The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-06
pie and in high Republican sources.
 Suggestion Endorsed.

pie and in high Republican sources.
 Suggestion Endorsed.
 Tor eight months not a voice was raised in protest against it, and it was upon these terms that Ger many laid down her arms. The-plat- form of the Republican Party of 1916 had declared for Ca world court The platform of the Progressive Party declared for the settlement, by arbitration, of disputes between na- tions. The Democratic platform of
 1916 had declared for a League of Nations. The Senate of the United
 States, on August 2sth, 1916. passed
 by a. unanimous vote, the following
 resolution: The President is author
 ized and requested to invite, at an
 appropriate time not later than the
 close of the war in Europe, all the
 great governments of the world to
 send representatives to a conference which shall be charged with the duty of formulating a plan for a court of arbitration, or other tribunal, to which disputed questions between nations shall be referred for adjudi- cation and peaceful settlement, and to consider the question to disar- mament and submit their recom- l mendations to their respective gov
 
 Senator Lodge himself said, in the Forum Magazine for December 1918, on Page 674, in an article entitled War Work of Congress: The Presi- l dent who delivered the war message | and Congress who voted for war would be guilty of the blackest crime l if they were willing to make a pence l on the status quo ante belIum and re- | create the situation which existed be- 1 fore the war. If we sent our armies and our young men abroad to be 1 killed and wounded in Northern i France and in Flanders with no re- suit but this, our entrance into war with such an intention was a crime l which nothing can justify.
 Wanted Wars Ended.
 1 '"The intent of Congress and the in- l tent of the President was that there could be no peace until we could create a situation where no such war as this could recur. We cannot make peace in the ordinary way. We can 1 not, in the first place, make peace l except in company with our Allies It l would brand us with everlasting dis 1 honor, and bring ruin to us also if we undertook to make a separate l peace.'
 'The war has set a great task for l the statesmanship of the world The | best thought of the world demanded | that a serious attempt be made by l the leaders of the Allied govern \ ments to formulate a. treaty of peace
 which should prevent the recurrence | of war. Every rightful impulse of the
 humane heart was in accord with that
 purpose. For the first time in the l turbulent annals of the human race such a project had become feasible. '"The destruction of Ini1itarism, the | crumbIing of thrones, the disso4uti 1 of dynasties, the worldwide appre- 1 citation of the inner meaning of war, 1 and the final triumph of democracy, I had at last made it possible to real 1 ize the dearest dream of man since | the dawn of civilization. We had a. | right to expect a, sympathetic sup
 port for such a policy from all pa 1 triotic Americans, quite irrespective
 cal junctI1re, in human affairs Re
 publican leadership completely failed. Only Partisans.
 | ''1n the face of the greatest prob lem in the world, Republican lead | CTS saw fit to remember only that | they were Republicans. Many times i in history men have had an oppor- l tunity to speak for the freedom of a | country or of a people, but never be IOTe, SlnC6 time DSSdu, nave states
 men been afforded the opportunity to speak for the freedom of the world 1 The issue involved the highest con alterations of morality and humanity. i The opportunity for service was as
 great as the need of the world, and the failure to render it must stand
 as a, reproach for all time.
 During the great war, America acted like a veritable Crusader in the
 cause of truth and justice and civil
 ization- We won the moral leader
 ship of the world, and had the Presi-
 dent been properly supported America would have been the first
 and not the last, to ratify the Treaty
 of Peace. The Reublican Party has , had its opportunity and it has failed | l Not only has it thus far managed to throttle the Treaty of Peace, bu } after more than a year of sterile de
 bate it cannot record the passage O. ) one single constructive measure. Tn, great tasks which were to be done 1 have remained undone. There is nc l peace and there is no reconstruction 5 Had a Democratic Senate been elect } ed, the Peace Treaty, so far r a: America is concerned, would now b. a matter of history.s We would have 3 been the first to ratify that grea document We would not have los or impaired our title to the mora l leadership we had won and we would : now be showing the way to the re- habihtation of the wor1d''