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Show HARDING SETS FORTH HIS PLAN OF 1RLD LEAGUE! Candidate Proposes New Ef-j fort to Construct Association Associa-tion of Nations THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL WOULD BE FOUNDATION Senator Pledges Himself. If Elected, to Form Such an Organization MARION, O., Aug. 28. Pronouncing Pronounc-ing the existing league of nations ai d finite and irredeemal.il- failure. Sen- ator Harding today proposed a nevvi effort te construct a world association on the framework of The Hague tribunal tri-bunal clothed with such attributes of the league covenant as may be found safe, and practicable. He pledged himself. If elected president, pres-ident, to make an Immediate effort, with the advice of the ablest men of both political parties, to form an as-1 soclation either by putting teeth'' Into In-to The Hague court or by revising the covenant to protect national asplra-l Hons. The declaration was made in. a front porch speech to a dele Ration of Indiana Indi-ana Republicans. "The Democratic nominee." he said, 'has flatly said he io In favor of going go-ing in' on the basis announced by the president. am not. That Is the whole difference between us, but it is a most vital erne because It involves the disparity between a world court of Justice supplemented by a world association for ceinferqjce..oji. the one hrmrrr arm -THe council o? the league-on league-on the either. I ill IK DIFFJ EVEN 4 K "The one is a Judicial tribunal to be governed by fixed and definite prln-i prln-i ij.les of law administered without pa.sion oi prejudice. 1 tie otnor is an association of diplomats and pol Iti-1 clans whose determinations are surej tp be Influenced by considerations of expediency ami national selfishness i I he league, the candidate asserted, had broken down at Its first test in I l'oland and now had passed beyond, tho possibility of restoration." He quoted from British statesmen to support sup-port his statement that a revlsion ofl the covenant Will be welcome.' abroad. Passage of a peace resolution, he continued, would make an actual and effective peace without negotiation of! a separate treaty with Germany. V. S. TJ1 n.M.vn m Touching on Mexico, the Republican Republi-can nominee proclaimed "a plain notice no-tice to every governm nt on the face) of the earth' that the I int.. Stales would submit to no wrong to its citizens citi-zens In person or property He also replied to charges of undue' senate Influence by asserting that as! president he would be iulte as vlgl-! lant as he had been as a senator to pn vent ireapasu on that branch of l .the government in which he served. TEXT OF SPEEt II The text of the speech follows in' part. "Let us suppose the .senate had rati-1 fied the peace treaty containing the league covenant as submitted to It by the president in July of last year Before Be-fore this day we would have been called upon to fulfill the obligations' which wo had assumed under Ar- ticlo 10 of the league covenant to' preserve the territorial integrity of l'oland as against external aggression.' aggres-sion.' Th council of the league of nations na-tions would have reasoned and reasoned rea-soned correctly that the L ulled States could furnish the munitions and, If necessary, tho men to withstand the hordes advancing from Russia far! more easily than could the exhausted I nations .r Europe. W hat would of necessity resulted - Nothing necessarily, necessari-ly, we are glibly inform, d. since only tho congress can dcchir-j war, and the congress might reject the appeal of tho executive. But would Che congress con-gress do that ' Could the congress do that without staining Indelibly the honor of the nation? N VI 1 s WEJLCHER The people would never permit the' repudiation of a debt of honor. No1 congress would ever dare make this nation appear as a welcher, as it would appear, and would be in such an event before the eyes of tho world. So many thlnga have boon done by the present expiring administration administra-tion that no power on earth could induce in-duce me to do, that I cannot even attempt to recount them. 1 mav remark re-mark casually, however, that if 1 should bo. as l fully expect to be elected president of this Just and honorable hon-orable republic, I will not empower an' assistant s.cretary of the navy to draft a consUtutlon for helpless neighbors' in the West Indies aud Jam it dow n I their throats as the point of bayonets,! borne, by United States marines. Nor1 will I misuse the power of executive' to cover with a veil of eecrccv repeated re-peated acts of unwarranted Interfer-enci Interfer-enci In domestic affairs of the little republics of the western hemisphere. PEJUDJX NO WRONG "On the ther hand I will not or shall not, as you prefer, submit to any wrong to any American cltien with ret pe to elthei his life or prop- erty by any l;..vci iitn.Hit This statement state-ment is made in all solemnll with enmity for none and friendship for all If It particularly applies m Mexico tho application has been drected by l Continued on lagc Two.) Harding Sets Forth His Plan of World League (Continued from Page One.) i the robbery arid murder of hundred! 'of our people in that unhappy country. coun-try. It Is Intended for a plain notice1 to every government on the face ofl the earth that the entire rSSOurOSS of this nation arc pledged to main-1 j tain the sarrcdness of American lives ami the Just protection of American' properties. There are distinctly two types ofi 1 Internstlonl relationship. One Is in I offensive ami defensive alliance of great powers, like that created at ( Versailles, to impose their will upon the helpless peoples of tho world. ! am opposed to such s scheme as that 'I am opposed to the very thought of our republic becoming a party to such n prt.it outrage upon people. who' have as good a r.ght to seek their political freedom as we bad In 1776. SOCIETJ OF NATIONS 'The other tp Is a society of free nations, or a league of free nations, animated by considerations of right and Justice, Instead of might and self-, ; interest and not merely proclaimed an agency In pursuit of peace, but so Organised and so participated In a to , make, the actual attainment of peai S a reasonable possibility. "Such an association I favor with all mv heart. "This Is proposing no new thin;;. This country Is alreadv a member of such a Society The Hague tribunal Which, unlike the league of Ver-sillles. Ver-sillles. Is Httll functioning and within a few vveeks will resume its committee com-mittee sessions under the chairmanship chairman-ship of an Amerban repressntattve. w n HOI T "TK1 i ir "It is not uncommon for the nl-vocatcs nl-vocatcs of the league of Versailles to i contrnjf unfavorably The Hague tribunal tri-bunal upon the Kround thut the trl-bnnr.l trl-bnnr.l 'lacks teeth.' Very well, then, let's nut teeth' Into It. If. In the failed league of Versailles there can be found machinery which the tribunal tribu-nal can use properly nnd advantageously, advanta-geously, by all means let It be ap- propriated' "I would go even further I would t.iLo and combine all thai Is good and excise all that Is bad from both or-! ganlza t Ions. "I believe humanity would wel come me creation ot an iniernatio'ii i association for conference and a world court whose vrdlt upon Justifiable Jus-tifiable ouetlons. this country In , common with all nations would be both willing and able to uphold. The decision of such a court or the recommendations rec-ommendations of inch a conference couid be aei-epted without saorlflcing ' on our part or asking any other I power to sacrifice one Iota of Its na- ! 1 tlonalitv . ILRJ lv IBAXDONI i ' The DemoCraUc nominee has i spoken about America abandoning her associates In war and deserting I 111 allied nations In establishing the league of Versailles. It h;i" alreidv j been abandoned bv Kurope. whleh ' had gone so fir as to accept It by ' formal agreement In treaty. "Listen to the wise and far-seoing. former British ambassador, who was I not permitted to present his creden-tials creden-tials to our executive. As long." said Vlscout Orev, hordly a month ago. 'as long as the richest, most powerful, power-ful, the greatest, both for population and territory, of the civilized countries coun-tries of the world stands outside the league, the league will be unable to fulfill its destiny. To put It In nulte . plain terms, th- Americana must be " told that If they will only Join the league they can practically name their, own terms. ISCOl NTS VIEWS "Undoubtedly that Is the fact. "Vlbcount Grey contlnn - ' The Americans should ie entrusted en-trusted with the task of drafting reconstruction scheme ' Then he suggests sug-gests further that a committee of h.. senate could draw up sugccstlons for the reconstruction of the league.' "Frankly. I value that suggestion very highly. It comprehends substantially substan-tially what I would propose to do if elected president. 1 do not mean precisely pre-cisely that It would be tarl un-wie un-wie to undertake specific suL'Ke.itioi h or to attempt to pas upon suggestions now. What is In mv mind I the wisdom wis-dom of calling Into real conferem the ablest and most experienced minds Of this country from whatever walks of life they may be derived and without with-out regard to partv nfflllatlon. to for-nrml.itf for-nrml.itf definite, practical plan along the lines already Indicated for the' consideration of the controlling foreign for-eign powers The objection, that this course would Involve the reconvening of the H entire convention mav be regarded Ss H a very slight one The acceptance of H our proposals b the few prlmiplo V nations would undoubtedly be fol- M e on J the part of the minor members of jM faw oo |