The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
BURTON ASKS
 TRUE CONGRESS
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 most friendly way with less fortunate nations" -t
 We have refused to join the League of Nations, and this is in full accord with the wishes of the. vast majority of the American people, I believe" he added. "So long as the league remains a political body, inevitably dominated by the larger nations of Europe, poisoned with the tradition of age long animosities, membership is not for us"
 No fear should be felt, however, th&t entrance in the world court with the Harding Hughes reservations would in- volve the United States in the league, he said, he did not refer to the amend ments proposed by the republican ma jority in the Senate foreign. relations e umittee but asserted that the Hard ing Hughes proposals were sufficient safeguardeds and reservations to pro- tect our own interests and they do not affect the great purposes of the court"
 Ready For Arms Party
 Illustrative of the willingness of the United States to aid and associate with other nations, the chairman declared that America stood ready to take the lead in another arms limitation confer ence whenever the occasion appeared suitable and that in the European reparations tangle whenever the vari- ous nations can agree, whenever they are willing to look to the future rather than to the past, America's aid will be given without stint and our boundless resources will be available in the way of loans for the rehabilitation and devel- opment."
 Taking notice of indications of third party movement, Mir. Burton said tendency in that direction was manifest wherever parliamentary gov ernment existed, the effect, he added, is "inevitably demoralizing, involving failure in constructive policies and often times control by a majority of combination of minorities." Orderly and effective parliamentary govrnment de- mands that the people divide into two parties on outstanding questions. He asserted, adding that 'the strength and usefulness of the republican party must depend on the maintenance of enduring principles in the advocacy of which triumph can onlX be secured by party solidarity and an organization whose members unite in closed formation and do DaLtle 10 every roe.
 Turning to the recent Congressional investigations, Mir. Burton said he must enter a solemn protest against the impression that there is wide spread corruption in the government at Washington" although ''there have been exposed to the scorn of the coun- try instances of bribery and dishonesty on the part of public officials, and of cupidity and over-reaching on the part of those who are ready to use their opportunity to debauch those in of- flee"
 Majority Are Honest
 ''The vast majority of public off. cials, from. the highest in the land to the humblest clerk in any department, are working honestly and faithfully for the public good," he added. Ut is time to call halt upon indiscriminate scan dalmongering, which is largely designed to insult the intelligence and under mine the patriotism of the American people,"
 The chairman declared the republi- can party stood "now as always for law enforcement" and against '..hasty changes in existing laws and regula- tions."
 L1C lO a lOuS llSp OL lc&lbld- tive and executive acts designed to aid the farmers. He told of the improve ment in employment and the benefit resulting to labor, of the success that attended the efforts of President Hard ing to obtain abandonment of the twelve-hour day in the steel industry, and of the restrictions placed upon inn migration, declaring that limitation and selection must be the order of the day."
 Establishment of peace with Ger many and the other former enemy pow CTS also was listed as a republican ac- complishment together with establish I ment of a budget system. reduction of taxes, enactment of a tariff law based upon the fundamental idea that our labor and enterprise should not be handicapped by differences between foreign and domestic costs; passage of act for the funding of foreign debts and the funding of the British and other indebtedness, reduction in the public debt, and readjustment of freight rates.
 '"The past at least is secure" he con- cluded. "In the future there is no lamp to guide so safe as that of ex-