Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-20 | Page 7 | G. A. R. Veterans Hear Harding

m VETERANS : HEARJURDING Would Break World"s Heart Rather Than Destroy Soul of Nation MARION, O Sept. :0. Spenkinc in-day in-day to a delegation of members of the Grand Army of the Republic and a delegation del-egation of Kentucky and Tennessee citizens, Senator Harding declared thai the north and the south had been drawn Into the civil war mainlv because be-cause of an ambiguity in the constitution constitu-tion and asked "how can we consent to enter into a covenant with a dozen known ambiguities''" He told I lie veterans, about 400 in number from Cleveland and other northern Ohio cities vho are on their way to Indianapolis to attend the na tlonal encampment that had it not been for (hem, "there would not have been a nationality lo preserve cow." "WORLD'S HEART" AGAIN Mentioning President Wilson's statement state-ment that it would "break the heart of the world." for America not to en ter the league of nations, the presidential presiden-tial candidate declared that "he would rather break the heart of the world thnn destroy the soul ol the L'nited Slates." Yesterday he and Mrs Hardlnir rhook hands with a delegation of vet erans from Akron, 0 , was slopped off en route to the encampment. He made no apeecli The eenator has four other front porch speeches on hli schedule for the week. LABOR AGAINST LEAGUE Harding headquarters today made public a letter which the candidate has addressed (o Michael J. Halllnan. of Brockton. Mass , In answer to a lotter from Mr. Hallinan and signed by a number of Brockton labor men The Halllnan letter had declared the sign ors to be "Americans tirst and members mem-bers of organized labeir second. ' opponents oppo-nents of the league of nations, and asserting that the Massachusetts stale branch of the American Federation of Labor had gone on record three to one against the league. Senator Harding's reply said In part "This has the ring of real American-Ism American-Ism and I am delighted with the testimony testi-mony that organized labor has QOXre ' ly estimated the significance of this Issue On this issue organized and all other labor and all citizens are going to get together to end the subinerg ence of our nation In Internationalism This issue, in my judgment, is doing more than an thing el6 to draw to gei her the reai American and patriotic sentiment of the country and to wipe out all class and group distinctions.. In the faco of the menace of internation alism we arc all Americans first Our country will do Its full share In the world in Us own vray and time, but not under the orders of any super government dominated by alien inter eets."