The sun., 1919-05-02
.The World" and senstor Lodge.

! Our amiuDlc il sometimes lnconer-
| rpt neighbor the World Is now en-
N4eavoring to prove Senator LODGE
E1hilty of political sabotage" because
lie has "sent out kilograms declaring
that 1t is obvious that the covenant
-gf the League of Nations will require
5-further amendments
The exact process Of reasoning by
which our delightful II sometimes dis
! composed contemporary hopes to con-
vict Senator Of the United States
OF crime or misdempanor for having
expressed the opinion that proposed
treaty satisfactory to the negotiator
thereof may yet require in some par
ticulars the, attention Of the ratifying
authority Is not MS apparent to us as
il seems to be to the World itself ;
but at least there can be no doubt of
The highly emotional fervor of that
newspapers indictment Of the next
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations.
In the first place, our charming If
sometimes shatter-pated friend &C.
cuses Senator LODGE of Withholding
from it's knowledge the nature Of the
amendments he thinks may be neces-
sary. This is manifestly in the
Worlds opinion devilish offence
/ against that theory Of pitiless pub
iicity, that lofty precept about open
covenants openly arrived at, which
has governed President WILSON'S own
relation to the document during the
past five months. A less excited view
of the Senator's reticence in this re-
spect would be that while he clearly
perceives the need of further amend
ment of some of the articles of the
proposed treaty, in order to safeguard
American policies and interests, he is
not undertaking to do at this time on
his own responsibility the work that
will belong to the Senate when the
treaty reaches that body in the regu.
lar way for discussion, amendment,
ratification or rejection.
But this is the least serious aspect
of Senator LoDGE's criminal behavior
as contemplated by our highly es,
teemed If sometimes phrenetic con-
temporary. He not only refuses to die
tate to his typewriter the text of the
amendments which the Senate is to
adopt. but he is practically advocat-
ing "a return to the law of the jun
gle"; he is affirming the political
morality of Junkertum" he is PRO.
claiming his intention to undo what
has been done with so much effort
AT Paris; he Is apparently willing to
destroy the moral influence of the
II United States throughout the world"
he Is trying "to plunge civilization
into chaos; in short:
s1 mo more venomous spirit OF rule
N or ruin has been manifested in
"a Washington since the Southern Sem
ators In the winter OF $50 and 1861
81 declared that secession was the an
4, swer to the election OF ABRAHAM
A LINCOLN"
~ Senator LODGE must be surprised
N He can have had previously but an
/. imperfect idea of the black possibili.
M ties Of his own personal charac ter, the
h venom of his reasonable spirit, OIL
n his Ubiquitous efficiency ms chaos
n plunger. We are surprised ourselves
II THE Sun does not hesitate to bring
N to the attention of the admirable II
y sometimes slightly disarranged intel
M lect of its valued friend the hypothe
AZ sis-feeble perhaps in the World,
n opinion-that Mr.. LODGE may hon
estly believe he Is only carrying out
u or endeavoring to carry out, the viii
~ soniAn doctrine communicated by the
n President TO joint session Of tn,
n two houses Of Congress on Februar,
N II, 1918, when he said with his ac
u custOmed clearness Of enunciation:
N The United States has no desire
SA to interfere in European affairs or
N to act as arbiter in European terri
y torial disputes"
~ Had this view Of the case occurred
n to our excellent If sometimes moon
n struck neighbor two streets I'D tn,
n alleged square?