New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-05-28

broken faith and shameless perfdy
from it's inception and BIRTH the
League, he predicted, would become
ga gigantic firebrand for world con-
fagration.
Senator Sherman made his address
in presenting resolution declaring
it the sense of the Senate that the
League covenant should be separated
from the peace treaty when the latter
is submitted to the Senate for ratifi-
cation.
He charged that covenant and treaty
had been closely interviewer in the
final draft for the deliberate purpose
of securing votes for the former and
argued that separate consideration would
give an opportunity for the Senate and
the country to pass more sober verdict.
He charged President Wilson had
broken faith with China, Poland and
Italy; had yielded to Great Britain,
and had endeavored ''to embark the
8, United States on policies that would
require her to send a million soldiers
abroad"
"The American people" declared
the senator, "have not yet fully meas
::'ured the unparalleled and atrocious
character of the assault made by the
authors of the League on American
government and American institutions.
A more sinister assembly of men never
threatened the peace and safety of our
country than now demand that unlimited
powers over the lives and fortunes of
the American people be surrendered
into their keeping,
In revising the original covenant,
said Mr.. Sherman, the delegates at
Paris had improved only it's grammatical
texture. ~
Like the original document it is
unamendable, omniscient and infalli-
BILE, he said. "Again it must be &C
copied as it flashes from the summit
where dwells the incarnate wisdom it
has become political blasphemy to
question and treason to try to under
stand. Both the original and the
amended leagues impair the sover-
eighty of this republic and reduce it
to vassal state.
'The League of Nations is inter-
locked with the treaty of peace design
edly for an Interior purpose. If it can
be welded upon the peace treaty it
is supposed to procure votes, otherwise
impossible. 1t is a confessed case of
log-rolling.
IF the League be ratified while the
government is at war, the vast and
unknown war powers of underlined
extent will be invoked to declare it
valid. If peace be first concluded those
extensive and underlined war powers
disappear. In peace, civil powers are
construed and interpreted by peace
tribunals. War powers are interpreted,
defined or created by the military
authority which exercises them.
''Let this Senate first ratify treaty
of peace, then we may consider under
civil procedure and civil authority
unawed by executive war powers, the
colossal vital changes proposed in our
form of government
"The revolutionary experiments brist-
ling from the League may then be sub
mitted to the people whose lives and
fortunes are proposed to be cast into
the bloody pool Of the whole worlds
quarrels
Regarding the effect of the League on
the political sovereignty of our nation
the Senator said: "The sovereignty
of this nation passes from the terri
torial limits Of our country to a foreign
capital. Congress cannot legislate, it
cannot pass appropriation bills nor
, collect revenues, it cannot enact labor
legislation nor exercise the usual police
power belonging to an independent
state until the DEGREES of the latest
orders Of the General council or measures
in the assembly shall have been studied.
War cannot be declared nor peace con-
cluded, armies raised and supported,
navies provided and maintained, nor
the national guard of the several states
mustered and equipped.
In this way the Senator criticises the
covenant section by section, concluding
with: "A League of Nations, founded
on such a betrayal of Poland, on the
robbery Of China, our own ally, on the
abrogation Of it's treaty made with
Italy in an hour of deadly peril, base
paltering with the principles of self
determination doubly interpreted with
a duplicity unrivaled in even the Con:
gress of Vienna, is doomed with the
curse of broken faith and shameless
perfdy from it's inception and birth.
! IF this sbe our republics contribu-
ton to the league let us hang our. heads
in shame and confess we are giants in