The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-16
Accept League and Rear Sons
for War-Sherman.
Illinois Senator Says Make g. s.
Safe for Americans.
THE MONARCH OF CUTTERS"
That Is Term He Uses I'm
Attack on Wilson.
Declares President Plans To
Seek a Third Term.

Washington, Sept 16.-Senator
Sherman. Republican, Illinois, attack
ing the League of Nations today in
the senate, declare IL the league
covenant were ratified as drafted.
American mothers will but cradle
their sons to fill the muster rolls of
wars"
Monarch of CUTTERS"
Replying to attacks by President
Wilson on senators opposing the
league, the Illinois senator asserted,
"the president himself is the crowned
monarch of quit rs without rival in
the western hemisphere" and that
his silence and speed when escaping
from his imperishable principles yes
terday is as abysmal and swift as pri-
NAL chaos"
I'VE have now reached that crisis"
said Senator Sherman in the course
of a lengthy and spirited address,
where we must choose between ex-
hausting ourselv' make the old
world safe for some of its Nations
and making the United States safe for
the American people"
when we decline to ruin our
selves" he continued, wreck our gov
ernment and destroy our country by a
mad crusade around the world as the
guardian angel and knight errant of
oppressed humanity everywhere, we
are denounced as cutters and pol
troons by the senator from Nebraska
(Mr. Hitchcock) and our executive.
who avows he thinks more of the
league than his oath to protect the
government"
Intimates a Third Term.
Suggesting that President Wilson is
Inclined to seek a third term, Sena-
tor Sherman declared:
THE presidents second hegira from
the capital is the threshold of that
candidacy. He has announced the
League and treaty are greater than
our government; he is ready to die for
it. Never in his most exalted heights
/ has he been ready to die for our gov
ernment. A third term he puts by
| again and again, but each time is gen
ltler than the other. To save the
! greatest document in the worlds his
| tory, no sacrifice will be refused. A
| third term on an issue of subordinat-
! ing our government to the League II
! as little as an internationalist patriot
can offer to the world. Who would
| proposal? The gravity of such serv'
ice will justify him in doing anything
The issue is Joined now
By the Shantung agreement Senator
Sherman said. an ancient and friend
! ly nation was to be "dismembered
and because of the Fiume controversy
Italy's good will be lost.
'All must pass under the yoke of his
epithets who will not respond to his
| flight into the dim world of Wilson
| ian Dreams" Mr.. Sherman declared in
again turning to President Wilson.
Wilson's "Rhetoric'' Failing?
"And from his cavern of counter
felt moralities and cock loft of scho-
lastic gable has the sublime as
surance to asperse senators whO re-
| fuse to abase themselves before the
! tottering throne of the chief rhetori-
/ clan, whose metaphysical thunder nc
| longer inspires either respect OF fear
Let the swarm of satellites basking ir
the sunshine of patronage and sniff
| ing the fragrant trade winds of ad-
ministration favors crafty him with
4 their anthems of ineffable perfection
The louder their hallelujah now tht
more fervent their maledictions at the
| inevitable end