The Washington herald., 1919-09-17
CLASSES
HIMSELF WITH
BIBLICAL SAINT
Says St. Paul Was Able to
Change Mind as to
Conversion.

Following a verbal Joust between
Senator Hitchcock and Chairman
Lodge, of the Foreign Relations
Committee. the Nebraskan won his
point in the session OF the Senate
yesterday afternoon and twenty
pages OF the peace treaty were
read to the members before ad-
journment-
1t will probably be Monday be-
fore further reading OF the docu-
ment can be taken up. inasmuch
as there will be no session today
or tomorrow, and Friday will be
taken up by Senator Reeds attack
against the league.
Senator Lodge yesterday replied
to the statement Of President Will
son that he Uodge) had expressed
himself as believing. not so many
years ago. that a league OF nations,
or the equivalent, was necessary.
Senator Lodge admitted he spoke
for a league, backed up by force
but declared he did not propose
the sacrifice of the interests OF
the United States in order to have
such a league formed. And the
more he thought about it. he added
the more he became convinced there
could be no league without such
sacrifice. and that he finally de-
eided the problem would be too
difficult.
Some Converts Do Good Work.
Senator Lodge said he had talked
the question over frequently with
the late Col. Roosevelt, who took
the same position as his Own-that
while a league of some kind might
be desirable. it was not best to
have the United States policing Eu-
rope and Asia. as well as giving
up the Monroe Doctrine. Only two
weeks before Col. Roosevelt's
death. the Senator said. they de-
Cided the league would be fatal
to Americas sovereignty.
Even if a man has been con-
verted. some good work has been
done by converts from the time of
St Paul down to the present day"
sad the Senator in answer to the
Presidents charge of his incOnsiSt-
encies.
Senator Lodge quoted President
Wilson's speech at the unveiIng of the
Commodore Barry monument, in
Fourteenth street, Washington. May
s. 1914 in which the Chief Executive
is said to have stated that America
should live her own life alone"
In August, OF the same year. the
Senator said. the President made a
speech in which he said the United
States must be neutral in fact as well
as in name.
"On February l. 1916. the President
delivered a speech in which he sald
that there were men in the United
States constantly preaching war, and
V do not know what the standard OF
citizenship of these men can be; l
only know that I cannot subscribe to
those standards
sherman Adds Word.
IN Kansas City. the following day,
the President said: 1t would tear the
heartstrings OF American to enter the
war. We can show our interest in the
rest Of the world by not getting into
it But we did get into it, because the
President changed his mind"
Senator Lodge read a great many
other quotations tending to show the
President had made a complete re-
versal OF opinion on most of the war
subjects. He concluded by saying:
America is the best hope of man
kind and will remain so as long as We
DO not minEIe in every brOil and
quarrel that may cucumber the
earth"
This brought 4 roar OF applause.
Senator Sherman. Of Illinois. denied
the assertion of the supporters of the
treaty that the United States owes
debt Of gratitude to the world which
must be paid by surrendering her