Thursday, September 26, 2019
More Harding surprises
When trying to answer why Deepstate went into dormancy after WW1, I found surprisingly that Harding was largely responsible. That's why we "remember" him as a failed scandal-ridden idiot, and perhaps why he died of "natural causes" in office.
Decided to do a little more looking this morning, and found more surprises. Because phonographs were a mature invention and radio was available for the first time, many of his speeches are preserved in audio form.
Univ of Va has an archive with recordings and transcripts. [The website doesn't seem to have a Harding category. The link is one speech about economics, and several other Harding speeches are linked sequentially.]
From the speech about economics:
I decline to recognize any conflict of interest among the participants in industry. The destruction of one is the ruin of the other. The suspicion or rebellion of one unavoidably involves the other. In conflict is disaster, in understanding there is triumph. There is no issue relating to the foundation on which industry is builded because industry is bigger than any element in its modern making. The insistent call is for labor, management, and capital to reach understanding. The human element comes first. I want the employers in industry to understand the aspirations, the convictions, the yearnings of the millions of American wage earners. I want the wage earners to understand the problems, the anxieties, the obligations of management and capital, and all of them must understand their relationship to the people and their obligation to the Republic. Out of this understanding will come the unanimous committal to economic justice; and in economic justice lies that social justice which is the highest essential to human happiness. I am speaking as one who has counted the contents of the pay envelope from the viewpoint of the earner, as well as the employer. No one pretends to deny the inequalities which are manifest in modern industrial life. They are less, in fact, than they were before organization and grouping on either side revealed the inequality; and conscience has brought more justice than statutes have compelled. But the ferment of the world rivets our thoughts on the necessity of progressive solutions -- else our generation will suffer the experiments, which means chaos for our day -- to reestablish God’s plan for the great tomorrow.Among modern politicians, who does this sound like? Certainly not Trump. Much more like Bernie, but most of all like AMLO.
Labels: Answered better than asked, Natural law = Sharia law
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