The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-22
SENATOR LODGE NOTIFIES
HARDING 0F HIS NOMINATION

may be established in that country
which has been plunged into anarchy
and cursed with continuous CIVIL war
1t is of the highest Importance to the
United States that Mexico should be
both prosperous and peaceful and we
must face the fact that without our
aid the Mexican people cannot prop
erly or speedily bring about the I'M
proved conditions and the reign OF
law and peace, which, we are con-
WINGED, they desire as much as we do.
Defends Action of Senate.
In defense of freedom and clvlllza-
tion and to vindicate our own invaded
rights we entered upon the war with
Germany and although we were tardy
in taking part in that great conflict
We came upon the field of action IN
time to turn the scale for right and
liberty. Not content with aiding
Europe to bring to pass the peace
which all desired after victory was
won, Mr.. Wilson undertook to make
us members of an alliance with for
eign powers indefinite in extent and
containing provisions which threaten
ed the independence, the sovereignty
and the safety of the United States.
This effort on the part of the Presl-
dent was arrested by the action of the
republicans of the senate who pro-
posed protecting reservations which
he defeated together with the treaty
itself. In that work, you, sir, took
conspicuous part and we know that
you were in full accord with the be-
lief of your republican colleagues
that the League Of Nations as pro-
posed by Mr.. Wilson and upon which
he and his party still insist ought
never to be accepted by the American
people. We have been and are quite
ready to join in agreement with other
nations, for the extension OF the
Hague conventions; for the upbulld-
ing and codification of international
law and the establishment of world
court of justice; for international
conferences in regard to non-Justlc-
able questions, and for arrangements
to bring about general reduction CT
All these constructive
measures are in accord with the ira
policy of the republican
party which has done so much in the
past to forward the cause of inter
ldIlOlldl dIOlII dClOll. DuI WllCii wv e'A y
called upon to become an integral
part of a permanent alliance of for
eign powers, to put ourselves in
position where the youth of the
country can be summoned by foreign
nations to fight and die in quarrels
not their own, to entangle ourselves
n all the conflicts and disputes of
Europe where we have no interest, to
permit foreign interference with our
domestic questions and with the Mon
zoe doctrine, and to sit in an assemb-
Y where our vote is not the equal OF
hat of every other country, we abb
,olutely decline the proposition. We
stand for the policies of Washington
md the doctrine of Monroe, and
against the internationalism and the
alliance with foreign ma
ions proposed by the president. If
he world needs US as they needed us
n 1917 we shall not fail in our duty,
,ut we can help other nations far bet
er if we are free and untrammeled |
md do not permit our strength and
,ur resources to be wasted and worn
way and the lives of our young men |
O be sacrificed in endless hostilities |
With which we have no concern. Such |
las been the policy of the Republican
,arty as represented in the senate
nd such it's policy will remain.
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