Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-21
GIVES
ADDRESS ON
PEACE POINTS
Declares Some Of the Points
Should Be Discussed Af-
ter Peace Is Decided.

President Wilson'S IA principles OF
peace were held up in the senate to-
day by Senator Lodge, the Republl-
can leader as questions which might
lead to division among the nations
which have conquered Germany and
which certainly should be postponed
until after the peace conference. They
are the, first four and the last of the
points enunciated by the president in
his speech Of January s, 1918, and re-
lates to secret diplomacy, freedom of
the seas, economic barriers, reduction
of armaments and the league of ma
tions.
The senator delivered a prepared
address on the problems of the peace
conference. in which he spoke of the
heavy responsibility of the senate in
the work of making peace, recalled
that no treaty can become binding up.
on the United States without the sem
ate's consent and declared that un-
toward results could be avoided only
if the senate expressed itself frankly
in advance.
''While I think it grave mistake"
he said, con the part Of the president
to ignore the senate because our ulti-
mate responsibility in making the
peace is quite equal to his own, II
have no fault to> find with his note
appointing senators as delegates to
the peace conference. There is no
obligation whatever upon him to
make such appointments.
''In the present situation which is
grave beyond comparison" he said,
II think it is of last importance that
those concerned in the actual negotia- :
ton of the treaty should at least know
the views of the senate so far as the
o,for In rfyO1 0f the
cables, and Mr.. Creel, in control of
the news, will permit the opinion of
the senate to be transmitted to Paris.
We cannot compel information, but
we are abundantly able to make our
opinions known not only to- the presi-
dent but to the Allies, who have a
clear and even acute idea Of the pow
er ofsthe senate in regard to treaties"
May Do Too Much.
To bring forward propositions not
inseparably connected with the i'm
mediate and difficult task of making q
binding peace with Germany, Senator
Lodge said, "may ruin all by trying
to do too much at once" Such
. propositions - he said, were the 1--we
points enumerated.
In his discussion of the, freedom OF
the seas, the senator called attention
to the strange development" in con-
nection with the pending naval appro-
priation bill, the advocacy by Rear
Admiral Badger of a program calling
for a navy as large au that of England
by 1925. He said he thought he had
favored building more ships than any
, body else. but that he never had con.
templated such a program and did
not think it necessary
"The only naval danger that we
were obliged to consider in the past
on the Atlantic coast has ceased to be.
We need a powerful fleet In the Pa
cific. and feel sure we will have &
navy, sufficient to furnish that fleet to
the western coast. And yet at this
30 build fleet which shall be the
equal of that Of England"
OF suggestions that a great navy Is
needed for, police duty in connection
with the league of nations, the SEN
ator said he would mot stop to ask
who is to order that navy about the
world"
Mr.. Lodge said he would be glad il
the senate debates on peace were sup.
plemented by some definite resolutions
expressing views on important points
He continued:
An Intolerable Act.
whether the senate will take such
action-although 1 know that we have
very definite opinions cannot tel
because there seems to be a feeling
among some senators that it is an ac1
of intolerable audacity of the senate
even to suggest to the executive thai
it has opinions which ought to be con
sidered. Personally I do not share
this view. d.
Peace being our object, the frs
step toward peace is to make a peace
with the country with which we have
been and are at war-that is with
Germany. If the peace with Germany
is to be durable, terms must be ex'
acted which will make it, so far as
human foresight goes, impossible fol
Germany to break out again upon the
world with war of conquest. Thi:
cannot be done by treaty engagement:
and signatures to documents. AT thi:
juncture of affairs Germany would
2 be as worthless as the guarantees she
gave to Belgium.
''It is well also to remember tha
Germany did not change its nature
over night when the kaiser ran ava,
to Holland. The deep rooted ambi
tions the evil principles carefully In
stilled for half century, the barbar.
Gus methods and doctrines all remain
unaltered.
Has Stated Views.
'rss 81 do not need to rehearse wha
those physical guarantees should be
for have stAted my views upon then
more than once to the senate, ant
think there is general agreement upor
them, not only inA the senate bu
among the American people. The,
include the restoration of Belgium
the return Of Alsace Lorraine t.
France, Of Italia irredenta to italy
the esta blishment Of Jugo-Sla,
state and Of an independent stat,
formed by the Czecho- -Slovaks. The,
include also the security OF Greece
the settlement of Albania and Monte
negro. the restoration Of Rumania
the consolidation Of all the Rumanial
people under one government as wei
the the naturalization of the straits
the putting OF Constantinople undel
s international protection with Greco,
perhaps as the mandatory power I,
{ administer the, affairs OF the city, tn.
Independence Of Armenia, the return
+ OF those portions of Asia Minor wher,
Greeks are predominant, TO- Greece
4 the protection of Syria and Palestin,
p from the Turks, q large, powerful ant
4 independent Polish state. the inde
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