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Lodges One Distinction
New York world

Speaking at augusta, Me-, Senate
Lodge told his audience that we ough
not to accept any covenant which IN an,
way could be made to carry out Mr.. WI
sons purposes"
Mr.. Wilson's purposes are AL defined il
| the preamble to the covenant OF tn,
League of Nations:
The High Contracting Parties,
In order to promote international
| cooperation and to achieve interna-
tional peace and security:
BY the acceptance Of obligations
not to resort to war;
By the prescription Of open. Just
and honorable relations between
nations;
BY the firm establishment of the
understandings of international law
as the actual rule Of conduct among
governments, and
BY the maintenance Of justice and
. scrupulous respect for all treaty
obligations in the dealings Of organ
lied peoples with one another,
Agree TO this covenant Of The
League Of Nations.
Those are Mr.. Wilson'S purposes, and
his only purposes. When Senator Lodge
says the Presidents purpose IS to use the
power of all the nations that are members
of the league to make war, he says some
thing that he knows to be untrue, but in
order to crafty his personal hatred Of
President Wilson the Senator from Massa-
chusetts is willing to wallow in the gutter
with Hearst and Tom Watson and all the
other demagogues that are fighting the
league.
Senator Lodge has no objection what
ever to President Wilson's purposes. On
the contrary, he is in sympathy with them
What he objects to is the President him
self II Republican President had re-
turned from Paris with the Treaty Of
Peace and the Covenant of the League of
Nations, Lodge would have been one Of its
most ardent champions. But because
Woodrow Wilson did these things Henry
Cabot Lodge will accept none of them.
Lodge hates Wilson as only a small
minded man can hate great man. When
ever he thinks of the President his blood
turns to bile. Ovid IS description of Envy.
which John Quincy Adams applied TO
John Randolph of Roanoke, applies with
equal force to Lodge:
''His fsoe is livid; gusnt his whole body:
His breast is green with gall; his tongue
drips poison"
Lodge began the Republican fight
against the Treaty of Peace months before
it WAS drafted. He began the fight against
the Covenant of the League of Nations
months before he knew what its final form
was to be. 1t WAS enough for him that
Woodrow Wilson was helping to negotiate
the treaty and frame the covenant. And
to make bad matter infinitely worse,
the British, French and Italian govern
ments had the unspeakab&c effrontery to
carry on their negotiations with the
President OF the United States instead of
recognising the Republican chairman Of
the Senate committee on foreign relations
as one of the great powers of the world.
Since that time Lodge has bent all hs
efforts in the Senate to defeat the treaty.
With bus Old Guard associates ID the
Senate he managed to obtain control of
the Republican convention and nominate
one of their puppets IS a candidate for
President. The whole Republican can-
paign against the league has been shaped
to exploit the malice of vain, old man
from Massachusetts, who Is willing to
destroy the peace of the world IN order to
exploit his hatred of the President.
If Lodge had to choose between another
war that would cost 10, 900 900 lives and
the ratification Of the Covenant of the
League OF Nations IN the form m which
other governments have &C
cepted it, there can be no doubt as to hrs
decision Nothing seems to matter TO him
except the defeat of the President. To
him Woodrow Wilson Is the supreme and
ultimate herey, and he pursucs the Prcsi-
dent in the spirit of the earlier Massa-
chusetts Puritan who In the midst Of
winter tied Quaker women to the tail of
cart and lashed their naked backs from
town TO town as a warning to all heretics.
When the history of this treaty fight is
finally written, to Henry Cabot Lodge win
belong the distinction of having erected
his yenomous hatred of President Wilson
into policy of government and brought
about its adoption by the Republican
party as the basis for conducting both the
foreign and domestic Affairs of the Ameri-
can people in one of the most critical
periods known to civilization.