BUSINESS PROPOSITION

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 242, 9 October 1920, Page 7

BUSINESS PROPOSITION

ENTERING _THE LEAGUE. SAVING TO AMERICA. , (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, October S. ( In a speech at Nashville, Tennessee, Mr. G. K. Cox (Democratic candidate for the PreshVney) said: "X"xt year, if we enter tho 1-eague of Nations, we call save , 40T>,000,000dul on our nflvy alone. With ( this sum we could reclaim 23,000,000 ( acres of arid land in the .v-rt. I favour , stopping the building of battleships and | ] giving every soldier boy who desires it |. a farm."—(A. and N. 2." Cable. ) AMERICA'S OBLIGATIONS. CLARIFIED BY REJECTIONS. XEW YORK, October S. The Republican candidate for the Presidency (Mr. W. O. Hurding), in a speech at Dog Moines, said that a decision not to accept the League of Nations, even with reservations, would clarify American oWigatonß. The proper course was to reject these commitments altogether in favour of the Ignited States do ing her full .part in the rehabilitation of the world j and the securing of humanity against the I horror of future war. It' elected, he j would call the country's best minds into a conference to formulate an international programme. L'nited States troops had no business in "fierniany, and if the United States made a separate, peace, as he (Mr. Harding) advocated, they would be brought baclc—(A. and K.Z." Cable.)