Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1920 — THE LATEST FALL STYLES IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT [ARTICLE]

THE LATEST FALL STYLES IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Mr. Franklin Roosevelt complains that Senator Harding is old-fashion-ed. We hope he is. It is rather gratifying to learn that we have an oldfashioned statesman left We only wish we had more of our old-fash-ioned institutions. The old-fashioned statesman had a deeprooted belief in the Constitution of the United States. The new fashion is to ignore one provision of the Constitution after another. It is old-fashioned today to uphold the integrity of the Constitution, the powers of Congress, the right of free speech and the right of the people to a free, untrammeled governmeht. The new fashion is to send American lads to fight in foreign countries without telling Congress anything about it, to* arrive at understandings with foreign ministers without taking into account what the American people want or do 'hot want, and to agree to enter a league of nations organized upon principles that no sane American would ever dream of indorsing. It is a new fashion—just about seven years old—to climb up on a seif-constructed pedestal and undertake to tell the American nation what its ideals are and how those ideals must be z earned out. It is an extremely old fashion to hold an election in Maine and Georgia and New Hampshire which gives such pedestal a swift kick in the slats. , _ „ Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and Lincoln xwere old-fashioned. Whether Wilson is merely up to date or 2,000 years ahead of nis time, only future historians can tell. At any rate, it seems rather intelligent on the part*of Senator Hardiilg to stick to the old-fashion-ed idea of American government rather than to the new. We would strongly advise him, however, to ask Mr. Will Hays to put Mr. Franklin Roosevelt on the pay roll of the Republican campaign speakers’ bureau. They might pay his carfare, anyway.—HeraldExaminer.