Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-21
HARDING RIDDLES PROVISIONS
 OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Marion, O.. Sept. 20.-Warning that the sague of nations is full of known an- siguities" and that it was an ambiguity II our own constitution that led to the -ivtl war, Senator Harding today asked | delegation of Civil war veterans and delegation of Kentucky and Tennessee >.tizens How we ever can consent to snter into new world compact with tozen antiquities in it."
 The senator asserted that Article x of he league of nations is a reciprocal sledge on our part to help preserve the ndependence and national integrity of 'orty-four S-ions," and that the article snd It's correlaries clearly contemplate war, if need te, to make this preservation ,osslbie."
 Asserting that President Wilson had placed the ''purport of an obsolete Clay . .on-Bulwar treaty" above our constitu- :ional rights. in requiring tolls from American vessels passing through the Panama canal. Ser stor Harding exclaim- d: Who cares to say that this same tort of logic will not some day be used to plage uan unwilling AmLrica into for sign war if we unreservediy subscribe to Article x, the constitution 10 the contrary notwithstanding"
 owing 10 a misunderstanding, the Ken lucky and Tennessee delegation came to- Hay Instead of tomorrow and the presi- teneiAl candidate addressed them along with delegation of G. A. R. veterans An their way to attend the national en- eannpment at Indianapolis.
 Senator Harding said in part:
 T like 10 think of the blend of Ken lucky and Tennessee with the sons of the north who saved the nation I like to think that in this year 1920 theer are lew wounds of the Civil war remaining thcre are few evidences of sectionalisrr si our national life, and there is no one who regrets the winning of the war by the north and the preservation of this wonderful land of ours
 T iikek to recall that. after all there were 10 very great differences betweer us. only think it was a misdirecteG pzssicn for country. You know there wer, Ee schools of American politics from thu Very beginning. One was the nationa tchool and the other was the school o Itnte$ rights. These two schools il Amerfceh politics were in conflict iron Lhs very beginning of the republic; the, waEed their warfare with never-endinI intehsity until it finally eliminated il The great Civil war and in that confic he question was settled and the Unite, States committed everlastingly to nation ality
 Have you ever stopped to think tha we bns people with naturally one inter sst were led into the Civil war by mer Amhiauity in the federal constitution? | Inc Beginning we were so divided in ou ldea4 that there was of necessity uncer tainty left in the compact that was mad and it required the Civil war to wipe put And that was a very great pric 10 pay But. rememt ering that, my coun trynen, I want to ask you. knowing tn rosi of wiping out the ambiguity in tn constitution of our own republic, how ca we ever consent to erter into new worl eonubAct with dozen ambiguities in it
 At me call your particular attentio to tAe: There is much dispute aboy that which is known as theheart Of tn IenGlB' No American can be simultant eustt fDr AEtiese x and for the const
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