The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-20
LODGE PLAYING POLITICS.

Senator Lodge. republican leader il
the United States senate, has beer
making a hard fight against the
league of nations and has persistently
tried to discredit President Wilson
since the latter went to Paris. He
has declared the league of nations
visionary, impractical, violation OF
the Monroe doctrine and all that is
bad These declarations have been
made since President Wilson succeed
ed in convincing the other allied pow
ers that the league of nations is the
proper method of handling the affairs
of the world and preventing future
wars. Lodge favored the league of
nations until it became evident that
through Wilson's efforts the plan was
to be adopted and then he opposed
it bitterly. Norman Hapgood, one of
the great writer's of the present time,
who has a page i'll Leslie's Weekly
each week, calls attention to Senator
Lodges hypocrisy and Inconsistency
in the issue of February 1, under the
title, politics" His article follows:
Senator Lodge has denied that his
persistent attacks on the League of
Nations are due to desire to embar-
rass a president who happens to be-
long to different political party.
Perhaps the distinguished and erudic
senator would like to refresh his
memory about what he said before
the League idea became particularly
associated with the president. On
May 26, 1916, at Washington, under
the auspices of the League to Enforce
Peace, he said:
1t was year ago that in deliver
ing the Chancellor's address at Union
College, l made an argument on this
theory: that if we were to promote in
ternatinal peace at the close of the
present terrible war, if we were to
restore international law as it must
be restored, we must find some way
in which the united forces of nations
could be put behind the cause of
peace and law. | said then that my
hearers might think that l was pic
turing a Utopia, but it is in the search
for Utopias that great discoveries
have been made. mot failure, but
low aim is the crime" This league
certainly has the highest of all aims
for the benefit of humanity, and be-
cause the pathway is sown with diff |
cultles is no reason that we should |
turn from it. 1t is the vision of a
perhaps impossible perfection which
has led humanity across the centuries.
If our aspirations are for that which
is great and beautiful and good and
Deneficient to humanity, even when
we do not achieve our end, even if
the results are little, we can at least
Arnold's lines:
Charge again, then, and be dumb.
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find your body at the WALL '
Possibly some of my readers may
ind this non-partisan opinion of the
senator serviceable in debates carried t
N in the smoking room with friends
Who proceed on the simple theory {
hat whatever our president works t
or must be wrong.
"a Ess ER
POLITICIANS GET REBUKE.
General Pershing today gives the lie r
0 the politicians and sensational S
writer's who, in their efforts to dis r
redit everything American, have d
cen announcing that the American t
oldiers at Brest were encamped on t
mud flats, with insufficient shelter" s
nd spread alarmist tales of the suf- t
srings of the soldiers and the bad r
-eatment they are receiving. S
General Pershing cabled today: d
The health conditions at Brest and l;
ne general camp conditions and il
lethod of handling troops through e
re camp have received high praise b
ON all who have inspected it since c
le first formative day." General r
ershing won the war. The politi- b
ans who remained at home and tried a
discredit everything American did r,
It win it. They did al they could Il
help the Germans and discredit the
and retard its efforts.
HON are we 20 believe, Gs9al 4