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Show H'j' LODGES FOLLY. Fortunately thcro were Republicans big enough to Rlund with tho president in the vote against, the Lodge rcsolu-( rcsolu-( tlou and in the vote for the resolution H upholding the president. The idea of Senators Lodge, Root nnd Smoot seemed to be that this country should make the war in Mexico as big as poesiblo. Foreseeing tlutt wc may be drawn iuto conflict with Carrnnr.a and " iVilln, the politician of the senate, socking mcreiy a political advantage H' a n (J forgetting the terrible loss of American lives that would have io-Mowed io-Mowed tho adoption of the Lodge reso-lution, reso-lution, evidently desired to be in u po-rs.tion po-rs.tion "where ibdy could say a month H . ;or two from now "Wc told yon po." Hj j , nalher than wait for the natural course j fof events to bring ou the inevitable H 1 1 conflict if it is inevitable they were Hj Mvllling to launch this country into a H; fcwnr, which, fhould it come, would be, Hj as former President Taft has declared, 'one of the bloodiest in our history. a (Such a war fhould be avoided as long possible; perhaps it may never be necessary to culer upon it, but if Lodge , jnnd Smoot could have had their wav the United States would bo undertakers undertak-ers ' t-.ing today a conquest of Mexico more j sanguinary and more terrible than the . onquebt by Cortcz nearly four centu-fries centu-fries ago. M Tho exctibo offered in a specially pre-S pre-S iparcd dispatch to the Smoot orgnii thai i no senator, Republican or Democrat, n would hnvc voted for the resolution as j it came from the house dot's not apply j7) to the Senior senator from Utah, bo- cause ho did not vote for it oven after it had becu thoroughly revised by ,the senftte. . |