The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-31
LODGES RESPONSIBILITY.

It took the Peace Conference five months to frame the Treaty of Yer sailles and the covenant of the League of Nations
 The United States Senate has been debating the treaty and the covenant for seven months and is still unable to reach a decision about anything.
 The Peace Conference wns obltged to redraw the boundaries of FN1rope and to deal with the most gigantic and complicate problems of race, eco monies and government that dipIo- macy has ever had to meet.
 The United States Senate had to do nothing except to say whether it would or would not ratify a treaty that has been accepted by all the other belligerents, and the Senate, after seven months, is still inarticu- late. The United States is in a state of war and the American people are forced to live under wartime regu- lations of Congress because the Sen ate declines to perform it's constitu- tionaI duty.
 The responsibility, in the main, rests upon Henry Cabot Lodge, the Republican leader of the Senate and Chairman of the Committee on For eign Relations; but it is shared by all the Republican Senators who have followed him.
 Senator Lodge set forth a year ago to make the treaty of peace a par tisan issue, and he has never deviated from that course. While the Peace Conference was in session he exerted all his efforts to create dissension be- tween President Wilson and the rep resentatives Of the Allied and Asso- ciated Governments. After the Presi- dents return to the United States last February, Lodge invented the round- robin which thirty-seveu Senators signed in an attempt to induce the conference to repudiate President Wilson. When those tactics failed he packed the Committee on Foreign Relations with Senators known to be hostile to the treaty in order to ob- tain an adverse report.
 It has been his aim from the outset to nutilate the treaty by one means or another in order to claim a par tisan victory over the President, and to do this with Republican votes in order to manufacture a campaign issue. He has never arisen above that petty, malicious motive and he refus- es to arise above it now. That is why the Senate is deadlocked and why every attempt to arrive at a compro- mise has proved futile.
 Lodge does not want a compromise He wants to wreck the treaty by way of rebuking the Peace Conference for having negotiated with the President of the United States instead of the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela- tions.
 In the mean time the resentment against the United States in Europe is famed by every demagogue and blatherskite who thinks he has any thing to gain politically by arousing hostility toward this country. Wheth- CT the Senate's refusal to ratify the treaty has anything to do with the rate of exchange or with economic afflictions of Europe, a rapidly in creasing number of people believe it has, and that feeling of resentment is being famed into flame of anti American sentiment, with all the rnischievous possibilities that are inn piled
 Since the German General Staff plunged the world into war, no heavier moral responsibility has rest ed upon the shoulders of anybody than that which rests upon Henry Cabot Lodge and his fellow Junkers in the United States Senate for their indefensible refusal to permit the world to be at- peace. a