The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-05-24

WASHINGTON. May e3.-The attack |
on the League of Nations began III 'ne
senate today with an address by Senator
Sherman. republican Of Illinois. bitterly
ertticistng President Wilson for his corr
duct Of The peace negotiations ana VIZ
nouncing the league proposal as
lutionary attempt to set UP POI t''
,,,,, ~ nations controlled by an dig
archy.''
National sovereignty would disappear ,
,,do- the League. the Illinois senator
declared and liberties won i'll centuries
re struggle would be lost forever
Doomed with tho curse OF oroke'
faith and shameless 7crtidy from It's In
ccntion and birth" the league. ne pre-
dicted would become gigantic nrc-
brand for a world confiagraton'
Senator Sherman made his ADDRESS
before presenting resolution oecld' i'>s
in the sense Of the senate that the leaeue
covenant should be separate from 'ic
peace treaty when the latter IS suo''i'.
ted 70 the senate for reafhrmatloh' ne
charged that covenant and treaty hau
been closely interviewer in lne h"0'
draft for the deliberate purpose OF So
curing votes for the former, ana afs
that separate consideration wouIo sN0
an opportunity for the senate mat sep
arate consid Grafton would give an o2por-
tunity for the senate and country
pass a more sober verdict =
He charged President wilson hau
broken faith with. China Poland ailu
Italy. had yielded to Great Britain h"u
endeavored "to subvert the funuanei''"'
laws Of the republic; and mad pFo'''-
ised to embark the United states on
policies that would require her 10 Se'iu
100000 soldiers abroad.
The American people" declared INC
senator, have not yet fully measured t"e
unparalleled and atrocious character VI
the assault made by the authors or inc
league on American government anu
American institutions 4 more sihisle'
assembly Of men never threatened the
peace and safety Of our country IMAM
now demand that unlimited powers oVcr
the lives and fortunes Of the American
ncopIe be surrendered into their keep
Ing"
In revising Che original covenant said
Mr.. Sherman the delegates at far1s nao
improved only its grammatical teNlure-
Like the original document IL IS un-
amcndablc. omniscent and infalllole ne
said. Again it must be accepted as II
flashes from the summit where dwells
the tncarnatc wisdom 1t has become
political blasphemy to question and
treason to try to understand. Both the
original and the amended leagues I'M
pair the sovereignty Of this republic and
reduce It to vassl state
THE League Of Nations Is irterlockcd
with the treaty Of peace desisnedly for
~ ~ IN weld
ed upon the peace treaty It Is supposed
to procure votes. otherwise impossible.
It Is a confessed case Of log rolling.
II the league be ratified while the gov
crnrneut is at war, the vast and IN
known war powers Of underlined extent
VIII be invoked TO declare II valid II
peace be first concluded those extensive
and underlined war powers disappear
In peace civil powers are construed ana
interpreted By peace tribunals. War
powers are interpreted. defined or Gre
ated by the military authority which
exercises them.
Let this senate FIRST rattfy q treaty
of peace. then we may consider under
civil procedure and civil authority I'M
awed by executive war powers the CO.
lossal vital changes proposed IN our fort
Of government. The revolutionary eH-
periments bristling from this league
may then be submitted to tho people
whose lives and fortunes are proposed
to be east into the bloody pool Of the
whole worlds qua-rela
"Altruism never before rose 80 far
above human nature and common sense
nor idealsm so deNded its visionary
worshippers. The twentieth century
does not call US to reenact the crusades.
The misguided imagination Of intellec-
tual pcrvcrts has wrought more evil
than the vicious propenstties OF the
criminal and the distorted imagine OF
the insane. The man who writes book
TO portray q new and perfect govern
ment he assures US. he has invented Is
more dangerous to his country than the
anarchist.
Colonel House foreshadowed the de-
struction Of constitutional government
| in the United States in his work of fic-
ton published in 1912. This novel ex-
hibits his disregard Of law and his be-
lief in revolution George D. Heron
lately the president envoy 70 the Boil
shevist government in Russia says OF
the president In 1917:
-Fe Is revolutionary beyond any
thing hts words reveal. Five member
Of the presidents cabinet are tainted
With socialism. A vast swarm Of his
appointees are known to be open and
ayovcd socialists. Tho administration
OF Woodrow wilson even under crnsti'
tutional forms Of government Is a n.y.
brid between French revolution and
an oriental despotisrn. History would
forget the reign OF caliEula In the OK
cesscs and follies Of the American gov
eminent operated under the league OF
nations interpreted by President Wilson
and Colonel House.
Taking up the covenant. section oy
section, Senator Sherman said that nj
| the very outset the instrument gave II
the league a scope OF action practically
unlimited by empowering It to deaI
with any matter within the scope OF
| the league or affecting the peace of the
world"
THE Identification Of the new or
ganism rs a permanent and Independent
government Is complete he continued
Time will develop and strengthen us
hold upon the several nations
THE sovereignty Of this nation passes
from the territorial limits Of our conn'
try 10 foreign capital. Congress cannot
lcEis!nt". il cannot pass appropriation
bills. nor collect revenues. it cannot en-
act labor legislation nor exercise th'
usual police power belonging to an IN
dependent state until the DEGREES Of Tho
latest orders Of the Geneva council q
measure in the assembly shall; have beer
| studied. War cannot BE- declared mol
| peace concluded, armies raised and Su r.