New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29

tudt IL Will DC vastly easier TO SO
strengthen the Hague Tribunal as to
render its just DEGREES either accept
able or enforceable.
ut is not uncommon for the advo-
Gates of the League of Versailles to
contrast unfavorabiy the Hague Tri-
bunal upon the ground that the tri-
bunal lacks teeth" said Senator Hard
ing, and then after an Impressive
pause he declared forcibly: every we'll,
then, let's put teeth into it"
If in the League of Versailles there
is machinery which the tribunal can
use properly and advantageously Sena-
tor Harding favors appropriating it.
81 would even so further" he said.
81 would take and combine all that
is good and excise all that is bad from
both organizations"
There was burst of cheers from
more Marion folk who gathered before
the front porch when Senator Harding
said:
$50 many things have been done
by the present expiring administration
that no power on earth could induce
NE to do that ! cannot even attempt
to recount them. l may remark cas-
ually. however, that if | should be, as
I fully expect to be, elected President
of this just and honorable Republic,
| Will not empower an assistant secre-
try of the navy to draft q constitu-
ton for helpless neighbors in the West
Indies and jam it down their throats
- .ho nOint of bavcnets borne by
United States marines.
w c have higher service for our gal
liant marines than that. Nor will
misuse the power of the executive to
cover With I veil of secrecy repeated
acts Of unwarranted interference in
domestic affairs of the little republics
of the Western Hemisphere.
Issues Warning to Mexico
On the other hand, Senator Hard
ing said, he would not submit to any
wrong against any American citizens
ly any government. If this statement
particularly applies to Mexico, Senator
Harding said the application has been
directed by the robbery and murder
Of hundreds of our people who were
lawfully in that country.
"One must admit the nominee said,
chat these outrages upon Americans
are largely the consequences of the
wiggiing and webbing, the supine
waiting Of our own country"
"Wiggling and wobbling," appeared
in the Senator's speech in four sepa-
rate places.
Americas moral leadership was lost.
he said, when ambition" sought to
"superimpose reactionary theory of
discredited autocracy upon the pro-
gressive principle of living, glowing
democracy"
Where /. s. Troops Were Wanted
In citing the case Of Poland. Sen
ator Harding declared that had the
United States become q member Of
the league 1t would have been called
upon to stem the tide OF the Red in
vasion and would have appeared as
4 wclcher had it refused.
Calling attention to the failure of
thc / ague TO function in the case of
Poland, the nominee quoted the words
of Lloyd George that it was impossible
to send an international army to aid
the Warsaw government because Eu-
rope could rot furnish the troops and
the United States had withdrawn from
cooperation Senator Harding de-
cared that meant. in plain words, that
the United States had not. by entering
the league, completed the obligation
ito furnish troops.
Full Text of Speech
The full text of Senator Harding's
speech follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the In
diana delegation: I greet you in a
spirit OF rejoicing; not rejoicing in
the narrow personal or partisan sense,
not in the gratifying prospects of
party triumph; not in the contempla-
ton of abundance in the harvest
fields and ripening corn fields and ma
turing orchards; not in the rcassuring
approach of stability after a period of
RI ioL
our uncertainty though all Of
these are ample for our wide rejoicng-
Lu, rejoice that America is still
free md independent and in position
of clf-reliance and holds to the right
of Self-dete1mination, which are price
less possessions in the present turbu-
lence Of the world.
Let us suppose the Senate had
r.tihed the peace treaty containing the
league covenant as submitted to it by
the President in July of last year.
What would be the situation confront
ing our common country to-day? To
my mind there is but one answer Be
fore this day we would have been
called upon to fulfill the obligations
which we had assumed under Article
\ of the league covenant to preserve
tho territorial INTEGRITY of Poland as
against external aggression
Sympathy for Poland
q" shall not now attempt to meas
ure the boundcss sympathy for the
just aspirations and restored indie
pendence of Poland. Our present con-
Germ is the international situation
which Poland has brought to our at
teption.
"The Council of the League of Ma
tons would have reasoned, and rea
soned correctly, that the United States
could furnish the munitions and, if
necessary, the men to withstand the
Aordes advancing from Russia far more
lastly than could the exhausted nations
# Europe. Moreover, inasmuch as this
you'd be the first test of the scheme
If world government which was formu-
lated and demanded by the President,
speaking for the United States, the
fact of a special sponsibiiity resting
upon our shoulders. manifestly would
have been undeniable. Undoubtedly
the league council, in advising upon
the means by which the obligations to
Poland should be fulfilled as provided
in the covenant, would have so held,
and probably the conscience of Amer
ic0, certainly the opinion of the world,
would have sustained that Judgment.
THE conclusion that our country
might now be confronted by such a
situation, if the Senate had ratified the
league covenant, requires no stretch of
the imagination. None can deny that
it is possible. To many candid minds,
as to nay own, such q distressing stu
alton will seem highly probable Let
us assume that the ratification had