The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-29
HARDING WOULD
HAVE new PACT
Believes Hague Tribunal Has All
Necessary Remedies For
Present Unrest.
PROMISES TO END WARS
Republican Chieftain Takes Di.
rect Issue With Cox On
League Nations Plan.
TO END WARS
lRv Associated Press )

Marion, Ohio, Aug. 2S.-Pronouncing
| the existing League of Nations a defi-
mite and irredeemable failure, Senator
Harding today proposed new effort to
construct a world association on the
! frame work of The Hague tribunal
clothed with such attributes of the
league covenant as may be found safe
and practicable.
He pledged himself, if elected presi-
dent, to make an effort, with the ad-
vice of the ablest men of both political
parties, to form such an association
either by putting teeth into The
Hague court or by revising the cove
nant to protect national aspirations.
The declaration was made in a front
porch speech to a delegation of Indi-
ana republicans covering in detail the
republican nominees position on. the
nations foreign relations. The senator
replied directly to the arguments of
his democratic opponent, Governor Cox,
and declared the league issue had been
squarely Joined.
THE democratic nominee he said,
has flatly said he is in favor of going
in on the basis announced by the plesi-
dent. / am not. That is the whole
difference between us, but il Is a most
vital one because 1t involves the dis
parity between a world court Of jus
tice supplemented by a world assaeia-
tion for conference on the one hand and
the council Of the league on ths Other"
TIE league. the candidate asserted,
had broken down at its first test in
Poland and now had passed beyond
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quoted from British statesmen to sup
port his statement that a revision of
the covenant would be welcomed
abroad, and answered suggestions 4nat
he be more specific by asserting that
detailed specifications were impossive
changing world opinion
Passage of peace resolution, he con-
tinued. would make an actual and ef-
feGtlye peace without negotiation Of
separate treaty with Germany.
Touching on Mexico. the ropablican
nominee proclaimed: "A pIl'l nn.it e
TO every government on the faoe Of the
earth that the United States Mould
submit TO no wrong its citizens in per-
son or property.
He also replied to charges of uniue
senate influence by asserting that as
president he would be quite as vigAant
as he had been as senator to pre-
vent trespass on that branch of tile
government in which he served.
The text OF the speech follows, in
part:
Let US suppose the senate mad rati@
fled the peace treaty containing tile
leagu covenant as submitted to it by
the president in July of last year.
Before this day we would have been
called upon to fulfill the obligations
which we had assumed under article
ten of the league covenant to preserve
the territorial integrity of Poland as
against external aggressiaA
THE council of the League Of Ma
tions would have and rea-
soned correctly, that aife Tn States
could furnish the munitions and. If
necessary, the men to Withstand the
hordes advancing from Russia far more
easily than could the exhausted M
tions Of Europe. What would of neees-
sity have to result Nothing neees-
sarily, we are glibly informed, since
only the congress can declare war and
the congress might reject the appeal
gress do that? Coed the congress do
that without staining indelibly the
honor of the nation?
The American people would never
permit repudiation of a debt of honor.
No congress would ever dare make this
nation appear as a weleher, as it would
appear and would be in such an evcrt
before the eyes of the world.
"This country is already. a member
o. The Hague tribunal, which, unlike
lie league of Ntlsailles, is still fun,
Ironing. and With few weeks II !,
resume its committee sessions undsr
Z chairmanshlp Of an american .ca.
resentative
In that body we have the frame
work Of a really effective instrument
tality of enduring peace
4 nelieve humanity would welcsme
tie creation of an international asso-
citation ~. conference for a worId cou-t
whose 'erdicts upon iustificable ques-