Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-24
DICTATE PEACE
| AFTER WARS WON
LODGE INSISTS
Massachusetts, Senator Warns
Against Negotiations Until
Kaiser Confcsscs Defeat.
OUTLINES SPECIFIC PACT

Senate, Senator Lodge OF Massachusetts
Yesterday stated what he regarded AS deti-
mite and specific terms for a just peace.
The spcech was made during the de
bate on the Man Power bill Senator
Lodge has not actually become Repub-
lican floor leader. but Mt caucus to-
day he will bc chosen to succeed the
late Senator Gallinger ot New lamp
shire. His speech was made after con-
sultation with members of his party, and
is assumed 10 he a statement OF the
terms by which the Republican Senator
will stand
OUTLINE ron PEACE.
The Massachusetts Senator character
lied hls peace terms as an "irredicihie
minimum" and outlined them thus:
Belgium must he restored.
Alsacc and Lorraine must be returned
to France Internationally returned !
not merely because sentiment and eternal
Justice demand it, but because the IRON
and coal Of Lorraine must he forever
taken from Germany.
Italia Irrrdenta all those areas where
the Italian race is predominant, including
Trieste must go back to Italy
Serbia and Rumania must he eHtab-
lshed in their independence.
Greece must tie made safe.
Most important of all. If WE arr To
make the world safe IN the way we mean
it to nc safe. the great Siav populations
now under the government OF Austro-
Hungary the Jugoslavc and the Czccho-
slovaks. who have been used To aid the
Germans, whom they loathe must he
established as independent States.
The Polish people must have an m
dependent Poland.
We must have these independents States
created so that they will stand across the
PARKWAY Of Germany to the east. Moth
ing is more vital than this for Just, a
righteous. and an enduring peace.
RUSSIA 4 porENTT Al PERIL
The Russian provinces taken frpm
Russia bv the villainous peace of Brest-
Lltovsk must he restored to Russia
The President. as you all remember, has
announced with wisdom and foresight
the vast importance of sustaining Russia.
If Germany continues to hold large
part of Russia. the world for years to
come viii be under the shadow of another
great war, which will surely be prccipitat-
cd upon us when Germany has developed
her Russian possessions to the point OF
yielding her men, money and supplies
Constantmople m,ist be finally taken
away from Turkey and placed IN thee
hands of the allied nations as a frro
port, so s to bar Gerrnany's way Ia thr
east and hold the Dardancllcs open 70
the benefit Of mankind.
TURKEY OUT or EUROPE.
We must not be beguilcd into conces-
sions to Turkey IN the hope Of separating
her from Germany 1t would be miser-
able outcome 10 have Turkey retained
IN Europe. a curse 10 her subjects and
neighbors, plague spot and a breeder Of
wars. Her maSSacrcs must not under
anv pretenee be condoned nor her iniqui-
ties rewarded let Turkey and Bulgaria
share the fate of their master and be 20
treated that they will he unable again TO
trouble the world
Palestine must never return Ia Turk
sh rule and the prosecuted Christians Of
Asia Minor the Syrians and the Ar
menians must be safe
After stating his views IN this form,
the Senator said
These are the principal condition.
which alone will give us a victory worth
having, and when We talk about a com
plete peace and just and righteous
peace, let il be known TO all the world
that this rs what We mean
WARNED AGAINST PROPAGANDA.
The Senator alluded 10 the weapon
which he said, the Germans would
strive 10 use--the "insidio,n and poison
Gus" peace propaganda, which, he re-
called. had wrecked Russia, and had
provoked the Italian defeat on the
Isonzo
1T is the German propaganda which
we shall be obliged 10 face in the en-
suing months, and it therefore seems to
me, he said, ''of the least Importance
TO know exactly what we mean by
peace Generalites will not sever II
must be, il is commonly said-we have
all said it-a just and righteous peace
But what is a just and righteous
peace? What are the conditions that
wouid make it so? What is the ire
ducible minimum? We intend TO make
the world safe for democracy. But what
exactly do We mean by democracy? If
we mean, as we undoubtedly do, the
democracy of England, France, Italy,
and the United States, we can all uD-
derstand it; but the Bolsheviki masuue-
rade under the name of democracy, and
the Bolshevlkl, by a combination i
treachery, corruption and ignorance,
have reduced Russia TO servItude under
Germany and have engendered a form
of democracy as dangerous to the world
as the government of the Uohenzollerns
But assuming, as We do, when we say
we must make the world safe for de
mocracy that we mean our own con-
ception Of democracy, how is II TO be
made safe? Broadly speaking, there is
only one way 10 obtain this Security of
the nations. this safety of democracy,
this preservation of freedom and civ
iIization, and that is by reducing Ger
many TO a condition where by no possi-
bility can she precipitate another war
for universal conquest, with all its at
tendant sorrows, upon an unoffending
world. ] see only one way in which IT
can be done, and / will enumerate the
results, the hard facts, the essential
conditions 10 which we must attain"
NOT TRYING TO CRUSH GERMANY
At this point, Senator Lodge made his
statement of the terms he proposed
at is idle, he said, 80 talk about
our annihilating the German people No
body, of course, has any such idea 1t
could not be done, even if we wished to
do IT. We are not engaged in this war
TO arrange a government for Germany"