The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-19
tBy Associated Press)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 19.-Les-
sons for America in Germany's mill
tary aggression following years of ef-
fort toward world peace and in Rus
sia's Bolshevist rule were emphasized
in an address here today by United
States Senator Lodge of Massaehu-
setts, chairman Of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee, at the commen-
cement exercises Of Harvard univer.
sity.
Destruction Of Germany's war
power. Senator Lodge declared, now is
the best guarantee of world peace.
Misery wrought by Bolshevism in Rus
sia, he asserted, proves that reforms
must come slowly by evolution and
that present conditions may be en-
dangered '1by vainly striving for gilt
tering impossibility."
No direct reference was made by
Mr.. Lodge to the peace treaty or the
| league OF nations, but in discussing
peace efforts and Germany's course,
he said:
"At the close of the last century
there was quite a general belief that
serious wars would not come again.
Some doubted and for their skepticism
were called .jingoes,' 'war-lovers' and
'pessimists.'
Treaties Go In Flame
"But almost everyone felt sure that
| if war should again break upon US, Its
horrors would be reduced to the low
7 est point and that by the conventions
Of Geneva and the Hague, the suner-
ings and cruelties of past wars would
be largely eliminated.
Suddenly the great war came. Ger
many, esteemed by all highly c1Vl-
| lized nation, entered deliberately upon
a course of savage cruelty worse than
any ever imagined, because 1t was
carefully organized. The world had
known barbarism before but never
had anything fallen upon men COM
rarable to the scientific, wholesale
atrocities carried on by Germany by
which not merely individuals but en-
| tire communities were subjected to
! the most hideous 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 fierce flame of war as quickly
as the dry leaves of autumn Wnen
spark falls among them.
"The beautiful scheme Of making
mankind suddenly virtuous by sta
| tute or a written convention was once
more exhibited in all it's weakness
Experience Must Guide.
at is a melancholy reflection that
the best assurance of the future peace
of the world lies in the destruction OF
the German war power, which Is
worth all it cost.
i "Onoe again comes the harsh les
son that all the advances of man II
morals and in altruism, in charity and
i gentler manners and purer laws, al
that really remain with US, come slow
lily, never in moment"
Experience of the past. Senator
Lodge declared, must be guide te
future action.
II fervently hope" he said to the
Harvard graduates, that you viii
have visions and dream dreams, bu1
do not forget that having visions i:
one thing while being a visionary, es
pecially visionary whose visions ant
ideals are stage properties, is quite
another.
Warning in BoIshevism
'What troubles me most about th'
books and articles ana SpeecneS o.
our most advanced thinkers setting
forth new panaceas and systems 70
all the evils is that they are general
ly SO very old. a fact apparently dis
regarded by their authors, who yer.
properly despise past which onl.
: rises up to be troublesome"
Russian Bolshevism, Mr.. Lodge sal,
in conclusion, presents a warning t
, America in its awful results of
scheme which it's authors pretende,
and their dupes believed would max
: all men happy in moment"
! "In letters of fire.. said Mr.. Lodge