Arizona republican., 1920-09-21
AMb|GU|T|ES IN LEAGUE COMP PACT
 THREATEN PEACE
LRepubIIcan A. p. Leased wIrel

MARION, O., Sept. 20-Warning that the league of nations is full of known ambiguities'' and tha. t was an am biguity in our constitution that led to the civil war, Senator Harding today asked a delegation of civil war vet erans and a delegation of Kentucky and Tennessee citizens how we ever can consent to enter into a new world compact with a dozen antiquities in it.'
 The senator asserted that article 10 of the league is a reciprocal pledge on our part to help preserve the fnde- pendence and national integrity of fl nations and that the article and its correlaries clearly contemplate war 1T need be. to make this preservation possible
 Asserting that President Wilson had placed the "purport of an obsolete Clayton Bulwer treaty" above our con- stitutional rights, in requiring tolls from American vessels passing through the Panama canal, Senator Harding exclaimed:
 Who cares to say that this same sort of logic will not some day be used to plague an unwilling America into foreign wars if we unreservedly sub scribe to article 10, the constitution to the contrary, notwithstanding"
 Civil War Wounds Healed
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 T like to think of the blend of Ken lucky and Tennessee with the sons of the North who saved the nation. I like to think that in 1920, there are few wounds of the civil war remaining, there are few signs of sectionalism in our national life and there is no one who regrets the winning of the war by the north and the preservation of this wonderful land of ours.
 "I like to recall that after all there were no very great differences between us. I only think it was misdirected passion for country. You know there were two schools of American politics from the very beginning. One was the national school and the other was the school of states rights. These two schools were in conflict from the very beginning of the republic; they waged | their warfare With never ending in- | tensity until it finally eliminated in l the great civil war and in that conflict the question was settled and the to nationality.
 Ambiguity Caused Civil War "Have you ever stopped to think that we, one people, with naturally one in terest were. led into the civil war by mere ambiguity in the federal con stitution? In the beginning we were so divided in our ideas that there was
  1 compact that was made and it re- 1 quired the civil war to wipe it out 1 And that was a very great price tc pay But remembering that, my coun- 1 trymen, I want to ask you, knowing the cost of wiping out the ambiguity in the constitution of our own repub- lie. how can we ever consent to entel into new world compact with dozeI antiquities in it?
 Let me call your particular atten- tion to one; there is much dispute about that which is known as thu heart of the league No American can be simultaneously for article II and for the constitution of our repub lie any more than an American in Lin
 celn's time could be simultaneousl. for emancipation and for slavery.
 Let me say right here in passing
 that I am a fairly sympathetic human being and I wouldn't break the hear
 of anybody knowingly, but I would
 rather break the heart of the worl(
 than destroy the soul of the United States of America"