The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-17
Senate Is Told If League Is
Adopted American Mothers
Will But Cradle Sons For Fu-
ture Foreign Wars.
POINTS TO PRESIDENT
AS MONARCH OF CUTTERS
Eve Must Choose Between Ex-
hausting Ourselves to Make
Old World Safe and Making
II. 8. Safe for Americans"

washington, Sept. 16.-Senator
Sherman. republican OF Illinois, at
tacking the league of nations today in
the senate declared If the league cove
nant were ratified as drafted Ameri-
can mothers will but cradle their sons
to fill the muster roll of armies to give
their lives in foreign wars
Replying to attacks by President
Wilson on senators opposing the league
the Illinois senator asstrted 'the pres
ident himself is the crowned monarch
of cutters without a rival in the
| western hemisphere" and that s"his
silence and speed when escaping from
his imperishable principles of yester-
day is abysmal and primal chaos,
I'VE have now backed that crisis. :.
said Senator Sherman in the course
of a lengthy and spirited address,
where we must choose between ex-
hausting ourselves to make the old
world safe for some of it's nations and
making the United States safe for the
American people.
when we decline to ruin ourselves" :"
he continued, wreck 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
'A----AA-izai<s- -raanre- of tha~ l>~GnA@-thaxa-
his oath TO protect the goverHment."
Suggesting that President Wilson is
inclined to seek a third term, Sena-
tor Sherman declared "the presidents
Ix< %r.
threshold of that candidacy. He has
announced the league apd treaty are
greater than our government. He is
ready to die for it. Never in his most
exalt heights has be been ready to die
for our government A third term he
puts by again and again, but each
time is gentler than the other. To
save the greatest document in the
worlds history no sacrifice will be re-
fused. A third term on an issue of
subordinating our government to the
league is as little an internationalist
patriotic can offer to the world. Who
would not hear voices in these air
on such proposal The gravity of
such a service will justify him in do
ing anything. The issue is joined
now"
BY the Shantung agreement. Sena-
tor Sherma nsaid an ancient and
friendly nation was to be "disember-
ed" and because of the Fiume con-
troversy, Italy's good will lost. "All
must pass under the yoke of his epi-
thets who will not respond to his flight
into the dim world of Wilsonian
dreams" Mr.. Sherman declared in
again turning to President Wilson.
And from this cavern of counterfeit
moralities and cock-loft of scholastic
gable has the sublime assurance to
asperse senator's who refuse to abase
themselves before the totering throne
of the chief rhetorician whose meta
physical thunder no longer inspired
either respect or fear. Let the swarm
of satellites basking in the sunshine
OF patronage and shifting the fragrant
trade winds of administration favors
crafty him with their anthems or
ineffabIe perfection The louder their
halleluiahs now the more fervent the
maledictions at the inevitable end"