The Holly chieftain., 1923-07-05
ONE cannot help thinking that at

AnNE cannot help thinking that at
~ Lausanne also justice is not be-
ing done to the French financially.
The British and Greeks there are turn
ing against the French demand that
the Turks pay their bonds on gold
franc basis, which is three times more
valuable than the paper franc. The
English call this unreasonable" but
the French reply that the pound ster-
ling is nearly normal, SO the English
bondholders will be paid almost on q
gold basis. France is now willing to
leave this matter out Of the peace
treaty with Turkey and to settle 1t
later by negotiations. The Turks are
insistent that the bonds be paid at the
present rates Of exchange and their
delegates Mt Lausanne have been In
structed ito quit the conference II the
allies do not yield.
In order to test Russia's Willingness
to come back into Europe" the allies
decided to invite the soviet govern
ment to sign the Turkish straits con-
vention when the treaty Is completed
The representatives Of England and
Turkey settled the controversy over
the Mosul region by accepting the
boundaries Of British influence In
Mesopotamia as agreed upon by Lord
Curzon. and Ismet Pasha. Any further
disputes concerning Mosul which may
remain unsettled nine months after
the signing Of the treaty will be re-
ferred to thu. council of the League of
Nations, though the Turks preferred
that they should be submitted to the
Hague tribunal.
DRESIDENT HARDING has repent
1 edly disclaimed that his speeches
on his trip through the West and to
Alaska are designed as campaign mate
rial, but 1t is probable that the gist Of
most Of them will be found in the next
Republican national platform. After
his address on American membership
In the world court, in which he sug-
gested divorcing the court from the
League Of Nations by making It prac-
tically self-perpetuatIng, he told the
farmers OF Kansas what the national
government has done to rescue Amer
lean agriculture from the depression
that came with defiation In 1920. Incl
dentally he shocked some wheat and
operated binder. In Kansas City he
insisted ON compulsory consolidation
Of the railway systems as a solution
Of transportation problems. Sundays
address at Colorado Springs was in the
nature OF sermon. urging the Golden
Rule as panacea for the Ills OF the
world. In Denver and Wyoming the
President made two most important
pronouncements. First he declared abb
solutely for enforcement Of the Vol
stead act, by each and every state us
we'll as by the federal government. He
denounced the action of the new null
lificationists" who have repealed or
tried to repeal the prohibition enforce
ment acts Of various states. referring
especially to New York and Governor
Smith. OF this he said:
"Instead Of being an assertion Of
state rights, 1t is an abandonment of
them; 1t is an abdication; 1t amounts
to confession by the state that 1t
doesn't choose to govern itself, but
prefers to turn the task, or consider
able part OF 1t, over to the federal
authority. There could be no more
complete negation Of state rights"
And this was his warning to the
"nullificntionists" III the burden of
enforcement shall continue to be In
creasingly thrown upon the federal
government, 1t win be necessary, at
large expense. to create federal po-
lice authority which in time will In
evitably come to be regarded as an
Intrusion upon and Interference with
the right of local authority to manage
local concerns. The possibilities of
disaster In such situation hardly
need to be suggested" He said fur
ther that they will discover that they
have perpetrated what is likely to
prove one of the historic blunders in
political management"
From the car platform Mt Cheyenne
the President declared himself opposed
to naturalization of the coal min.
Ing industry; stated that certain mine
owners were as responsible for par
alyzins the industry last year as were
the men who went on strike said that
the operators had been unable to pro-
duce fuel even when furnished protec-
tion, and announced that there would
never be any coal mined In free Amer
lea under force of arms" He alluded
to the already existing anxiety con-
cerning next winters supply OF coal