The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-22
LODGE VERSUS LODGE

Nations MAST unite as men unite in
lOrder TO preserve peace and order.
The great nations must be so united
as 70 be able to say to any single
country, You must not go to war"
and they can say that effectively
when the country desiring war knows
that the force which the united ma
jtions place behind peace is irresist-
IfbIe r.
We have done something in advanc-
ling the settlement by arbitration of
many minor questions which in for
mer tines led to war and reprisals,
ialthoUgh the points Of difference were
essentially Insignificant; but as hui
man nature is at present constituted
ana the world is at present managed,
there are certain questions which no
nation would submit voluntarily to
the arbitration ot any tribunal, and
the attempt to bring such questions
within the jurisdiction Of an arbitral
tribunal not only fails in its purpose
but dscredits arbitration and the treat
les by which the impossible is at
tempted.
In differences betwAeu individuals
the decision of the cotrt is final be
cause in the last resort the entire
force of the community is behind the
court decision. In differences be-
tween nations which 10 beyond the
limited range of arbitfable questions,
peace can only be maineained by put
ting behind it the force of united ma
ttions determined to uphold it and pre-
vent war. i : 81
1t might be easily Said that this
idea, which is not new one. is prac
ticable. but it is better than the idea
that war can be stopped by language,
by ch-making, by vain agreements
which no one would carry out when
1.-THE stress came. by denunciations of
war and laudati0ns Of peace, in which
jail men agree, for these methods are
not only ilnpTacticabIe but impossible
land barren of all hope De real result
iTt may seem UtOpiau at. this moment
to suggest q union Of civilized nations
in order TO put controlling force be-
hind the maintenance of peace and in
Iterrati0naI order. but it il. through the
Inspirations for perfection through
the search for Utopjas. that The real
advances have been made At all
Ievents It IS along this path that we
must travel If we are TO attain in any
measure to the end we Oh desire of
peace upon earth.
The author Of these Inspiring senSi-
ments, says the New York World, 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 of the republican majority
The address in which these s9nti-
ments were expressed was delivered
at Union College in Junel 1915 nearly
a year after the great wa; was begun
and four years before The covenant
of the league of nations became the
great diplomatic achievement OF the
peace conference.
Tuesday in the senate Mr. Lodge
assaiIed the covenant of the league
because it had undertaken TO do the
very things that he demanded that il
should do when he delivered his ad.
dress at Union College. The path
that we must travel in 1915 is now
the road Of "visiOnaries,@ and while it
may be proper enough that other ma
tons should restrict their freedom of
action in order to avoid war, the
United States must yield nothing to
help guarantee the peace of the world
Wilson and Lloyd George and Balfour
and Lord Miner and Robert Cecil
and CIemenceau and Pichon and Tar
dior and tha ranraaoytaE;vac ~ .