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SAN DOMINGO TREATY.
LODGE ASKS SUPPORT.
Tells Massachusetts, Republicans II
Is Beginning of Great Policy.

Boston, Sept. 9.-An address by Senator Lodge
on Americas foreign relations attracted a large
number Of Republicans to the annual outing OF
the Mddlesex Club at Pemberton this after
noon. Senator Lodges speech was an appeal
to the Republicans of Massachusetts to unite to
support their ticket this fall not alone for State
reasons but because of it's effect on the national
administration.
He pointed out certain elements of the ma
TONS foreign policy, which he believed would
be gravely affected by adverse votes at the fall
elections.
Il ask you" said the Senator ito take one
single question now pending in the Senate Of the
United States, the treaty with San Domingo It
is question of the gravest moment, not in it
self. but part of the great national policy"
He then continued:
We upheld the Monroe Doctrine It is the great
Defense the palladium of the United States. We
come in here and establish a state found new
colony in this great Western hemisphere And the
take position like that-essential as we believe it
o ro@ OUR s
over the islands of Santo Domingo and Hayt and
isands-you shall do nothing there, and yet stand
by ourselves and see them all fall deeper and
There is not a foot of land south of the United
have the tinted States take. We covet no ones
land. But we do have imposed upon US respon-
Sbilfty for the maintenance OF decency and order
on the borders of the Caribbean Sea which the
building of the Panama Canal makes the American
Mediterranean We cannot shirk it: ought not
to shirk it, and Theodore Roosevelt will shrk it,
The Santo Domingo treaty is the beginning of
great polcy-one to which must sooner or
later 1t is wisely begun. That treaty is opposed
An adverse vote of the Republicans OF Massachu-
setts Is adverse vote there, and will be in
terpreted vote of want of confidence in the
administration of Theodore Roosevelt in his direc-
tion in his foreign policy in Santo Domingo as well
in his policies at home.
In the same way. we have had great and impor-
tant relations with China They being man
aged by the President with the utmost skill.
During the last summer the President was invited
to his good offices in the question of Morocco
How wisely he acted be known and appre-
ciated think. only by those who have seen as
tested in the great Republic of France toward the
President OF the United States
last few weeks The ENJOYS of two great empires
have met here in n quiet New England town and
signed peace which affects the welfare of the
entire world think that the attitude of the
japanese in yielding those great points has
given them, In the minds of rejecting men, po-
siton for generosity, for magnanimity for the
ognition OF the interests Of humanity. which will
not soon be forgotten. The discomfort and dis
satisfaction which arise IN the perhaps national
spicuously victorious in one of the greatest wars
Of modern times, will pass.
has by what she has by her own strength
protected her life, her intere as by
what she has yielded has given herself a plact
shown that she has been as great officially as She
has been in the field
But the man who brought those ENJOYS together
at Portsmouth was the President of the United
States | think l violate no confidence in saving
that the Prime Minister of France NJ Rouy,iers
man in the world who could have brought the
japanese r and Russian ENJOYS together He said
moral force OF the United States and he has
welded that great weapon wisely and well.