The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-14

teueldS around the city ana FeJOlced
In the new America that has come Ill
dissolubly from the confiic, of half a
century ago.
"All that the North and South ever
needed" no said, was understanding
With each other. We have that under
standing now. We have learned to re-
spect your views, and do not question
the tenderness of inherited sentiment"
He complimented traits and charac-
teristics often referred to as southern. =
and hoped the day would come when
partisan differences could be buried
under new understanding.
IF Republican policies are good for
the North,'' he said, ''they deserve the
earnest consideration OF the South. The
Republican party proclaims the same
doctrine of agricultural good fortune In
the South that it proclainls in the North.
IT breaches the same policy of finance.
Tt pre- aches the same policy OF q help
full protection to all American produce
ton, North or South
Protective Tarifr for Cotton.
Recognizing that the question oil the
protective value OF tariff is coming
more and more to be a live Issue In the
South, Senator Harding was at pains to
say to Tennessee that protective tariff
for their cotton and cotton seed was OF
as much concern to the Republican party
as protection for the wheat and wool Of
the North, and he explained that the
Republican party desires an industrial
South as one OF the essentials OF an ideal
nation. On this line. he recalled the BUSH
ness depression that was pointing 10 n
panic and business breakdown when
the world war came along. and he
warned his hearers that. with the war
over and the tariff barrier stir down.
only policy of protection would save
American self-relance at home and
leadership abroad. Sensing, then. the
interest here In the League Of Nations
controversy, the Senator came TO that
part OF his speech. saying:
II want the self-reliant America
self-reliant agriculturally, self-rellant
politically; a nation free and independ-
ent--to maintain it's own great place in
the world. That Is why Insist that we
shall never accept League or Nations
with the martial heart OF n military al
lance. That Is why insist that Article
Y. IL repugnant to America. We may
well play Ame rica's becoming part with
out mortgaging the honor and manhood
OF the Republic to council ol foreign
Powers.
LET me revert once more 20 orr re-
grettable civil conflict TO justify Amer
ica's opposition to the proposed League
.ofsNations. North and South fought be-
cause the States of the South thought
they had "A perfect right TO withdraw
from the Union.
THE North thought the Union to be
fndissoluble. Then came tho conflict over
the ambiguity in the Constitution. There
are score of antiquities In tho Presi-
dents covenant and he would not toll
crate their Qualification by reservations.
One related TO withdrawal. The cove
nart said nation might withdraw on
two years notice, provided Il had full
filled all its obligations. but /; did not
say who was to decide on the fulalsnent
We want 10 decide in American con
sciencc whether we have met our obi
cations like free nation. We do not
want TO have to fight out way out. II is
safer to make sure before going tn
Dcnounces Dictatorship.
Thereafter Senator Harding paved the
way for q frank and thorough going de-
nunciation Of Woodrow Wilson's efforts to
supplant constitutional government with
dictatorship. and of the Presidents tenn
porsry success in that object He ex-
planned at some length the principles
upon which the Government is founded,
the careful balancing OF powers oxecu-
tive. legislative and judicial. and pointed
out that In this country tho Government
is not supreme. and that people, through
Congress. actually arc supreme.
Without dictntion Congress makes
the laws. and II liz the duty OF the
President to enforce the laws. n he die
tates or refuses to enforce he violates
spirit or letter, or both. OF the Consti-
tuition itself.
s"Congress, while under Democratic
control was. with rare exceptions, O
more echo Of the executive" said Har-
ding. He did not inform them from
time to time respecting the state OF tho
Union. as tho Constitution contemplatcs.
he told them what to do
the Democratic platform of 1912. for
example. declared for a single term (for
the Preeident). and a bin was actually
introduced and. I think, reported 10 the
Senate. to carry this platform declara ton
into effect. But the President not only
compelled it's abandonment. hut accepted
denomination.
THE same platform declared In favor
&c exempting American ships passing
through tho Panama Canal from the pay
nicnt of tolls. The present Executive.
during his first campaign. In specific
terms accepted and approved the dec
laration. But Democratic Congress
was compe ed by the President 10 violate
the pledge
II do no. need to particularize further.
IL IL notorious that Congress. so long a.
10 was controlled by a Democratic ma
torfty. exercised no will of Its own. When
the President said Co. IL went. When
ie said Come it came. Under his hand
Congress ceased TO function as a coequal
branch of the Government
Elected Opposition Congress.
"But two years ago there was a
change. Tho people. taking the Admins
ttation at ts world passed Judgment
Upon It's acts, and emphaticaliy con-
demned them by electing an opposition
Congress. something which never hap
pened before In our history in the midst
Of war.
The President to the astouiehment Of
careful Americans. instead Of selecting a
non-partisan commission composed OF
the most capable mon the country AZ
forded, took upon himself the sole taslk
of negotiating treaty or peace. Not
content with settling the issues Of the
war, nc undertook 20 settle the affairs Of
tho world for all tfnc. and ~ cryataIlize
IN pcrpetuity Its existing boundaries and
divisions Of sovereignty. Impatient at
nny suggestion which challenged his on
Iisoence. he met the objections OF HIS