The Washington herald., 1916-08-21
Lodge ASSAILS
WILSON WORDS
Massachusetts, Senator Flaws
President for False and
Empty Phrases"
Special to The Washington Herald.

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Nantasket, Mass, Aug. 2o.-Assertins
that the present government at Wash
ington has been an administration OF
words Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
made his opening speech OF the Presi-
Dental campaign at an outing of the Re-
publican Club of Dorchester.
Never before has our noble and much
abused language been employed with
greater profusion in the effort to deal
with things" said Mr.. Lodge. No lam
guage has been spared. Behind a great
barrier of words the President has shell
tered himself. surrounded by a cloud OF
phrases. big words with no meaning. like
a great lot OF empty bandboxes going
down the street. 1t looks very imposing.
but IL any accident happens and the load
lis overturned. you will find there is moth
ing to it but a little crumpled and broken
pasteboard.
| "NOthfnS but Words"
1T is easy to set down fine words
when there is nothing in them. After
the awful disaster of the Lusitania the
President went to Philadelphia. think
he was going to try to see what the
country would stand. and he used the
memorable phrase Too proud to fight.
The country responded the next morning.
1t was not a friendly response.
so he changed. and we had a great
note on strict accountability and it re-
mains a phrase. There has never been a
Ireparation or even an apology for the
Americans drowned or killed on the Lusi-
tania. We are left with a phrase, with
nothing but words.
| THE same phrase was posted on the
consulate of Mexico not long ago-that
If any injury came to Americans Mex
leo would be held strictly accountable.
,arir har Iii anl
outrage committed, and strictly account
able still remains the false and empty
phrase.
I'VE are told there is prosperity. Yes,
there is. There is great prosperity in GER
tain directions. 1t runs across the length
and breadth of the country in blood-red
streaks.
This is a prosperity that will pass in
a night and disappear the instant that
peace comes abroad. And what provi-
sion has been made for that situation by
| this administration and the Democratic
party? Absolutely none. No attempt to
guard the industries, no attempt to ef-
! feet industrial organization.
"<cpt Us Out of War
Another cry is, Kept us out OF war.
| 1t is not easy to get into war when no.
body wants to go to war with you. But
1t is possible to keep the peace without
humiliation.
1T Is not exactly the sort OF peace I
like. On that figure. If peace we have
| boasted Of are the stains OF blood shed
at Vera Cruz. of the blood of American
citizens who have died unavenged in
Mexico by the hundreds.
1T Is the kind of peace which has
turned the militia from their homes
| throughout the North and spread them
along the Southern border to do police
duty. 1t Is a poor kind Of peace.
I'm the war with Spain We had sew
enteen men OF the navy killed and $50
OF our soldiers. And we have lost nearly
twice that number OF men and women
murdered in Mexico. l do not like that
kind of peace.
Il think II can be secured in another
way and maintained much better in other
ways. Words are nothing What counts
is the man behind the words"