Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1919 — LODGE’S TRIBUTE — NOT TO W. W. [ARTICLE]

LODGE’S TRIBUTE — NOT TO W. W.

Here is a bit of biography that is of peculiar interest in these days of the attempted dominancy of Messrs. Lodge, Knox, et al.: “When the war drew to a close, it was he who began alone the task of making peace. He had nearly completed the work when his colleagues appeared in Paris, and by incautious words broke the web so carefully spun. * * * Finally, boldly disregarding the instructions of congress, he emerged /from all complications with a triumphant peace-.” Is this a tribute to Woodrow Wilson? Looks like it, doesn’t it? Well, it isn’t! It is a portion of a eulogy delivered by Senator Lodge to the memory of Benjamin Ffanklln for the part that the noble old patriot played in winding up the Revolutionary war. There are those who are so keenly appreciative of humor as to consider this a pretty good, though altogether unconscious, joke played by Senator Lodge upon himself and his fault-finding colleagues.—San Francisco Bulletin. -