The evening world., 1920-08-04
HARDING ATTACKS
ARTICLE TEN IN
NEW PORCH SPEECH
Says 1t Would Call on PreSi-
dent to Aid Without Con-
Stitutional Authority.
WOULD CAUSE RIVALRY.
Adopted Citizens Might Want
Nation to Act in Behalf
of Native Lands.

MARION, o.. Aug. 4.--DecryinE ap-
peals to glasses as o menace second
only % surrender Of nationality -
Internationally. Senator Harding, in
his Oeoond front porch campaign
speech to-day, said that Il 1lo could
choose bit one. no would "rather
have Industrial and social peace OF
home fhan command the dnteua-
tional peace OF all the world"
He asserted ~ would be ''unw4se for
this country to permit our activities
In seelcing for peace an tho old world
to blind us 20 the essentials of peGcc
at home" and added that II America
can be made TO forget the attemDted
barter of nationality. well and good.
but that when nationality ts surren-
dered 70 internationally. little else
matters, and all appeal is vain"
Taking up the League Of Nations,
Senator Harding declared dt to be
the other extreme 30 a referendum
on q proposed declaration Of war.
"I emphat1calny agree." ne said,
.tnlnt no authority other than Con-
greas may call our boys TO battle.
Accepting thiS truth, why mako
covenant which violates the good
faith OF national
Suppose that under Article x.
a programme OF aTmed force Is
agreed upon and the Congress of the
United States declines to respond.
The Executive would be called upon
to carry on a war without conSdtu-
tionaI authority or we should prove
our COMPACT no moro than a scrap
of paper. We ane ON the side Of
both safety and honor to hold for
ourselves tho deohsion OF our oDh-
cations to the world.
when I sat ON the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations and listened
to American delegations appealing IN
behalf Of kinsmen or old home folks
across eeas. caught the aspirations
OF nationality and a perfectly nan'raa
sympathy among kindred In this He-
public. But dittle realized then how
we mi Qht rend the concord of Amerd-
lean citizenship in our seeking to solve
old world problems.
'There have come to me, not at all
unbecominEly, the expressed ankle
ties of Americans foreign-born, who
are asking our country's future at
titdue on territorial awards In the
adjustment a OF peace. They are Am
ericans all, but they have a proper
and natural interest in the fortunes
Of ldnsfolk and native lands. one
can not blame them. II our land Is
to settle tho envies, rtvalrtes, Jeal-
ousies and hatreds OF all civilization,
these adopted sons of the Republic
want the settlement favorable to the
land from which they came.
"The misfortune Is not alone that
Il rends the concord OF nations, the
greater the pity Is that II rends the
concord OF our citizenship at home.
II is folly to think of blending Greek
and Bulgarian, Italian and Slovac, or
making any of them retoicingly
American when the land OF adoption
sits in judgment on the land from
which they came.
Tho address was delivered 10 a
delegation from Wayne County,
wlhioh Senator Harding said was a
community of homes. which was ehe
ideal community.
"The pioneers wrought their homes
out OF the Wilderness he said. THE
possession of homes was their In
splratlon. In these modern day homes
are wrought through industry anu
| thrift.
I'VE Republicans hold that the In
herited plans of constitutional. rep
resentative popular government, with
the inspirations of nationality and a
far chance for every man, have en-
abled men to write the supreme story
of human and national advancement
| In ali the world, and we mean TO hold
the Inheritance secure and 20 conn-
IDENTIFY on to greater and Erandor
achtevenlanA"