New Britain herald., 1919-04-03

ator Mclean s associates. The sela- tor IS unhappy because asserted that the leaders of the republican party
 in the senate had placed themselves in opposition to the league ot ha-
 1ons. In an attempt tc conlroNer' thls statement, the learned seii'' says The Lodge resolution eonl'li''t all those who signed it to leas uo - nations, because it says i'll SC '''' word "a proposal for q leaS "0 oA nations to insure the permanent p7e~'
 of the world should b2 taken up io'
 careful and serious cOHsidefa '''' ''''-
 CT the terms of peace Wlth N'
 have been determined.
 "The friends of the league N''' '''"
 little comfort in the Lodge ftsoiu"
 ton. Stripped of it's vcrhlase' u 'S
 q proposal of postponenPnt' All ul,S-
 tuolls approval of the idea thf1' tue
 world should mite to promote peace
 and general lisa rmaInent coup'eo with the proposition to dlsmlss rue
 considera ton of the league or na-
 tions to some remote and vague Iu- ture, will not deceive even the Sihlp- lest The plain pcoplo-a term by the way. which the. senator evidently dls~ likos--will have no difficulty m dlS- tinguishing between the real friends of the league who want that league established now. and the spurious friends of the league who plead TOT delay.
 Mentions Taft and Lodge.
 '"Thc senator endeavors to persuade himself that MT. Taft and Senator Lodge are substantially in harmony, for I observe that he says there IS little conflict between them. Qulte apart from the fundamental d1ffef- ence that Mr. Taft desires a league or nations esta blished now and senator Lodge wants the consideration or It. postponed, there is still another strlk- ing difference. MT. Tatt finds himself able to appear upon the same plat form at the Metropolitan Opera house with President Wilson to unite with him in joint appeal to American patriotism to support the league of nations On the other hand, Senator Lodge appears upon the platform a Boston debating against President Lowell, of Harvard, whose position is identical with that of Mr Taft. One must have reached 8 very low men tai ebb to be unable CT unwilling to
  porting the president openly and vigorously. Senator Lodge, on the other hand, loses no opportunity to criticise the president. Of course. I realize that it is gall and wormwood to a partisan republican to know that MT. Taft is in mental company with the president, but Senator Mclean will have to endure the agony of it as best he may.
 'I doubt if Senator Mclean would welcome any words of consolation from me; but I submit that MT. Taft is doing more to save the respectabil ty and the honor and the very exis- tence of the Republican party than all of the thirty seven round robin" Senators combined. No man and no party Intentionally placing obstacles in the way of a League of Nations will survive long enough to out1ive the memory of such an offense against humanity and civilization.
 'Tt would rid Senator McTean's
 mind of an obscuring cloud if he
 could purge himself of the animosity
 which he feels toward the President Such distempers make clear reason
 ing difficult. I think I do the Sena-
 LOT no III so SCat1nR, TOT l
 observe that he suggests that people
 ought to resent the autocratic and perilous orders of an infamed ego
 l assume that the Senator refers to
 President Wilson. l submit that such
 language, even if parltam entary and
 permissible, serves no useful purpose and is not calculated to advance any worthy cause. The Senatorial dis position to shoot at the President while his back is turned, and while he is engaged in the most difficult and important international negotiation of all time, does not commend itself to ones sense of fairness.
 Senator McIean's Query.
 "fn the course of his statements, Senator Mclean propounds this over Whefmfng question, namely, Is MT. Cummings in favor of conferring upon aliens the right and power to involve
 us in war, regardless of the wishes of Congress and the Am erlcan people?' The interrogatory Is inter- esting but no relevant, No one has any such purpose. If Senator Me Lean means to imply that the pro- l posed League, as he says, takes the | power to declare war away from the 1 American people and confers it upon ! foreign tribunal l urge him to read | the document again before repea ting I any such preposterous nonsense. II ] he still harbors the idea that the pro- 1 posed covenant involves any suck ! drastic departure from Am erican prn- ] cipies, l suggest that he read witt care the analysis made to the proposed l League by MT. Hughes and by MT l Root. Both of these gentlemen have ] suggested changes in the League and l have submitted it to 3 searching ana l 1ysls. Curieusly enough, neither one 1 of them has found in the decum ent l the defeet which Senator Mel Lea r