Evening star., 1921-12-23
FORCE MUST FAIL,
SAYS Mr.: COOLIDGE
Vice President Declares Rule
. of Reason Should Gov
ern Nations.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 23.-Efforts
to establish an International jurisdic-
tion under any sanction of force have
always resulted in failure. Vice Presi-
dent Coolidge told the New England
Society at it's annual dinner last night.
but this cannot mean," he said, that,
as in domestic affairs. SO in interna-
tional affairs, the rule of reason shall
not apply
This, to me, Is the great proposition
of Washington" he continued. 1T is
the consuIpmation of ideals which,. II
We may claim first found their prac-
tical application on the stern shores
81 New England. yet by the very New
England theory which expresses them,
are acclaimed to be the common herit-
age Of all mankind.
Mnynower Sails On.
''The problems of the nations are to
yield, not to conflict. but to confer
ence; not to force, but to reason he
said. The voyage of the Mayf1ower
Is not done. Her course is set. With
an ever-increasing cargo of ideals
achieved she is sailing on. bearing the
hope and ministering to the welfare
of the world Over her, in the
prophecy of their ancient pastor. John
more light. 1t is the increasing re-
lance of the higher law.
The great meaning of New Eng
land has been the part it has played
in the establishment of a responsible
representative form of government
founded on the independent con-
science of the individual citizenship.
'fne independent conscience of the
Individual" he later declared, finds
AN exaggerated counterpart in the
independent sovereignty of each ma
ton"
Legislatures Should BE Free.
To the early settler of New Eng
land, Vice President Coolidge de-
clared belonged the credit for the
working out and putting into prac-
tice of the solid. the substantial and
the stable form of representative
government
The federal Constitution "was but
:. beginning of the triumphs of that
form of parliamentary government
which New England nourished and
sustained for more than $50 years.,
he said.
Triumph on triumph has followed.
from the establishment of the re-
public of France and the British re-
form bill of 1892 down to the newly
formed republic of the ancient en-
pre- of China and the recently freed
nations of continental Europe.
Prom these great benefactIonS which
have accrued from representative par
H.mentary government. there follows
The obvious necessity that legislatures
should be free. that they should be un-
der no domination save the obligation to
serve the public welfare. Seeing the
great function they perform alike in
state and nation, they may we'll con-
tinue the worthy objects of admiration
and confidence. Wherever legislative
bodies have been lowered in the public
estimate. the foremost duty of the peo-
pie is to seek their rre-establiShment
and restoration.
Rule OF Reason.
''The SouICc o. authority, the source
of liberty. lies in the people themselves,
but the safest repository of necessary
public authority, the firmest and
stanchest guardians of liberty, are the
representative parliamentary bouies OF
the world. Unless through them there
can be provided security against the
rule of force. and a guarantee of the
rule of reason, it cannot be provided
at all.
"One of the most difficult problems
for the legislator of the present day is
20 distinguish between the advocates of
private interest and public welfare. In