Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-10 | Page 11 | Harding's Old Speeches Dug up by Democrats

HARDING'S OLD SPEECHES DUG UP BY DEMOCRATS fi iW CHICAGO, Sept 10 CongTCmsn Frank E. Dcremus. chatrmnn of the central western headquarters of the 'J Democratic national committee. Is sued the following statement on Sen-F Sen-F jf; ator Harding 3 speech at the Minnesota stat fair grounds yesterday "Senator Harding's St Paul speech fly' was an adroit effort to placate farm- f rrs who remembered what he said fjjtf when the bill for $2 wheat was on W Ms passaze He said then, and ho f 4 does not undertake to deny It now. that MUk o.Uy dollar wheat makes fl , r rol 1 1 )e Sm xv' occupation' and 'If the qualities r'f f American patriotism are such that we ; must guarantee the American farmer .Jk-jtr a Pr'ce for his wheat in the face of world famine, then there Is not pa-? pa-? 'Jm triotlsm In this country to win the war.' Senator Harding said at that time 'Wm as the congressional record of July It, 1917, shows, that It would be agree-able agree-able to him to strike at the manifest' greed In some agricultural sections.' ' but he now sidesteps by declaring ' that no public servant would dare to J sa he believed In dollar wheat amid the price wildness which is prevailing ' today : ' When the senator made that speech the United States wars at war The farmer was In worjie case for I labor by far than he is now. If Sen-! Sen-! ator Harding thought dollar wheat I was profitable then and the demand for two dollur wheat was greedy, he I will have difficulty In explaining It ' away now to the hardheaded farmer of wheat belt.'; however roseate the ' program ho may lay out on paper "