The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-03-18
SEN. LODGES ARRANGEMENT
OF THE ADMINISTRATION

I Senator Lodge has not arraigned
the Washington Administration as
blind partisan who can see nothing
but his own side, as an unreasoning
opponent who must attack every
Thing that the Democratic Govern
ment may do. Senator Lodge, in the
upper branch Of Congress, has very
powerfully supported the President.
When Mr.. Wilson has been in dan
ger of having the United States Con-
gress reverse or compromise his
stand against the Won Tirpitz sub
marine policy, in no vote that he has
cast and in no speech that he has
delivered on the floor of the Senate
regarding our foreign relations in
this war, has Senator Lodge evel
acted as Republican; he has al
ways given his voice and his ballot
as an American citizen and an Amer
lean statesman, oblivious Of fac
Etional lines and of partisan advan-
tage, whenever there was question
of the national rights, the national
safety, and the national honor.
Senator Lodges speech at Lynn,
Mass, against the Democratic Ad-
ministration and against the Demo-
cratic GovernemDt, therefore, car
ries singular force and is peculiarly
free from the suspicion Of mere
political prejudice and partisan bias.
Expressing his opinion that except
for the Administrator of Buchanan
no other American Administration
has ever done the United States so
much injury, Senator Lodge de-
clares, and he is right to declare:
As the result of the Presidents
| war against General Huerta was
the destruction of the only gov
eminent that offered any prospect
of order or peace. Aor responsibility:
by the Administration In preference
to General ,Huerta. who was also
murderer. have been desohtfner the
country and fighting among them
cradle tragedy one thing commands
our attention above all others: Amer.
leans have been murdered In Mexico;
soldiers wearing the American uni
the United States o..
1t is true, and Senator Lodge does
well to speak this truth. that:
The Americans robbed and slain
in Mexico we're entitled to our pro-
lection. both for their property and
their lives. They have had none.
Within a week Mexicans have invad-
ed the United states. attacked an
American town and killed Anne DC an
citizens and American soldiers. This
Is the inevitable result of our failure
to protect Americans In their rights
everywhere by land and sea.
Senator Lodge states only what
the whole record of submarine atroc-
ity proves when he declares:
More than a hundred American
men, women. and children. right
fully on board the Lusitania. were
sent to their death without warning.
and nothing has yet been done ox-
cept to pour out words and carry on
inconclusive negotiations for eight
months.
Not until February Is, when the
Presidents note to Senator Stone APP
peared, was any real step taken To
protect Americans In their rights.
and that step which the President
but in words alone. came only be-
cause his own party In the Iouse
were clamoring for the public sur
render Of American rights in order
to conciliate ono belligerent and us
voters.
The Democratic party showed
itself to be worse than its own
Administration. There Is. 1t would
seem, point OF humiliation at which
tho President stops--detinitely.
trust flrmly hope There Is no
such point apparently TO be found
10 the action of the party to which
he belongs.
And it is we'll for this country that
there is a man like Senator Lodge to
stand up before the American people
and warn the Democratic Admins
tration and the Democratic Govern
ment that there can be far worse
things for a nation than war, if war
is necessary to uphold its rights and
preserve its honor, as he does in
these words:
We are told that the great cry Of
| the Democratic party is to be that
their President has kept peace. The
virtue OF keeping the peace depends
altogether on how It is kept The
man who runs away and leaves his
wife or daughter or sister to be as
saulted and outraged keeps the peace
and Is not worthy to cumber the
earth. You can always keep the
peace II you will submit TO any
wrong, to any outrage. to any OPP
preston,
: The peace OF this country would
have been far better kept, we should
be in far less danger OF war today
| or war when peace comes among the
warning nations of Europe. II we had
kept 1t without humiliation, kept 1t
, In honor and without fear
We all want peace, We all are
against war II II can possibly be
avoided: but we shall inslst--we Re-
publicans, at least-that American
: rights shall be protected at home and
abroad.
Lot us forever dismiss from our
minds the idea that the nations life
depends on the preservation OF our
Individual lives. The life Of a nation
lies in its ideals. II 1t absndons its
| ideals Of humanity and Justice, u Il