Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-06-10
SEN. LODGE FLAYS
WILSON POLICIES
Keynote Speech Defends Senate
Opposition to Peace Treaty
and Scores Administration
Generally

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
Republican national convention, in his
! keynote address here to-day.
Defending the Senate's opposition to the
treaty of peace as a high and patriotic
duty, the senator flung down this gaunt-
| let.
I'VE make the issue; We ask approba-
ton 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 arraignment of
the Wilson administration. the senator
found time to lay before the delegates
the stand of the Republican party on
other salient problems facing the ma
ton
Chief among these was Mexico. De-
clarins it was time for the United States
to take firm hand in things Mexican
and end tho "disgraceful record" of the
last seven years, Senator Lodge urged
that this country let the Mexicans choose
as their president some strong and up
! right man who is friendly to the United
States and determined to establish order
and then lend him a real cordial sup
port.
Mexico lies at our doors" he declared
ut is a primary duty for US to deal with
II under the Monroe doctrine but moth
ing has been done and yet we are asked
to take a mandate for Armenia
Sa1i ni,,t., do
We're:
MIR. Wilson and his dynasty. his heirs
and assigns. or anybody that is his. any
body who with bent knee has served his
purposes. must he driven from all con-
troll. from all influence upon the govern
: ment of the United States.
They must be driven from Office and
power. not because they are Democrats
hut because Mr.. Wilson stands for a the
: ory of administration and government
, which is not American.
The return of the Democrats to DOW.
= err with Mr.. Wilson one of his disciples
still tho leader and master of grea,
? party, which before his advent possessed
= both traditions and principles. would be
a long step in the direction of the autoc.
racy for which Mr.. Wilson yearns and
V heaVy blow to the continuance of free
I representative government have
= always conceived and venerated it.
6 MIR. Wilson and the autocracy he rem
\ resents, and all which those who believe
f in his doctrines and share his spirit rep
resent, must he put aside and conclusive
G ~ excluded from any future control.
THE defeat of the present administra
n ton and all it means, transcends in impor
= lance every other question and all i'm
C mediate and dominant issues are bound VI
y with II. Without that defeat every chanc,
n or the right settlement of the might,
= questions before us. so sorely needed nov
and not later. will depart.
'To maintain law and order and ,
stable government where justice rules ant
right Of all men. high and low. rich ant
poor, shall be protected, must hav
;, a government of the people. duly chosen
- by the people. and never must there b.
permitted any government by a singl
u man or by a group of men, or by al
% organized minority.
n MANY vital economic measures and es
! pecially protective tariff legislation t.
q guard our industries, are impossible wit
n a Democratic Free Trader of Socialist
y proclivities in the White House. To &C
e compish such measures as these. we mus
n have, as VIC intend to have. a Republca
1t president in sympathy with Republca
J. House and Senate.
1t ing which reach daily into every home
Is the most pressing. as it is the mos
difficult and most essential problem whic
confronts us. Some Of the sources of thi
trouble can he reached by Legislation
although not all. but everything that ca
tc he affected by law should be done a
once.
"Pro1teering, the charging ~ extortior
al ate and unjustihed prices. which is stu
n totI ,,aIo f,,I
st IN ample punitive laws Those law
p should he enforced, others if necessar
he added, and the offenders both great an
10 small should be pursued and punished.
Sc The most essential remedy for hig
Mt costs tof living) is TO keep up and In
b. crease production and particularly shoul
n every effort be made 10 advance the Pre-
IN ductivity of the farms
es THE phrase government ownership
rd means not only that the government sha
ne own the railroads but also, it is to h
re feared, that those who run the railroad
h. shall own the government General go,
eminent ownership under our polite,
t. system would inevitably bring about tn
s. mastery of the government by those VIII
t. operate the machinery of transportatio
or or of any other industries which come IN
~ TO government possession. The rights
m the general public. for whom all industrit
n exist, would disappear under this schem
he and nothing would be left to the poop
Ike except the duty Of paving taxes TO SUI
es port the roads.
A over GOO Americans have been mu
dered in Mexico Carranza insulted Il
cd American government in every possib
n way and still nothing was done. We fe
e. so low that when an American was seize
by ono Of the many bands Of brigant
and held for ransom. all that the govern
ment of the United States would do. W;
to offer to be the channel for conveyir
NJ the ransom of their citizens 10 the hig
Az waymen who had seized them.
I'VE have watched and waited lor
~ enough We need firm hand at the helr
'hs the time has come to put an end to tn
ro- Mexican situation. which Is shame
an the United States and a disgrace to civ
arr izaton. II we are to take part In PAD
Tor flying and helping the world. let us beg
here at home in Mexico.
'b- LET the Mexicans choose as their pre-
ed ident some strong and upright man wi
Oh Is friendly to the United States and d
ic- termned TO establish order and tn,
tbs let the United States give him a real al
lrd cordial support. and so strengthen Al
uphold him that he VIII be ahlo u 4