New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-20
Asserts Empty Threats in
Foreign Relations
Were Futile.
"PEACE" is STAINED
BY VERA CRUZ BLOOD
Compares President with
Roosevelt and Cleveland
i'm Venezuela.

Nantasket, Mass. Aug. 19.-AssertinG
that the present government at Wash
ington has been an administration of
words Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
made his opening speech of the Pres
idential campaign at an outing Of the
Republican Club of Dorchester here
to-day.
"Ncver before has our noble and
much abused language been employed
with greater profusior in the effort to
deal with things" said Mr.. Lodge. "No
language has been spared Behind
great barrier of words the President
has sheltered himself. surrounded by
cloud of phrases. big words with no
meaning. ! have often thought, like
great lot, as you have often seen them,
Of empty bandboxes going down the
street II looks very imposing, but If
any accident happens and the load is
overturned, you will find there is moth
ing TO it but little crumpled and
biuhtH IaAAthVhius
Quotes Too Proud to Fight"
at is easy to set down fine words
when there is nothing in them. After
the awful disaster of the Lusitania the
President, you will remember. went to
Philadelphia. | think he was going 20
try to see what the country would
stand, and he used the memorable
phrase Too proud to fight The coun-
try responded the next morning. IL
was not a friendly response.
$50 he changed, and we had great
note on strict accountability and IL
remains a phrase. There has never
been a reparation or even an apology
for the Americans drowned or killed on
the Lusitania. 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.
Americans have been killed and every
outrage committed, and strictly ac-
countable' still remains the false and
empty phrase.
1--WE are told there is prosperity.
Yes, there is There is great prosperity
in certain 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
provision has been made for that situa-
ton by this administration and the
Democratic party? Absolutely none.
No attempt to guard the industries, no
attempt TO effect Industrial organiza-
tons.
kept Us Out of War;"
another cry, Kept US out of war It
is not easy to get into war when no
body wants 10 go 10 war with you. But
il is possible to keep the peace without
humiliation.
at is not exactly the sort of peace I
like. On that figure of peace we have
boosted 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.
at 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. Il is poor kind Of peace.
in 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. ! do not
like that kind of peace.
81 think it can be secured in another
way and maintained much better in
other ways. Words are nothing. What
counts is the man behind the words.
How Cleveland Solved Problem.
Grover Cleveland had no army and
no navy when he summoned England to
arbitrate the Venezuelan boundary, and
he carried his point. 1t was the man
behind the words that solved the prob
lem with honor and with dignity.
"a little later three great European
powers came over to Venezuela and
one of them at least proposed to take
possession Of some of her ports. We
had navy, and Dewey, who COM
manded it, received his sailing orders.
Peace was preserved.
"There was no blood shed. II was
a true peace, of which we might be
proud What was the reason? 1t was
the man behind the words. 1t was
Theodore Roosevelt.
and the powers with whom he had
these differences knew what Grover
Cleveland was, and they knew what
Theodore Roosevelt was. And we had
peace and no threatening of war and
no fighting, as we have in Mexico"
Senator Lodge predicted that Massa-
chusetts would give Hughes a larger
plurality than the plurality of the COM
bined Taft and Roosevelt vote in 1912.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC