Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-05-10

Senator Lodge Accepts Pres
ident's Challenge and Pol,
iticians Say Issue is Clear
ly Drawn; Wilson Sends
Message to Hanlaker.

Washington. May 10.-The treaty Of
Versailles as it came from Paris has
been thrown squarely into the coming
presidential campaign.
President Wilson formally has
called upon the Democratic party, Of
which he is the titular head. to zen.
dorse and support it, and condemn
the Lodge reservations"
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,,
the Republican leader in the fight to
amend the document has accepted
the presidents challenge and political
observers here today regarded the is-4
sue as clearly drawn.
Mr.. Wilson's views as to the treaty
as a campaign issue were stated in
telegram last night to G.. E. Hamakers
Of Portland, Ore, chairman of the
Multnomah county Democratic CEN
trail committee. 2
Declaring the League Of Nations
"the hope of the world" the president
Democratic Den % party % should at ono. once nroe sne
claim itself the uncompromising
champion of the nations honor and
the advocate Of everything the United
States can do in the service of hu-.
manity.''
Wilson's Reply.
/ The reply Of the president follows:
Il think it imperative that party
uncompromising champion Of the
nations honor and the advocate OF
everything that the United States can
do in the service of humanity. That
1T should therefore endorse and sup
port the Versailles treaty and con-
denim the Lodge reservations as ut
terly inconsistent with the nations
! honor and destructive of the world
! leadership which it had established.
and which all the free peoples OF the
world, including the great powera
themselves. had shown themselves
ready 10 welcome.
at is time that the party should
proudly avow that it means to try,
without flinching or turning ut any
Of expediency. to apply moral and
/ Christian principles to the problems
/ Of the world. 1t is trying to accom-
plish social. political and interna-
tional reforms and is not daunted by
/; any Of the difficulties it has to con-
tend with. Let us prove to our late
associates in the var that at any rate
the great majority party of nation.
the party which expresses the true
hopes and purposes of the peole OF
the country. intends to keep faith
| with them in eace asswell as in war.
They gave their treasure, their
I best blood and everything that they
! valued in order, not meralys to beat
4 Germany, but to effect settlement
and bring about arrangements of
peace which they have now tried to
fornlattatessinrtha- ,treaty of, Versailles.
They are entitled to our support in
this settlement and in the arrange
ments for which they have striven..
The Hope OF the world.
| THE League Of Nations is the
hope Of the world. AS q basis for
the armisttce was authorized by ali
the great fighting nations to say to
(, the enemy that it was our object
in proposing peace to establish q
/ general association of nations under
specific covenants, for the purpose of
affording mutual guarantees of po-
I! litical independence and territorial
integrity to great and small states
alike, and the covenant of: the, League
Of Nations is the deliberate embodi-
ment of that purpose in the treaty
Of peace.
The chief motives which led us to
enter the war will be defeated unless
that covenant is ratified and acted
upon with vigor.sz We cannot in hon
or whittle it down or weaken it. as
the Republican leaders OF the senate
havep roposed to do. II we are 10
exercise the kind of leadership to
which the founders of the republic
pended upon their successors to es-
tablish. we must do this thing with
courage and unaltera bic determine
ton. They expected the United
States to be always the leader in the
defense of liberty and ordered peace
throughout the world. and we are un-
worthy to call ourselves their sue
cessors unless we fulfill the great
purpose they entertained and pro
T claimed
II True Anericanislm.
The true Americanism, the only
true America nism is that which puts
. America at the front Of free nations
and redcen,s tho great promises
which VIC made the world when We
entered the war. which was fought,
not. for the advantage of any single
nation or group of nations, but for
the salvation of all. 1t is in this way
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