The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-03
LEAGUE or NATIONS
'PANDORA'S Box
According to Senator Sherman, Who
Says It Win Unloose on United
States the Aggregated Calam-
tiles Of the World.

Washington, d. c., March 3.-The con
stitution of the league of nations as pre-
scented at the peace conference was pic
tured to the Senate to-day by Senator
Sherman of Illinois, Republican; as a
"Pandora's box full of evils" which
would empty upon the American people
the aggregated calamities of the world.
Senator Sherman sharply criticized
! President Wilson, asking who authorized
him 80 rear above the republic an auto
cratic power" He added that the au-
thority was not to be found in the con
stitution of the United States nor was it
implied from underlined war powers, and
! gave it as his opinion that the president
had been acting either as 'usurper or a
| Dictator
"Shall we not ask as the dramatist, -
Senator Sherman said "'Now in the
name of all the gods at once, upon what
does this Cesar feed that he has grown
so great?"
"He adroitly manauvers himself into
! the spotlight as the fountain of peace
perpetual and the guardian of mankind,
! Senator Sherman continued. "As he kept
us out of the war in 1916, SO he will keep
US out of impending war conjured up to
serve the issues Of 1920 and keep us at
peace forever if we but accept him again.
| With him as the drum major of civili2a-
ton, eternal peace, betting the earth and
brooking like gentle spirit DER a still
and credulous world proclaims the mil
lenium is here.
Like his neutrality device was the
! prelude to unprepared war his peace
| league engages not in one war, but in all
wars that seourge the earth II is simple
but deadly. Apparently an open cove
nant of peace # is a masked charter of
iinceasing war; the voice of Mars, but
the hand of Woodrow"
OF the proposed constitution, Senator
! Sherman said it would set up an oil
garchy Of the worst possible sort, add
| ing;
| "If we cut the cables of constitutional
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 spolations OF
thousand years will become Our daily
chart of action. All we can know is that
a few men in some hidden chamber
| kHOWu as Tue executive EuAllCll Nltlu
over us powers of life and death.
"The creation of a nameless thing Ia
sit in star chamber judgment and decree
implicit obedience TO its mandates can
not be borne by free men. By an ukase
| it will embargo our commerce, close our
exchanges, destroy credits, leave our
merchandise rotting on piers, shut 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 il.
Sincere men may have deceived them.
| selves in the great hope for a perfect
world, but no delusion. however sincere
will excuse this Senate from its duty
to interpose its power against this uni
versal Utopia promised by the president
1t is the tabled apple Of a great hope
which will turn to ashes on q trusting
peoples lips. The Senate never faced a
| greater task nor nobler duty. 1t will
not ratify an emotion nor translate an
impossible idealism into weapon Of
national suicide" L
! Senator Sherman asserted that against
the wisdom and experience. Of the Amer,
lean forefathers as summed up in Wash
ington's farewell address, there was now
rising up ''the dreamer and the bookman
the socialist, the mere haberdasher, il
phrases which intoxicate and mislead."
The senator urged that the warning Of
the founders of the American govern
ment to let Europe settle her own quar-
rels be regarded now, adding that wher
the United States went to war against a
common danger il did not bind itself iii
perpetual alliance to draw the sword
whnever and so long as the majority al
European governments voted it upon us.