Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-10
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
IS BITTER ATTACK
ON ADMINISTRATION

Defending the senate's opposition
to the treaty of peace as high, and
patriotic. duty, the senator flung
I'VE make the issue; we ask ap-
probation 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 de-
voting much of his speech to ar
| raignment of the Wilson administra-
before the delegates the stand Of the
Republican party on other salient
| 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 "disgraceful
record" of the last seven years. SEN
! ator Lodge urged that this country
let the Mexicans choose as their
president some strong and ppriish5
States and determined to establish
order and then lend him a real ana
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 Il
| mandate for Armenia"
Salient Points
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 knees
| has served his purposes, must be
| driven from all control. from all in
| fiuence upon the government of the
| United States.
"They must be driven from office
and power, not because they are
| Democrats, but because Mr. Wilson
| stands for a theory of administra-
| ton and gVeronment 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 great party, which be-
fore his advent possessed both tradi-
tions and principles, would be a long
step in the direction of the autocra-
cy for which Mr.. Wilson yearns and
a heavy blow to the continuance of
| free representative government as
| Grated 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 conclusively excluded from any
| future control.
| THE defeat of the present admin
!strat1on 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
| right settlement of the mighty ques-
lions before us, SO sore1y needed now
| and not later, will depart.
| To maintain law and order and
stable government where justice
rules and the right of all men, high
| and low, rich and poor, shall be pro-
| tected, we must have government
of the people, duly chosen by the
people, and never must there be per-
| m1tted any government by a single
man or by a group of men, or by an
organized minority.
Many vital economic measures
and especially protective tariff legis-
| !at1on to guard our industries, are
| impossible with a Democratic free
trader of socialistic procliviities In
the White House. To accomplish such
measures as these, we must have, as
we intend to have, a Republican pres
/ 1dent, in sympathy with a Republican
| house and senate.
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 es-
sent1al problem which confronts u.s.
Some. of the sources Of this trouble
can be reached by legislation, al
though not all, but everything tina t
can be affected by law should be
|
"Profiteering, the charging of ex-
tort1onate and unjustified 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
offenders 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 par
Qr1x Oh
farms.
j Government Ownership
The phrase government owner
ship means not only that the gov
eminent shall own the railroads but
who run the railroads shall own the
government. General government
ownership under our political sys-
tenn would inevitably bring about
the mastery of the government by
those who operate the machinery of
transportation or of any other in
dustries which come into govern
ment possession. The rights of the
general public, for whom all indus
tries exist, would disappear under
ms 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 in Mexico. Carranza in
suited the American government in
every possible way and still nothing
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 con-
Vey1ng the ransom of their citizens
to the highwaymen who had seized
| them.
we have watched and waited long
enough. We need a firm hand at
the helm. The time has come to put
an end to this Mexican situation,
which is a shame to the United States
We are to take part in pacifying and
helping the world, let us begin here
| at home in Mexico.
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 let the United States
give him a real and cordial support,
and so strengthen and uphold him
that he will be able to exterminate
the bandits and put an end to the
unceasing civil war.
when the armistice with Ger
many was signed the course to be
was to make the peace with Ger
many at once and then take I'D for
reasonable consideration the ques-
ton of establishing such future re1a-
lions with our associates in the war
as would make for the future peace
of the world. This Mr.. Wilson pre-
vented. He went to Europe.
He had apparently only one aim,
to be the maker of league of which
he should be the head. He was de-
termined that there should be a
League of Nations then and there and
| IN
the senate given by the constitution
OF the United States, he decided 10