Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-08
We MAKE THE ISSUE LODGE
SAYS; CONVENTION OPENS
Devotng Much Time to Arragnment of Wilson Policies Lodge
Chief Among These Was Mexico, Making Plea for Order
By The Associated Press

| By The Associated Press
~CHICAGO, June S.-The country
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 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:
I'VE make the issue: we ask appro-
baton for what 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
devoting much of his speech to ar
raignment of the Wilson administra-
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 1t was time for the United
States to take firm hand in things
Mexican and end the "disgraceful rec
ord" of the last seven years. Senator
Lodge urged that this country let
|
some strong and upright man who is
friendly to the United States and de-
/ termined to establish order and then
/ lend him a real and cordial support.
| Mexico lies at our door" he declar-
ed. 1T Is a primary duty for~us to deal
with II under the Monroe doctrine.
but nothing has been done yet we
menia."
Salient points made by Senator
Lodge were:
Mr.. Wilson and his dynasty. his
heirs 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.
"They must be driven from Office
and power. not because they are Dem
! ocrats but because Mr. Wilson stands
| for theory of administration and
| government which is not American.
The return of the Democrats to
power with Mr.. Wilson or one of his
disciples still the leader and master of
a 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 Mr. Wilson yearns and a heavy
blow to the continuance of free repre-
SenlutlNe government as we nave al
ways conceived and venerated 1t.
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 conclusively excluded from any
| future control.
| .'The defeat of the present admin
Iistration and all it means. transcends
in importance every other question
and all immediate and dominant is
sues are bound up with ii. Without
| that defeat every chance of the right
settlement of the mighty questions be-
fore us so sorely needed now and not
later, will depart. A.
ITO 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,
and never must there be permitted
any government by a single man or
by group of men, or by an organ
ized minority.
MANY vital economic meaureS and
esr ecially protective tariff legislation
Ito guard our industries. are impossl-
BILE with Democratic free trader of
socialistic proclivities in the White
| House To accomplish such measures
I as these we must have, as we intend
no nave, IktpuDlitdH ltSlitills al
sympathy with a Republican House
| and Senate.
THE rise of prices. the high cost
of living which reach daily into ev-
> cry home is the most pressing, as 1t Is
the most difficult and most essential
problem which confronts us. Some or
the sources OF this trouble can be
reached by legislation, although not
all, but everything that can be
effected by law sould be done at once.
! "Profiteering, the charging of eX-
| tortionate and unjustifed prices,
which is stupid as well as unlawful,
| are subject now to ample punitive
laws. Those laws should be enforced
others if necessary added, and the OF
tenders both great and small should
be pursued and punished.
"The most essential remedy for
high cost (of liVing) is to keep up ana
! incro ase 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 govern
ment shall own the railroads but also,
il is to be feared. that those who run
the railroads shall own the govern
ment General government owner
ship under our political system would
inevitably bring about the mastery
of the government by those who oper-
ate the machinery of transportation or
of any other industries which come
into government possession. me
rights of the general public. for whom
all industries exist would disappear
under this scheme and nothing would
be left to the people except the duty
of paying taxes TO support the roads.
"Over 500 Americans have been
murdered I'm Mexico. Carranza in
suited the American government IN
! every possible way and still nothing
was done. We fell so low that when
an American was seized by one of the
many bands of brigands and held for
ransom. all that the government of
the United States would do. was TO
offer to be the channel for conveying
1.-THE ransom of their citizens TO the
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