The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-08-16
REPLY
TO LODGE

Severe Attack Made By Missis-
sippi Senator
Washington, Aug. 12.-Senator VII
liams, Democrat, Mississippi. bitterly
attacked the position Of Senator
Lodge, Republican chairman of the
| foreign relations committee, as paru-
san and narrow" in the senate today.
"I hesitate very much" he said to
undertake to reply to the greatest pre-
pared. presentation Of the seihshness
Of American policy in an extempofa-
neous answer. It is not a new presen-
ttation of the personality OF the sena-
tor from Massachusetts,. He has al
ways attempted to make show OF
himself"
At this point Kisses and "boos"
came. from the gallery and drowned
I out the Mississippi senator's voice.
Vice President Marshall, after re-
storing order, warned that if the SEN
ate rules again were violated, he would
order the galleries cleared.
Senator Williams continued that
Senator Lodge has always attempted
to make. a show Of himself as being
non partisan and fair and impartial." :"
"But, the Senator refers continued
Mr.. Williams, "to the fact that. H3e
must render our service of our own
free will; to the world-service Of our
own free will. How can any nation
render service .of. its own free viii;
I cannot render service to Mississippi
Of my own free will. I must consult
the other ipeople who are my neigh
bors.. Mississippi can not render serv-
ice of it's own free will.
Crossing OF t's.
Call the crossing of is and the dot
ting of is that the senator from Mass
achusetts has recourse to does rot
make me forget that he has neglected
the weightier matters Of the law.
Leave out his crossing Of t's and his
dotting of is and his finally carefully
three months prepared peroration in
tended to appeal to the galleries, has
he shown the slightest heart sympathy
with the. desire of the world to have
peace. Has he shown any sympathy
with the desire ofAthe mother that her
SON shall not die uselesSly upon the
battlefield?
..It is easy for the senator to scorn
and cast obliquy upon the sentence Of
the president when the president said,
If you defeat the league of nations
you will break the heart of the world. ;
With an absolute cold New England
cynicism that invites the scorn OF
every honest, human, loving man, he
merely made fun Of the phrase. 1t
is a slight thing to break the heart OF
the world provided Republican poll
cies in the senate of the United States
are not at stake.
The senator goes back in history
and he tells us of all the brave dreams
that men brave have dreamt, and tnen
he makes fun OF it all. The holy a1li-
perpetuation Of autocratic power. 1t
failed. Does it follow necessarily,
therefore, that an agreement between
the peoples Of the earth seeking pop
ular power shall fail?
'The senator can stand there and
read his carefully prepared sentence
with the view of controlling politics
in America, but he can not bio. out
the fact that while I am citizen
of America 1 am also a citizen Of the
world
Referring to Senator Lodges asser-
ton that the covenant would oblige
the United States to send troops to
aid Hedjes in defending her integrity.
Senator Williams declared the Massa-
chusetts senator knew when he saie
it that there was nothing of that sort
provided.
Pleasure for Galleries.
''But it pleased the galleries con-
tinued Senator Williams. 1T tickled
the ears of the groundlings."
It was idle, the speaker said, to say
that the United States might be forced
to accept Japares:: immigration under
the league. -
who would force US to do that"
he sked Tie decision would have
to be unanimous ard would Great
Britain join in forcing us to do this?
If she undertook to force japanese
immigration on Canada or New Zeal
and she would break up the British
Empire
Senator Hitchcock. Democrat. Ne
braska, who followed Senator Will
liams, said the latter had been "a II
tie severe in denouncing Senator
Lodge for criticising the league of
nations plan" Senator Hitchcock
read from an address of Mr.. Lodge in
1915, favoring the idea of league.
and added. ..It is for the senator from