Warren G. Harding: “But there must be some economic solution for the excessive variation in returns for agricultural production.”

By your sustainment of the rigid economies already inaugurated, with hoped-for extension of these economies and added efficiencies in administration, I believe further reductions may be enacted and hindering burdens abolished.

It is not an unworthy selfishness to seek to save ourselves, when the processes of that salvation are not only not denied to others, but commended to them.

The repeal of war-time legislation and the automatic expirations which attended the peace proclamations have put an end to these emergency excesses but I have the wish to go further than that.

We saw partisan lines utterly obliterated when war imperiled, and our faith in the Republic was riveted anew.