New-York tribune., 1920-10-27
Bourgeois Statement Is
Held to Prove Article
XI Also Involves Men.
ace to u. S. Interests
Begins Final Tour
OF Campaign To-day
Collapse of Zinc Industry
Declared To Be Typical
of Need for Protection
From q stor Correspondent.

MARION, Ohio, Oct. Ex-senator
Warren G. Harding found to-day in
the conflict OF opinion between Pres
ident Wilson and NJ. Leon Bourgeois,
president of the Council of the
League of Nations, complete proof
of the utter lmpossibility of getting
agreement as to the obligation III
blood and treasure that the United
States would shoulder by subscrib-
ing to the covenant as negotiated at
Versailles. Senator Harding showed
that he feels chat if the heart of the
league is bad, some of its other ora
gans, Article XI, for example, are
also full Of menace for America.
The candidates comment was made
after his attention had been directed
70 cable message from Brussels to
The Associated Press, in which NJ.
Bourgeois was quoted as saying that
"Article could be eliminated with
out in any way modifying the effec-
tiveness OF a League OF Nations"
This Is most Illuminating" said
Senator Harding, Owe are told by the
great American authority on the cove
nant, President Wilson, that Article X
Is its heart. Now comes NJ. Bourgeois,
president of the league council, and
says it is not important. He informs
US that all that is efficacious in the
covenant is set forth in other articles
This can only mean that if Article x
were eliminated Article XI would still
have the same effect. That was re-
peatedly charged during the Senate
discussion, and never convincingly de-
MED
Holds Position Justified
at all illustrates" continued Senator
Harding, "the utter impossibility Of
getting agreement as to what the cove
nant means, what it would obligate the
United States to do. 1t is the complete
demonstration that the only safety for
the United States is to remain outside
until we may unite upon a plan for an
association of nations that shall mean
the same thing to everybody, and under
which we shall know, beyond uncer-
tainty or equivocation, our precise obi
CATION. A free America can give that
, service to the world"
1t was pointed out here that in say
ing that the only safety for the
United States is to remain outside
until we may unite upon plan,' SEN
ator Harding has sought to make it
clear once more that his objections
are to the obligations fixed for the
United States and not to the idea Of a
League of Nations.
Senator ialGing Will set oct to-mor-
row 10 Il ak, Ohio decide which q.
her to- tsroiite sons is he most
favored The Republican nominee
will go to Cleveland tomorrow after
noon and in the evening vlll deliver
the first Of four speeches to be made
in Ohio cities. After speaking IN
Cleveland he IS to appear on success
sive nights before large meetings n
Akron. Cincinnati and Columbus. re-
turning from the state caoi.al 20
Marion early Sunday morning. lie
will remain close - the from. porch
from then until Election Day.
Women Close Porch Campaign
This afternoon the folks around the
front porch yere regaled l,v the La
dies Gee Cab o. Troy, ONO. ne
score Of women in this or.AriAAt.oa
probable can always claim the dis
tinction q being the last delegation
to the l9.0 porch campaign.
In replying with a telegram to
letter from Paul A. Ewert, of Joplin,
Mo. Senator Harding found an oppor-
/ tunity TO set forth his views of the
necessity of restoration of the protec-
'lvc tariff if the United States is 10
be saved from severe ccon0lhlc d e.
t.oSs.
Mr.. Ewert. who is chairman Of the
zinc ore tariff committee of the Joplin
Chamber of Commerce, the webb City
Chamber Of Commerce and the South
western 5lissouri Mine Operators As
sociation, wrote Senator Harding about
the disastrous condition OF the zinc
mining industry of the state because
the Democratic party had removed the
protective tariff. Senator Hardinss
telegram follows:
Replying to your communication re
ceived to-day concerning conditions in
the Joplin mining district, ! may say
am more or less familiar with them.
and find your statement peculiarly sug-
gestive of what IS now going on in
many other parts of the country. You
inform me that up to 1916 southwest
ern Missouri was the largest zinc min
ing district in the world; that the de-
mands of the European war made the
district temporarily very prosperous,
but the Democrats had removed the
tariff on zinc ore, Of which great uuar-
titles were imported in 1916 and 1917:
that during the last session of Congress.
efforts were made to have really pro-
tective duty on zinc restored, but tina.
it failed, and you add:
Zine ore in 1915 and 1917 was I'M
ported from sixteen different coun-
tries. 1t was sent directly to our
smelters and delivered for half OF what
1t cost US to produce il. Our mines
began to close down in 1917. and last
week every mining district ciosec,
throwing out Of employment $4,000
men. OF course the demand for zinc
is low now. but the cause OF this was
the immense importation Of zinc ore,
which was made into spelter and which
produced such a tremendous surplus
: that our own ore remained unsold in
the bin
The case of Joplin district zinc is a
typical one. The Democrats removed
the protection from zinc, the proceed
) ure being one of the fundamentals OF
. their political creed. Zinc was merely