The evening world., 1920-11-08


simple issue America niSation.
HARDING CAREFUL IN SPEECHES
NOT TO OFFEND ROOT
BY examining the dates Of the
speeches In which Senator Harding
discussed the treaty and League OF
Nations during the month Of sep
tSnber and October It will be noticed
qet. nothing was said publicly by Mr.
trding which Blihu Root, at any
pte, Interpreted as a contradiction OF
Ae advice given, for Mr. Root himself
qpnNuued TO support Harding and
pnde & speech at Carnegie Hall. New
Nork, In October reiterating his own
tiewb on Article X. and urging the
prtion OF Harding.
ir Marion during the last week the
ator learned that Elihu Root was
H1t held in the same high favor on
qaestions OF foreign policy as he ap-
ared TO be In Washington and New
bcrk and other parts OF the country,
Hbefe IL had been confidently be-
Heeed that Mr.. Root would be tho
pacRbone OF the Harding Administra-
tioreon foreign policies Indeed. It will
% noted that in almost all the de-
qfatches sent out from Marion CIV
ntS gossip about the future Cabinet
~ Root was not named FOR secre-
tIy OF state.
plt is also declared that when
iis Root esbisgram came from
Enrope Senator Harding showed
his displeasure. Whether he COM
Fmunisated his criticism TO Mr..
Root Is not known to the writer,
kut from the fact that the former
kseerotary Of state at later date
made a public speech urging the
election OF Harding on the League
issue the inference may be drawn
Nhat Mr.. Root was not acquainted
with any such disapproVal.
H1ndeed. the only evidence presented
publicly that Senator Harding Is dis
posed 10 disagree with MI Root
came after the election and during
the pas; week, when in an address to
the crowds who came to cheer him
at Marion Senator Harding spoke OF
the election verdict and then referred
70 the Treaty OF Versailles as de
ceased" Mr.. Root had cabled that
it was "very unwise to declare the
League dead"
FRIENDS OF THE TREATY HAVE
NOT LOST HOPE.
Friends OF the treaty have not lost
hope, and the few who know about
Mr.. Roots cablegram believe that
Senator Harding must inevitably Ro-
eept the Root view. As for the ex-
PLANTATION made In March. 1919. in the
letter sent by Mr.. Root to viii Hays,
the reference tosThe Hague Court in
that communication is as follows:
There was a weakness in the
system devised By The Hague
Conference. IT was that arbitra-
tion of justiciable questions was
not made obligatory 80 that no
nation could bring another before
the court unless tho defendant
was willing 70 come. and there
was no way 20 enforce a judg-
ment."
After declaring that in his judg-
ment strictly "Justiciable or judicial
questions should be obligatory, Mr..
F1oot wrote that the United states
ought 20 be willing so far as such
questions were concerned to stand
precisely on the Same footing as
other nations" but that with re-
- A.. --....to... 80 ,DolNcy aOpna dIf-
heuit considerations are apparent"
He added: THE great essential thing
kbout the, plan contained in the
covenant OF the League OF Nations
IL that II makes international con-
ferences on political questions com
pulsory in times Of danger; that It
brinEs together such conferences
upon the call OF officers who repre-
sent all the powers and makes II
practically impossible for any nation
10 keep out Of them"
IMPoRTANcE OF THE ROOT CA
BILE TO HARDING.
Mr.. Root praised the scheme for
International conference. but point
"a out some OF its serious defects
The important thing Is that Mr'
Root cabled Senator Harding from
London after a personal observation
bt European affairs that the struc-
ture Of the present treaty and the
League was worth preserving and
was by no means dead
some people will profess to see
clear break between Senator Harding
ana Mr.. Root. Others are conn
dent that senator Harding will do th'
right thing when he calls a confer
snce of the statesmen OF Amortc'
and that the value of Mr.. Root
Judgment will thOn be fully tested
d'he Rool cablegram, which 1t Is onl'
fair 20 say he did not give out 10
publication, IL the deliberate judgmen
Or an American who was Seeretar'
Of STATE under President Roosevelt
ana the American representative a