Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-10-31
HUGHES PRAISE S
ADMINISTRATIONS
Accomplishments
SECRETARY OF STATE, IN EOS
TON ADDRESS, LAuDs WORK
DONE BY REPUBLICANS IN RUN
MING OUR GOVERNMENT,

Boston. Mass, Oct. Sl.-A foreign
policy OF helpfulness and good under
standing without entanglements
which would fetter American indie
pendence. was outlined by Secretary
Hughes OF the state department III
an address in Symphony hall tonight
reviewing the record of the Harding
administration in the ilcld OF interna'
tlonal relations
BY the lead it took in the arms con
ference, the secretary said, ana by
its efforts toward harmony among
the nations OF the western hemisphere
the American government during the
mast twenty months has set record
of Accomplishment far beyond what
was expected OF il wnen the new ad'
ministration came into power.
So far as Europe is concerned,
.ou Hughes declared Harding and his all
yisers always have been ready 10 lend
n helping hand where it would do me
most good. but are not willing to iri',
ter away the influence of the United
States by intervention in controVer-
sizes that are rooted in the age Ola
national riyalries
"The chief trouble at this time i'm
Europe" he continuer, lis That the
great powers have not been able to
agree as to questions which, being
distinctly European Questions, direct
" concern them. and their want OF
agreement is due to different cOncep-
lions of essential national policy FOR
MS. international cooperation does
not mean that we should embroll our
selves In controversies not involving
our own interests
The secretary added that in human
itarian efforts he believed way
might be found for the United States
TO participate formally in the selec-
ton of judges to the recently organ
lied international Court of Justice, a
project which from the first had had
the sympathy of this government. He
declared that already in a humans
tartan way and thorugh the channels
OF trade the United Staes was really
giving aid of value incalculable. He
praised the arms conference agree
n1ents as meaning the rescue or the
world from despair" and predicted
that despite the present delay the
washington treaties would be ratified
nv all the powers signatory. Ultimate
failure of the conference program, he
asserted, had been precluded in any
case by the Publications already vot'
ed 6.
Among the other accomplishments
reviewed by Hughes as part of the
constructive program Of the admins
tration were the negotiation of a
peace treaty with Germany, the zap
agreement protecting American in,
terests in the mandate Islands OF
tIe Pacific, the reorganization of Gu
ba's finances, the Tacna-Arfca arbl-
tration agreement between Chile and
, Peru, the calling of a conference here
Of Cetnral American republics and
the sterilization of Haiti and Santa
Domingo.
Toward the people Of Mexico the
secretary said, the United States en-
tertairs only the friendliest senti-
ments although it is unwilling TO rec
osnize any internal policy based on
confiscatory measure against Tor
eifeners He alluded also to the near
eastern situation, repeating the dee.
laratiou that the American govern
nent although interested deeply in
some phases of the near eastern set
tlement, can not appropriately attend
the Lausanne peace conference be-
cause it was called to settle a war
to which the United States was not
M a party.
Hughes began his address with O
eulogy to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
of the committee on foreign relations
and republican leader OF the senate
Lodges defeat by his Massachusetts
constituency at the November eles
ton, the secretary declared would be
not only loss to the state but an ir
reparable loss to the nation.