The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-30
LIGHT TURNED ON
LODGES VIEWS
Owen Uses 1915 Speech in
Replying to Massachusetts,
Senator's Attack on League.
WAGlNG WAR ON MANKIND

Washington, Aug. 30.-Quotinf
livered in 1915, in which he favored
league of nations. Senator Owen
democrat, of Oklahoma, in an ad-
dress in the senate today replied tc
the most recent attack of the chair
man of the foreign relations commit
tee upon the peace treaty and league
of nations covenant.
THE galleries always applaud,
said Senator Owen, when a senator
strikes an oratorical pose and thun-
ders forth his sturdy Americansm
and the senator from Massachusetts
did not tair"to strike this popular
chord. The senator gloriously said:
An American First.
"'Call me selfish if you will, con-
servative or reaCtionary; but an
American l have remained all my
life. l can never be anything else
but an American and l must think of
the United States first
Fine! This is magnificent" the
galleries burst with applause, but in
June, 1919, at Union college, the sem
ator was still an American and he
told the world in language clear and
forCble that:
"'Nations must unite as men unite
to preserve peace and order
He stated that nations must be
so united as to be able to say to any
single country:
You must not go to war
Flat Contradiction
Zine! This is splendid, but fat
contradiction of his present attitude
that nations must not unite to pre-
serve peace and order; that they
must not be so united as to say to
any single country you must not go
TO var
"Nlr, President, am I going too far
when l appeal from Philip drunk to
Phillip sober?'"
Referring to Senator Lodges as
sertion that the preamble of the
league of nations covenant does not
differ essentially from that of the
treaty of Paris from which sprane
the holy alliance and its wars and
that mankind is constantly repeat
ing itself" Senator owen said IN
other words, the promises made by
the treaty of the holy alliance haV-
ing led to war; these promises will
also lead to war; because mankind
repeats ITSELF"
FalIacy Of Argument
"The obvious fallaCy of this argu-
ment is that the alleged purposes Of
the holy alliance had nothing to do
with the consequences which ensued
from that alliance War did not re-
suit from the virtuous promises made
to the people by the holy alliance.
The holy alliance made wiltully de-
ceitful and false promises of broth
erlv love and peace in order TO de-
Ceive the people of Russia, Prussia
and Austria and thus prevent them
from going into a revolution as the
people had done in France under like
conditions of tyranny and brute mill
tarv power.
Does the senator from Massachu-
setts really believe that it was tho
virtuous promises of the holy al
lance that led to war, or the secret
purposes and ambitions of these mill
tary monarChiCal despots who were
secretly plotting to rule the world by
brute force? There is a vast differ
ence between the promises of an hon
est man or an honest government, Of
sincere, meaning democracies
and the promises of trained liars,
murderers and self seeking dcspots.
And l feel fully Justified in describ-
ing the Hohenzollerns and the Haps-
burgs and the Romanoffs in these
plain terms
MAY not be permitted to appeal
% the better Americanism of the SEN
ltor from Massa chusetts not 10 throw
himself across the path Of human
progress and world peace? He is not !
'as he Thinks waging a war against /
Woodrow Wilson: he is waging p !
"ar against the desires and the hopes !
q all mankind