The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-02-01
SENATE DEBATES
PEACE PROJECT
Lodge AssaiIs Wilson Project as
Impracticable- Upheld
by Mcclmber.
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the heart, It Is our concern. And 1t is
duty to bend every effort to the end
that no such hideous war shall ever
again blacken the world with its
worse than murder"
Closer Than South America
Europe and all the world are far
closer to US today than was Central
or South America when the Monroe
doctrine was proclaimed" said Sena-
tor McCumber.
Comparison with Poland.
He did not know why the Presi-
dent should declare for a united. in
dependent. and autonomous Poland
any more than an independent and
autonomous Korea or q free. inde-
pendent. and autonomous Philippines
He mentioned Alsace-Lorraine In the
same category.
Peace At Any Price.
Senator Lodge, who followed. Nc
Cumber. referred to the Presid< pits
peace message as an effort to SECURE
peace at any price"
"we cannot secure our own safety
or build up the lasting peace Of the
world upon peace at any price," said
Lodge. THE peace Of the world. to
be enduring must be based on right
eousness at any cost"
The first service the United States
can render to the cause of peace is to
preserve its own peacec," Lodge de-
clared.
Must Demand Regard.
ders," he added, "but to preserve its
peacec with the other nations OF the
earth"
This can. be done in but one way.
Lodge holds, by the absolute and
scrupulous observance OF every treaty
or agreement that we enter into; by
ten termination OF all treaties for ar
bitration, which we know well we
should not under certain conditions
and in time OF stress disregard, and
by the establishment of such national
defenses, both by land and by sea,
as to insure our country from wanton
attack"
Too Grave For Mere Words.
Lodge said a league for peace"
sounded encouraging, "but that is a
question too grave to be satisfied with
words"
Effective leagues for peace cannot
be maintained by words alone; they
must be sustained by men and arms"
The question of japanese and Chi
nese immigration as likely effected by
a league for peace was discussed by
Lodge. He pictured Japan and China
as demanding free admission of their
labor to the United States.
I'VE resist" said Lodge. 'the de-
cision of the league Is against us. Are
we going to accept 1t? 1t is possible
that anyone who wishes to preserve
our standards of life and labor can be
drawn into a scheme, yelled by gilt
tering and glancing EenerAlities,
which would take from our sovereign
rights and decide alone and for our
selves the vital question of the exclu-
sion OF Monaghan and Asiatic labor?
Protect Against Attack.
There. are practicable measures,
which will promote peace, Lodge
said.
"The first and most important is
the protection of our own peace
against foreign attack. That can only
be done by national defense. We
have no means of repelling the in
vasion of a great power, as n must
be repealed, and such weakness. com
bIned with great wealth, constitutes
an invitation and a temptation to
war.
by reducing the danger of war
being forced upon US we to that ex-
tent promote~the peace OF mankind
and we likewise put ourselves in a
position where our influence and pow
err in the world for the maintenance
of general peace would be enormously