The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-17
WILSON QUOTES
Sen. LODGE IN
LEAGUE favor
Applause Greets President
When He Denounces OPP
ponents in Oregon Speech.

oA1SAASS IA 0ASE3OAA -
PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 16.-Quot-
ing from an address made in 1915 by
Senator Lodge, chairman of the SEN
ate foreign relations committee, sug-
costing that nations must unite as
men unite to preserve peace, Presi-
dent Wilson told Portland audience
Tuesday that the league Of nations
covenant carried out what Mr.. Lodge
had suggested.
1t was the first time during his
speaking tour that Mr.. Wilson has
mentioned by name any Of the SEN
ators opposing the league.
When the president went from his
hotel to the Auditorium for his night
speech he again rode through densely
crowded streets and was cheered all
the way. The audience stood up and
applauded for three minutes when he
entered the hall.
Led by Mayor Baker, they then
sang the Star Spangled Banner"
The cheering broke out afresh when
the mayor presented a bouquet Of
rosss to Mrs. Wilson.
Says Oregon Wants League.
B. F. Irvine, editor Of the Oregon
Journal, introducing Mr.. Wilson, was
ShSCI HS1 1S SouplCu thC
of the president and former President
Taft in a plea that there must be
atonement for the American dead in
the war. Declaring the president was
"in the house Of his friends" Mr.. Irv-
ing said Oregon stood ten or twenty TO
one" for the league Of nations.
Asserting he had found few men op-
posed to a league of nations, the
president said the great objection
seemed to be this particular league.
He recalled his conference with the
foreign relations committee on his
first return from Paris and said every
suggestion for Improvement made by
the committee members had been
written into the covenant.
Monroe Doctrine Guarded.
One Of these suggestions he con
tinued, was that the Monroe doctrine
be protected. He asserted that not
only had the doctrine been specifically
reserved to administration by the
United States but it had been extend
ed to all the world.
At the behest of the United States
he added, a provision also had been
put in giving the members the right
to withdraw.
Most Of these suggestions, said the
sources.
Saying he meant no disrespect tc
the league opponents. Mr.. Wilson stir
red up an outburst Of cheers when he
added that he had mo respect what
ever" for some of them.
The president asserted that "a very
few men" were proposing that the
covenant be changed to give the Unit
ed States "a position of special privil
eye"
That, he asserted, was directly con
trary to American principles, because
the nation had entered the war largely
to fight for the principle of the equal
ity Of nations.
Germany Taking Heart.
Germany, said the president, was
taking heart at the possibility that the
United States might be induced to re
fuse thu guarantee the peace settle
ment, To that end, he asserted, a pro
German propaganda" again was be
coming active in this country.
Mr.. Wilson said he sometimes won
dered whether the men who opposed
the league have ever talked, as h
had, with women who had lost sons il
the war. He declared many of thes,
had asked him to give all his strength
to an effort to keep other women
sons from having to go to war Thu
crowd cheered when he added that h
would fulfill that request
Through Misrepresentation ant
every other vile thing he declared
Il shall fight my way to that goal"
Mr. Wilson paid a tribute to tn
men who sat at the peace table, men
tioning Lord Robert Cecil, Genera
SHUTS and others, and declaring Their
was an unanimous and sincere agree
ment that the league was necessary t
guarantee the peace settlemnt
Il found quoted in one Of your ps
pers the other day a passage so al
propriate that l do not know that
can do better than read it as the pal
ticular thing that it is found nece.
sary to do.
Nations must unite as me
unite in order to preserve peaC
and order. The great nations must b
so united as to be able to say TO an
single country, you must not 90 t
war and they can say effectivel
when the country desiring war know
that the force which the united n;
tions apply behind peace is Irresistible
In differences between individuals tn
decision Of a court is final. because /
the last resort the entire force of tn
community is behind the courts d.
cisiOn; in differences between nation
which so beyond the limited range {
arbitral questions, peace can only /
maintained by putting behind it tn
force Of united nations determined
uphold 1t and prevent war
Words of Senator Lodge.
THAT is quotation from an a
dress said to have been delivered
Union College in June, 1915, yes
after the war began, by Henry Cab
Lodge Of Massachusetts. l entireI
concur In Senator Lodges conclusion
and I hope I shall have his cooper
ton in bringing about the desired r
suit.
In other words, the only way "
can prevent the unspeakable thir