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Show pass Government Under Democratic Party WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. Con trusting the attitude or Harding and of Wilson toward class government, tho Republican Publicity asboclatlon through Its president, Hon. Jonathan Jona-than Uourno Jr., Issues the following follow-ing from Its Washington headquarters: headquar-ters: "Although Senator Harding has given assurance not, only by his speech of acceptuuci! hut by his personal per-sonal record ns an employer thnt ho U tho friend of labor, yet ho also has made It distinctly clear that he U not ono of thoBu unrcrupulous politicians pol-iticians who would endoavor to pro-moto pro-moto his personal interest through appeal to clnss prejudice. In nil his ninny yeari of employment of labor In his publishing establishment, Sen-ntor Sen-ntor Harding has never had' n labor difllculty. Ho has no warmer supporters sup-porters than those In his employ. i Ho has boon a payer of good wages nnd a supporter of "good 'working conditions, lluf In his speech of acceptance ac-ceptance when ho spolfo of the rela tions of employer' and employe, he qualified his statement. '! wish the higher wage to abide,' with this explicit ex-plicit condition, 'that the wago earn-1 or will glvo full rtiturn for tho wag" receivod. A houp politician would have limited his statement to tho declaration that he wIbIukI the higher high-er wsgo to snide". He would thus' have made his unqualified bid for the labor vbt Kvcry laborer must rccognUo the Ju aess and tho economic econ-omic soumlne.w of Senator Harding's qualifying els ore and mist respect him for hU frankness and courago i In defining th oblisutlon which the laborer assumes In return for tho wage that Is paid. "In 'another pot linn of his address ( Senator Harding pointed out tho danger Miat fawi Hi' American poo-. plo through rlai ro rnment whlcn the Wilson nJmlnIM"."! "i has sought to establish. Scnuw IMrdlng said;. The menacing tendony of tho present pres-ent day In no' char iblo wholly to the unsettled and fevemd conditions I caused by tho war. Tho manifest weakness In popular government lies In tho temptation to appeal to group ed cltUonsliIp for political advantage. advan-tage. Thoro Is no creator peril. Tho constitution contemplates no class nnd recognizes no group.' "From tho very bcglnlng of. his administration President' Wilson with tho approval and support of hU party colleagues in congress, separated separ-ated this country Into groups Ono 'of his first aeta was to call con-gross con-gross Into special scsslo for the on 'nctment of a, new tariff law which would remove those protective du-tlrs du-tlrs which assured ll American producer )UmHOOv would not. he brought Into full-competition with thf cheap labor of Hut ope and Aslu. When American business men saw thlr Industries thixfitened nnd realized real-ized tlinl the enactment of a free Hade tar'" 'aw would clowi their inllls and make It Impossible for Ihein to continue payment of wngte to lurRo numbers of emplojes, they went personally or wnl their tep-ieKen:ailves tep-ieKen:ailves to Washington to laj beforo the Democratic ongreas the facts regarding their Industries and tho dangors they feared. This was their right as American cltliens tx-proKsly tx-proKsly guaranteed by that clause of 'the constitution-which assures men the right to petition lo their repie-sentatives repie-sentatives In rpngiess. nut, exercising exer-cising the jsjetit power vtsted In him J as the cnlof executive of the nation Prsldont Wilson denounced thost men as Mnslduous lobbyists,' nnd threatened to 'hang them higher t than Human.' He branded as near-I near-I criminals men who had been con-j con-j structlvo business men In their sov-oral sov-oral communities, men who had J 'built up Amerlcnn entcrprlso and! furnished profitable employment for millions ot American laborers. TIo j mado a group of a large nuinbcr of American citizens and branded thom ns outlaws. From that day to this ono of tho characteristics of the Democratlo administration has been recognition of class Interest nnd pandering to group selfishness apparently ap-parently for political advantage. "As Senator Harding has well said, there Is no greater peril. And again, 'The highest cousecratlo we can make today Is a comsaltal ot the Republican party to that savlag ton-BtUutienaltsia ton-BtUutienaltsia which contemplates nil America as one people, nud holds 1 jtisl government free from Influence H on the one hand nnd unmoved by In- H tlmldntlon on thn other." H |