The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-03-14
THE PRESS ON THE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS AND SENATOR
LODGE


that President Wilson and those be-
hind him are quite willing to carry
the question of the league of nations
from the congress to the people III
this is done there is little question
as to the result
1t almost goes without saying that
the south will stand sOlidly behind
the president.
Fer example, Mr. c J. ST John. Of
Bristol, Tenn, in a recent letter ap-
pearing in Forum Column" of the
New York Herald, says:
referring to your editorial entitled
Senator Lodge on the League" /
wish to call your attention to the
speech of Dr. A Lawrence Lowell,
president of Harvard University de-
livered at the peace conference at
Atlanta. While expressing his re-
gard for Senator Lodge, ne answered
in a very scholarly way every argu-
ment Of the senator.
"The compelling force of public
sentiment will force the senator to
ratify the peace covenant as finally
submitted Some amendments may
be necessary. but the general plan
is meeting with strong popular en-
dorsment
while Senator Hardwick Of Ge0r-
gia was opposing this measure in
the senate ten thousand representa-
tive citizens of this state and other
southern states assembled in non
partisan meeting at Atlanta gave it
their enthusiastic and unqualified
approval"
And then, too. see how many of
the northern newspapers regard the
resolution so hastily and untimeiy
presented by the Massachusetts SEN
ator. whom dame rumor says has his
eye on the presidential nomination.
For example, the Cleveland Plain
Dealer has the following to say
Senator lodges performance in
the last hours of the old congress was
more spectacular than important 1t
was canny partisanship on his part
to attempt to line up an effective
minority of a senate not yet in ex-I
istence to defeat great information
al measure not yet definitely formu-
lated, to put the government Of the
United States on record against a
project which the statesmen Of all
the allied powers have declared vital
to the continued peace of the world.
The Springfield Republican, printed
in Senator Lodges own state, com
ments on his resolution as follows:
If this is the worst that the senate
opposition can offer to the president
after a fortnight Of sensational at
tacks he can return to Paris c0nvinc-
ed that reasonable notifications Of
the leagues constitution will so dis
arm the opposition in this country
that there will be no doubt of the
senate's final ratification of the peace
treaty containing the project of a
league of nations. The parting word
to him is stand fast"
The Baltimore American is quite
right when it says:
"Mr Lodge has all his life been
engaged upon problems that grew out
of lack of infallibility of the fathers
in their conduct of the government
The larger good has always resulted.
and will result Mr. Lodge is excel
lent and admirable, but Mr. Lodge
is wrong"
The Brooklyn Eagle sounds the
genuine feeling of the American PEG
pie in the following utterauce:
The senate opposition will be put
upon a bad defensive. which will be
made worse when the president re
turns and resumes the fight We DO
not believe that the American people
will rest content with the narrow and
seIf-sufficIng policy to which the sen
ate republicans would commit them
We do not believe that they are EN-
erging from the war without having
learned the lesson that, like the in
dividu1l no nation lives unto itself
alone
The Hartford Conn Post says:
What Mr.. Lodge and other repub-.
Iican senators would do, in proposing
their resolution against the league Of
nations IS to send the president back
to Europe to fight for world peace
with both hands tied. 1t can accom-
plish no good object, indeed it can ac-I
cOmplish nothing in the direction Of