Show CHAIRMAN CUMMINGS lAUDS ADMINISTRATION C Continued From Page Pago 5 G. league and the tho salet safety of each nation resides in the fact tact that no action can an be taken without the consent Q of all Responsibility for I Treaty Defeat It was the tho design of ol Senator Lodge from the outset to mutilate tho the treaty trent and to frustrate tho the Purposes of tho the administration And yet ot Senator Lodge Jore with Hith the h help lp of the tho having torn the treaty to tatters and aud thrown its fragments ments in tho face of I the tho world has the tho effrontery to sug i 1 gest cst In his address at Chicago that I tho President blocked ratification and postponed pence peace i IS The Thc that trouble It Wn Uno with rn nI n. r-r r the f In treaty rl 1 i. i o of i peace I l j L a r- r L LOJ J L j emo IIII I I cratic President It Is not difficult to assess the responsibility for its defeat i The I he responsibility rests resto not upon its friends hut but upon its enemies The forel foreign n relations committee Im Im- mediately following the last election was reorganized with a Personnel consisting consisting con con- of ot the tho open foes oes of ot the treaty Amon Amongst st the number was wal Senator Borah who declared that he would not I be for a league of nations were the Savior of mankind to advocate It It S Senator Son Son- n- n ator Johnson Senator Knox and Senator Son Sen n- n ator Moses whose hatred o of the tho PresIdent dent amounts to an obsession were also m members and Senator Lodge Lods-e was chairman The treat treaty was referred to the committee com committee corn com thus studiously prepared for or i its s hostile reception The members of this committee adopted ever every o fu Lige to misrepresent tho the document which they the were vere supposed to ho bo considering considering con as statesmen Deputations I of or foreign n born citizens ona were brought to Washington in an effort to color and exa exaggerate ernle tho the impression of or popular popular popular pop pop- ular opposition The Senate had hod even en bc begun un the dis discussion dis- dis of the tho treaty months before 1 its I negotiation wa was as concluded and did no not 1 terminate Its UI t. t until m nt I v i A after th the s submission i of fth the te treaty ty It took the Senate near nearly three times ss as s slon lon long long- longto to kill kIJI the treaty b by protracted debate debato and by confusing and nullifyIng nullify nullify- ing InS amendments and reservations as It took the representatives o of the allied government o to draft It It was not the business of or the President President dent when ho brought this tr treaty back from France to Join with Mr Lod Lodge e rind find other Republican n leaders in their deliberate purpose to destroy It Had he Initiated suggested sU or assented to chan changes es which would have ve substantially substantial substantial- ly altered its nature nature- it would have haye been a distinct breach o of faith with his associates of the peace council and anda a violation o of Am American pledges Everone Everyone Every Ever one acquainted with diplomatic usages usage or with the plain requirements o of honesty honest understands this thI The foolish invention that the President refused to permit the dotting of an I or the crossing crossing- of or a t has been so often orten repeated that man many honest people believe be be- lieve lieva in tn its truth In eVe every speech made during his tour the President stated entire wit wll- 11 u H 10 U u accept any ann and an all reserva reservations I not Incompatible with Americas America's honor and true interests It is the tho plain intent of tho the covenant nt that the Monroe doctrine Is excluded that do domestic do- do questions aro are exempted that not one ono American can be sent out of tho the country without formal onnal action by Congress and that the tho right of withdrawal withdrawn with with- drawn Is absolute If Ie there thero aro arc words which ran can make these meanings clearer the they thes' will win be welcomed It is not reservations that the Presidents stands against ar but nullification When tho the President came back from Paris in February 1919 he brought the first tentative draft of or the tho covenant covenant cove cove- nant of or the league of ot nations Ho gave publicity to it Jt It was published throughout hout the land Ho He Invited the friends of or such a league lea to submit criticisms Former Fonner President Taft Ta offered of ot- bred four amendments former Senator Senator Sen Son ator Root offered six amendments and Mr Hughes suggested seven se At a a. meeting of the committee on foreign relations at the White House in March l 1919 other changes were suggested These amendments were ere taken back backby backby by the President to Paris and their was actually Incorporated Inthe in inthe inthe the revised draft of tho lea league Ue Dr Lowell president of ot Harvard Hanard university university sit sity in his Joint debate with Senator Lodge LadGe invited the latter to suggest constructive amendments which tho the I President might incorporated rated In tho the I l draft but bul he refused so o t to do 10 At no notime notime time has he offered constructive amendments At no time has he failed to offer oCter destructive criticism So in intolerant Intolerant intolerant In- In tolerant wan his attitude that ho would not even e consider a compromise proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed by former President Taft Tan of his big own party and arid which was waa assured assured- of the support of or forty arty Democratic sen son Senator Senator- Lodge knew that ho he controlled the s Senate nate and that thal in labs his own time and wa way ho could destroy detrOY fr e. the tho treat treaty This is 18 tho the sordid stor story of ot Lt It defeat US-defeat defeat No blacker crime against civilization civilisation has ever ver s soiled the thc pages page's of our his his- tor tory The In last U chapter was written at atCh Ch Chicago I ca orho o. o Tho rho Republican platform not only re repudiates re- re tho league of oC nations but ut it praises without discrimination all of or ortho tho the Republican senators who participated participated in Its defeat Its HI words o of benediction benediction benediction bene bene- diction fall alike upon the tho Irr bles the Lod Lodge e tho the mild mUd and those who pro- pro proposed posed a separate te peace cace with Germany German It Il is consistent In one ono thing only the recognition o of the fact that the open foes toes of or the tho treaty treal the secret foes foeH of or the tho treat treaty and the apparent friends of or the tho treaty who conspired with its one one- mies ar are equally ta ly re responsible for tJ the I I destruction of ot the tue instrument n aa would bo 10 Idle ItIle to Inquire by what political po po po- le legerdemain this meaningless and yet ominous declaration was pre pre- pared It is enough to know lenow t the theold theold theold old guard sold Bold tho h honor nor of America for the privilege of nominating a rca rca reactionary for President Cause of Peace The war had sot sePt a great task for statesmanship The Tho best thought of the world demanded that thata a serious attempt be made b by the leaders of or th the allied governments go to formulate a treaty of ot peace which should prevent the recurrence recur recur- rence renco o of war Every rightful impulse of oC the human heart was in accord with that purpose From time Immemorial men have dreamed dream d of or peace poets have havo sung o of it philosophers have written about It statesmen have discussed it men er e everywhere have hoped anti and have prayed that the day might como come when wars would no longer be necessary Inthe in inthe I Ithe the settlement of ot international differ differ- For or the first time lime In the turbulent annals of the human race such a I project had become feasible The de destruction do- do nf thA t ti di i 8 h of thrones e the dissolution ti of dynasties dynas dynas- tics ties thc tho world-wide world appreciation of ot the Inner war and the final triumph of democracy had at last mado made it possible to realize the dearest dream that ever er crossed the night of oC mans man's dark ark mind The opportunity for service service sonIco son ice Ico was vas a as great as the need of or tho the world and the failure to ren render er it must stand as aR a reproach for all time It is said ald that if the tho dead who died in the great war were placed head to feet they would stretch from Crom New ew York to San Francisco and from San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco back n again aln to New York and if I those who perished from starvation and other causes collateral to the war wore were placed laced head to feet they would reach around tho the great greal globe Itself At this er very ery hour millions of men and women and little children are tho the victims vie vic tims tirns of or our hesitancy How can the heart of America be bo closed to these things things' I have been man many miles in this countr country country coun coun- tr try and it has been beon m my fortune to visit most states of or tho the Union It has so happened that I have ha been In man many of ot these states when the boys bos were coming corning com corn ing Inc from the front I have havo seen the tho great avenues of our splendid American Amen Ameri can enn cities lined with the tho populace cheering and cheering again as these brave e lads marched b by happy that they had come triumphantly home But I have never nevor witnessed those Inspiring si sights without thinking of th the tho boys who did not come como home The They do not rest as strangers In a strange land land land- these soldiers of lIbert liberty The generous generous generous gener gener- ous heart of France Franco enfolds them The Tho women and children of ot France cover their grave with flowers and water them with tears Destiny seized these lads and led them far tar from home to todIe todie todie die for an ideal And yet they live and speak to us here In the homeland not of ot trivial things thing's but of ot immortal things thins Reverence and pity and high resolve resolve surely these remain to us In that heart of ot hearts where the great works of or man arc are wrought there thero can bo be no Cor forgetting Oh God release the tho Imprisoned soul of America touch once more moro the thc hidden springs of ot the spirit and reveal roveal us to ourselves Let Lot the true purpose of ot our party part be clearly understood Wo We stand squarely for the tho samo sarno ideals of ot peace pence as ns those for which tho the war w was tou fought ht We Ve 0 support without flinching flinching- the tho only feasIble feasible feas teas ible plan for tor peace and Justice We Wc will not submit to the repudiation of or ortho tho the peace treaty treat or to any process by I which It is whittled down to the vanishing vanishing van van- vin-I vin I hing- hing point We c decline to compromise our ou principles or pawn our immortal souls for selfish purposes We do not turn our backs upon the tho history of the theof theof theof of retreat We Pe insist that the forward rd course is the on only righteous course We seek secle to re establish the fruits of ot victory to reinstate the tho good faith of our country countr and to restore it to its 1 rightful place among the the- the nations nations of ot the tho earth Our cause constitutes a summons summons summons sum sum- mons to dut duty The heart of America stirs again The ancient faith revives The Immortal part of man speaks for forus or orus us The services of the pa past t the sacrifices sacrifices sac sac- of tho the war the hopes of ot the future futuro constitute a spiritual force gathering gathering gath gath- ath- ath ering erinI about our banners Wo We shall shaH re release release release re- re lease a again aln the checked forces of civilization cI and America shall take up once more the leadership of the world |