Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-09
LODGE SAYS THE
 NATION MUST DRIVE WILSON FROM POWER
Senator, in Keynote, Plays President Wilson's
 Dynasty

must drive President Wilson and his dynasty" from power and defeat the league of nations as he desires it, declared Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, temporary chairman of the re publican national convention, in his keynote address here today.
 Defending the senate's opposition to the treaty of peace as high and patriotic duty, the senator flung down this gauntlet:
 "We make the issue: we ask ap- probation forewhat we have done. The people will now tell us what they think of Mr.. Wilson's league and the sacrifice of America
 While emphasizing the point that around the league must be waged the 1920 presidential campaign, and de- voting mitch of his speech to ar raignment of the Wilson adminstra- tion, the senator found time to lay before the delegates the stand of the republican party on other salient problems facing the nation. Chief among these was Mexico. De- claring it was time for the United States to take firm hand in things Mexican and end the "disgraceful record" of the last seven years, Sch ator Lodge urged that this country let the Mexicans choose as their pres ident some strong and upright man who is friendly to the United States and determined to establish order and then lend him real and cordial sup port.
 Mexico lies at our doors," he de- clared. t"It is a primary duty for us to deal with it under the Monroe doc-' Urine, but nothing has been done and yet we are asked to take mandate for Armenia.",
 Salient points made by Senator Lodge were:
 "Mr. Wilson and his dynasty, his heirs and assigns, for anybody that is his, anybody who with bent knees has served his purposes, must be driv- en from all control, from all influ ence upon the government of the United States.
 Autocracy Danger.
 "They must be driven from office and power, hot because they are dem ocrats, but because Mir Wilson stands l for a theory of administration and government which is not American. 'The return of the democrats to power with MT. Wilson or one of his disciples still the leader and master of gfeat party, which before his ad- vent possessed both traditions and principles, would be long step in the direction of the autocracy fol which'Mr. Wilson yearns and heavy blow to the continuance of free rep resentative government as we have al ways conceived and venerated it.
 "Mr. Wilson and the aVtocracy he represents; and all which those who believe in his doctrines and share his spirit represent, must be put aside and conclusively excluded from any future control.
 "The defeat of the present admins tration and all it means, transcends in importance every other question and all immediate and dominant is sues are bound up with it. Without that defeat, every chance of the righ Esettlement of the mighty questions be fore us, so sorely needed now and no iater, will depart.
 "To maintain law and order and { stable government where justice rules and the right of all men, high atie low, rich and poor, shall be protected we must have government of tho people, duly chosen by the people, ant never must there be permitted anS government by single man or by { group of men, or by an organized mi nority.
 "Many vital economic measures and especially protective tariff legislation to guard our industries, are impos- 'sible with a democratic free trader o1 socialistic proclivities in the white house. To accomplish such measures as these, we must have, as we intend to have, republican president, in sympathy with republican house and senate
 Living the Problem.
 "The rise of prices, the high cost of living which reach daily into every home, is the most pressing, as it is the most difficult and most essential problem which confronts us. Some of the sources of this trouble can be reached by legislation, although not all, but everything that can be affect ed by law should be done at once.
 "Profiteering, the charging of eX- tortionate and unjustified prices, which is stupid as we'll as unlawful, are subject now to ample punitive laws. Those laws should be enforced, others if necessary added, and the Of lenders both great and small should be pursued and punished,
 "The most essential remedy for high costs of living is to keep up and increase production and particularly should every effort be made to ad- vance the productivity of the farms.
 "The phrase government owner ship means not only that that govern ment shall own the railroads, but also, it is to be feared, that those who run the railroads shall own the gov ernment. General government owner ship under our political system would inevitably bring about the mastery oi the government by those who operate the mastery of the government by those who operate the machinery ot l tran sportation or of any other incus-