The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-08
AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING
(From the New York Wor

From the New York world)
 Former President Taft Metropolitan Opera meeting legal and nationalistio ob Jections that have advanced tion of the League President Wilson pre- sented the case for the pro posed covenant. Seldom has an issue adequately by it's champions.
 puzzled by some of the criticsms'-'by the fact of the critcism'-he must have forgotten for The criticisms of Constitution League of dons do not differ in kind from the the States for ratification in 17SS.
 The Lodges and the Knoxes Borahs and the Reeds, the Shermans Thomases of that gener- alton was as vocfferous, clamorous in Constitution United States as their antagonzing Constitution of the League of Nations. They conjured the same fears and the same doubts, the same expressions Nothing changed except the name of the instrument that is assailed.
 The Constitution 17S7 thing of terror to thousands of honest and we1l-meanng Americans. Henry, demanded by what right the Con vention spoke the language of We, the people,, in was intended to be by the framers of it,
 Senator Lodge is not more inststent today paramount duty the to confne it. self to the bare question of Germany rick Henry fundamental mistake gfnl Convention:
 The Federal Convention ought to ed the old system; for this purpose they were other consideration.
 When Philander C.. Pennsylvania complains Nations reminded of another told the Massachusetts delegates that Boston
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 April 21 17S8, some of the delegates to the Maryland Convention headed by Luther Martin issued an Address to the People of Maryland. they
 proposed form of national gov ernrnent as very defective and that the liberty happiness be endangered the system be not greatly changed and altered.
 Said James Lincoln to the South Carolina Conven-
 What have you been contendfng for in the ten past? Liberty! liberty? The pow of governing yourselves. you adopt St1tution have this power? No; you the hands of men who live 1000 distant Let the people but sequence? First a naughty, impertous aristocracy and ultimately tyrannical monarchy.
 Reed terrified by the nations of Europe than snglery of Massachusetts by the character of the men who favored the Constitution of the United States. This is the picture he pre- sented to the Massachusetts Convention:
 These lawyers and of learning moneyed men that talk so finely and gloss over matters down the pill expect to get into Congress selves; they expect to be managers of this Const- tuition and get all the power and all the money tn, their own hands. and then they will swallow up whale swallowed Jonah.
 League of Nations if requested to by the Saviour of Mankind" that delegate Massachusetts Convention described by Elliott the Hon. MT White
 We ought be jealous rulers. godly men we read of had failed; he would not "a flock of Moseses."
 Nor President Wilson whit more disloya1 to the American people in the opinion of Senator Poin ton and Madison in the opinion of Tredwen of
 In this Constitution, sir have departed ly from the principles and political o '76, when the spirit of liberty high ambition. Here find n o for individuals, security for existence of our State Governments. Sir, in this Consti- tuition have not only neglected-we worse-we have openly violated fath-that s public faith.
 there solitary Senator cocksure unconst1tutonality League of Nations than Gen. Thompson of Massachusetts in unconstutionality Com pare the Senate speeches with his:
 The Convention Philadelphia to this Confederation, but they