The evening world., 1920-08-30
UPHOLDHOW1


about its great strength and the impossibility of
any ones inducing It to exert that strength in any
direction against its will and Judgment
- Maybe Senator Harding could be persuaded to
answer that question.
Maybe he couldn't
After three troubled weeks, during which his
party sponsors have been far from easy over the
way matters are going the Republican candidate
delivered speech at Marion last Saturday in which
he tried out few gyrations designed to make
so-caled Republican foreign policy look more like
all things to all Republicans.
One stock premise he retained:
=, : he existing League of Nations, inseparaby asso-
ciaed with the aims and achievements of Wood
row Wilson, is pitiable fraud and failure
That is still guaranteed 10 keep Hiram johnson
and Henry Cabot Lodge nodding in harmonious
agreement
To catch Mr. Taft and other Republican defend
es of the League, Senator Harding tries new bait
IN the shape of a Hague Tribunal to be tnkered up
under Republican auspices-with "all that is
{, good" in the League Of Nations plan.
o." His earlier proposal of separate peace with Ger
many having been found to offend too many Re-
publican nostris the Republican candidate is oblig-
irgiy ready to pitch overheard.
For the rest he experiments on the minds of
Americans generally with dreadful warning ex-
tracted from the Polish situation to show what I'M
pleasant obligations the United States might have to
~ meet or evade It were League member.
q, Yet when Senator Harding endeavors to say
something positive and inspiring about his own
league or association, which may be anything so
long as it is not the League the President has urged,
he delivers himself as follows:
-- Il believe humanity would welcome Che
alton OF an international association for
ference and a world court whose verdicts upon
justicabe questions this country in common
with all nations would be both willing and able
to uphold"
ha Uphold how3
BY resolutions in the United States Senate APP
proving the verdicS, pointing out how they ought
to be enforced and regettng that the United States
could not see its way, even under due constitutional
processes, to bear part of the cost OF enforce
ment3
Getting down to brass tacks, is it Senator Hard
ng's idea that a majority of the people of this Ma
ton, while DESTROYS of having war prevented, are
shrewdly looking for league out OF which they
can get all possible advantage without putting any
thing into It'll
Does he think that frightening Americans by lurid
imagnings of what might be expected of them as
active, participating members of a real League Of
Nations will blind them to the fundamental fact thai
to pledge force would be the smest way of reduc
ing the number of occasions when, whether the,
were members of league or not force might be re
qured of them'
Senator Harding talks of putting teeth into tn
Hague Tribunal"
What real teeth" could he put into it that woul
not in the final analysis lay upon this country tn
same moral obligations that he tries to make loo
like bogies in the covenant of the existing League
few weeks ago The Evening World put que
don-one Of several-to Mr.. Taft. That questic
was:
Does not any party party faction rAt
turns its back the existing League of Ma
tons run the risk Of Identifying itself with a
class OF Americans who are secretly ready for
a dignihed way to climb down from protested
- national purpose which has come to seem too
stir for them7
To which Mr.. Taft replied:
~ eThs question involves Interpretation OF
voo4ives which do Mt Dean n wise NJ prasar.