The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-03-11
MARCH, 1921
PROBLEMS FOR HARDING

PksltI.EMS FOR HARDING
The biggest task that ever fell
to the lot of a new administration. ,
eNclatms the Republican Buffalo
Evening News, contemplating the
staggering array of problems. domes
tic and foreign, political. financial
industrial and commercial. that i.
President Harding's heritage. with
the single exception .. Lincoln prob
ably no president in our national his
tory has taken office with as press.
ing burden of unsolved questions. .
AYERS the New York Nation: and the
independent Newark News, declarins
that Mr.. Harding must meet, and
overcome. obstacles greater than ever
Roosevelt surmounted." assures him
he need never fear that history VIII
Tint his administration with drab.''
The New Republic (Ind.) dwells on
the truly awful" nature Of his task,
and the New Work Globe (Ind. }
characterizes his responsibilities as
appalling. mo thinking person
will try to belittle the magnitude of
the task that confrOnts Mr.. Harding. -
declares the Philadelphia Public
Ledger Ind.l: and it adds:
"He will inherit from the passing
administration a legacy that is the
greater for the sac Sact of Mr. Will
= sons protracted invalidism. Never
has any president come to the tire.
mendous office with so much unfin-
ished business and so many fresh
problems OF moment awaiting his
mind and hand. Our international
relationships were never so far
reaching nor SO complicated, and the
expression of benevolent intention is
OF the formulation of a policy, much
less the performance of an energetic
salvatory action. The whole great
question of the part we are to play
in world affairs with other nations
remains to be determined. How are
we to deal with Russia and with
Germany. in fidelity to the trust i'm
posed on us alike Ivy the dead and
by the unborn?"
Springfield Republican lnd), done
anything since November to clear
the way. 1t is verbally ''sea OF
troubles" upon which President Har-
ding has embarked. declares the New
York Herald Ind. Rep. which
goes on to say of the financial snags
in the channel:
The new administration comes
into office facing an interest charge
of one billion dollars year. This
nation, which once gasped when it
discovered that the machinery Of
year, now has to pay that amount
yearly on it's debt alone. so long as
the foreign powers default on their
share OF 1t. not to mention the reg
nlar costs of running the govern
ment.''
Just a few" OF the complicated
diplomatic problems that Warren G.
Harding is facing are listed as fol-
lows in Washington dispatch to
the New York Tribune lRep.D:
THE Japanese situation growing
out of the California land laws, an
attempt to smooth over which al
ready has resulted IN loud outcries
by the California senator's.
THE discussions which represen-
tatives of the British dominions have
been holding with Senator Lodge as
to some plan of these dominions and
the United States presenting a unit
ed front to Japan.
1.-The Mexican situation, which APP
parently the Wilson administratio
intends to leave on Harding's door
step, just as TATE left 1t on Wilson's.
'The disarmament proposal, with
it's important relations TO Great Bril-
tain and Japan.
THE situation involved in foreign
debts to the United States and the
interest thereon, aO0ut which whole
affair either the British chancellor
of the exchequer is guilty of an ex-
traordinary blunder or else the Will
son administration has been conceal
ing the truth from the American
people
''The peremptory demand by the
United States that Japan cease from
occupying the other nalf of Sagha-