The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-03
SHERMAN MAKES
ATTACK ON PLAN
FOR WORLD BODY
Wilson Is Criticized for
Assumption Of Authority in
Proposing Alliance.
fRy Associated P-ess)


WASHINGTON, March 3.-The con-
stitution of the league of nations as
presented at the peace conference was
pictured to the senate body today by
Senator Sherman of Illinois, Republi-
can, as a "Pandoras box full of evils"
which would empty upon the Ameri-
can people the aggregated calamities
OF the world"
Senator Sherman sharply criticized
President Wilson, asking who author
lied him ito rear above the republic
an autocratic power?" He added that
the authority was not to be found in
the constitution of the United States,
nor was it implied from underlined war
powers, and gave 1t as his opinion
that the president had been acting
either as a .'usurper or a dictator"
Shall we not ask with the drama
tist," the senator said: Nov in the
name of all the gods at once, upon
what does Caesar feed that he has
grown so great"
Like Neutrality Service.
Z He adroitly maneuvers himself in
TO the spotlight as the fountain of
peace perpetual and the guardian of
mankind Senator Sherman contin-
ued. "As he kept us out of war in
1916, so he will keep us out of i'm
pending war conjured up to serve the
issues of 1920, and to keep us at peace
for ever if we but accept him again.
With him as the drum major of civili-
cation, eternal peace, betting the earth
and brooding like a gentle spirit DER
a still and credulous world proclaims
the millennium is here"
Like his neutrality device was the
prelude to unprepared war, his peace
league engages not in war, but in all
wars that scourge the earth. 1t is
simple but deadly. Apparently an
open covenant of peace it is a masked
charter of unceasing war; the voice
of Mars, but the hand of Woodrow"
OF the proposed constitution, Sena-
tor Sherman said it would set up an
oligarchy of the worst possible sort,
adding:
IF we cut the cables Of constitution
al government here, we are caught in
the irresistible tides that will sweep
us into the maelstrom OF the old
worlds bloody currents. The feuds
and spoilations Of thousand years
will become our daily chart of action.
All we can know is that few men in
some hidden chamber known as the
executive council WELD over us pow
ers of life and death.
Senate Faces Duty.
THE creation of q namelesS thing
TO sit in star chamber judgment and
decree implisit obedience to it's man.
dates cannot be borne by free men.
BY an ukase il will embargo our COM
merce, close our exchanges, destroy
credits, leave our merchandise rot
ting on piers, put the Panama canal,
order congress to declare war, levy |
taxes, appropriate money, raise and |
support armies and navies, and dis /
patch our men to any quarter of the
globe to fight and die because an alien |
executive council has willed it.
Sincere men may have deceived
themselves in their great hope for a |
perfect world, but no delusion, how
ever sincere, will excuse this senate |
from its duty to interpose it's power |
against this universal Utopia promis-
cd by the president. 1t is the tabled |
apple of great hope which will turn |
10 ashes on a trusting peoples lips. |
The senate never faced a greater |
task nor a nobler duty. 1t will not
ratify an emotion nor translate an
impossible idealism into weapon OF
national suicide.
Dreams Against Wisdom.
Senator Sherman asserted that |
against the wisdom and experience of
the American forefathers as summed |
up in Washington's farewell address,
there was now rising up 1.-The dreamer
and the bookman, the Socialist, the
mere haberdasher in phrases which
intoxicate and mislead."
The senator urged that the warn
ing of the founders of the American
government to let Europe settle her
own quarrels be regarded now, adding
that when the United States went to
war against common danger it did
not bind itself lin perpetual alliance
TO draw the sword whenever and so
long as the majority of European gov
ernments voted it upon US"