Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-12
PRESIDENT SOUNDS FOREIGN
POLICY IN HIS MESSAGE
Continued from page ~
Administration;

ADMINISTRATION
Enactment of a national huget
system and general reduction by eff
ficient management of the cost of
government.
Business
Less of government in business as
well as more business in govern
ment. = There is no challenge to
honest and lawful business success.
But government approval of FORUM
ate, untrammelled business does not
mean liberation of restraint of trade
or of maintained prices by unnat-
ural. methods. y s. - Anxious as we
are to restore the onward flow of
business. it is fair to combine assur-
ence and warnings in one ~utterance.
Agriculture
THE maintained retail cost in
~perishable foods cannot be justified.
" Reduced cost of basic produce
lions has been recorded, but high
cost of living has not yielded in like
proportion. = = = Without the spirit
of hostility or haste in accusation of
profiteering, some suitable inquiry
by congress might speed the price
REIMBURSEMENT to normal relationship,
with healthfulness to both producer
and consumer. A measuring rod for
fair prices will satisfy the country
anu give us ii DtlSllleSS revival " emu
all depression and unemployment"
These were the principal subjects
touched on in the address which was
about $500 words in length and a
large portion of which was devoted
10 related subjects of peace. League
of Nations and the country's foreign
policy.
The Presidents discussion Of the
peace question opened with a definite
declaration against the existing
League of Nations.
"In the existing League of Nations,
world governing with its super-pow-
ers," said the President. this re-
public Will have no part"
There can be no misinterpreta"
ton and there will be no betrayal
of the deliberate expression of the
American people in the recent cleo
ton; and, settled in u decision for
ourselves, 1t is only fair to say to
the world in general, and to our as
sociates in war in particular, that
the league covenant can have no
sanction by us.
Manifestly. the highest purpose of
the League of Nations was defeat
ed in linking it with the treaty of
peace and making it the enforcing
agency of the victors of the war.
There can be NJ prosperity for the
fundamental purpose sought to be
achieved by any such association so
long as it is an organ or any par
ticular treaty, or committed to the
attainment of the special aims of any
nation or group of nations. In re-
jecting the league covenant and ut
tering the rejection to our own peo-
pie, and to the world, we make no
surrender of our hopes and aim for
an association to promote peace In
which we would most heartily join.
a In the national referendum (the
llast election) we pledged u efforts
toward such association, and the
pledge will be faithfully kept. In
the plight of policy and perform
ance we told the American people
to seek an early establishment of
peace The United States alone
among the allied and associated
powers continues in a technical state
of war against the central powers
of Europe. The anamolious condi-
ton ought not to be permitted to
continue. To establish the state of
technical peace without delay I
should approve a declaratory action
by congress to that effect with the
qualifications essential to protect all
our rights. Such action would be
the simplest of keeping with our
selves and could in no n be con-
strued as a desertion of those whom
we shared our sacrifices in war for
taese powers are already at peace.
"Such a resolution should under
take to do no more than this to
declare the state of peace which all
America Graves. 1t must add no
difficulty in effecting with just rep
aration for which all Europe yearns
and upon which the world recovery
must be foun ted. Neither former
Aenemy nor ally can mistake Amer
Iica's position, because our attitude
as to responsibility for the war and
the necessity for just ~reparation
already has had formal and very
earnest expression.
1T would be unwise to under
take 70 make such a statement of
future policy with respect to Eu-
ropean affairs in such a declaration
of Il state of peace. In correcting
the failure of the executive in ne
gotiating the most important treaty
in the history OF the nation, to rec
ognize the constituted powers of
the senate we would go to the other
extreme equally Objectionable If
congress or the senate should as
sumo the functions of the executive
Our highest duty is the preserva-
ton of the constituted powers of
each and the promotion of the spirit
of cooperation so essential to III
common welfare.
Arrest Woodbridge Man
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