The Mena weekly star., 1921-04-14


 complished by such explicit reserva- tions and notifications as will secure our absolute freedom from inadvisable commitments and safeguard all our essential interests.
 Take Place in World.
 "The weariness at home and the disappointment to the world have been compensated in the proof that this republic will surrender none of the heritage of nationality, but our rights in international relationship have to be asserted, they require establish ment in compacts of amity; our part in readjustment and restoration can not be ignored, and must be defined.
 With the uper-governing league definitely rejected and with the world so informed, and with the status of peace proclaimed at home, we may proceed to negotiate the covenanted relationship so essential to the recog- milton of the rights everywhere of our nation and play our full part in joining the peoples of the world in the pursuits of peace once more Our obligations in effecting European tranquility, because of wars involv- ments. are not less impelling than our part in the war itself. This restora- tion must be wrought before the human procession can go onward again. We can be helpful because we are moved by no hatreds and harbor no fears. Helpfulness does not mean entanglement and participation in eco homie adjustments, does not mean cen sorship for treaty commitments which do not concern us and in which we will have no part.
 Asks Help of Senate.
 In an all-impelling wish to do the most and best for our own republic and maintain it's high place among na- tlons and at the same time make the fullest offering of justice to them, shall invite in the most practical way the advice of the senate, after ac- quainting 1t with all the conditions to be met and obligations to be dis charged, along with our rights to be safeguarded. Prudence in making the program and confident cooperation in making it effective cannot lead us far estray."
 The president reserved his discus sion of foreign relations for the con- NAAAAiiS POt VI HIS duQIGSS.
 He took up first the restriction of national expenditures to the limit of national income which he said must be considered in connection with the measurably lifting the burdens of war taxation. By striking resolutely at expenditure, he said, solution would be hastened and he warned congress that to continue course of unlimited expenditure would mean "ineyitable disaster" Economy in government, he said, would find it's reflex in econ omp and thrift among the people themselves.
 Prosper America First"
 Discussing readjustment of taxa tion, President Harding. said that the country did not expect and would not approve shifting of tax burdens. but was more interested in .swiping out the necessity for imposing them" The government, he said, was committed to the repeal of the excess profits tax. and to abolish the "inequities and un- Justifiable exasperations" in the pres ent tax system.
 Discussing tariff revision, the presi- dent reaffirmed his belief in the pro- lection of American industry.
 Tt IS our purpose" he said, "to prosper America first. The privileges of the American market to the for eign producer are offered too cheaply today, and the effect of much of our self reliance which is the foundation ot the independence and good fortune of our peoples. Imports should pav their fair share of the cost of our gov ernment. Agriculture, the president said was menaced with prices as pre- war normals and being further en- dangered by high cost of transporta- ton from farm to market thru the in- fiux of foreign farm products.n