The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-07-10
HIGH POINT, N. c., THURSDAY, JULY1O, 1919

to thwart> Mr. Wilson, to- bring dis
r credit On him personally and over
throw any suggestion that emanates
from him.
/, This senate campaign has borne
fruit 1t postponed the draft of the
: treaty many weeks; it encouraged
, Germany in her refusal to accept the
treaty; it emboldened Germany to adj
vance counter proposals; it made it
imperative for the peace congress to
tolerate some Of Germany's counter
claims In short, had Germany, ex-
pended $1OO,OOO;OO0 to fee lawveds to
advocate her cause at Versailles she
would not have reaped half the ad-
vantage she has from the narrow
minded, bigoted, fanatic statecraft of
Henry Cabot Lodge in the. United
States senate. His insensate malice
against Wilson has given Germany
greater political advantage in the
peace negotiations than the completest
Victory Germany gained during the
war gave her armies military advant-
age. .....-.
True, Lodge is the enemy of Ger
many, a far ,bitterer enemy than
Woodrow Wilson; had he writ the
treaty the terms imposed in Ger
many would have been a great deal
harder than those in the first draft.
Hannibal did not hate Rome more
inveteratelv than Lodge hates Ger
many, and Henry Cabot Lodge has
precisely the same contemptuous aver
sion to a Sim Fein Irish1nan that
Dennis Kearney of the sandlOt had
for the coolie Chiniaman. He is not
working in harness with the I. w. w.
because he is the enemy of civiliza-
tion: but he is harnessed to them.
nevertheless. He is sincere in the
bigotry that whatever tends to defeat
rhe ideals of President Wilson is the
wisest statecraft, the Hottest patriot
ism, and the soundest philosophy.
Here is the game of politics he
played the other day. He deputed
eSnators Knox to write some resolu
ton separating the League of Nations
from the treaty of peace. Knox writ
them. and one of his resolves provided
as follows:
"That, finally, it shall be the de-
~
order to meet fully our obligations to
ourselves and to the world. that the
freedom and peace of Europe being
again threatened by any power or com !
bination of powers, the United States
will regard such situation with grave
concern as menace to it's own peace
and freedom, will consult with other
powers affected with view to devils
ing means for the removal of such
menace, and will, the necessity aris
ing in the future, carry out the same
complete accord and cooperation with
our: chief cobelligerents for the de- !
tense of civilization" - !
That means that we are not asham- |
ed of our participation in the war
and that we will do it again. under !
like circumstances. What do you sup
pose happened to that poor little resO-
luton? It. was stricken out by Lodge !
and the majority of his committee. |
Why? Because Borah, Poindexter,
Hiram Johnson and others would not
support it. What carers and shines
the sacred Goldfish must have cut, and
what cuss-words it must have uttered,
and Charles Sumner thus waltzed to
the piping of the wild and woody, from
the precincts of the l. w. w!
What is the inevitable inference to
be drawn from this elimination OF
that resolution? Why this, simply
this only this: We will not engage in
another war to save democracy from
the clutch of autocracv. Here was a
pledge to fight again in that quarrel if
it came to a fight; but Mr.. Lodge ana
his committee repudiated that pledge
and struck it from the record.
And here GENES young Mr.. Hays,
chairman Of the Republican National
Committee, holding up his hands in
patriotic horror-and in direful politi-
cal dismav-and DEGREES that the
| League of Nations is not a political
question. But suppose the Republican
senate rejects the treaty of peace
transmitted to it by the Democratic
President? How the devil is Mr..
Hays, Or the Republican party, going
to keep it out of politics? Ajax had
a better chance in his fight with the
lightning of heaven than Hays, or his
iparty, would have in this futile at
tempt to annihilate fact accomplish
thing out of politics and that is for
the senate to ratify it.
Of all our fellow-citizens, the man
who is most anxious to keep the league
out of politics is now President of the
United States. He believes the fate
Of civilization, the veal of genera
tions yet unborn, the peace, the hap
piness, the prosperity of the entire
world, are bound up in this pact. He
| is Mortified that such an issue should
be made the 20, tba1l of vulgar and