Show did you over ever THEN let lot your house for awn v seasons to tenants who did dl hot 11 ot keep it nt at nil all as you would havo lave kept itt when they vacated the property did you find holes in tho th plaster floors marred woodwork scratched wall paper torn tho the furnace rusted tho the plumbing ing clogged clog Ved corners dirty the cellar full of rubbish the shrubbery trampled and the lawn IN weedy eedy I 1 if so you can appreciate somewhat hat the task which the republican party faced when it assumed the responsibility of our government on march 4 1921 lin chinga i needed housecleaning house cleaning overhauling and reconstructing we were in fix disrepute with our neighbors witsie extravagance and inefficiency had piled up an enormous ai war ar debt our burden of 0 taxation was distress dis distressing tresi 1 ing A host of immigrants was coming in to eit the bread which should bolong to the children unemployment no markets bankruptcy and panic added to our miseries interference and paternalism made business afraid to expand there wae was no confidence nor stability bi and the tail atod was fertile for pr the radicalism which sprang up and endangered our industries the war had been over for twenty four months had the democratic party made any at to clep clean it up the debris 1 As conditions grew worse all it did wan wag to ac acknowledge and bewail the prospect wai wag not riot a pleasant oue one but the pirt pirty of lincoln which had readjusted a chaotic world after one war ar rolled tolled up its sleeves slee vei and plunged into the her calean task |