Evening star., 1920-09-16
new CHECK ON WAR
|NSTEAD0F LEAGUE,
URGEDBY HARDING
Message to Women Calls for
Preservation of National
Conscience.

MARION, Ohio, September 1S-Urg-
ing the adoption of a new proposal for
prevention of war instead of the league
Of nations. Senator Harding. in a mes
sage to republican women's organiza-
tions and women's Harding and Coolidge
clubs. asked that We preserve our own
national conscience at home and not
check it at Geneva"
= The message is addressed to Mrs.
Ray F. Fucker, president of the Wom-
ems Harding and Coolidge Club of
New York city, and is sent to all
women's organizations.
In his message he referred to the
league of nations, declaring that
women are too wise and too fine in
moral sense to listen to technical dis
cussion tending to prove that, having
made a moral promise by an inde-
fensible international agreement, we
could induce Congress to withhold the
action needed to perform our moral
obligations We must measure our
obligations in determination. to live
up to them"
The message said. in part:
Il believe that before we empha-
size the need for any new voters to
join particular political party we
must emphasize the need for their
Joining some party, and giving to
the party of their choice their serv-
Ice, conscience. wisdom and loyalty.
Our two-party system has brought
progress and prosperity to America,
and the party not in power has al
ways proved capable of gaining infiu-
ence to check recklessness or will
fulness of the party having control.
We must point out especially to
women voters that our own party
offers to them the best hope of meas
ures Of social justice. aimed at
preservation of our human resource
and of the American home.
We republicans are committed to a
policy of solving housing problems
and encouraging home owning. The
platform of our opponents fails to
consider this subject. We have de-
social justice and social welfare
measures, unmentioned by the demo-
, cratic platform. We stand now, as the
republican party stood before the
granting of suffrage. for participation of
all our citizenship in the formation
of the peoples free will 1t is neec-,
less to point to the fact that demo-
cratic votes in our Congress and dem
ocratic governors and democratic
legislatures of democratic states. have
have prevented earlier action upon
the universal grant of suffrage.
League Doesn't Insure Peace.
1--WE have no desire to claim that
the democratic party nor even the
one-man domination of it. which now
seeks to perpetuate it's war power
government, stand for war. But we
do claim that the bungling at Paris
and the unfortunate tang1e created in
negotiations looking toward an as
sociation of nations, is squarely upon
the shoulders of our opponents.
American women will realize with
MS that the work of building an as
sociation of nations which will pre-
vent war must be undertaken again
by those who are most capable of
creating a workable plan and commit
ted to that policy. They realize with
us that America in the exercise of
her obligations to the world must be
guided by her own conscience and not
by mortgaging that conscience to
must realize that the league of ma
tions as presented byc democratic
administration would not mean peace
for us, but would mean American
boys living in Army tents overseas
and asked to die in causes in which
they would have no heart. Such q
league as the American people have
rejected would mean mandates under
taken In far-away places
All Desire Peace.
.Such a league as has been devised
by bungling hands would not mean
peace and amity with the world, but
entanglements, stress and the return
of the bodies of our men who had
been called across the ocean on
strange. un-American erfands-
I'VE are all desirous of preventing
war Let us not break the heart of
the world by any more delusions. Let
US unite America behind a new pro-
posal to the other nations for the pre-
vention of war and for amicable rela-
tionship in world administration. Let
us. in doing this. preserve our own ma
uonal conscience at home and not check