New-York tribune., 1920-10-15
Harding Says
W Orld Fayors
His League Plan
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$4,000 100000 debt to the United
States.
Both we and our Allies recognize
these loans as constituting a legitimate
Indebtedness, but they are not repre-
s.ented by anything more definite than
Ambassadorial notes." said he. Moth
ing could be further from my desire
than that the payment of these loans
should be harshly or importunately
! forced. Nevertheless, these debts are
in principle of the same binding
quality as those which we're incurred
in the form of loans made directly by
the people and represented by interest
bearing bonds.
1 these debts will sooner or later be
/ funded and paid. | feel sure our al
! lies as soon as they are able, will
want to pay them. | shall regard it as
one of the first duties of the incoming
| Administration to take up the subject
! of adjusting these great debts and put
! ting them in form where we shall
| know exactly what to expect, and how
and when to expect it, and our allies
will know exactly what they are to
meet and how and when they are to
meet it,
I've should do this for another rea-
son. Whatever our allies are finally to
pay should be put in the form of def
mite Obligations bearing reasonable
rate of interest, so that they may be
negotiated and the proceeds used to
reduce our own burdensome debt and
thereby decrease the intolerable load
OF taxation which the American people
are now obliged to bear, and quite as
important, to pay off our enormous
floating debt, relieve our banking sys-
tenn from ~
iunds Tor the use of the Legitimate.
business and bringing interest charges
back to a normal rate"
Senator Harding's Louisville speech
wound up busy vote making day of
rear platform speaking across Tennes-
see and Kentucky. Tennessee probably
has been scratched from the list of Re-
publican prospects. The most favor
able expression heard aboard the can
didate's special train to-day was thst
Tennessee was 2 to bet, the odds
against the Republican ticket. But
kentucky's thirteen electoral votes are
very likely to be included henceforth
in the calculations of Senator Har-
ding's victory vote
The start from Chattanooga, where
the Senator spoke last night. was made
at 7 o'clock this morning. The special
train OF seven cars halted a dozen
times in the Cumberland Mountain and
Blue Grass towns on the run to.Louis-
Vile, whore il arrived shortly before
o'clock tonight.
At each halt Senator Harding made
short, extemporaneous speech to the
RESIDENTS who crowded about the rear
platform OF his car. In every case his
audience reacted with entlrus iasm siml-
ar to that of Northern audiences to
denunciatioN of Article X and one-mYn
government
There we're $500 in the crowd At
lockwood, reached at g. m. Almost
a, third were school children, most of
them bearing American flags. The
Senator appealed to the men and wom-
en- to stand by their inherited nation
atty and pass it safe TO their childcen.
AS the train swept around 4 curve that
shut the crowd from view the cheer
ing could still be heard by the nominee.
Discusses Esch- -Glmmins Bill
At Oakdale, Tenn, railroad town
on the banks Of the Emory River, the
| Senator discussed the Fsch- Cummins
pill, telling the men there this bit of
legislation contained a new bill Of
rights for labor AS the train beean
to move away Senator Harding was
still talking about this subject and
man in cveralls with q red bandana
about his throat called out: '"What
about the league F'
"No Wilson League tor us!" replied
the Candidate At the Top Of his voice.
In the shout of approval there could
be distinguished the cries Of individuals
yelling: "That's tie stuff" and "Rah
for Harding!"
Oneida, the last stop in Tennessee,
had turned out to the limit of its cen
sus record, about 800. The children
were there, groroed behind a small
bare-leg sed, tow-headcd lad, who
struggled to keep upright the staff Of
en American flag that wes much toe
heavy for him. Senator Harding held
up to their view thick volume, an
official copy Of the Treaty of Versailles
II hold IN nay hann for illustration"
said he, "a copy Of the treaty Of peace
with Germany and the League Of Ma
tions covenant"
'That's some Book in size" called
out a man in the crowd.
Explains Attitude on Mexico
At Somerset, Ky, Senator Harding
replied to frequently uttered Demo
cratic campa ,gn assertion that Repub-
lican success means war with Me- leo.
"The policy OF the present Adminis-
tration which brought distrust in Me-
leo and humiliation at home, will be
quickly reversed when VIC come into