Evening star., 1901-11-11
LODGE ON CURRENT TOPICS
MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR MAKES
SPEECH AT BANQUET.
Declares the Canal Must BE Built and
the Monroe Doctrine
Upheld.

United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
made a speech at q. dinner of the Afoole-
sex Club in Boston Saturday night. AS the
closest friend of President Roosevelt he
was considered to speak by authority. The
senator said, in part:
1.-THE great republic which President Nc
Kinley loved and to which he gave his life
still marches on, even as he would have 1t,
and we turn from the dead to the living.
A deep gratitude is ours that his successor
was not only his associate, but his frlend'
and that the policies and purposes OF
President Mckinley are the policies ana
purposes of President Roosevelt. They
thought alike as to all great public ques..
tionS and alike they are representatives OF
the principles of the republican party and
of the truest and best American ideals and
beliefs
Senator Lodge made an argument for
general reciprocity in commercial relations
''To this subject" he said, 1T is certain
that anxious consideration will be given
by President Roosevelt and by Congress
at the ensuing session Whether 1t VIII be
deemed best to put this policy into eXecu-
tion by means of some general legislation
equivalent to a reciprocal arrangement
with all the nations of the earth, or by a
series of separate treaties, it is as yet too
early to say"
He said that he considered reciprocity
with Cuba as first and most important Tor
political as well as economical reasons
Then he discussed the reciprocity treaties
now pending in the Senate, and concluded
| this part of his remarks by saying:
Lastly, We come to the treaty with
France, which is more important eco
nomically than all the other treaties put to-
gether. l should like to see a treaty made
with France. 1t is country with which
1 would fain strengthen our good iela-
tions."
He advocated legislation which would
,N,,t t1,n A ,1,s<o r,t a r.
equality with that of other countries and
the building of a navy. The senator con-
tinued:
1.-The whole country. I think, favors the
building of an isthmiap canal. l believe,
from what little I know, that We shall
have a treaty with England at the coming
session which will remove, honorabiy for
both nations, whatever obstacles now exist
to the building of the canal. If such
treaty is submitted to us by the President
there is no more pressing duty than its inn
mediate ratification, to be followed at once
by the passage of the canal bill,
There is one other condition that Is es-
sential to the commerce and industrial de-
velopment of the United States. which in
the last five years has entered a new
epoch and that is the maintenance of
peace. There is no nation in the world to
which peace is so important as it Is to the
United States in order to secure ample
scope for the great progress we are making.
We are in good relations now with all the
world and it will be, am sure, the effort
of President Roosevelt. as 1t was OF PreS1-
dent Mckinley, to maintain these good re-
fations
There is only point of danger, and
| to assure peace we must protect ourselves
I in that direction. Firmly but quietly the
! Monroe doctrine must be rigidly upheld.
The entrance of any great European power
into the American hemisphere, either by
the acquisition of territory or the estab-
lishment of forts and naval stations, would
be the instant menace of the peace we are
so anxious to maintain.
1.-The best insurance and the best guar
antee of peace are in the possession of a
navy so strong that no nation of the world
| would be tempted to attack us. Complete
preparations is the surest protection
against war, and war is what We wish to
avoid, not only morally, but economically,
in every honorable way