The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-12-26
LODGE DEMANDS
HUN INDEMNITY

ESSsNO
That Germany Be Made to
Make Restitution to the Unit
ed States.
Washington, Dec. 23.-Five OF Pres
iderst Wilson's IA principles of peace
We're help up in the Senate today by
Senate Lodge, the republican leader,
as questions which might lead to divi-
sion among the nations which have
conquered Germany, and which GER
talniy should be postponed until after
the peace conference. They relate to
secret diplomacy, freedom OF the seas,
economic barriers. reduction of arma-
ment II the leasfs,a Of nations.
The senator recalled that no treaty
can bStis4.c binding upon the United
| Sta.fs without the Senate's consent,
j aoG S!aclared that untoward results
eoss;d be avoided only if the Senate
EXPRESSED itself frankly in advance.
While#I think it q grave mistake
he said. "on the part Of the president
20 ignore the Senate, because our ulti-
| mate responsibility in making the
peace is quite equal to his own. I have
l. itO lRAlk ~ Itltu VII IiS In dppO1lASS
ing senators as delegates to the peace
whatever upon him to make such APP
| pointments.
I'm the present situation" he said,
II think it of last Importance that those
concerned in the actual negotiation of
| the treaty SHOULD at least enc the
| views of the Senate, so far as the post
master general, in control of the cables.
and Mr.. Creel, in control OF the news,
will permit"
Freedom Of Seas.
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 and the advocacy by Rear
Admiral Badger of the program call
| ing for a a w as large as that of
England by 1925. He said he thought
he had favored building more ships
| than anybody else, but that he never
had contemplated such a program, n
did not think it necessary.
THE o%nlyinaval 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 Pacific, and
l feel sure we will have a navy suff-
cient to furnish that fleet to the western
coast"
OF suggestions that a great navy is
needed for police duty in connection
with the league of nations, the enator
said he would mot stop to ask who is
to order that navy about h world"
Mr.. Lodge said he would be glad ii
the Senate debates on peace were sup
| plemented by some definite resolutions
expressing views on important points.
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be exacted which win make it, SO far
as human foresight goes, impossible for
Germany to breal. out again upon the
world. This can not be done by treaty
engagements and signatures to docu-
ments.
Pledge Worthless.
At this juncture of affairs Germany
would sign anything n her pledge
would be as worthless as the guaran-
tees she gave to Belgium. 1t is. well
also to remember that Germany did not
change its nature overnight when the
kaiser ran away to Holland. The deep
rooted ambition, the evil principles
carefully instilled for half q century,
the barbarous methods and doctrines
all remained unaltered. ] do not need
to reliearse what those physical guar
antees should be, for | have stated my
| NiSWS upOil llSll IiOIe UltH OICG W
the Senate, and / think there is gen.
eral agreement upon them not only in
the Senate, but among the American
people. They include the restoration
of Belgium, the return of AlSace-Lor-
raine to France, of the italia-Irredenta
tn Italy, the establishment of a Jugo-
Slav state and of an independent state
formed by the Czecho-Slovaks. They
include also the security of Greece; the
settlement of Albania and Montenegro;
the restoration of RuInania: the con-
solidation of all he Rumanian people
under one government as well as the
Capitalization of the straits; the put
ting of Constantinople unde i%nterna-
tioaa protection with Greece perhaps
as the mandatory Of the powers to adj
minister the affairs of the city; the in
dependence of Armenia: the return of
those portions of Asia Minor where
Greeks are predominant to Greece: the
protection of Syria and Palestine from
the Turks: a large, powerful and in
dependent Polish state: in the indepen-
dcnce of Russia's Baltic provinces: the
return of Danish SieSNig to the Danes.
and the naturalization of the Kiel
canal.
Must Fay ~Indemnities.
"These physical guarantees which 7
have thus far suggested all have one
object n that is so to hem Germany
in that h cannot attempt in
Russia or the east and that the Slavic
populations which she has mercilessly
used in her wars, can never be so used
by her again.
in addition to these guarantees
there must be heavy indemities paid
BY Germany for the ruin she has
wrought in Belgium and northern
France and in Italy and for her de-
struction Of vessels, both Neutral and
Dclligerent through the use OF sub
marines. In those ~indemnities the
United states must have its proper