly may manifest its influence, but a people's will still remains the supreme' authority. The American achievement under the plan of the lathers is nowhere disputed. On the confrary the Amer ican example has been the model of .every republic which glorifies the progress of liberty, and is every where the leaven of representative democracy which has expanded hu man freedom. It has been wrought .through party government. Against One-Man Rule. i No man is big enough to run this great republic. There never has been one. Such domination was never intended. Tranquility, stabil ity, dependability all are assured in party sponsorship, and we mean to renew the assurances which were rended in the cataclysmal war. 5 It was net surprising that we went far afield from safe and pre scribed paths amid the war anxi eties. There was the unfortunate tendency before; there was the sur render of congress to the growing assumption of the executive before the world-war imperilled all the practices we had learned to believe in: and in the war emergency every safeguard was swept away. In the name of democracy we established autocracy. We are not complaining at this extraordinary bestowal or as sumption in war, it seemed tem porarily necessary; our alarm is over the failure to restore the con stitutional methods when the war emergency ended. Must Restore Popular Rule. Our first committal is the restora tion of representative popular government- under the constitution, through the agency of the republic an party. Our vision includes more than a chief executive, we believe in a cabinet of highest capacity, equal to the responsibilities which our system contemplates, in whose councils the vice president, second official of the republic, shall be asked to participate. The same vi .sion includes a cordial understand ing and co-ordinated activities with a house of congress, fresh from the people, voicing the convictions which members bring from direct contact with the electorate, and cor dial co-operation along with the re stored functions ot the senate, fit to be the greatest deliberative body of the world. Its members are the designated sentinels on the towers of constitutional government. The resumption of the senate's authority saved to this republic its indepen dent nationality, when autocracy misinterpreted the dream of a world experiment to be the vision of a world ideal. It is not difficult. Chairman Lodgo, to make ourselves clear on the ques tion of international relationship. We republicans of the senate, con scious of our solemn oaths and mind ful of our constitutional obligations, when we saw the structure of a world super-government taking vis ionary form, joined in a becoming warning of our devotion to this re public. If the torch of constitu tionalism had not been dimmed, the delayed peace of the world and the tragedy of disappointment and Europe's misunderstanding of Ameri ca easily might have been avoided. The republicans of the senate halted the barter of independent American eminence and influence, which it was proposed to exchange for an obscure and unequal place in the merged government of the world. Our party means to "hold the heritage of Amer ican nationality unimpaired and un surrendered. U. S. Not Aloof. The world will not misconstrueT We do not mean to hold aloof. We do not mean to shun a single re soonsibility of this republic to world civilization. There is no hate in the American heart. We have no envy, no suspicion, no aversion for any people in the world. We hold to our rights, and means to defend, aye, we mean to sustain the rights of this nation and our citizens alike, every where under the shining sun. Yet there is the concord of amity and sympathy and fraternity in every x resolution. There is1 a genuine as piration in tvery American breast for a tranquil friendship with all the world. More, we believe the unspeakable sorrows, the immeasuraDie sacri fices, the awakened convictions and the aspiring conscience of human kind must commit the nations of the earth to a new and better rela tionship. It need not be discussed r.ow what motives plunged the world into war, it need not be in quired whether . we asked the sons of this republic? to defend our na tional rights, as I believe we did, or to purge the old world of the ac cumulated ills of rivalry and greed, the sacrifices will be in vain if we ian not acclaim a new order, with added security to civilization and peace maintained. Welcome Vote On Pact. One may readily sense the con science of our America. I am sure 1 understand the purpose of the dominant group of the senate. We were not seeking to defeat a world aspiration, we were resolved to safeguard America. We were re solved then, even as we are today, and will be tomorrow, to preserve this free and independent republic. Let those now responsible, or seek :ng responsibility, propose the sur render, whether with interpreta tions, apologies or reluctant reser vations from which our rights are to be omitted we welcome the ref erendum to the American people on the preservation of America, and the republican party pledges its de fense of the preserved inheritance of national freedom. In the call of the conscience of America is peace, peace that closes the gaping wound of world war, and silences the impassioned voices of international envy and distrust. Heeding this call and knowing as I do the disposition of the congress, I promise you formal and effective peace so quickly as a republican congress can pass its declaration for a republican executive to sign. Then we may turn to our readjustment at home and proceed deliberately and reflectively to that hoped-for world relationship which shall satisfy both conscience and aspirations and still hold us free from menacing in volvement. Must Reduce Armament. I can hear in the call of con science an insistent voice for the largely reduced armaments through out the world, with attending reduc tion of burdens upon peace-loving humanity. We wish to give of American influence and example; we must give of American leadership to that invaluable accomplishment. I can speak unreservedly of the American aspiration and the re publican committal for an associa tion of nations, co-operating in sub lime accord, to attain and preserve peace through justice rather than force, determined to add to security through international law, so clari fied that no misconstruction can be possible without affronting world honor. This republic can never be un mindful of its power, and must never forget the force of its example. Possessor of might that admits no fear, America must stand foremost for the right. If the mistaken voice of America, spoken in unheeding haste, led Europe, in the hour of deepest anxiety, into a military alli ance which menaces peace and threaten all freedom, instead of adding to their security, then we must speak the truth for America and express our hope for the fraternized conscience of nations. No League Details. It will avail nothing to discuss in detail the league covenant, which was conceived for world super government, negotiated in misunder standing, and intolerantly urged and demanded by its administration sponsors, who resisted every effort to safeguard America, and who finally rejected when such safe guards were inserted. If the supreme blunder has left European relation ships inextricably interwoven in the league compact, our sympathy for Europe only magnifies our own good fortune in resisting involvement. It is better to be the free and dis interested agent of international justice and advancing, civilization, with the covenant of conscience, than be shackled by a written compact which surrenders our freedom of action and gives to a military al liance the right to proclaim Amer ica's duty to the1 world. No sur render of rights to a world council or its military alliance, no assumed mandatary however appealing, ever shall summon the sons of this re public to war. Their supreme sac rifice shall only be asked for America and iU call of honor. Ihere is a sanctity in that right we will not delegate. When the compact was being written, I do not know whether Europe asked or ambition insist ently bestowed. It was so good to rejoice in th- world's confidence in cur unselfishness that I can believe our evident disinterestedness in spired Europe's wish for our associ ation, auite as much as the selfish thought of enlisting American pow er and resources. Ours is an out standing, influential example to the world, whether we cloak it m spok en modesty or magnify it in exalta tion. We want to help; we mean to help; but we hold to our own in terpretation of the American con science as the very soul of our na tionality. Must Find Way. Disoosed as we are. tne way is very simple. Let the failure attend ing assumption, obstinacy, imprac ticability and delay be tecognized and let us find the big, practical, un selfish way to do our part neither covetous because of ambition nor hesitant through fear, but ready to serve ourselves, humanity and (jod With a senate advising us the con stitution contemnlates. I would hopefully approach the nations of Europe and of the earth, proposing that understanding which makes us a willing participant in the consecra tion of nations, to a new relation ship, to commit the moral forces of peace and international justice, still leaving America free, independent and self-reliant, but offering friend ship to all the world. If men call for more specific de tails, I remind them that moral com mittals are broad and all inclusive, and we are contemplating peoples m the concord of humanity' advance ment, rrom our own viewpoint the program is specifically American, and we mean to be Americans first, to all the world. Appraising preserved nationality as the first essential to the con tinued progress of the republic, there is linked with it the supreme necessity of the restoration let us say the re-revealment of the con stitution, and our reconstruction as an industrial nation. Here is the transcending task. It concerns our common weal at home and will de cide our future eminence in the world. More than these, this repub lic, under constitutional liberties, has given to mankind the most fortunate conditions for human ac tivity and attainment the world has ever noted, and we are today the world's reserve force in the great contest for liberty through security, and maintained equality of oppor tunity and its righteous rewards. Must Sober World. It is folly to close our eyes to outstanding facts. Humanity is restive, much of the world is in revolution, the agents'of discord and destruction have wrought their tragedy in pathetic Russia, have lighted their torches among other peoples, and hope to see America as a part of the great red conflagra tion. Ours is the temple of liberty under the law, and it is ours to call the Sons of Opportunity to its de fense. America must not only save herself, but ours must be the ao- pealing voice to sober the world. More than all else the oresent- day world needs understanding. There can be no peace save through composed differences, and- the sub mission of the individual to the will and weal of the many. Any other plan means anarchy and its rule of force. It must be understood that toil alone makes for accomplishment and advancement, and righteous posses sion is xne reward ot ton, ana its incentive. There is no progress except in the stimulus of competition. When competition natural, fair. impelling competition is suppressed, whether by law, compact or conspiracy, we halt the march of progress, silence the voice of aspiration, and paralyze the will for achievement. These are but com mon sense truths of human develop Calls Are Maximums. The chief trouble today is that the world war wrought the destruc tion of healthful competition, left our storehouses empty, and there is a minimum production when our need is maximum. Maximums, not minimums, is the call of America. It isn't a new story, because war never fails to leave depleted storehouses and always impairs the efficiency of production. War also establishes its higher standards for wages, and they abide. I wish the higher wage to abide, on one explicit condition that the wage-earner will give full return for the wage received. It is the best assurance we can have for a reduced cost of living. Mark you, I am ready to acclaim the highest standard of pay, but I would be blind to me responsibilities tnai marK tnis fateful hour if I did not caution the wage-earners of America that mount- ng wages and decreased production can lead only to industrial and economic ruin. I want, somehow, to appeal to the sons and daughters of the republic, to every producer, to join hand ana hram in production, more produc tion, honest production, patriotic production, because patriotic pro duction is no less a defense of our best civilization than that of armed force. Profiteering is a crime of commission, under-production is a crime of omission. We must work our most and best, else the destruc tive reaction will come. We must stabilize and strive for normalcy, else the inevitable reaction will bring its train of sufferings, dis appointments and reversals. 'We want to forestall such reaction, we want to hold all advanced ground. and fortify it with general good fortune. Let us return for a moment to the necessity for understanding, particu larly that understanding which con cerns ourselves at home. I decline to recognize any conflict of interest among the participants in industry. The destruction of one is the ruin of the other, the suspicion or rebel lion of one unavoidably involves the other. In conflict is disaster, in un derstanding there is triumph. There is no issue relating to the founda tion on which industry is builded, because industry is bigger than any element in its modern making. But the insistent call is for labor, man agement and capital to reach under- tanding. Must Have Social Justice. The human element comes first, and I want the employers in industry to understand the aspirations, the convictions, the yearnings of the millions of American wage earners, and I want the wage earners to un derstand the problems, the anxieties. the obligations of management and capital, and all of them must under stand their relationship to the people and their obligation to the republic. Out of this understanding will come the unanimous committal to eco nomic justice, and in economic jus tice lies that social justice which is the highest essential to human hap piness. I am speaking as one who has counted the contents of the pay en velope, from the viewpoint of the earner as well as the employer. No one pretends to deny.the inequalities which are manifest in modern indus trial life. They are less, in fact, than they were before organization and grouping on either side revealed the inequalities, and conscience has wrought more justice than statutes have compelled, but the ferment of the world rivets our thoughts on the necessity of progressive solution, else our generation will suffer the experi ment which means chaos for our day to re-establish God's plan for the great tomorrow. No Class Rule. Speaking our sympathies, uttering the conscience of all the people, mindful of our right to dwell amid the good fortunes of rational, conscience-impelled advancement, we hold the majesty of righteous gov ernment, with liberty under the law, to be our avoidance of chaos, and we call upon every citizen of the re public to hold fast to that which made us what we are, and we will have orderly government safeguard the onward march to all we ought to be. The menacing tendency of the present day is not chargeable wholly to the unsettled and fevered condi tions caused by the war. The mani fest weakness in popular govern ment lies in the temptation to appeal to grouped citizsnship for political advantage. There is no greater peril. The constitution contem plates no class and recognizes no group. It broadly includes all the people, with specific recognition for none, and the highest consecration we can make today is a committaj of the republican party to that saving constitutionalism which contem plates all America as one people, and holds just government free from influence on the one hand and unmoved by int-midation on the other. , War Against Reds. It would be the blindness of folly to ignore the activities in our own country which are aimed to destroy our economic system, and to com mit us to the colossal tragedy which has both destroyed all free dom and made Russia impotent. This movement is not to be halted in throttled liberties. We must not abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of press, or the freedom of assembly, because there is no prom ise in repression. These liberties are as sacred as the freedom of re ligious belief, as inviolable as the rights of life and the pursuit of hap piness. We do hold to the right to crush sedition, to stifle a menacing contempt for law, to stamp out a peril to the safety of the republic or its people when emergency calls, be cause security and the majesty of the law are the first essentials of liberty. He who threatens destruc tion of the government by force or flaunts his contempt for lawful au thority, ceases to be a loyal citizen and forfeits his rights to the free dom of the republic. Let it be said to all of America that our plan of popular govern ment contemplates such orderly changes as the crystallized intelli gence of the majority of our people think best. There can be no modification of this underlying rule, but no majority shall abridge the rights of a minority. Men have a right to question our system in fullest freedom, but they must al ways remember that the rights of freedom impose the obligations which maintain it. Our policy is not of repression, but we make ap peal today to American intelligence and patriotism, when the republic is menaced from within, just as we trusted American patriotism when bur rights were threatened from without. America Must Steady. We call I on all America for steadiness, so that we may proceed deliberately to the readjustment which concerns all the people. Our party platform fairly expresses the conscience of republicans on indus trial relations. No party is indif ferent to the welfare of the wage earner. To us his good fortune is of deepest concern, and we seek to make that good fortune permanent. We do not oppose but approve col lective bargaining, because that is an outstanding right, but we are un alterably insistent that its exercise must not destroy the equally sacred right of the individual, in his necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any American has the right to quit his employment, so has every American- the right to seek em ployment. The group must not en danger the individual, and we must discourage groups preying upon one another, and none shall be allowed to forget that government's obliga tions are alike to all the people. I hope we may do more than merely discourage the losses and suf ferings attending industrial conflict. The strike against the government is properly denied, for government service involves none of the elements of profit which relate to competitive enterprise. There is progress in the establishment of official revealment of issues and conditions which lead to conflict, so that unerring public sentiment may speed the adjustment, but I hope for that concord of pur pose, not forced but inspired by the common weal, which will give a reg ulated public service the fullest guaranty of continuity. I am think ing of the railroads. In modern life they are the very base of all our activities and interchanges. May Pay Trainmen. For public protection we have en acted laws providing for a regula tion ot the charge for service, a limi tation on the capital invested and a limitation of capital's earnings. There remains only competition of service, on which to base our hopes, for an efficiericy and expansion which meet our modern require ments. The railway workmen ought to be the best paid and know, the best working conditions in the world. Theirs is an exceptional responsibil ity. Ihey are not only essential to the life and health and all productive activities of the people, but they are directly responsible for the safely of traveling millions. The govern ment which has assumed so much authority for the public good might well stamp railway employment with the sanctity of public service and guarantee to the railway employes that justice which voices the Amer ican conception of righteousness on the one hand, and assure continuity of service on the other. The importance of the railway re habilitation is so obvious that refer ence seems uncalled for. We are so confident that much of the present-day insufficiency and inefficiency of transportation are due to the withering hand of government op eration that we emphasize anew our opposition to government owner ship we want to expedite the reparation- and make sure the mistake is not repeated. Must Encourage Roads. It is little use to recite the story of development, exploitation, gov ernment experiment and its neglect, government operation and its fail ures. The inadequacy of trackage and terminal facilities, the insuffi ciency of operation all bear the bl.ghting stamp of governmental in capacity during federal operation. The work of rehabilitation und:r the restoration of private ownership deserves our best encouragement. Billions are needed in new equip ment, not alone to meet the growing demand for service, but to restore the extraordinary depreciation due to the strained service of war. With restricted earnings and with specu lative profits removed, railway ac tivities have come to the realm of conservative and constructive serv ice, and the government which im paired must play its part in restora tion. Manifestly the returns must be so gauged that necessary capital may be enlisted, and we must foster ar well as restrain. We have no more pressing prob lem. A state of inadequate trans portation facilities, mainly charg able to the failure pf governmental experiment, is losing millions to ag riculture; it is hindering industry, it is menacing the American people with a fuel shortage little less than a peril. It emphasizes the present day problem and suggests that spirit of encouragement and assistance which commits all America to re lieve sush an emergency. Comprehensive Road Plans. The one compensation amid at tending anxieties is our new and needed realization of the vital part transportation plays in the complex ities of modern life. We are not to think of rails alone, but highways from farm to market, from railway to farm, arteries of life-blood to present-day life, the quickened ways to communication and exchange, the airswer of our people to the motor age. We believe in generous fed eral co-operation in construction, linked with assurances of maint--iiance that will put an end to crim inal waste of public funds on th. one hand and give a guaranty of tip kept highways on the other. Water transportation is insepar ably linked with adequacy of facili ties, and we favor American emi nence on the seas, the practical de velopment of inland waterways, th upbuilding and co-ordination of all to make them equal to and readv tot (rnntlmird on Vk Four, Column One.) ill Men's J Barber Shop Good Service Fourth Floor, West Save Money By Buying Clearance Sale Specials uly Clearance Sale Specials Two Wonderful Friday Bargains in Women's and Misses' Silk Sport Skirts and Fancy Summer Frocks all ill 7 & 178 Silk Sport Skirts Material AloAeWorth the Price 1 $10, $12 to $20Values Freshly purchased! 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