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THE MORNING . OTSTSGONTAN, TITTJRSDAY, .TUNE 8, 1916. SENATOR HARDING SOUNDS KEYNOTE ler e Are Real Used Republican Delegates Urged to Forget Disaster of 1912 L and Work for Victory. DEMOCRATS ARE ASSAILED Convention Throng Applauds Per oration on Americanism and Republicanism Xeed of. Ade- Quate Defense Pointed Out. COLISKUM, Chicago, June 7. Empha sizing: that it was not a time for re crimination, but of recpnsecration, Senator Harding-, of Ohio, in tho key note speech today urged the delegates to the Republican National convention to forget the disastrous differences of four years ago and plunge into the coming campaign with a declaration or principles which would, bring success at the polls. The convention received the tem porary chairman's speech with punctu ations of applause and cheers and his sallies against the Democratic Adminis tration with laughter and handclap ping. Mr. Harding closed with a peroration on Americanism and Republicanism. The close of his address was greeted by a brief outburst of handclapping and cheering lasting less than & minute. Senator Harding said: It is rood to erect this representative body of that American Republicanism on fwhich are centered the high hopes of the republic I can believe nay, I know that a. vast majority of the people of our United States is expecting the party sponsors here assembled to write anew the sacred cove nant of Republicanism, and reconsecrate the party to the Nation's service and the peo ple's advancement. That same majority expects you to select a standard-bearer who shall not only typify our expression, of faith but shall so enlist the confidence and trust of our American citizenship that the work of this convention will be confined over wtaelmingly at the ballot-box next No vember. Republican Relief Needed. The country, wearied afresh by a disap pointing and distressing Democratic Admin istration, is calling tor Republican relief, and there is every' inspiration, every en couragement, every confidence that the light of Republican conscience, set aflame in this convention, 'will illumine the way , to the country's restoration. We did not do very well in making for Si armony the last time we met. The coun try has regretted, let us forget and make amends to our country. We did not divide our fundamental principles, we did not dis agree over a National policy. We split over methods of - party procedure-- and preferred personalities. Let us forget the differences, and find new inspiration and new compen sation in an united endeavor to restore the country. The essential principles of Republicanism re unchanged and unchanging; the lofty Intent, the indestructible soul and the undy ing spirit of Republicanism are as dominant today as in the destined beginning ttO years ago, or at any time during the intervening .years, and they are emphasized today by the proof recorded to Republican credit in the matchless chapters of American progress. No political party ever has builded or ver can build permanently except in consci entious devotion to abiding principles. Time never alters a fundamental truth. Condi tions ' da. change, popular interest is self asserting. 'and "paramounting" has its perils, as the Democratic party will bear witness, but the essentials of constructive govern ment and attending progress are abiding and Unchanging. For example, we ought to be as genuinely American today as when the founding fathers flung their immortal defiance in the face of old-world oppressions and ded icated a new republic to liberty and justice. We ought to be as prepared for defense as Washington urged amid the anxieties of our National beginning, and Grant con firmed amid the calm reflections of union restored. It is not my understanding that the re marks of the temporary chairman are to be taken as an expression of the party faith. Such expression must come from this con vention, made up of delegates who be lieve in popular, representative government through the agency of political parties. You come directly from the people, com missioned to speak their hopes and aspira tions, to utter their patriotic desires and pledge their abiding faith. Out of the con victions and Judgment and wisdom as ex pressed by the majority will come the sacred and sincere covenant of the Republican party. Day One of Reconsecration. W stre a voluntary organization and must find our strength in the enlistment of volunteers who find the nearest or best expression of their Individual convictions in eur party declarations, and there can be no treason in withdrawal if our declarations fall short In their appeal. But I am old fashioned enough to believe that In pop ular government party success and party capacity for service to the Nation must He In making the will of a righteous majority the willing pledge of all. Gentlemen of the convention, the first and foremost wish In my mind is to say that which will contribute to harmony of effort and add to the assurance of victory next November. I wish that because we believe Republican success to be for the best in terests of our common country. The allied hosts of the believers In Republican prin ciples are in a vast majority in this country wnen tne banners or harmony are un furled. We have witnessed the comeback of our party in various states. We have seen the re-enlistment of those who believe la Republican doctrines, and Victory has fol lowed and rejoicing has attended. No apol ogy has been asked, no forswearing required. This Is not the time for recrimination. It is cne nay of reconsecration. Rededlcating here and now the Repub lican party to the progress and glory of the republic, let us bury party prefixes with the administration which our differences put In power. I do not believe there is a really reactionary Republican bearing credentials to this convention. If there is. be will de part, after . our deliberations, solely and proudly a Republican, with heart aglow with the party spirit of 1916. And the welcome delegate who emphasizes his progresslvism Is expected to do his part In making our party a reflex of the best thought and best Intent of sincere committal to the uplift and progress of the American people, thereby strengthening party purpose instead of mag xi if y ins individual belief, and he, too, will find new rejoicing in Deing a Republican. No party can endure which is not progres sive. I know the Republican party is gen uinely progressive as well as effective, else It would not rivet the expectations of the American people today on the most im isortant convention held since the party formulated a new political decalogue and gave to union and nationality the immortal Abraham Lincoln. War Influence Ireat. Tn building the surpassing temple of the republic, which w have been doing te the astonishment, sometimes the envy, sometimes the admiration of the world, and of t times Inspiring others by our example, there ever Will be modifications and additions to meet the public need and conform to popular Ideals. We do not fear to imitate nor fan to originate, but there can be no discord about underlying foundations or essential walls or proven arches or stately columns. MIno Is a deep conviction that the founding fathers were divinely Inspired, and the wis dom of representative popular government Is proven in the surpassing achievement. It is not alone the miracle of accomplish ment which deepens our reverence; it is not alone the conviction that we have builded the first, seemingly dependable, popular government on the earth and exalted all its citizenship, which adds to our faith; but we are the oldest of existing civilized nations with one passing exception, continued under one form of government, and under that form we have developed the highest stand ard of living in all the world. Surely we must be right. Recalling that the mightier forward strides have been taken under a half cen tury of Republican control, after we led in fixing the indissoluble ties of union, the retrospection, the contemplation and the an ticipation combine to fill the Republican breast with pride and hope, and trust and faith, and magnify jur obligations in this crucial year of our National life. Much of the discussion of the hour is Mnged upon a world at war. 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MORRISON STREET AT BROADWAY Other Stores San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, San -Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego and Other Coast Cities. the conflict and the influences of Its horrors ; have set mankind in upheaval. The tradi- ; tions of civilization, laws have been ig nored. There is a tidal wave of distress and disaster, there are violent emotions and magnified fears. There are the extremes of Incalculable sacrifices and measureless new fortunes not all American. There are new wonders and new hindrances in com merce, changed balances of trade, new mar vels In finance and utterly changed eco nomic conditions,. These have attended em barrassments in oar foreign relations as dif ficult as those which the individual citizen , experiences whose every neighbor is involved in deadly quarrel Everything is abnormal except the depleted condition of the Fed eral Treasury, which s characteristic of Democratic control, and the facility of the Administration for writing varied notes without effective notice. Amid these conditions has stood this un armed giant, typifying the American Re public, neutral and sane, to whom the neu tral nations have turned for leadership. Our National unselfishness had been proven, our devotion to humanity had been established. our committal to international justice had long been proclaimed. The world had pre viously heard the voice of American fear lessness, and all the conditions single us out for leadership among the neutral pow ers, but the Administration at Washington spoke with more rhetoric than resolution. and we came to realize what the warring powers soon came to know that the official American voice lacked the volume of deter mined expression that once demanded Inter national heed, and we lacked the strength of confidence in our own defenses. Nation Negligent of Defense. It is too early to estimate the debit and credit account of the European war with civilization. Out of measureless cost and inestimable heroism must come a rebirth of individual spirituality, reawakened national hopes, new liberties and new baptisms tn patriotism which must prove some compen Ration. But we have seen civilization e tripped of the pretenses which clothed man's savagery, and we have seen elemental man, developed in genius and more formid able because of that, intoxicated with powet or impassioned in the greed of conquest, offending or defending, contradicting every evidence of mankind's humane advancement. In tne envy or jealousy or rivalry or hatred, refined by boasted civilization, are the bar barities of primitive man, and the seal of obsolescence is not yet stamped upon the warrior's sword. Perhaps it is a reminder more than a dis covery, but there has come to us a convic tion that this great Nation, rich in resources and strong in patriotic manhood, has been negligent concerning Its own defense. We have dwelt in fancied rather than real se curity. Pride mingles with regret in this, because it suggests the mind of a Nation so f roe from in tended offense that there was no cultivated thought of needed defense. Our righteousness of purpose is portrayed in our trust in unarmed safety. But there is a warning In bleeding Europe, and there is call today for prudent, patriotic and ample National defense. There is no mistaking the sentiment. We are not thinking of the hysterical, we need not be moved by a pre paredness which is partisan in conception. We need not believe In a defense propaganda Inspired by those who aim to wax fat in the production of arms and munitions, because there is none. I deplore the teaching that an anxiety about our National defense is Inspired by greed. We rejoice in free speech and fre press and untrammeled opinion. but patriotism is 111 promoted by the impu tation or false motives, whether aimed at those who believe In defense or those who doubt Its wisdom. Such a teaching rends the concord of citizenship, which may de velop a worse peril from within than from any enemy without. Though we do not pretend to he exclusive In our devotion, we Republicans believe, sin cerely and soberly, in an adequate National defense. We have always believed in an ample Navy, as invincible In modern mieht as John Paul Jones builded in our freedom s earliest flight. We have in mind a pro tected commerce on tne waters, and a sea coast secure In strong naval defense. We were building to high rank among naval powers when the Democratic party inter rupted, and we subscribe to a stronger com mittal now, because of a new realization of the envy which our wealth and our com merce invite,, and a new appreciation of our commanding place In the affairs of the world. I shall not say that it Is ours to have the greatest Navy in the world, but noting the elimination of distance and the passing of our one-time isolation, we ought to have a Kavy that fears none In th world, and can say any time and anywher These are American rights and must bs respected. Democrats Are Assailed. It Is not for me to specify the provisions for naval defense, " Since modern warfare Is in large part a conflict of brains, so must naval defense toe aevised In highest intelli gence. Let us strengthen every arm aerial, submarine, fleet cruisers and dreadnoughts. Let him who is anxious about the cost re member that Republican policies afford the ample means without conscious burdens upon the people. Every forehanded American cit izen, whatever his activity, knows that the cost of Insurance against accident, theft, fire, flood or thunderbolt, assessed as a fixed charge upon his income, is worth the cost, in peace of mind, though loss never attends. Moreover, under any system se curity is economy itself. There are manifest differences about our developments for military defense. The President made a trip from the Coast to the Valley of the Missouri to tell the American people the need of preparedness. It might have been more, seemly to tell the story to Congress, for that body was In session and empowered to act, and seemingly ever ready to testify obedience. However, Con gress undertook to provide an army for defense and the majority wobbled between pacification and preparedness until the Re publican minority in the Senate put some thing real in the pending measure. We Republicans made a rational response to the call of the land, but Democratio Insuffi ciency and Inefficiency are recorded In the conference amended act, and a Federal nitrate plant to supply powder to thtj patriots and pap to the paternallsts and Federal fertilizer to tHe farmers in com petition with a private enterprise is the great constructive offering of a Democratic majority. Until the civilized world Is pledged and repledged to peace, and until civilization commits nations to the nobler practices of the Individuals who constitute them, in which i would have America lead, this Republic will have need for a basic army and a ready provision for military defense. We have territory to defend, we have in dependence to preserve, we have lives to safeguard, we have property to protect, we have rights to assert, we have missions of humanity to perform. We proclaim Justice and we love peace, and we mean to have them and we are not too proud to fight for them. Let no one apprehend the curse of mil itarism in this fair land. We declare un alterably against It. Our free citizenship walking confidently, absorbed in the triumphs of peace, would tolerate no such blight on American institutions. There is to be no surrender of cherished ideals. With that yearning for peace which has marked our continued development, with that same committal to justice which has given us front rank in the onward march of civilization, with that rare unselfishness which led us td unsheath the sword for humanity's sake and put all territorial ag grandizement aside, with that belief in the square deal. Individual, National and inter national, which Is the foundation of Amer ican faith, we mean to go on, an exemplar of peace to all the nations, an arbiter of justice to all the world, a promoter ot righteousness to all the people of the earthy Need of Tariff Restoration Shown. At the same time we have more to do than to chart a National course through the waters surging with the turbulence of war; our inspiring course Is on the highway of peace. Our armed defense must ever b linked with our Industrial self-reliance, and the nation worth dying for must first be worm living ior. out or. nature's prodigality we have lnposslbllltles. and there is need for the unhindered application of man's genius and industry to make us as Independ ent industrially as we are free politically. Ample defense rests on Industrial freedom and self-reliance as well as patriotic sac rifice, and industrial preparedness gives that assurance of material good fortune in peace on which must be founded all our higher aspirations. Subsistence is the first requisite of ex istence, and we have the higher American standard of living because of the Republican protective policy which makes of Americans the' best paid workmen In all the world. Out of the abundance of employment and higher compensation. together with th beckoning opportunity which offers evers reward, we Americans have attracted the laborers of the earth, and set new standards nere. It Is not for me to put the stamp of relative Importance on pending issues the Intelligent voters will determine that for themselvea But I know what they are think ing, and they believe that the protective policy which made us industrially and com mercially eminent Is necessary to preserv tnat eminence. I know they want it re stored and .maintained. For myself I pre fer a protective and productive tariff whlcn prospers America first. I choose the economic policy which sends the American worklngmen to the saving banks rather than the souphouses. I commend the plan under which the healthful glow of prosper ing business Is reflected in every face from cue great captain or. inaustry to tne scnooi lng child of the dally wage-earner. Moreover, I like the abxiing consistent of our exchanging position upon this policy. The Republican convention of I860, which gave to the Nation and all history the nom ination of Lincoln, made this simple and ample utterance: "That, while providing revenue for the support or the general Government by du ties upon Imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imports as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country: and we com mend that policy of National exchanges which secures to the worklngmen liberal wages, to agriculture remunerating prices. to mecnanics and manufacturers an ade quate reward for their skill, labor and en terprise, and to the Nation commercial prosperity and Independence." We might fittingly reiterate that utter ance today. The failure of revenues under existing Democratic policy, the necessar resort to the imposition of direct and of fensive taxation war taxes on a people at peace to meet deficiencies which ever at tend Democratic control, the depression and disaster which followed Democratic revi sion, which were relieved rather than caused by the European war all these argue the Republican restoration. Prosperity Not Disputed. No one disputes a temporary prosperity In our land today. But it is sectional in Its factory aspect, abnormal m its fevered rush, fictitious in Its essentials and perverting In Its tendency. Worse, it is the gold sluiced from the river of blood, poured out by the horrifying sacrifice of millions of our fel lowmen. God forbid that we should boast a prosperity wrought in such waste of hu man life. We had rather rejoice in the prosperity of peace. We had rather boast our good fortune won from the world as l stands erect, in a fair contest, where men openly contend for the laurels of industry and the garlands of trade. I do not mean that we must "sharpen our wits in compe tition with the world." for we tried that and Involuntarily turned the blade to cutting our production and severing thousands from American payrolls. There was no cut in the cost of living, but a visible back la the ca pacity to live. The Democratic party is always concerned about the American consumer, our Repub lican achievement is the making of a Na tion of prospering producers, and by pro ducers I mean every human being who ap plies muscle or skill or brain or all to the conversion of nature's abundance Into the necessities and luxuries of life or participate In the ways and means of their transporta tion and exchange. Far better a high cost of living and ability to buy than a lowering of cost attended by destruction of purchas ing capacity. It Is worth while to recall the magnified Importance given to the high cost of living four years ago; first, to emphasize Democ racy's failure to reduce It, though it risked and almost accomplished the ruin of our good fortune In attempting it; second, to declare there is no such thing. What was thought to be the high cost were only the high demands and the larger capacity to buy, which were the natural reflexes of the higher standard of living reared under Re publican protection. The one notable advance In cost has prof ited the American farmer, for whose befit ting share in good fortune we have stood unfailingly and sincerely. His reward is a Republican achievement and we prefer to cling to the conditions which brought to as To Rose Festival Visitors: Visitors to the Rose Festival will find the service of this Company a most convenient and economical means for com municating with their homes or places of business while in Portland. 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