Friday, January 10, 2020
Harding before he was Unpersoned
As I've been trying to emphasize, Harding was the first effective opponent of Deepstate. He broke down most of Wilson's imperialist bureaucracy and worked for non-interventionism abroad and economic justice at home.
We have the impression that Deepstate's campaign to destroy him was universal, even before his death. Here's contrary evidence, from a journal advancing a cross-country highway. It's worth reprinting entirely.
Warren G. Harding has gone. He has passed into that next world, leaving a glamour** and disturbance in America, that he had tried to calm for more than two years. To him goes the crown of laurels for his perseverance in his daily battle to bring America out of the restless age. His work toward the end of peace and calmness has been wonderful, and he will long be remembered for that, but being a big man in a big place was not his best attribute. He has for years been a public man, and has accepted public office as a duty, but never, during his career has he lost his touch with his fellow man. Of all the good things that might be said about Harding, we feel that the best, and the one touching him closer than any other is that he has been a perfect example of a Christian gentleman. One editorial writer has said that he was too good a man to be president. But he is wrong. He was the type of man that should have been president, as an example of what American citizenry should be. His works were not the most brilliant in American history. but his energetic striving to do that which he thought was right, with all of his ability, all of the time, has made him a friend of all America. The universal observance of grief came not through the fact that the president had died, but because Warren G. Harding, a man's man, and a man of God, had passed on. The good roads movement in America lost a loyal supporter when Harding died. He followed the progressive steps in highway work taken by President Wilson, and had made big strides forward in giving to the people of the United States highways that unite communities in all parts of the country. He has always favored federal aid legislation for highway work, and has, at times discussed a national highway system which will take routes such as the Pikes Peak, and make them government highways, built and maintained. His life was but too short for this accomplishment. The Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway Association, consisting of members from coast to coast, over a period of 35,000 miles. bows its head in sorrow at the loss it has sustained. Not only as a highway booster, but as a lovable American citizen, devoted to his ideals, his friends, his country and his God, Harding will be missed.Out of the restless age ... work toward peace and calmness. We could use another leader like Harding, but there will never be another. This shows that Deepstate killed Harding first, then ruined his reputation afterward. = = = = = ** Footnote on glamour: The specific connection to beauty is fairly recent. Hix used glamour often in 'Strange as it seems', always for the romantic and dramatic aspects of war and politics. Washington crossing the Delaware is "one of the most glamorous moments of American history." The same meaning seems to fit here ... unless the author really meant clamour. ¶ 8:12 AM
