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Show HARDING FEARS LEAGUE DANGERS Ambiguity Led to Civil War, He Says, Adding That League Has" Many j MARION. 6 Sept. XI. Warning that the league of natrons U full oi "known ambiguities." and that it was an aniblgulty In our own constitution that led to the Civil war. Senator Harding esterdaj a-ked a delegation I Of the Cjvll war veterans, a delegation I of Kentucky and Tennessee citizens, j "how we . an ever consent to mter I Into a new world compact with a dozen I . mblgiilties In IL" The senator asserted that article X of the league is a "reciprocal pledge i on our part to help preserve the Inde-iMTi.lenee Inde-iMTi.lenee ,n.i national Integrity of forty-four nations,1' and that the nrtl- 1 and its correlarles "clearly contemplates con-templates war If need be to make this possible." Asserting that President Wilson haa placed the purport or an obsolete Clayton-BUlwar treaty ' above our constitutional con-stitutional rights, in regulrlhg tolls from American vessels unas:ng througM the Panama canal. Senator Hardinp. i xi laltned: "'ho cares ro say that tiv. sort of logic will not some day De used to plague an Uh Willing Arperlca into foreign war If we unreservedly subscribe to article X the constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.' t IVIL A.R A MISTAKE Senator Harding said In part: "I like to think of the blend of Kentucky Ken-tucky and Tennessee with the sons ot the north who saved the nation. 1 like to think that in 1020 there are few wounds of the Civil war remaining, there are few signs of sectionalism in our national life, and there is no one who regrets the winning of the war by the north and the preservation of th's wonderful land of ours. "1 like to recall that after all there were no verj great differences betw'ecn us 1 think it was a misdirected pa-sion pa-sion tr country Von know there were two schools of American politics from the er beginning, ' 'ne was tin national na-tional school and the other was thei school of states' rights. These two' s( bonis were In conflict from the very j beginning of the republic, they Waged their warfare with never-ending Intensity Inten-sity until it finally culminated in the1 gre it Civ il war and In that ronfllct the question was setH.-.l ami the I.' lilted, States committed everlastingly to nationality. na-tionality. I ELLS DANGERS OF LEAGUE H ive v on ever stopped to think that we, one people, with naturally one Interest, were led Into the Civil war by1 i mere ambiguity in the federal con-Btttutlon? con-Btttutlon? in the beginning we were so divided in our ideas that there waa of necessity uncertainty left in the compact com-pact that waa made and it reiulr i; the Civil war to wipe It out. And that was r very great price to pay. Rut remember re-member that, my countrymen, I want to ask you. knowing the cost of wiping i out the ambiguity in the constitution of our own republic, how can we consent con-sent to enter Into a new world compact com-pact with a dozen ambiguities In It. "Let me call your particular attcn-I attcn-I lion to one There Is much dispute about that which is known as the heart of the league," No American can be simultaneously for article X and j for the constitution of our republic any , n or.- than an American in Lincoln -' I time could be simultaneously forj emancipation and for slavery. Lei me gay right here In passing. that i am a fairly sympathetic human being and 1 would not break the heart I I of anybody knowingly, but 1 would' I ithor In' ik the heart of he world! than destroy the soul of the United J I States of America " |