The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-17
HARDING'S TOUR OF
WEST Big SUCCESS


encouragement for the American mer-
chant marine, argued for protective
tariff and advocated the Improvement
OF inland waterways as feeders for the
railroads.
Important as the Senator's speech was
In St Louis his most outstanding utter
ance of the day was at Greencastle. Ind
this afternoon. There. before an audi
ence OF 5000 persons, he said positively
that he had been asked by spokesman
for the French Government that Amer
lea take the lead in an association OF
nations. He made this statement In
reply to Secretary Colby's assertion that
the only league of nations possible was
the league that President Wilson brought
back from Paris. He had been assured
by France that this was not the fact.
Here is the way Senator Harding put
Il:
WY, my countrymen. France in ASK
ing, France has sent her spokesman 10
me informally. asking America in its
new realization of the situations TO lead
the way for an association of nations.
England has said through Lloyd George
and through Earl Grey, that America
must revise and amend and make the
League of Nations possible. They all
leadership. II there is to be a league OF
the nations OF the world, my country
men, 1t ought to be one big enough and
broad enough to take in all OF the ma
lions of the world, else one group will
be organized and arrayed against an
other
II propose to you that kind OF fra
ternity OF nations which is born OF
American ideals, that association OF
nations which will leave America free
to make her own way in the world. that
association Of nations that makes us OF
America express the American con-
to our American ideals. / like to say
to my countrymen that we have builded
America out of those who came across
the Atlantic to establish a new Amer
lea. out of those who came across the
Atlantic TO establish new order. Cap
plause.) We have made it the finest
place in the world in which to reside
end to aspire, and want to keep it an
America OF American ideals, governing
under the Constitution and putting into
execution the will of the people. not the
will of the Executive-not one man
power for our republic
There Is a good deal OF speculation
az to what Senator Harding meant when
he referred to spokesman" for France.
Some persons who heard the address
assumed that he meant the French Am
bassador, especially as he used the word
informally" in speaking of the assur-
ance he had received that, France would
be content with any plan OF world assoc
citation which would have behind 1t The
whole American people. In this connec-
ton too Senator Harding displayed keen
interest in an article written by Ste
plane Lausanne and published in the
October number Of the North American
Revietc.
In this article NJ. Lausanne quotes
President Millerands approval of senti-
ments uttered by Harding In Hardings
speech of acceptance, Millerand having
said, 'It would be hard to think more
clearly or to express the thought better,
we think, word for word. the same
things, but perhaps we should not have
known how to express them in 20 noble
a language Also Lausanne gives his
earnest approval to Senator Harding's
idea that America should be left free. I'm
her own conscience, to work out her
relationship to the rest of the world.
The French editor wrote:
"And although the written compact
which was promised to us at Versailles
had for its end to guarantee France
against the horrors she had suffered,
we will renounce it gladly. The coven-
ant Of the American conscience VIII
suffice us. But this conscience must
not remain mute or Indifferent 1t must
pronounce it's yerdicts. 1t must guide
the world"
Senator Harding made three speeches
in Indiana, at Greencastle Brazil and
Terre Haute, before entering Illinois.
At Brazil and -Terre Haute he de-
nounced the Administration for failing
to enforce that provision Of the Esch-
Cummins Act which guarantees an
equitable distribution OF coal cars.
IT want to say that when 7 become
President this law is going to be en-
forced in the spirit in which it was
written. This is merely one illustration
of the policy OF strict law enforcement
that we will substitute for the Demo-
cratic programme of enforcement of
these laws that do nor please the ex-
ecutive authorities and multiplying those
laws that do not please them"
Entering Illinois in the early after
noon Senator Harding was greeted by
of both factions OF the
Republican party OF the state. William
Il. Mckinley. candidate for the Senate
and a Lowden follower. Len Small, can
ddate for Governor, and Frank l..
Smith, State Chairman and who was de
feated by Mckinley for the Senate nom
nation. Joined the Harding party and
accompanied the Senator through their
state.
They talked to the party chief pretty