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That nVjur'm m: has to W ncn an 1 an I Kg the M ft point of contact with Kt0 American who are Btt cenrjs as ' salnf-.iilv HCiij who with their r! -Katie up 'he bullf of our .Kmtioc it functions , K id Induftry. it watches KwIItId; it maintains JK service, frying tr. hr i: Bd the ob together, it Kyitei of Iho m1 ion, vh r-' MHb to tntrr ami to enjoy Kmof Amcr.ca, it provides Kteliatkn of the.;,. K are admitted to cur soil KIToraon's bureau and the Btrra-j : i . K CLT " Of tl.r BepublirHn administration Kwes that 1 wish to spea.k fcefcr la tte history of the- V had this country found Hit eonluslon jBtlch relfnel In the toderal the administration of MBardlng came to Wa.ilnp-1 ton In the spring of 1921. Political, social and economic chaos, not only In the domestic affairs of the nation, hut in its foreign relations as well confronted con-fronted the government. The edged tools of ax-taught usurpation oi power, unlimited extravagance and visionary political doctrines had for eight yean been the play toys of administrative ad-ministrative inefficiency. The result was a saturnalia of misprovernment. DEAD HAND FEIT. ' The dead hand of f deral interim inter-im nee hiul stretched forth over all the land, its finpers throttled Industry and halted buslnoss. It Krippi'd every line of human endeavor in the nation. The body economic strove I'utilPly to escape Its grasp and to free itsHf for a battle with adverse conditions that It might f.Rht its way to prosperity. The heavy burden of federal taxatlpn weighed upon all America In market place and counting house It took Its toll of the meap-er business which its exactions permitted, rt Imposed Its burden upon man, woman and hlld In every activity of dally life. It lay upon the land like a blight. America was a land of chaos In a world of chaos Abroad the nations stared apha-bt and uneasy at the spectacle of America preaching the vain and visionary gospel of impractical International Inter-national idealism, in the chancelleries of Europe the prestige of the I'nltod States had withered away, There was nono so poor to do America reverence. rever-ence. We had bartered awuv our diplomats dip-lomats birthright for a sorry mess of sticky sentimentallsm, In a delirium of rnllk-nlal idealism such as neer before had afflicted a great nation REPUBLICANS TAKE EU INS "This was the situation that confronted con-fronted the Republican administration when it obeyed the overwhelming mandate of the people as expressed In tho election "C 1920. and took over the reins of power at Washington. I went to Washington with President Harding on March 4. 1921. I feel safe in saying that no president of the United States, whether he came to office In peace or In war, ever faced a situation more fraught with dangerous dan-gerous posslblltles to the people of America and the governmental Institutions In-stitutions of our fathers than that which was faced by the present administration. ad-ministration. Perils political, social and economic rose grimly on every hand. Never had America more needed courage and far-sightedness In her statesmen than In that day of glowering menace llttie more than a year ago. EVILS ll LAREJD CONQUERED. "How we have met and conquered these evils all tin world knows. With America on thTT high road to prosperity prosper-ity at home, and our prestlgo restored abroad, the Republican pirty under the leadership of President Harding has justified the national confidence expressed in the election of 1920 The Republican majority In congress laboring labor-ing early and late to brlnjc to an end Iho legislative absurdities remaining from the war, has worked unremittingly unremit-tingly to make good the waste that marked the management of the Democratic Demo-cratic adnilnls'rotion. It has accomplished accom-plished Herculean tasks in the direction direc-tion of constructive law-making, and has written a record of solid achievement achieve-ment that equals that of any congress in history. It has faithfully met a tr mendous task. "While rat.-guarding Industry and labor in America by a protective-tariff protective-tariff we have not railed to protect American labor from the competition' of a horde of aliens who might well! I have been expected to desert the war-, torn nations of Europe following thet close of the great war. T provide this perfection congress enacted the I threo per cent Immigration law. 'Under this law aliens from any nation maj be admitted to America onh to, the number of three per cent of the; foreign born of that nationality who were in this country In 1910. It has been estimated that the first year's operation of tho law kept from America Amer-ica upwards of a million foreigner. They were kept out at a time when' between five and six million of our i own workers were walking the streets " |