The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-16
Sherman ASSERTS
LEAGUE COVENANT
MEANS WAR SURE
Illinois Senator Sees Nothing
But Future Danger in Pres
ent Draft Of TreatyIf Rati-
fled by SoIonS.

G., WASHINGTON, Sept. Ex-senator
sherman, Republican, Illinois, attack
ing the league of nations today in the
senate, declared II the league cove
hant were ratified as drafted Ameri-
can mothers will but cradle their sons
70 fill the muster rolls of armies to
give their lives in foreign wars.
replying to attacks by President
wilson on senators opposing the league,
the Illinois senator asserted the pres
ldent himself is the crowned monarch
OF cutters without rival in the West
ern hemisphere and that "his silence
and speed when escaping from his i'm
perlshable principles of yesterday is as
abysimal and swift as primal chaos.
We have now reached that crisis, .
said Senator Sherman in the course of
a lengthy and spirited address, where
we must choose between exhausting
ourselves to make the world safe for
some of its nations and making the
United States safe for the American
people,"
When we decline to ruin ourselves"
he continued, 'wrack our government
and destroy our country by a mad cru
sade around the world as the guardian
angel, and knight errant Of oppressed
humanity everywhere, we are de-
nounced as cutters and poltroons by
the senator from Nebraska (Mr. Hitch
cock) and our executive who avows he
to protect the government"
Suggesting that President Wilson is
inclined to seek a third term, Senator
Sherman declared:
The presidents second hegira from
the capitol Is the threshold Of that
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 govern
ment. A third term he puts by again
and again But each time is gentler
document in the worlds history no
sacrifice win be refused. A. third term
on an, issue OF subordinating our gov
ernment to the league Is as little as
an internationallst patriot can offer to
the world. Who would not hear voices
in theA air on such a proposal The
gravity Of such service will justify
him in doing anything. The issue is
Joined now"
BY the Stantung agreement, Senator
Sherman said an ancient and friendly
nation was to be "dismembered, and
because of the F'iume controversy
Italy's good will lost.
sAll must pass under the yoke of his
cpithets who will not respond to his
light into the dim world of Wilson
ian Dreams" Mr.. Sherman declared in
again turning to President Wilson.
ANA from tnls cavern oL couutetleii
moralties and cock-loft Of scholastic
gabble he has the sublime assurance
10 asperse senators who refuse to abase
themselves before the tottering throne
of the chief rhetorician whose. meta
physical thunder no longer inspires
either respect or fear. Let the swarm
of satellites, basking in the sunshine
of patronage and shifting the fragment
trade winds Of administration favors
granify him with their anthems of in
effable perfection, The louder Their
hallelujahs how the more fervent the
naledictons at the inevitable end.
Although the German peace treaty
was before the senate today for actual
ing out OF the plan to take 1t up ar
tiele by article was expected to be
made. In fact, readers predicted little
progress would be made until nex'
week