The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-15
WILLIAMS MAKES
REPLY TO LODGE
Criticism of League of Nations
Made From Selfish Republican
Standpoint.

partisan and narrow" in the senate
today. 81 hesitate very much," ne
said, "to undertake to reply to the
greater prepared presentation of the
selfishness of American policy in an
extemporaneous answer. 1t is not
a new presentation of the PERSONAL
ty of the senator from Massachu-
sets. He has always attempted to
make show of himself"
At this point Kisses and "boos"
came from the gallery and drowned
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 attempt
ed to make a show of himself as be-
ing nonpartisan and fair and impair
tial."
"But the senator REFERS" continu-
ed Mr.. Williams, ''to the fact that we
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 it's own free will?
7 can not render service to Mississip-
pi of my own free will. I must con-
suit the other people who are my
neighbors. Mississippi can not rem
der service of it's own free will.
Crossing of is.
Cali the crossing of It's and the
dotting of is that the senator from
Massachusetts,. has recourse to does
not make me forget that he has neg
lected the weightier matters of the
law. Leaving out his crossing of t's
and his dotting of is and his finally
carefully three months prepared
peroration intended 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
of the mother that her son shall not
die uselessly upon the battlefield?
'sIt is easy for the senator to
scorn and, east obloquy upon the SEN
tence of the president when the pres
ident 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 seern of every honest, human
loving man, he merely made fun of
the phrase. 1t is slight thing to
break the heart of the world pro-
vided Republican policies in the SEN
ate of the United States are not at
stake"
The senator goes back in history
and he tells US Of all the brave
dreams that have been dreamt, and
then he makes fun of it all. The
holy alliance came from autocrats
seeking the perpetuation of auto
cratic power. 1t failed. Does it fol-
low necessarily, therefore, that an
agreement between the peoples of
the earth seeking popular power shall
fail?
"The senator can stand there and
read his carefully prepared sentences
with the view of controlling politics
in America, but he can not blot out
the fact that while / am citizen of
America | am also a citizen of the
world"
Referring to Senator Lodges as
sertion that the covenant would OBJ
ligate the United States to send
troops to aid Hejes in defending her
integrity Senator Williams declared
the Massachusetts, senator knew
when he said it that there was moth
ing of that sort provided.
Pleasure for Galleries.
"But it pleased the galleries"
continued Senator Williams. "It
tickled the ears of the groundlings."
1t was idle, the speaker said, to
say that the United States might be
forced to accept japanese immigra-
ton under the league.
sWho would force us to do that?"
he asked. "The decision would have
to be unanimous and would Great
Britain join in forcing us to do this?
If she undertook to force japanese
immigration on Canada or New Zea-
land she would break up the British
empire"
Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, Ne
braska, who followed Senator Will
liams, said the latter had been "a lit
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