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THE ATLANTIAN
His friends throughout the state earn
estly solicit your vote and support for
Judge Richard B. Russell
for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Georgia, in the Primary of Sept. 13
Through wide legal experience and service on
the bench of the Superior court and State Court
of Appeals, Judge Russell is unquestionably
qualified for this office.
He does not believe in life tenure in any public
office.
He does believe in election of public officials by
the whole people..
He is himself, one of the people, well known
from one end of the state to the other, as “Plain
Dick Russell.”
Your Vote for Judge Russell will be Appreciated
Harding, Roosevelt, Wilson
and the Coal Strike.
The most surprising feature of the
coal situation, without entering upon
any discussion of the merits of the
controversy, is this:
With the average householder not
knowing where or how he is going to
obtain his winter supply, with various
industries not knowing how they will
obtain fuel to keep their plants in op
eration during the winter, with the
situation deadlocked between opera
tors and miners, with a conference in
session to try to arrive at a solution,
President Harding delivers a charac
teristic milk and water speech to the
conference and resumes his vacational
diversions.
No one would deny President Hard
ing the boyish delight he apparently
experiences in freeing himself from
the arduous cares of his high office
when opportunity offers. But there
is a time for work and a time for play.
When the general interests of the
public are threatened it is time to
suppress the playboy instinct and to
deal promptly with the matter at
first hand.
The surprise comes, therefore, when
President Harding’s method of dealing
with the acute coal situation is con
trasted with those of former Presi
dents Roosevelt and Wilson. The ques
tion naturally arises would either of
them in such a critical situation have
delayed so long and then dealt with
the matter in a temporizing manner
and have left Washington at such a
time? Would they virtually have said,
“Let Herbert and Jim do it,” or would
they have taken command of the sit
uation themselves and pressed it to a
solution? We know what they did
under similar circumstances.
President Harding owes a duty to
the public in effecting a just settle
ment of this coal controversy—in any
event to protect the public interest.
The coal situation is another test of
his administration. As the Boston
Herald (Rep.), says:
“The coal operators are not on trial;
the United Mine Workers are not on
trial; Warren G. Harding, President
of the United States, is on trial in
this conference.”
LET “PAT DO IT”
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The Profiteers’ Tariff Bill
Was Promulgated by Mr.
Harding in 1920.
The leading Republican newspapers
of the United States have joined with
the Democratic press and spokesmen
in denouncing the pending Profiteers’
Tariff bill as a prohibitive tariff,
pointing out that it would not raise
the expected revenue needed by the
Government, because it would shut
out imports, and by shutting out im
ports it would enable the American
profiteers to raise their prices al
most to the limit of the increased
tariff rates.
It is interesting to note that this is
exactly the kind of a tariff that Mr.
Harding advocated in his election
campaign in 1920. In one memorable
speech he advocated closing the doors
to foreign made products. At Lima,
Ohio, on October 6, 1920, he said to a
crowd of workmen:
“I want to bring to you the read
justment after the World War which
will maintain for the millions of
American wage-earner the high stand-
dard of pay which is theirs now. I
caution you men that that can never
happen under the policy of a party
(the Democratic party) which believes
in opening the doors of America to
foreign-made products.”
In other words, President Harding
would maintain th e wages of Ameri
can workmen of all classes at the 1920
standard by practically putting an
embargo upon all foreign-made goods.
The • American wage-earners know
what has happened to the high stan
dard of their 1920 pay. In fact of the
present liquidation of labor, the prom
ise held out by President Harding in
his 1920 campaign seems like a
mockery.
The Four Horsemen of the
Harding Administration.
No more apt phrase was ever ap
plied to the Harding administration
than that by Senator Key Pittman
(Dem., Nev.), in an interview in the
Santa Fe New Mexican, when he said:
“The Four Horsemen of the Hard-
September, 1922
ing administration: Poverty, Distress,
Disorder, Violence.”
The achievements of the Harding
administration as seen by Senator
Pittman were epitomized as follows:
“Foreign relations left in chaotic
condition.
“Our foreign commerce — there is
none.
“Millionaires’ taxes reduced; poor
people pay.
“The H. C. L. still is a terror.
“Transportation charges increased.
“Outrageous discriminations.
“Perpetuation of long and short
haul outrage.
“Destruction of all State control
over interstate commerce.
“Producer and consumer are starv
ing together.
“Harding, Mellon, and Wall Street
keep the soldier from bonus.
“The Four Horsemen of the Hard
ing administration are:
“Poverty,
“Distress,
“Disorder,
“Violence.”
Senator Robinson (Dem., Ark.),
who, like the Nevada Senator, always
talks straight to the point, thought so
well of Senator Pittman’s interview
that he had it placed in the Congres
sional Record.
“Don’t forget, Mrs. Brownleigh is
dining with us tonight.”
“Yes. I must cut the leaves of her
latest book.”
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