Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-06-19
Senator Delivers Notable
Address Before Harvard
Students.
GERMANY, GREATEST
MENACE, REMOVED
Resort to unheard Of Barbarian BY
Supposedly Highly Civilized Nation
Blasted Many Beautiful Theories
Destruction Of Germany Opens Way
For Permanent Peace Of World
In Path Of Russia Lies Ruin.

Cambridge. Mass, June blossoms
for America in Germanys military ag-
gression following years Of effort to-
ward world peace and in Russia's boil
shevism rule were emphasized In an
address here today by United States
Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts,
chairman of the senate foreign rela-
tions committee at the commencement
exercises of Harvard University.
Destruction of Germany's war pow
er Senator Lodge declared, is the best
guarantee OF world peace. Misery.
rocked by bolshevism in Russia he as
serted, proves that reforms must come
slowly by evolution. and that present
conditions may he endangered by
''vainly striving for glittering possl-
bility.
People Guessed Wrong.
No direct reference was made by
Mr.. Lodge to the peace treaty or the
league Of nations, but in discussing
peace efforts and, Germans course he
said:
AT the close Of the last century
there was a quite general belief that
serious wars would not come again.
Some doubted and for their skepticism
were called 'jingoes,' war lovers anu
.pessimists.'
But almost every one felt sure tha,
II, war should again break upon us its
htrrors would be reduced to the low.
est point, and that by the conventions
Of Geneva and the Hague. the suffer.
ings and cruelties Of past wars woul,
be largely eliminated
Resort to 6arbarism.
Suddenly the great war came. Ger
many. esteemed by all highly civil
lied nation. entered <dcliberteiy upon
course Of savage cruelty, worse than
ever imagined because 1t was careful
ly organized. The world had known
barbarism before, but never had any
thing fallen upon man comparable to
the scientific, wholesale atrocities car
ried on by Germany. by which not
merely individuals, but entire commu-
mites. were subjected to the-rnost hide
Gus sufferings and the most utter ruin
which highly trained minds, entirely
destitute OF humanity, could devise.
AS for treaties and laws they went
in the first flame of war as quickly a
the dry leaves Of autumn when a spark
falls among them!
Better Men Not Made BY Treaties.
"The beautiful scheme OF making
mankind suddenly .virtuous by stat
ute or written convention was once
more exhibited in all its weakness. "
1T Is a melancholy reflection that
the best assurance of the future pea ce
of the world lies in the destruction Of
the German war power, which Is worth
all 1t cost.
"Once again comes the harsh lesson
that all the advances Of men in morals
and, in ultruism, in charity and gentle
manners and purer laws, all that. real
ly remain with us, come slowly, never
In moment"
1Experience Of the past, Senator
Lodge declared, must be a guide. to
future action.
Russian bolshevism. Mr.. Lodge said
in conclusion, presents a warning to
America in its awful results of a
scheme which it's authors pretended
and their dupes believed would make
all men happy In a moment"
sr..t In Russian Way Lies Ruin.
IN letters Of fire." said Mr.. Lodge.
this Russian scene says to us This
way lies ruin" Does the United States
tell us trumpet tongued that the coun-
try for which this younger generation
has died is still the best hope for man
kind and that it must be preserved as
their fathers preserved and saved 1t.
in the days that are gone?
BE Americans first, Americans last.
and Americans always. From that firm
foundation you can march on. Aband-
on It and chaos will come as when the
civilization Of Rome crashed down In
ruin - SE|r r7f #, ~.