Evening star., 1923-06-22
President Harding
asserts That NelU Order
Needs International Body
Would Lift Body on New Plane
and Preserve Interest of
United States.

country of ours on the right track
again. The anxiety was in behalf or
no one interest, but for all interests.
We were anxious alike for the great
captain of industry and his working
army. We had concern for him whom
we sometimes call the little chap,
who makes up the great industrial
procession, but who is little noted
because he walks in the ranks, but
whose good fortune is foremost es-
sential to a national happiness and
contentment. We safeguarded against
our own destruction being effected
by the worlds Generalization. but
we never hindered the worlds honest
we contemplate fortunate conditions
today, and | believe they are going
to abide. We are the most prosperous
people in the world. l do not share
the belief that we have effected only
temporary relief l never did share
cur permanent recovery could only
come after complete collapse, which
we have so happily avoided.
World Must See Change.
1T is too early now to safely ap-
praise the competition of the world
restored, but the world must take
cognizance Of the new order as well
as we. War wrought an emancipa-
ton of men and changed conditions
of production which the old world
must recognize before a stable order
is restored to it. Our recovery is
based on a prompt recognition of the
new order, socially just and eco
nomically sound. and 1 am sure we
will carry on.
II is very gratifying to contemplate
our conditions at home wrought
amid many manifestations, of impa-
thence. but. in spite of discourage
ments. the record is made. share
FtI1l
fdence for the morrow.
AlOOfnesS Is Scored.
These things. briefly related, with
great satisfaction in progress made.
are meant to serve as a foundation
for a wholly frank statement to you
OF st. Louis and Missouri, and to all
the United States concerning my
convictions about the attitude of this
republic toward other nations Of the
world. The Presidents impressions
concerning international relationships
are necessarily founded upon official
experience which can come, because
or the duties Of office. to none other
except the Secretary of State.
The endless problems of foreign re-
lations are relatively little revealed
to the world. Most frequently they
are more readily adjusted because
falr to assure you that nothing of
vital Importance is unduly hidden
from the people for whom the gov
ernment speaks. Week by week. day
by day. often hour by hour, there
are problems in our international re-
lations which are no more to be
avoided than the vital questions of
our own relationships at home The
citizen who believes in aloofness is
blind to unacceptable obligations and
insensible to the twentieth century
world order and unmindful of our
commercial interdependence about
which the modern business fabric has
come to be woven
Quotes Washington's Address.
In his never-to-be forgotten fare
we'll address. in which the first Presi-
dent compressed the gospel of our
proper relations abroad. he said:
observe good faith and justice
toward all nations. Cultivate peace
and harmony with all. Religion and
morality enjoin this conduct And
can It be that good policy does not
pertinent, at least. is recommended
by every sentiment which ennobles
human nature. Alas. is it rendered
impossible by it's vices?"
This solemn admonition was ad-
dressed by George Washington to his
fellow countrymen 127 years ago.
That it has been needed scrupulously
we are proud to assume the world
believes. That we have. indeed. OBJ
served good faith and have exalted
justice above all other agencies o.
civilization. barring only Christianity,
surely none can deny with truth
And we have cultivated peace, not
academtcally and passively merely
but In practical ways ami by active
endeavors. Even as Washington ap-
pended his signature to his most
memorable and far-reaching declara-
tion. a new principle had been writ
ten into the treaty of peace between
Great Britain and the United States,
had been sustained by the congress.
at his resolute insistence. and was
in full force and effect. That prin-
ciple was arbitration, which was not
only employed successfully at the
time, but became from that moment
an established policy of the republic.
from which, to this day, there has
been no departure.
Urges World Court.
Thus, clearly, by the method al
ready operative in substituting reason
for prejudice, law for obduIacy and
Justice for passion, the father of his
country bade us. no less than his
cotemporaries. not merely TO coun-
tenance and uphold, but actively to
cultivate anu promote peace. 1t Is
with that high purpose in mind and
at heart. men and women of Amer
lea, that I advocate participation by
the United States in the Permanent
Court of International Justice.
Two conditions may be considered
Indispensable:
stituted as to appear and to be. in
theory and in practice, in form anu
in substance, beyond the shadow of
doubt, a world court and not a league
court.
Second, that the United States shall
n
with every other power.
Firm Against League.
There is no consequential dispute
among us concerning the league of
nations. There are yet it's earnest
advocates, but the present admin
istration has said, repeatedly and
decisively that the league is not
Ior us. There admittedly is a league
connection with the world court we
can not hope to get anywhere ex-
cept in the frankest understanding
or TACT The authors of the court
protocol, cooperating with a bril-
liant American leadership. turned to
electorate, to solve problem in
choosing judges heretofore unsolv-
able. Though l firmly believe we
could adhere to the court protocol
with becoming reservation, and bo
free from every possible obligation
TO the league, / would frankly pre-
Ter the courts complete independence
of the league.
Just as frankly let me say that T
have not held 1t seemly, in view of
oft-repeated declaration favorable to
the world court establishment. to saw
to the nations which have established
very much what we have wished, that
they must put aside their very COM
mendable creation because we do not
subscribe to it's every detail, or fash
ion 1t all anew to our liking in eyerv
specific detail, before we offer our as
sistance in making it permanent
agency of improved international re-
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