The sun., 1919-07-23
LEAGUE CALLED
UNESSENTIAL BY
SENATOR MOSES
In Analytical Speech He
Shows Treaty Tasks Are
Left to Allies.
WOULD EMBROIL THE U. S.
Others Defend and DenOunce
Covenant During Day
of Debate.
WOULD EMBROIL THE U. s.
Special Despatch TO TIE sux.

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hitherto Senator Moses IN. HI to-
day dissected the peace treaty itself
in a speech before the Senate. AL
though his speech was a long one the
Senator was able only to skim the
principal features OF the $4,000 word
document and point out the principal
weaknesses of the pact.
Analysing the treaty the Senator
detailed the terms imposed on. Ger
many. declaring that his only quarrel
with this part of the instrument was
that these terms were not imposed
eight months ago. He held up to
ridicule, however, the assertion that the
treaty in this and all other respects
squares on the whole with the famous
fourteen points" as President Wilson
assure the Senate on his return from
Europe the last time.
The Senator took up and tore to
pieces the Presidential claim that the
whole working out Of the terms Of the
treaty rests on the Indispensable in
strumentality" OF the League of Ma
tions. He told the Senate, and held up
the peace pact terms to prove 1t. that
this was a mistake, to say the least.
Winding up his speech Mr.. Moses
declared that the seed and germ of
war are as surely in the present peace
pact as they were in the peace of Ber-
lin forty years ago. He recalled to
the Senate that Disraeli, summing up
his labors there, said the settlement
was peace with honor"
1T is to be hoped that none of the
phrasemakers of to-day will be per-
mitted to repeat Disraeli's fatal error
of word and deed" said the Senator
And 1t lies in our hands. Senators, to
make sure that this shall not be done.
This treaty of Versailles Is as menac-
ing to the peace of the world to-day
as the treaty of Berlin was forty years
ago, and unless we can make in it
changes which l deem primarily es-
sential | shall not vote for its ratifica-
ton"
Senator Moses began with this inter-
esting statement
THE published Summary of the treaty
as a whole failed TO arouse or hold the
public mind and even when a full and
well authenticated text fell under the
eyes of some of US and finally into the
hands of all--not as receivers of stolen
goods probably obtained by bribery, but
as legitimately as any document wrong
fully withheld could possibly come into
the possession of its rlghtful custodians
even this failed to divert the ebb and
flow OF the tidal waves of criticism and
defence which have poured across the
weather beaten topic of the League of
Nations"
Calls Wilson Vague.
Senator Moses noted that in the Pres
idents speech of July 10 Mr.. Wilson de-
voted only fourteen lines to the peace
treaty. and that his comment upon 1t
was equally vague and apologize. He
heartily concurred. he said, in the OBJ
Jections to the league as endangering
our sovereignty and shackling freedom
of action and judgment, but he coun-
selled more attention to the peace treaty
itself. SO that Americans would under
stand the thicket of difficulties into
1t to be ratified as it stands. He con-
tinued.
''In it are considerations of many
things-2f shoes and ships and sealing
wax, Of cabbages and kings The
wide world has been combed to find OBJ
Jects of reparation with which to carry
out the doctrine OF no annexations and
no indemnities and neither schoolhouses
In China nor villas in Egypt, nor manu-
scripts from Medina. nor skulls from
East Africa have been overlooked, In
snort MIR. President the most ardent OF
special agents of our own Treasury
seeking for additional Items of taxa.
tion from rich Republican, could not
have been more diligent than the Peace
Commissioners OF Paris in digging out
remote and ofttimes unrelated properties.
rights and privileges with which to
swell the treasure chest OF booty.
I'm the treaty, described in words
and laid down upon its ACCOMMODATING
maps, are new boundaries for German nv.
for France. for Belgium, for Luxem
burg, for Switzerland. for Denmark and
for East Prussia-to name the nations
which we're before the war, and for Po-
land and ho-Slovakia-to name
those which the treaty will contribute to
set up.
1T creates a new free city IL opti-
unsteady looks forward to new Russia n
states: 1t roams the plains, sails the
seas, delves into the earth and scars
Into the sky; II opens prisons and it
guards graves; submarine cables and
wireless telegraphic plants are subject
to its terms dyestuffs and drugs, coal
and chemicals, Huns, horses and hunts
men alike come within it's puryiew :
books. boundaries and bullets; contracts.
cattle. cotton and claims; deeds, debts
and duties; finance, fire insurance and
fortifcations guns, goats. guarantees
and governments missions. mines and
mixed commissions; navles. negotiable
Instruments and natural products ports,
prizes and penalties railroads, recruit
ing and rivers sheep, submarines, stock
exchanges and social insurance; tunnels,
tonnage and trials: vessels, victuals and
the Vistula; warships. waterways, wo-
man suffrage and Wilhelm ii. In short,
MFR. President, the alphabet and allitera-
ton alike are agonized in an attempt
TO deal adequately with merely a top
. zeal index to this instrument which we
are asked to ratify in haste lest we
break the heart Of the world"
Tells Treaty Purposes.
In complete detail Senator Moses then
set forth the principal purposes of the
peace treaty as It stands. specifying the
territory demanded from Germany, the
new States created. the separations TO
be enforced. the requirements and COM
pensations that are TO be carried out.
Absorbedly and often with laughter the
senate heard Mr. Moses's extraordina-
rily vivid enumeration and description