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HARDING, Warren G. (1865-1923), President. Autograph speech manuscript, containing OVER 1,000 WORDS IN HARDING'S HAND, n.d. [ca 1912]. 11 full pages, 4to.
HARDING DEFENDS AMERICAN COMMERCIALISM AND URGES BUSINESS LEADERS TO "BE FOR A COMMERCE WITH A CONSCIENCE"
Harding takes exception to British author Jeffrey Farnol, whose best-selling 1911 historical novel, The Broad Highway, attacked America's "commercial spirit." "Take away our commerce and our commercialism," Harding says, "and we should be as primitive as Christopher Columbus found us in 1492. Commerce and civilization are as inseparable as cause and effect. One is not to be found without the other...Men prate about the growing enslavement of commercialism. Isn't it about time to stop that bunk? There is the influx of the commercial tide today and never was liberty so inspiring, never has opportunity so beckoned without discrimination, never was reward so generous and general." Commerce and trade has been the vehicle for moving nations out of primitive isolation and into a state of advanced productivity. "The barterers of producing nations," he says, "were the ambassadors of art and education and the higher attainments of life." He closes by urging his listeners to correct the inevitable excesses and abuses that arise in any commercial society, and urges businessmen to "be for a commerce with conscience."
HARDING DEFENDS AMERICAN COMMERCIALISM AND URGES BUSINESS LEADERS TO "BE FOR A COMMERCE WITH A CONSCIENCE"
Harding takes exception to British author Jeffrey Farnol, whose best-selling 1911 historical novel, The Broad Highway, attacked America's "commercial spirit." "Take away our commerce and our commercialism," Harding says, "and we should be as primitive as Christopher Columbus found us in 1492. Commerce and civilization are as inseparable as cause and effect. One is not to be found without the other...Men prate about the growing enslavement of commercialism. Isn't it about time to stop that bunk? There is the influx of the commercial tide today and never was liberty so inspiring, never has opportunity so beckoned without discrimination, never was reward so generous and general." Commerce and trade has been the vehicle for moving nations out of primitive isolation and into a state of advanced productivity. "The barterers of producing nations," he says, "were the ambassadors of art and education and the higher attainments of life." He closes by urging his listeners to correct the inevitable excesses and abuses that arise in any commercial society, and urges businessmen to "be for a commerce with conscience."