The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-26
Reed StartIes Senate
 By Attack On President
Bitteret Opponent of League Covenant Makes Charges Which Might Be Regarded at Bill of Particulars
 Araignment Lasted Four Hours
Nv HUGH W. ROBERTS

Washington, September 25.-(SpeciaD On his western trip, the President very : freely spoke his mind regarding the sen ! ators who are oppbsing the league of na- tons At the present time the senators in question are replying in kind.
 Senator Reed of Missouri, democrat, and the bitterest of all the opponents of the league covenant, startled the Sen ate by preferring charges against the President which might be regarded as a bill of particulars.
 significant excerpt from his four hour discourse follows:
 The President marshals his syllogisms as a general marshals the battalions of his army. They appear to advance in logical phalanx, but his soldiers are epithets; his battalions argregations of bitter names; his army an assemblage of denuncatory epigiams
 Yet after it has passed the calm on locker will recognize only the vapors of anger; the intempersncc autecracy man ifests at opposition.
 If l could be so unkind as to reply to kind, l might answer that. of course. the , President does it all unconsciously, In complete innocence. and possibly only when wrought upon by the new magic. And that he substitutes fancies for facts, confuses the phantasrns of his dreams with the actualities of life. mistakes the visions of ambition for the inspirar:on of idealism. and imagines that phrases can take the place of realities.
 The President talks much of duty ot sacrifice" but even while he speaks, he at government expenses, rides on special trains; sails upon magnificent ships, fit ted with special glass pavilions; lives in the palaces of princes; receives pres ents from foreign nobility worth hun dreds of thousands of dollars; comman- deers entire hotels; summonses armies of retainers; creates diplomats without law; and wages war without authority. Out of the public funds he provides the keep of his retainers. He compels the American taxpayers to furnish their food and to wash their dirty linen. He talks of sacrifices but the sacrifices are to be made by American boys who perish in the snoYs of Siberia or who are yet to die beneath the suns of the equator.
 We stopped the onrushing Germans at the Marne, broke their attack at Chateau Thierry, rolled them back at the Argonne and forced their representatives to sur render at Paris.
 Our armies rescued our allies.
 Our food fed them.
 our money maintained them.
 To accomplish this work we left 50OoO dead in France, and sent staggering over our land another 50,o0o brave men, blind, crippled diseased,
 We accumulated a debt of S20, coo, COG, ,Oo0. We disarmed Germany and dismem- bered Austria
 Having done all this, if we now say that the time has arrived to bring our soldiers home and to begin looking after the wants of our own people, We are con temptible quitters.s
 Asserting that the league will bring un- iversal peace, the President yet demands a standing army of q half million men. Insisting that war will be no more, he urges the doctrine of universal military training.
 Proclaiming that the day has come when sw ords are to be beaten into plowshares he demands millions for navy.
 He advocates freedom of the seas, ou' consents that England shall remain mis- tress of the waters of tine world.
 He chafes at being kept at his presden- tial duties in Washington when he has been in this country only G0 days in the past nine months.
 He makes q speech declaring his own opinions and the next day asserts that his own speech is solemn instruction by tha people which he is dutifully carrying il.to effect.
 He hears the echo of his own words, and the next day proclaims them the volce of God.
 He denounces secret treaties, yet seeks