The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-03

Washington, Dec. 26.-Five of
President Wilson's IA principles of
peace were held in the senate few
days ago by Senator Lodge, the Re-
publican leader, as questions which
might lead to division among the ma
tons which have conquered Germany,
and which certainly should be post
poned until. after the peace confer
ence. They are the first four and the
last of the points enunciated by the
President in his speech of January s,
1913, and relate to secret diplomacy,
freedom of the seas, economic bar
riers, reduction of ornaments and the
league of nations.
The senator delivered a prepared
address on the problems of the peace
conference in which he spoke of the
heavy responsibility of the senate in
the work of making peace, recalled
that no treaty can become binding up
on the U. S., without the senate's con-
sent and declared that untoward re-
suits could be avoided if only the SEN
ate expressed itself frankly in adj
sance.
May Ruin Trying Too Much
To bring forward propositions not
inseparably connected with the immc-
date and difficult task of making a
binding peace with Germany, Senator
Lodge said, "May ruin all by trying
to do too much at once" Such propo-
sitions he said, were the five points
enumerated.
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, the advocacy by Rear
Admiral Badger of program calling
for navy as large as that of Eng
land by 1923. He said he thought he
had favored building more ships than
anybody else, but that he never had
| contemplated such a program and did
not think it necessary.
Need Only Pacific Fleet
"The only naval 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 | feel sure we will have
a navy sufficient to furnish that fleet
to the western coast. And yet at this
moment we are suddenly called upon
to build a fleet that shall be the equal
of England's.
Of suggestions that great navy is
needed for police duty in connection
with the league of nations, the senator
said he would mot stop to ask who is
to order that navy about the world"
Peace With. Germany First
peace being our object, the first
step toward peace is to make a peace
with the country with which we have
been and are at war-that is with
Germany. If the peace with Germany
is to be durable, terms must be exact
ed which will make it so far as human
foresight goes, impossible for Ger
many to break out again upon the
world with a war of conquest.
"It is well also to remember that
Germany did not change it's nature
over night when the kaiser ran away
to Holland, The deep rooted ambi-
tons, the evil principle carefully in
stilled for half century, the barbar-
Gus methods and doctrines all remain |
unaltered.
Guarantees Needed
"These guarantees include the re-
storation of Belgium, the return of
Alsace Lorraine to France, of Italian
Irredenta to Italy, the establishment
of Jugo-Slav state and of an indie
pendent state formed by the Czecho-
Slovaks. They include also the Sc
curity of Greece, the settlement of
and Montenegro, the restora-
ton of Rumania, the consolidation of
all the Rumanian people under one
government as we'll as the neutraliza-
ton of the straits, the putting of Con-
stantinople under international pro-
lection with Greece perhaps as the
power to administer the af-
fairs of the city, the independence of