Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-14
Lodge Arms the Presidents
Foes While Smoothly Prof
fering His Own Support


The speech upon the tolls question delivered the Senate by
Lodge of Massachusetts, is for several reasons the most
noteworthy contribution yet made to the discussion Of this holly
debated legislation.
Senator Lodge is now the ranking minority of the
Senate Foreign Affairs At the time of the passage
of the tolls exemption he chairman of that committee
member of that committee when the Hay Pauncefoe
treaty reported by thirteen years No man the Sen
ate be Root has equal knowledge of the diplomatic
discussions that attended the negotiation of that treaty and have
conferred about its ratification anyone the Senate
may speak with authority the subject it is Senator Lodge
Then why reader well may ask not his determination
support the President conclusive and to be supported by all
right thinking citizens?
To answer that question adequately only necessary for
The Georgian print large part of Senator Lodge speech in
hastily offering the Senator's conclusions did other
papers The process by which the Senator reached his deter
mnaton is quite as important the conclusion itself
begin with the Senator holds that the outcry about
honor abiding the terms of the treaty not attempting
to privileges do possess utterly without ustifc
ton goes further than the advocates of tolls
tons for coastwise vessels when he says:
a., e Of .S our at S" terms matter t sft d. VI 'y
admit that have not the LEGAL right a to exempt
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Senator Lodge points out that 1901 reporting the
ond treaty the Senate he declared that under
T g' S s'i': s si: t :i,';:
'i Soatt ess which made this right explicit
The Bard amendment may be explained in passing, was
offered declare explicitly this right which Senator Lodge
thought then and thinks now unquestionable.
did his speech last Thursday reiterae in terms
what he said in the Senate July IT, 1912 namely:
Mr. President the Foreign Relation" COMMITTEE whsh
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declare sturdy that the opinion he expressed
reporting the treaty for ratification and in later debates he has
changed He holds that
seeoaTee with the terms of the treaty built the canal through
.srsy which its o' .0a PHp0iss Sh0"sg the .st'
~ also s' that i" the sG1 on 'Fos: .ros @
1ston and for the saa terms to al users Of the
On the question whether the guaranty of equal terms
all nations includes the United States the Senator says
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Having at this point speech thousands
of words the complete and authoritative demolition of the
explain briefly why he proposed support the President de
mand for the repeal of the exemption law And here for the
first time he fails to marshal his facts fully to interpret them
precisely.
The Senator refers the isolation United States
to the protests of all nations to the opinion of civilized
kind though there general universal protest of all
nations against the proposed remittance of tolls to American
Coastwise vessels
AS MATTER OF FACT, NOT ONE NATION HAS PRO
TESTED SAVE GREAT BRITAIN Whatever there of sola
ton this international situation she enjoys An effort
made to make appear that South America joined the pro
but this speedily dsproved The utteranCe of the
German press show that surrender Great Britain would
be by enjoyed by that country
Again the divided sentiment the United distresses
Senator Lodge But sentiment in this country split its people
into patriots and Tories 1776 and questions involving the
effort of Great Britain regain the supremacy she then lost that
dne of cleavage will always appear quite apparent now,
when United States Ambassador speak publicly of this PEG
pie English led and English ruled without rebuke
Administration.
Summing up, then Mr. Lodge purposes support the Pres
dent repeating the exemption law signed by President Taft
doubts right exempt