The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-23
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1919
LODGE AND THE TREATY

Nations must unite as men unite in order to preserve peace and order. The great nations must be so united as to be able to say to any single country, You must not go to war; and they can say that effectively when the country desiring war knows that the force which the united na- tions place behind peace is irresisti- bIe
 We have done something in ad- vancing the settlement by arbitration of many minor questions which in former times led to war and reprisals, although the points of difference were essentially insignificant; but as hu man nature is at present constituted and the world is at present managed, there are certain questions which no nation would submit voluntarily tOI the arbitration of any tribunal, and the attempt to bring such questions within the Jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal not only fails in it's purpose but discredits arbitration and the treaties by which the impossible is attempted.
 'In differences between individuals the decision of the court is final, be- cause in the last resort the entire force of the community is behind the court decision. In the differences be- tween nations which go beyond the limited range of arbitrable questions, peace can only be maintained by put ting behind it the force of united nations determined to uphold and prevent war.
 Tt might be easily said that this idea, which is not new one, is inn practicable; but it is better than the idea that war can be stopped by lan- gUage, by speech-making, by vain agreements which no one would carry out when the stress came, by denun- citations of peace in which all men agree for these methods are not only impracticable but impossible and bar ren of all hope of real result. It may seem Utopian at this moment to sug- gest a union of civilized nations in order to put a controlling force be- hind the maintenance of peace and international order, but it is through the aspirations for perfection, through the search for Utopias, that the real advances have been made. At all events it is along this path that we must travel if we are to attain in any measure to the end we all desire of peace upon earth"
 The author of these inspiring senti ments, says the New York World, is not Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, but Henry Cabot Lodge, senator in the congress of the United States from Massachusetts and leader of the Republican major ity. The address in which these sen- timents were expressed was delivered at Union College in June, 1915, nearly year after the great war had begun and four years before the covenant of the League of Nations became the great diplomatic achievement of the .,o~oa oOpforopoo
 In the senate MT. Lodge assailed the covenant of the League of Nations very things that he demanded that it should do when he delivered the ad- dress at Union College The path that we must travel" in 1915 is now the road of "visionaries," and while it may be proper enough that other nations should restrict their freedom of action in order to avoid war, the United States must yield nothing to help guarantee the peace of the world. President Wilson and Lloyd George and Balfour and Lord Milner and Robert Cecil and Clemen- ceau and Pichon and Tardieu and the representatives of a score of other nations are dreamers and rhetori- cians, and the practical statesman ship of the world is at present re- stricted to a little group of obstruc-