Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-08

tion's neutrality and urged fratern-
 American foreign relations. He paid
 ity of American Republic under the
 Monroe doctrine. Advocating ade- quate national defense he charged the Democratic party with having inter rupted Republican naval construction and he criticized the army re- organi- zation bil He also attacked the ad- ministration shipping bill, the effort made to extend independence to the Philippines, and made plea for a 1 return to the protective tariff. Muddled In Mexico. Expressing reluctance to speak of the division of American sentiment re- lating to foreign affairs. Senator Harding discussed briefly the Mexican problem. ''It must be said, fer the truths sake and clearer understand ing, we have hungered in vain for that unflinching Americanism at Washing ton which is needed to exalt the Amer ican soul" he declared "There is no geographic modification of American rights. They arc the same in Mexico that they are on the high seas, they are the same in Europe that they are in Asia, and are sacred everywhere, and the American spirit demands their fullest protection.
 "Whatever the ultimate solution may be, history will write Mexico as the title to the humiliating recital of the greatest fiasco in our foreign re- latlons. Uncertainty, instability, Mexican contempt and waning self respect will be recorded in every chapter, and the pitiable story of sac rificed American lives and the de- struction of lawfully-held American property will emphasize the mistaken policy of watchful waiting and wob- bling warfare.
 "Under the pretext of non-interfer- ence the Democratic administration miserably meddled. In the name of peace that same administration en- outraged revolution, and the cost of American sacrifices was charged to needless war on Huerta, where the real American expenditures required only the voice of authority demanding protection to American rights. The unbiased critic will recite that the Democratic administration first cod dled Villa as patriot, then chased him as bandit
 Respecting Americas course with Europe the temporary chairman as serted that ro political party could draw a "variable chart for eur ship of state amid Europe's warning am- bitions"
 The senator declared America had been negligent concerning it's own de- fense and had been dwelling in fancied rather than real security and should hee the warning in bleeding Europe" Republicans, he said. be- lieved in adequate national defense. The Democratic party, he insisted, interrupted when the Republicans were building to high ran kamong the naval powers
 Pleads for Protective Tariff.
 Turning to economics the senator pleaded for a return to the protective tariff policy He chose, he said, "tle economic policy which sends the American workingmen to the savings banks rather than the soup houses
 "No one," the senator said, "dis- putes temporary prosperity in our land today. But it is sectional in it's factory aspect. abnormal in it's fev- cred rush, fictitious in it's essentials, and preventing in it's tendency. Worse, IL IS IIlc SOlu olulCCu II oII CIlc iINSI OI blood. poured out by the horrifying sacrifice of millions of our fellowmen. God forbid that we should boast 9 prosperity wrought in such waste of human life. We had rather rejoice in the prosperity of peace"
 Discussing the Democratic party briefly the senator said it had "pro- claimed the sacredness of it's pledges and then profancd them:" that it had "espoused the freedom of the seas and wrought only the freedom of the Panama canal" and had "professed economy and is staggered by it's own extravaganza" He attacked the ship ping bill because of it's government ownership feature ad the attempt of Democratic forces to extend independ- ence to the Philippines. "to set adrift an island empire, in violation of our obligation to the world, to the Philip pine people and ourselves"