The Washington times., 1923-04-28
ARMY FLYERS READY FOR TRIP ACROSS CONTINENT IN 3 HO
Harding Yields to
International Bankers

United states now has separate treaties with thirty
other nations, including Great Britain, France and
- Russia providing that differences not yielding to di
rect negotiations may be arbitrated.
Thus already possess machinery available whenever
needed avert war; No other nation has many arbra
ton treaties have and other nation has done
much the United States to promote both peace and
arbitration
has power either restore peace
than these arbitration treaties.
Under our separate treaties and other nations which
have joined in them obligated to consider arbitration
when differences cannot be settled by negotiation Refusal
by either party to carry such joint separate treaty
would brand it treaty breakera moral delinquency
few nations covet
The leagues world court act only when the dis
putants after quarrel has arisen consent to let it act
II two nations have difference and agrees to let
the world decide but the other does not agree the
tribunal is powerless
1t could not act in such the invasion Of the
Ruhr Valley by France because France refuses to submit
the question any court, to permit the hypocrcal
league Of nations sven to discuss it.
Voluntary acceptance Of its jurisdiction obviously the
only basis upon which world court can stand, because
if power to compel Jurisdiction would be super
State and thus become intolerabe.
The enthusiastic internatonaist cannot conceive Of
the United States consenng to be hailed to the bar OF
foreign tribunal against ts WILL there to have its policies
and conduct dictated b. foreign Judges from say Costa
world court ltgants must accept the bench s In
arbraons the arbiters selected for the occasion by
The weakness of the present world court is
In its nature and is incurable
The fact that arbitration treaties have already
gone further in the direction of world peace than could
possibly go member Of the world court destroys the
pretence that membership in the world court is
necessary the sincerity of desire the
world ruled by the force Of law and justice and not by the
law of force
The SILENT secret powerful influence that drives us
toward the leagues court of Justice the international
bankers determination to get and to
the league of nations.
The international bankers influence always invisible
always mysterious 1t is working all the time And only
IN generation does it find President with
backbone enough to resist it.
~ Jefferson did.
Andrew jackson won undying fame by resisting the de-
mands of the powerful bankers in his time grant
them special charter Jackson victory Henry Clay
in that great fight the respect and confidence Of his
fellow countrynen to such degree that influence in
either party could withstand him long he lived.
Van Buren,, made President by Jackson would have
been elected but for single of defiance Of foreign
influence when he was Secretary of State.
Lincoln and Cleveland the only two Presidents of
the last generation who possessed that strength Of char
acer that firmness in the right God gives see
the right which Americans, regardless Of party
admire in their Presidents
Woodrow Wilson fell from grace because in the supreme
hour of his he succumbed to foreign influence In
the very first week Of his administration as President he
revoked Government sanction Of fve power treaty
the exploitation Of China promoted by the foremost
national banking firm in America. His public rebuAe to
those who sought to the and influence of the
Government for their profit the first act of the
Wilson administration that public confidence.
But when Mr. Wilson came to make he chose
chief financial advisers THREE of the same inter
national banking firm, and he did eGoctv ot then asked
Now see the amiabe and upright Harding slowly
yielding to the same dangerous, insdious influence
Having refused by 100000 plurality any league
dominated by intriguing foreign dpomatsS American
people rightly resent all these subtle efforts to bepue them
into that souess sordid combination with holy