The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-10
ATTACKS
WILSON POINTS
Majority Report Of Foreign
Relations Committee SUBJ
mitted by Senator.
BRISTLING DOCU NJ ENT
Republican Leader Declares
Clamor for Treaty Ratifica.
ton Artificial"


stead of the United States being
left out of the league of nations
if the senate refused to accept
the treaty of Versailles without
reservations or amendments,
"the other nations will take us
on our own terms, for without us
their league is a wreck, and all
their gains from a victorious
peace are imperiled," Senator.
Lodge, republican, of Massa-
chusctts, asserted in the major
ity report on the treaty sub
mitted by him to the senate this
afternoon as chairman of the
senate foreign relations commit
tee.
Lodges report bristled with
ironical and critical references
to arguments advanced by Pres
ident Wilson on his present
speech-making tour to support
his contention that unless the
senate ratified the treaty with
out material change the United
States would be deprived of i'm
mediate membership in the
league and would face the alter
native of staying out of it alto
gether or entering it later with
Germany.
Covenant Will Breed Wars.
! gsGlamor about delay in the commit.
Tee in considering the treaty Lodge
declared to be largely the work Oh
the administration and its newspaper
organs, and was so far wholly arti.
| ficial."
| Artificial was also the demand fol
| haste disseminated by certain great
banking firms which had a direct
, pecuniary interest in securing an
early opportunity to reap the harvest
which they expected from the ad-
| Justment of the financial obligations
! of the countries which had been en-
! gagged in the war;" Lodge added.
This covenant of the league Of
nations is an alliance and not a
league, as is amply shown by the
provisions OF the treaty with Gef-
many which vests all essential power
in five great nations" Lodge stated.
/ Those same nations, the principal
/ tAd
dominate the league through the
| council.
THE covenant of the league as 1t
stands will breed wars instead of se-
curing peace. They also believe that
| the covenant of the league demands
| sacrifices of American independence
and sovereignty. which would in no
way promote the world peace, but
| which are fraught with the gravest
dangers to the future safety and we'll
being of the United States. The
m n m IS and reservations
| (adopted by the committee) alike arc
governed by a single purpose and
that is to guard American rights and
| American sovereignty, the invasion
OF which would stimulate breaches
! OF faith, encourage conflicts and gen.
crate wars. The United States can
serve the cause of peace best as she
has served it in the past, and do
more to secure liberty and civiljza.
ton throughout the world by pro-
ceedtng along the paths she has al
! ways followed and by not permitting
herself to be fettered by the dictates
of other nations or immersed and en-
tangled in all the broils and conflicts
of Europe
No Must" About II.
1--WE have heard it frequently said
that the United States must do this
and do that in regard to this league
of nations and the terms of the Ger
man peace. There Is no must about
I 1t. Must is not a word to be used
/ by foreign nations or domestic Of
! 1cials to the American people or their
| Representatives. Equally uniting Is
the attempt to frighten the unthink-
ing by suggesting that IL the senate
adopts amendments or reservations
the United States may be excluded
from the league. That is the one
thing that certainly will not happen.
! The other nations know we'll that
there is no threat of retaliation pos
sible with the United States, because
we have asked nothing for ourselves
and have received nothing. We seek
no guarantees, no territory, no COM
mercial benefits or advantages. The
other nations will take us on our own
terms, for without us their league Is
n wreck and all their gains from a
victorious peace are impossible. We
exact nothing selfish for ourselves,
but we insist that we shall be the
judges, and the only judges. as to the
preservation of our rights, our SOW
creignty, our safety and our inde-
pendence.
This the Hour to Speak.
AT this moment the United States