South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-13
SUFFRAGETS ASK EMBARGO ON
SEN. LODGE, BUT WHY NOT NEW
AND WATSON? america FIRST"

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w republican committee, protesting
bringing Henry Cabot Lodge Of Masachu-
sets. into this state during the fall, support the
republican ticket Their reason OF course Is his
against the federal suffrage amendment
We had thought mp to this time that the only sena-
be damned because their anti-sufrage votes
was be those democrats from the SOUTH who still
nursing their rights theories, themselves
the ground that suffrage a state and national
Directors the Indiana womans Franchise league.
however cognizancc theory,
eNcusable theory while anti-suffrage from
observation-disclosures doctrine federal CEN
traIzauon-ls regarded by without any excuse
whatever, the unprogressiye and reactionary
tltude OF the
They care to have the rcpublcanlsm of In
diana further with retrogrcs
sion. Their protest good they might have gone
still further. protest against induction
Indiana campaign any partisan "copperheads" would
Massachusetts senator it seems
have made their objections much stronger on
grounds OF larger patriotism.
Il may be that Lodges opposition suffrage
1t a tnge OF opposition to too much democracy
both fundamental and partisan,-and especially when
is advocated, particularly urged BY
president.
Wilson, you know, went before the senate and
urged the passage the suffrage amendment a
damental-not partisan-demOcratic measure, that
democracy a nation might unchalIenged
the world, which lighting o prin-
cipIe
That may have settled IL with the senator from
achusetts whose keen disappointment everything
Wilson presidential has back those dark
republican days Of 10 and 12-nnd continuing 20 and
including the presidents peace-Or
Max
Sen Lodges "keen disappointrments' anent all pres
Dental activities, almost proverbiaI as
T. Roosevets perfectly deighteds, "-anent things
Rooseveltian.
The is "keenIy Disappointed his chronic
state Wilson was elected; keen
Iy disappointed that the president should stage
enter a with imperial German gov
ernment"-just though the president had, and cai
culatlng misIead his auditors believing
had.
simply that much moro OF the inexcusable par
rot, o. which has been coming from
that same reactionary source. not alone involving
suffrage but everything else tends to demo-
cratlDe democracy, 10 these many months
seems be Sen. Lodges idea that the president
through Sec'y Lansing, should have In 50 many
words: Tell the damned kaiser go heu"-
speech that might have drawn applause from the gal
lery, but in the the president had made such
abrupt reply Massachusetts, would I'm all
probability have again been "kenly dsappOinted' and
the first point a foresight, dignity and
American self-respect, in such language.
diplomacy exclusively the property OF
Mr.. Roosevelt. It is what makes "un-Habbiy"
etc. I'm the of which, the have had
exactly what ne wanted-a foundation upon which to
convince his people that humiliation Germany not
the safety of democracy, the design of
States, and that therefore they buckle up
belts and fight harder than for the fatherland.
Sen. Lodges fears" he expresses them are the
with reference suffrage as they are
concerning the world conflict; shared by all
reaCtionaries, alone this country but through
out the worid-the fear that larger democracy,
safety for Il, may really be the outcome.
Directors of the Indiana suffrage league may well
take tIris keen" account, and they might well
supplement- their protest against Lodge being
brought into Indiana, by denouncing him Chairman
Wasunuth, as this type of "copPerhead" additional
As women, pleading TIE ballot they should de-
mand 100 percent Americanism from the SIassachu-
statesman, well baIlot-a splendid Op-
porunity demonstrate that political and pa
piping times. stop with grasp for the
ballot box.
And they might with proprety 60 even farther and
their salutary influence, along similar line pro-
testing against "cOpperheadism" Sens New and
Watson. Notwithstanding their vote for suffrage.
Suffrage should have. that our democracy may be
made whole but above it--when a United
senator takes ambastng the American pres-
dent. for walking a trap set by the kaiser
threatening American lives and treasure which
would have resulted Lodge New Watson want
cd way Of doing IT, it Of singing importance