The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-23
LODGE DEFINES PEACE
TERMS REPUBLICANS
CONSIDER ESSENTIAL
States Irreducible Minimum Part,
Believes Should Be Exacted of Huns.
Places His Party on Record as Bitter
Enders'' in War for Freedom.
BACKS MANPOWER BILL
Declares 1t Necessary In Order To
Win a Decisive Victory.
Says War Must Be Won Inside, Not
Outside, of German Territory.

new ndnpOWer Dill as Ine weapon
with which America will win a COM
plete and final victory over Germany,
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Massa-
chusetts, today outlined to the senate
the 'irreducib1e minimum" which the
allies should agree to in making
peace.
The essential conditions of a COM
plete, secure and lasting peace, as
Lodge outlined them, are:
Restoration of Belgium.
Must Return AIsace- Lorraine.
Return of Alsace-Lorraine to
France, not from sentimental reasons
alone, but to deprive Germany of the
coal and iron of Lorraine.
Restoration of Italia Irredenta, in
cluding Trieste to Italy.
Re-establishment of Serbia and
Rumania as independent states.
Security of Greece.
Establishment of the Jugo-Slavs
and Czecho- -Slovaks as independent
peoples.
Independence for Poland
Must Restore Russia.
Restoration to Russia of provinces
taken from her by the treaty of Brest-
Litovsk.
REIMBURSEMENT of Constantinople
Dardanelles as a free international
waterway.
Elimination of Turkish influence
from Palestine.
Such a victory, Lodge said, must be
won inside. not outside German from
tiers. 1t must be won finally and
thoroly in German territory and can
be SO won nowhere else"
The manpower bill Is the means to
this end, Lodge said.
Spoke for His Party.
His speech was received with great
attention, not only because of it's re-
markable outline of peace terms, but
because Lodge is slated to become Re-
publican leader Of the senate. sue
ceeding the late Senator Gallinger.
What he said today was accepted in
the senate as expressing the party's
views on peace terms thus placing the
Republicans on record as bitter end
ers."
Prophesies New Peace Drive.
Lodge warned that Germany now
sees herself beaten with the allies
firmly in control of the offensive and
American troops pouring in daily, a
new pe>.ce drive may be expected.
Because we must face this peace
drive in the next few months, Lodge
declared it of the utmost Importance
to know the sort of peace we are
fighting for.
1T must be. 1t is commonly said
we have all said it-a just and right
SouS peace, Sdl0 Lodge.
What Is a Righteous Peace?
But what is a just and righteous
peace? What are the conditions that
would 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 demo-
cracy? If we mean, as We undoubtedly
do, the democracy of England, France,
Italy and the United States we can all
lIndnrStaTd n 1eh Id
querade under the name Of democracy
and the Bolsheviki, by a combination
of treachery, conspiracy and ignorance
have reduced Russia to servitude un-
der Germany and have engendered a
form of democracy as dangerous to
Hohenzollerns. But assuming as we do,
when we say we must make the world
safe for democracy, that we mean
our own conception of democracy,
how is it to be made safe?
That again, is a vague term, which
must be answered and can only be
answered by definition.
Fight for Self Government,
I'VE are fighting and our allies are
fighting with US for security, for in
dependence, for the right of nations,
great and small to govern themselves
in their own way; for organized races
ana people to have the opportunity to
govern themselves in independent
states: for the sanctity and observance
Of treaties; general disarmament of
nations.
How are these things to be Sc
cured? The details are really more
important than the general principles
in which we all agree. Broadly speak
ing. there is only one way to obtain
this security of the nation, this safety
OF democracy, this preservation of
freedom and civilization. and that is
by reducing Germany to a condition
where by no possibility can she pre-
cipitate another war of universal con-
quest with all its attendant horrors
upon an unoffending world"
He then outlined the details of the
terms. and added:
No Concessions to Turkey.
I'VE must not be gulled into con-
cessions to Turkey in the hope of
separating her from Germany. 1t
would be a miserable outcome to have
Turkey retained in Europe. curse to
her subjects and neighbors. a plague
spot and a breeder of wars.
Her massacres must not under any
pretense be condoned nor her inioui-
ties rewarded
Let Turkey and Bulgaria share the
fate of their master and be so treated
that they will not be able to again
trouble the world.
These are the principal conditions
which alone will give US a victory
worth having and when we talk about
a complete peace and just and right
eous peace, let it be known to all the
world that this is what We mean.
TT is idle talk about our wanting
to annihilate the German people. No
body, of course, has any such idea. It
could be done, If we wanted to do it.
Crihcdses Bakers Delay.
Lodge criticised Secretary Baker for
preventing congress passing a man
power bill last June. when sentiment
was strong for immediate action. Bak-
er's reasons for stopping action by
congress at that time. Lodge said,