The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-10-30
1899 AND 1919 SHOWS A
VAST CHANGE IN HIM

scandal1zed by a proposal to amend
VI. re1ect treaty of peace than was
henry Cabot Lodge in, 1899.
AT that time Senator Lodee,s Pc
publican colleague from Massachu-
cetts was opposed to the treaty of
peace with Spain which President Nc
h1nley had negotiated, and man7
, democrats were against it because of
Inc acquisition of the Philipnines
mere was the possibility that mi
norlty OF the Senate would prevent
inc ratification of the treaty. and Sem
ator Lodge was appalled, at the noo.
siDnltv that the treaty might be re-
jected
We must either ratify the treaty
or reject It, he said. Suppose wa
reject the treaty, what follows ?"
This was his answer.
+ Let us look at it practically. We
continue the state of war, and every
sensible man in the country. every
business interest, desires tho re.os-
taollshment OF peace in law as well as
In faCt. At the same time we repu-
date the President and his action be-
tore the whole world, and the repudi.
alton Of the Presiden' in such mat
ter as this is, to my mind, the hunnili-
alton of the United States in the ewes
OF civilized mankind and brands us as
a people~fncapabIe of great affairs or
OF taking rank where we belong as one
or the srea:"st of the great worl:
powers"
= This is what Henry Cabot Lodge
thought on Jan. "a, 1899, about the
kind of politics that Henry Cabot
Lodge is playing with treaty of
peace in October, 1919.
To continue
1.-THE President cannot be sent back
across the Atlantic in the person of
his Commissioners, hat in hand, to say
to Spain with bated breath, L am
here in obedience to the mandate of
minority of one4third of the Senate
to tell you that we have been too vic
torious, and that you have yielded us
too much and that I am very sorry
that took the Philippines from you
do not think any American Presi-
dent would do that, or that any
American would wish him to-"
But that is exactly what Senator
Lodge now demands of President VII.
son. He insists that the treaty must
be so amended that it will be sent
back to the Peace Congress, which
means that it must be sent back to
Germany an dthat the President must
be sent back across the Atlantic, hat
in hand, to ask Germany if it will
make peace in accordance with the
mandate Of a minority of one-third
Of the Senate.
There was much said IN the course
of the Senate debate in 1899 about the
declaration of independence and
Washington's Farewell Address and
the Constitution of the United States
in relation to the treaty. This is how
Senator Lodge answered the Lodges,
the Bora1s and the Johnsons Of twen-
ty years ago:
"'I am sure, Mr.. President, that
there is no Senator upon this floor,
no matter what his views on this
question may be, who would not cut
off his hand sooner than be false to
the principles of the Declaration Of
independence and to the great ira
ditions and ideals of American his
tory. =. Nobody loves better than
I the ideals set forth in the Declara-
ton of independence but my ideals do
not stop there. Nor do they stop
even with that great period when
the life of the Nation was at stake.
have ideals and beliefs which pertain
to the living present, and faith IN
the future of my country. believe In
the American people as they are To-
day and in the civilization they nave
created. I believe net merely III
what thew have done but in what they
are vet to do =
H1 can look at this question in only
one way. A great responsibility mas
come to us. If we are unfit for IT, tnen
we should shirk it and fly from it. But
believe we are both fit and capable
and that therefore we should meer IL
and take it up"
Rut when a far greater response
hi1itv comes to the United States un-
der a Democratic Administrator anu
q Democratic President, oenatoA
Lodge is not in favor or II. n1
,ronts TO shirk it and fly from IT,
He regards us as e. people lncapa-
hle of great affairs" He believes we
orc unfit to stand alone on an equal
itv with other nations in q League Vi
Nations He believes in burk1ng the
treaty for the sake Of burking tne
treaty and bedeviling a world that rs
still moaning in misery. =
In 1899 81 want to get this country
ont of war and back to peace" out IA
1919 he wants to mutilate- the peace
treaty which has followed the mos
d;sastrous conflict in all history ana
koen the country indefinitely IN
state of war in the hope tnat 1epuO
can politicians will be able 10