Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-17
World, Anxious for War to
End, Approved the League
Covenant Without HeSI-
tation and Without Debate
REPUBLICANS NOT TO
TAKE BACKWARD PATH
Party's Policy Points Way.
to RemodeIing the Cove
nant to Make It Conform
to American Principles.

New London, Conn.,, Oct.
16.-Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of C0lum-
bia university. New York,
in an address here tonight,
pointed out what he called
defects in the present league
of nations covenant and
recommended adjustment of
international difficulties
through a tribunal pattern
ed after, but amplifying that
of The Hague.
A republican administra-
ton headed by Mr.. Hard
ing, he said, would not in
any respect shirk its duty as
one of the family of nations,
though it would not become
a member of the existing
league.
"They are mistaken who
think that the republican
party when again entrusted
with the responsibility for
the administration of the
government will enter upon
any backward path" he de-
clared. "The spirit of pro-
gress, of ambition to serve,
of zeal to solve the great
and veXatious problems
which confront the people,
are in full possession of the
republican party of 1920.
&. o. T.. Will seek Advice.
For one, l am confident that
when the rcins of government shall
pass into republican hands on
March 4 next, the ripest wisdom,
the widest experience and the best
talent which the country affords
will be called upon to assist IN
shaping those policies which shall
hasten IA solution of the peoples S
problems and a meeting of the peo-
pies needs
mo party, no government, can
accomplish the impossible, but the
republican party may confidently
be trusted to open in 1921 a new
era in the history of our country
and to make powerful and perma-
nent contribution to the cause OF
international peace and concord
and to the advancement of the
| worlds satisfaction and happiness
without in any way lessening the
control of the American people
over their own policies and acts
and without in any way bending
or breaking the constitution of the
United States, the sheet anchor OF
our ship of state"
Two Issues at Present.
Mr.. Butler asserted that much
discussion of campaign affairs mas
no reference to great present 49,
sues, which. he said, are only two
| in number, as follows:
The relation which the people
of the United States are to bear tt
other nations and to those move
ments of political and economic
opinion that are common to civiliz'
ed peoples throughout the world
and,
"The relative fitness of the dem
ocratic and republican parties tt
uphold and defend the American
form of government, and to dea
| in truly constructive and cour.
ageous fashion with the problems
of taxation, of cost of living. o.
transportation, of labor, of hous
ing. of public health. and of ad
ministrative efficiency which i'm
mediately confront the American
people"
Pointing out the record of the
| United States as a leader in worlt
movements for international set
Elements under codified law. he re-
viewed the country's correspond
ence with foreign nations under
| Presidents Mckinley, Roosevelt
and Taft relative to the series o.
Hague conferences, and criticized
those who. refer disparagingly o.
the Hague tribunal on the GROUND
that 1t failed to prevent the Euro
pean war.
He said that in 1914 "thougi
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