The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-09
SEN. LODGES KEYNOTE SPEECH
Hurls Invectives at Wilson and League of
 Nations


 Nations Chicago, June s-The country must drive President Wilson and his "dyn- asty" from power and defeat the League of Nations he desires 1t declared Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, temporary chairman of the RepublI- can National Convention, in his key note address here today.
 Defending the Senate's opposition to the Treaty of Peace as a high and patriotic duty the Senator flung down this gauntlet:
 "we make the issue; we ask ap- probation for what we have done. The people will now tell us what they think of MT. Wilson's League and the sacrifice of America"
 While emphasizing the point that around the League must be waged the 1920 Presidential campaign, and devoting much of his speech to ar' raignment of the Wilson administra. tion, the Senator found time to lay before tho delegates the stand ot the Republican party on other sa- lient problems facing the nation
 Chief among these was Mexico. Declaring it was time for the United States to take firm hand in things Mexican and end the "disgracefu. lTeCOrd' or the last seven yedlop kSch- ator Lodge urged that this country let the Mexicans choose as their president some strong and upright man who is friendly, to the United States and determined to establish sorder and then lend him real and cordial support.
 Mexico lies at our doors,' he de- Iclared. cit is a primary duty for us to deal with it under the Monroe pofI iy,C dona and yet we are asked to take a man. date for Armenia"
 Salient points made by Senator Lodge were:
 "N1r. Wilson and his dynasty, his hei-s and assigns, or anybody that is his, anybody who with bent knee has served his purposes, must be driven from all control. from all influence upon the Government of the United States.
 '"Tvhey must be driven from office and power, not because they are Dem ocrats, but because MT. Wilson stands flor theory of administration and government which is not American. The return of the Democrats to power with MT. Wilson or one of his discjples still the leader and master of a great party, which before his ad- went possessed both traditions and principles, would be a. long step in the direction of the autocracy for which h,ir. Wilson yearns and a heavy blow to the continuance of free represent ative government as we have always conceived and venerated it.
 'Mr. Wilson and the autocracy 1e 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 Q immediate and dominant is- sues are bound up with it. Without that defeat every chance of the right settlement of the mighty questions be fore us, so sorely needed now and moi later, will depart
 1NI'o- maintain law and order and stable government where justice rules and the right of all men, high and low, rich and poor, shall be protected we must have a government of the people, duly chosen by the people, ano never must there be permitted any government by a single man or by 2 group of men. or by an orS anized mi nority-
 The rise of prices, the high cost o living which reach daily into every home, is the most pressing as it is the most diffcallt and most essential whlcl coE1rOn1S uS some or the sources O this trouble can be reached by legis 1ation, although not G,l. but every thing that can be effected aby law should be done at once
 ~Profteering, the charging of extor tionate and unjustided prices, whicl is stupid as well as unlawful, are sub ject now to ample -rroitive laws Those laws should be enforced other if necessary added, and the offender both great and small should be pur sued and punished
 The most essential remedy for hig costs (of lvirg) is to keep up and in crease production and particular should every effort be made to ad vance the productivity of the farms.
 ~The phrase government owner ship means not only that the EoS ernment shall own the railroads br also, it is to be feared, that thos who run the railroads shall own tk government General governme1 ownership under our political systel would inevitably bring about tf mastery of the government by tho. who operate the machinery Of tran! portation. or of any other industri, which come into government posse eion- The rights of the general pul lie, for whom all industries exis {, would disappear under this schen and nothing would be left to tl people except the duty of paying tax to support the roa ds.
 'rWe have watched and waited Tor enough. We need a firm hand
 the helm The time has come
 put an end to this Mexican situatio which is shame to the Unit