New-York tribune., 1919-09-27
Cusnn,ins Says Wilson
Has ALienufed World
IOiCa Senator Declares 4id TO
.4iIies in Var Is Buried in
Protests Orer League Pact

WASHINGTON, Sept. &c. When
President Wilson ended his work at the
Paris peace conference. "the United
States had not friend in Europe, Asia
or Africa and our brilliant service in
the war was almost forgotten in the
storm of protests which followed him
AS he sailed for home" Senator Cum
Minis. Republican, of Iowa, declared to-
day in an address in the Senate attack
ing the league Of nations covenant
"Ihe only thing the President
received in America by multitudes Of
good people," Senator Cummins said.
was covenant for a league of nations
and this only because these people be-
heved, many of them without inquiry.
that the league would bring peace to a
war-weary world and would maintain il
IN all the years to come. Gradually
they are beginning to see the tremen-
dous burdens We are asked to assume
and gradually they are understanding
that there are some provisions. in the
covenant which must inevitably pro-
woke war"
Not Against Wilson
Senator Cummins deplored The at
tempt Of some Senators to charge
other Senators with opposing the treaty
simply to discredit the President and
20 accomplish their political designs as
we'll as efforts of the latter group to
make it appear that those supporting
the President were Indifferent, if not
hostile, toward the vital concerns Of
their own country
he casual observer III the Senate.'
nc AIDED. would kp inclined to reach
the conclusion tha the most influential
Senators upon this side of the cham
Der are altogether insensib1e TO the
AWFUL horrors or war and are deter
mined 10 keep Tie world in conflict
SIMPLY TO antsgoniZe the President or
TO "ofk out some petty ambition Tor
harty supremacy, while ut the same
time he could utt we'll resist The in
terence that the most persuasive Seua-
tors on the other sidcof the chainbe,
are bent on wrecking their own coun-
try SIMPLY to rindicate the infallibiity
OF the CHIEF Executive in his work at
Paris"
Senator Cummins contended that
when the var ended "our exit should
nave been as speedy and complete as
possible. This did not mean, however.
ne added. that the United States should
rave abandoned its allies or made
separate peace with Germany. 'but if
GOES neA That it was no our Gutv to
associate ourselves with foseign pow
ers IN reforming the map Of the world
and IN agreeing to maintain it rs the
victors had made it,"
Condemnlng disposition of Shan
lung, Senator Cummins SAID he wanted
TO felleVe the American republic from
the eternal odium of the Shantung
crlme,' and from "the disgr ace Of pass
ing over Thrace to Bulga, ia" There
would be many Shantungs. he said, and
II the principal associated powers
worked in harmony it would mean
nothing less than complete and arb-
trary power of the world. As much IS
he deplored the wrong done China ne
would adhere, he said, TO the principles
he had previously announced snd vote
against the committee amendment
awarding the province to China
The man who attempts to preach the
doctrine that peace with Germany, with
or without the league Of nations, mems
peace for the world in the relations
Of men with men. OF producing, selling
and buying according 10 ancient Gus
toms. infiicts incalculable injury or the
pubic.
"lf America he SAID, rs shackled
10 the proposed league Of nations just
as it is written she will 60 blindly
and blurderingly into the future, inca
pable Of guiding her own people safe