The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-03-03
SHERMAN SEES
EYIlSINLEACUE
BeWaHS Plans for Peace and
Deals in Ugly CRITICISM
of Wilson.
SENATE FACES BIG TASK
Republican Solon Declares.
Highly Pessimistic View of
World War Settlement.

Washington, March 3.--The consti.
tuition of the league of nations as pre-
sented at the peace conference was
pictured to the senate today by Sen
ator Sherman, of Illinois, republican
as a "Pandora's box full of evils
which would empty upon the Amer
lean people the aggregated calamities
of the world"
Senator Sherman sharply criticised
President Wilson, asking who au-
thorized him ito rear above the re-
public an autocratic power" He
added that the authority was not to
be found in the Constitution of the
United States nor was it implied
from underlined war powers, and gave
it as his opinion that the president
has been acting either as "a usurper
or a dictator"
Shall we not ask with the drama
tist," the senator said, now, in the
name of all the gods at once, upon
what does this Caesar feed that he
has grown SO great?'
Stoops to Bitter Invective.
He adroitly maneuvers himself
into the spotlight as the fountain of
peace perpetual and the guardian of
mankind" Senator Sherman contin-
ued. "As he kept us out of war in
1916, so he will keep us out of i'm
pending war conjured up to serve, the
issues of 1920 and keep us at peace
forever if we but accept him again.
With him as the drum major of civ
ilization, eternal peace, betting the
earth and broQding like. gentle
la -. 4. . IL
proclaims the millennium is here.
Like his neutrality device was the
prelude to unprepared war; his peace
league engages us not in one war but
in all wars that scourge the earth. 1t
is simple but deadly. Apparently an
open covenant of peace, it is a masked
charter of unceasing war; the voice
Of Mars, but the hand of Woodrow"
OF the proposed constitution SEM
ator Sherman said it would set up an
oligarchy of the worst possible sort,
adding:
"If we cut the cables of constitu-
tional government here we are caught
in the irresistible tides that will
sweep us into the maelstrom of the
old worlds bloody currents. The feuds
and spoilations of a thousand years
will become our daily chart of action.
All we can know is that a few men
in some hidden chamber known as
'the executive council WELD. over us
powers of life and death.
Fabled Apple of Hope.
The creation of a nameless thing
10 sit in star chamber judgment and
decree implicit obedience to its man.
, dates cannot be borne by free man.
BY a ukase, it will embargo our COM
merce, close our exchanges, destroy
credits. leave our merchandise rot
ting on piers. shut the Panama canal,
order congress to declare war, levy
taxes. appropriate money, raise and
support armies and navies, and dis
patch our men tC any quarter OF the
globe to fight and die because an
alien executive council has willed II.
ts"Sincere men may have deceived
themselves in their great hope for
perfect world. but no delusion, how
ever sincere, win excuse this senate
from its duty to interpose its power
against this universal Utopia prom
ised by the president 1t is the ia
bled apple of a great hope which will
turn to ashes on a trusting peoples
lips. The senate never faced greater
task nor nobler duty. 1t will not rat
ify an emotion nor translate an i'm.
possible idealism into a weapon CT
national suicide"
Urges Warning Regarded.
= Seator Sherman asserted that
against the wisdom and experience Of
the American forefathers as summed
up in WashingtOn's farewell address,
there was now rising up "the dreamer
and the bookHian. the socialist the
mere haberdasher in phrases which !
infoxicate aad m.isiead."
The senator urged that the warn