The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-18
WHILE ROME BURNS.

In his attack on the League of Nations Senator
Sherman. on Tuesday declared the silence and
speed of President Wilson, when escaping from his
imperishabe principles is abysmal and primal
chaos" and later on makes the declaration that all
must pass under the yoke of his epithets who will
not respond to his flight of Wilsonian dreams"
Just how Senator Sherman correlates the silence
and speed with the accusation of epithets applied
TO the United States senate by President Wilson
his tour of the country might be left Mr. Burgess
of purple fame. His diatribe against treaty
and the president have about much solid sense
back of it. and is couched in understandable Eng
lish are the nonsense rhymes of the American
humorist.
Fortunately for the American people however.
they do not measure their humor by the yard stick
nor do they fail to recognize joke without its
label
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. but it is not
chroniced that his carried the torch that
lighted the fires to destroy civilization. Nor that
the mad reveler played a partisan tune
The antics of Sherman and Lodge, Knox and
Borah Johnson and Reed, have ceased to bring a
laugh except in Berlin. Even the republican news
papers weary of the antics of those men who
are playing the hands Of the Hohenzolerns,
while the world waits to get back once more to a
peace basis.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
1t cannot be denied that today the senate
presents obstacle in the way of universal
peace The country is confronted with vast IN
ternal problems, chief among which is the cost
of living We can legislate temporary relief
We can strengthen laws that need strengthen
ing But there be nothing permanent until
the nations that have been at war can get PACK
upon their feet once more.
The situation is not only unsatisfactory Out
Il is dangerous Surely the hour has struck t,r
sensible senators to get together There must
be enough of them outside the ranks OF me
Borah johnson and Reed irreconsilables 10 take
hold Of the situation and clear 1t up.
Certain members of the senate delight in calling
attention to the fact president is an fdeas
a visionary but he not approaching the Ameri-
ca N public in glise of the dreamer. NOT oio ne
NAV the role of the impractical idealist when ne
talked to the senators at his famous conference
before leaving capital his tour OF the country
and Alaska being kept open only at great loss
of the zinc mines of Missouri, Tennessee and Wis
consin being operated at about one-haf their ca
pacty:" of the lead of Idaho Illinois and missouri
reaching only a portion of its former market, OF
the immediate need cotton betting and also for
lubrcating oil which cannot be met all because the
cha nnels of trade are barred by when there is
no war" The same condition holds regarding raw
cotton" In fact said the president there is hardly
a single raw material, single important foodstuh,
a single class manufactured goods which IS not
in the same case Our full normal profitable pro-
duction, waits for peace"
This is the kind of "epithet" that the president
has the senate; this is the kind of ideal
ism that he is dealing practical people, and
this is the talk that is creating sentiment
which will raise in great wave of practical
patriotism to put the fires that the senate has
started in Washington, which is serving as beacon
light to the ships that pass in the night from Ber-
lin Hoboken. And in that great American tidal
wave the Lodge-K Knox Sherman, Borah Johnson
Reed crowd will find only themselves but their
party leadership inundated.