The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-09
HARDING KEEP. U. $. FREE AND.
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BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

of any kind whatsoever, is the key note of President Hardings foreign policy. This sympathetic co-opera- tion, without any entangling alliances is a complete reversal of the Wilson policies. Mr. Harding would have, and will have, the United States free and unfrettered. Mr. Wilson would have had the country part of . great super-government of the first class powers, in which the United States it is now generally acknowledged, would have lost its proud position of abso- lute independence among the nations of the world.
 The presidents decision to have the United States represented, though it be unofficially at the allied councils, is the first big step taken by this country since the armstice to aid a war stricken world.
 The fact is that participation of the American representative in the allied councils is regarded in Washington as the one great common sense colu- tion of tangled and complicated in- ternational problem.
 The United States, it has been dem onstrated by this master stroke of the President, can cooperate with Flu rope without being bound by tne peace treaty or the League of Nations, both of which were rejected by the senate Harding policy in this matter is total ly different from MT. Wilson's policy.
 Opinion in the senate is overwhelm- ingly favorable to the action taken by MT. Harding. There are a few se1at- ors, however, who have protested, but they are practically all Democrats. Tie Democratic senators vary natural ly are on the lookout to seize any pre- text to attact the Harding administ;a- ton, and it would be strange if this were not so, because when the posi- tons of the parties were reversed in the senate under the Wilson adminis- tration it was the Republicans who seized every possible opportunity to attack Wilson and his policies. This is one of the preat drawbacks to our system of party government, yet it is necessary for there could be no re- publican form of government without parties.
 The United States, having victori- ously participated in the World war, and in the fact having been the decid- ing factor in that war on the side of the allies, both ill money, men &ld slips, is vitally interested in the final settlement of all of the postwar prob lems. The United States is deeply in terested in just settlement of all these problems. Hence it is necessary that the United States participate in the last settlements, and this it is doing
 
 ally.
 In his message to Lloyd George the president hit the nail squarely on the head when ha said:
 "The government of the United States, while maintaining it's tradi- tio1lal policy of abstenticn from par ticipation in matters of distinctly Iu- ropean concern, iG deeply Interested in the proper encouragement and the jus. settlements Of matters of world. wide importance which are under dis cussion in these conferences, and ie- sires helpfully to cooperate in the de- Alterations upon these questions" No American president ever said a saner or more patriotic thing concern | ing our relations to the remainder of the world
 l No one can deny that the future vel | fare of the United States will be pro- | fouEdly affected for many years to COllle Dy llle pOSI-Wuf duJISlIncNlS CT
 world conditions that are to be made. | Therefore, it is undeniable that the the United States must have . full and free voice in the settlement. Mo- body can deny that the United States, free from any league, will be in a much more powerful and influential
 position at the deliberations which are to settle the fate of the globe for many years, perhaps for centuries. MT. Wilson used to assert that un- less the United States entered the lea
 que this country would be cut off for
 ever from participating in the after the-world conferences. This has been shown to have been false doc Urine, for this country, out of the lea
 gre, is in stronger position for these conferences than it could possibly be I