Republican farmer., 1920-06-11
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- 4 asty'' from power and defeat the League of Nations as he desires it declared Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. kemporary chairman of the RepubH- Can National Convention, in his key hote 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 arr Iraignment of the Wilson adminlstra- Stion, the Senator found time to laJ before the 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 a firm hand in things Mexican and end the ''disgracefu. record'' of the last seven years. Sen 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 order and then lend him a real and cordial support.
 "Mexico lies at our doors," he de- cIared '1t is a primary duty for us to deal with it under the Monroe doctrine, but nothing has been done and yet we are asked to take a man. date for Armenia"
 Salient points made by Senator Lodge were:
 "Mr. Wilson and his dynasty, his heirs and assigns or anybody that is 1is 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.
 '",They must be driven from office and power, not because they are Dem ocrats, but because MT. Wilson stands 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 great party, which before his ad- vent possessed both traditions and principles, would be a long step in the direction of the autocracy for which MT. 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 he represents, and all which those who believe in his doctrines and share his spirit represent, must be put aside and conclusfvely excluded from any future control.
 'The defeat of the present admins tration and all it means, transcends in importance every other question and all imm ediate and dominant is- sues are bound up with it. Without that defeat every chance of the right settlement of the mighty questions be- foretus, so sorely needed now and not later, will depart
 "To maintain law and order and a 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, and never must there be permitted any government by single man or by a syroau1 of men, or by organized mi nority.
 'rThe 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 eSSentiN which confronts us. Some of the sources of this trouble can be reached by leGis- Sation, although not an, but every thing that can be effected by law should be done at once-
 "Profiteering, the charging of extor- tionate and unjustified prices, which is stupid as well as unlawful, are su'b- ject now to ample r~rpitive laws. Those laws should be enforced, others Inf necessary added, and the offenders both great and small should be pur- sued and punished.
 ''The most essential remedy for high costs (of hving) is to keep up and in- crease 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 the gov. ernment shall own the railroads bu also, it is to be feared, that those who run the railroads shall own the government. General government ownership under our political systen would inevitably bring about tn, mastery of the government by those who operate the machinery of trans portation or of any other industries which come into government posses sion. The rights of the general pub lie. for whom all industries exist would disappear under this schem, and nothing would be left to tn people except the duty of paying taxe to support the roads.
 ''We have watched and waited lon. enough. We need a firm hand a the hefn- The time has come t, put an end to this Mexican situation which is a shame to the Unite, States and a disgrace to civilization If we are to take part in pacifyin, and helping the world let us begil here at home in Mexico.
 Let the Mexicans choose as thef president some strong and uprigh man who is friendly to the Unite States and determined to establish order and then let the United State give him a real and cordial support and so strengthen and uphold hir that he will be able to exterminat the bandits and put an end to tn ci1-il