The Springdale news., 1919-03-14
LODGES RESOLUTION.

The Lodge resolution, WHICH Was signed by 37 Republican Senators in the last hours of the Sixty-fifth Congress is 50 per cent personal malice and 90 per cent political bluff.
 Once upon a time there was a door, keeper in the House of Representatives in Washington who proudly proclaimed that he was "a bigger man than old Grant. That is the spirit in which the Lodge resolution was framed These 37 Senators, who constitute slightly more than one-third of the total membership of the Senate, are serving notice on the Peace Conference that, collectively they regard themselves as "a bigger man than old Wilson.
 As for the resolution itself, it Is re- markable chiefly for what it does not say. Neither Senator Lodge, who has suddenly become the Alice Paul of the Republican party, nor any of his 36 associates dared to take a stand against League of Ma tons. Therefore, they solemnly re- solved that the Constitution of the League of Nations in the form now pro- posed should not be accepted by the Unit ed States
 But did they suggest any definite
  That again would have been too specific. They were afraid to make an issue on any particular article, so they left everything open If word Is changed in the pres ent draft, if a single sentence is recast, their faces will have been saved. They can vote for the treaty and for the League of Nations and solemnly declare that their opposition changed Constitution that endangered the very life of the re- public into a covenant that will forever safeguard the peace of mankind. The way is wide open for every mothers son of them to run for cover
 While 37 Republicans in the Senate were engaged in this petulant perform ance, certain other Republicans were eX- pressing opinions of radically different nature. Representative Mann, the Re publican floor leader of the House, made a speech in which he protested against "a tendency on the part of any fellow Re publicans not only to criticise severely the President of the United States for his part in reference to League of Nations but to criticise the idea that the United States shall enter into any agreement which may tend to prevent war in the fu- ture.' In MT. Mann,s opinion unless we do something definite to prevent future wars. I've shall not in the future receive the blessings of mankind, but it's condem- nation"
 Representative La Guardia of New York, a Republican with real war re- cord of service at the front, emphatically declared that the soldiers who knew what fighting was would tolerate no partisan effort to defeat President Will son in his efforts for a world society. During the war, said Mr. La Guardia the great cry was stand behind the Pres dent and win the war We want to stand behind him now and put through an agreement that will make another wal impossible
 Gearge W. Wickersham. former Re publican Atterney-General of the United States, returning from France, gave test imonX to the general feeling in the allied countries that "Mr Wilson's presence abroad and his influence will bring about ratification of the league plan All this is in striking contrast with the sheer of Senator Sherman when he described the Lodge resolution as a souvenir for the President to take back to the gay and somewhat light-hearted Parisians'- the Parisians whose shoes Senator Lodge is not worthy 10 clean.
 Regardless of Senator Lodge and his associates, 1t is safe to assert that no 37 Republican Senators will ever be found to vote against the treaty of peace and the League of Nations when the final test comes. Whatever they say now and whatever they do now, when their chief aim in life Is to attack the President and try to discredit him at the peace confer ence, they will take a much different at titude when they are charged with the dirpnf rnsnnn Sihilif, of ;o.A