Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-27
HARDING WABBLES
ON TO TARIFF ISSUE
Seeks to Divert Attention From
League by Talking Protec-
ton of Industry.
BY Associated Press to Every Evenis


Marion, Ohio, Oct 27.-Ihe League
Of Nations, tariff protection, AmerlcahisI''
and constitutional government are eN-
pccted To be headliners among the ISSUES
discussed by Senator HARDING on ms l'lla'
campaign swing through ONO, peelnnlne
today and ending Saturday nieh' WIZ" q
speech in Columbus.
In addition. the Republicans will sum
mn for the voters of his own State the de-
tailed platform which he has lald down
during the campaign and on which ne is
asking for a national Republican victory
at next weeks election.
Leaving Marion shortly after noon,
the Senator's train is due IN Cleveiaho III
time TO permit him to take dinner at
downtown hotel before his night address
in Gray's armory there. He will remain IN
Cleveland until tomorrow afternoon and
tomorrow night will speak IN Akron, On
Friday and Saturday nights respecuSeiy
he is to address night meetings IN oIn-
cinnati and Columbus.
Marion Ohio. Oct. 27.-Yesterday
Senator Harding harked back towards
the position on the League of Nations
he assumed in his Des MONIES speech,
when he announced he was not concerned
with clarification and that he favored re-
lection. thus causing the Parsons and
Hamilton Holt belt.
He has always claimed that ne WAS
misunderstood in that speech, that 1t repre-
sented merely different way oi say
ing the guarded things he had said before
and has said since. His utterances today
seem pretty explicit-more explicit than
anything he has said since at Des MONIES.
The Senator was discussing the inter
view with Leon Bourgeois, President OF the
League of Nations Council, and SAID It
demonstrated that the only safety Tor the
United States lay outside the league until
a new plan of association was devised:
In order that there may bs no change OF
misinterpreting this apparently definite
announcement that the league Is Oft, SO
far as he is concerned, the full statement
Of Senator Harding Is presented here as 1t
was issued this afternoon:
Senator Hardingis attention was called
today TO Brussels. cablegram to the AS
sociated Press, wherein NJ. Leon Bour-
geois, president of the League Of National
Council, was quoted as saying that Ar
ticle Y is not, in fact anything more than
the moral foundation of the covenant.
Continuing NJ. Bourgeois was quoted
as saying that all that Is efficacious IN the
covenant is set forth In other particulars
indicating penalties and sanctions, and
that Article X could be eliminated without
in any way modifying the effectiveness
of the League of Nations and that 1T WAS
not considered so Important by Euro
peans as Americans.
'"This is most illuminating, said Sena-
tor Harding. We are told by the great
American authority on the covenant,
President Wilson, that Article y Is It's
heart. Now comes NJ. Bourgeois, presi-
dent OF the League Council, and says IT Y
not important. He informs us that all
that Is eficacioue in the covenant Is set
forth in other articles. This can only
mean that, sven n Article K Is eliminated,
its effect would still be preserved IN other
articles. Doubtless be means that If Ar
ticle Y were eliminated, Article Al would
still have the same effect. That WAS re
peatedly charged during the Senate dis
cussion and never convincingly denied.
at all illustrates, continued Senator
Harding, the utter impossiblity OF getting
a agreement as to what the covenant means
what it would obligate the United States
10 do. II Is the complete demonstration
that the only safety for the United States IL
TO remain outside until we may unite upon
a plan for an association OF nations that
shall mean the same thing TO everybody,
and under which we shall know, beyond
or equivocation, our precise
A free America can give that
service 10 the world"
Senator Harding also made public
telegram that he had sent TO Paul A.
Amert, chairman of the Zinc Ore 1arrt
Committee of the Joplin Chamber of
@eh MA at IN
terested in zinc. Mr. Ewert had written
30 the Republican candidate that the
Democrats had DESTROYED the zinc Indus
trv bv refusing to restore the tariff on it |
and that as consequence foreign zllc ore
WAS being delivered TO our smelteyS at
half the prlce he and bis assocla,Satfou
afford to produce 1t.
'Under the Democratic Tariff Law Of
1913" said the Senator In his telegram,
the country was already approaching
Industrial disaster, when the World. War
began.
s'The story of zinc, since that time, |
IS simply an epitome of the story OF Amer
can industries generally. With demand |
reduced and with foreign competition |
desperately seeking our unprotected mar
GETS. we have suddenly found ourselves |
II the beginning of an era In which, unless /
he American policy of perfection is re-
alrned. we are bound to become more and |
more the dumping ground for the products
,f all the world.
''To all who are briuFipg this story of
continuing losses and pending disaster.
"The Republican party makes the |
,ame reply. 1t is our reply to the pro-
iueers Of zinc and of wool and of every
,ther article that depends upon the as
,urance that at least the American mar
get shall be secured TO American industry. |
We reply that when the Republican party
5 restored to control of the government |
,fter March 4 next, there will be prompt |
Study Your .I0hlL