The Alaska daily empire., 1919-09-16
Lodge Versus Lodge
New York World)

"Natiors must unite as men unite in order to preserve peace and order. The great nations must be united to be able to say to any slnsle , try, "You must not go to war, ana they dah 1 sas that effectively when the country desiring war khow that the force which the united natlohs pace pe hlnd peace is irresistible
 we have done something in advancing the set clement by arbitration of many minor qloir questlohs which in former times led to war and reprlsais' although the points of difference were essentially insignificant; but human nature is at present constituted and the world is at present managed there are certain questions which nation would submit voluntarily to the arbitration Of any tribunal and the attempt to bring such questions within the iurisdiction of an arbira tribunal not only faie in it's purpose but discredits arbitration and the treaties by which the impossible is attempted
 ''In differences between individuals the decision or the court is final, because in the last resort the entire force of the community is behind the court no peace can only be maintained by putting behind it the force of united nations determined to upholc
 'It might be easily said that this idea which is not one, is impractable; but it is better than the idea that be stopped by language, 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 not only impracticabe but impossible and barren of all hope of real result It may seem utopian at this moment to suggest union of civ ilized nations in order to put controlling force behind the maintenance of peace and international order but it is through the aspirations for perfec ton, 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 to the end we all desire of peace upon earth"
 The author of these inspiring sentiments 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 if the Republican majority The address in which these sentiments expressed 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 diplo- matic achievement of the Peace Conference.
 Yesterday in the Senate MT Lodge assailed the covenant of the League because it had undertaken to do the very things that he demanded that it should do when he delivered the address at Union College. The path that we must ravel' in 1915 be proper enough that other nations should restrict their freedom of action in order to avoid war, the United States must yield nothing help guarantee the peace of the world. Wilson and Lloyd George and Balfour and Lord Milner and Robert Cecil and Clemenceau and Pichon and Iardieu and the repre- sentatives of a of other nations dreamers and rhetoricians, and the practical statesmanship of the world is at present restricted to little group of obstructionist Senators engaged in playing 1926 I campaign politics.