The sun., 1919-09-17
WILSON ASSAILED
AS AID TO ROBBERS
Presidents Stand on Fiume
and Shantung Raked by
Sherman
GIFTS CALLED REPR0ACH
Hitchcock's Record Prior to
U. s. Entrance Into War
Denounced.
GIFTS CALLED REPRoACH
spec.oi DespascA to TIE sus.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.--President
Wilson and Senator Hitchcock (Neb.)
we're excoriated in the Senate to-day by
Senator Sherman (Ill.). the Republican
Senator ripping to pieces the Presi-
dents stand in the matters Of Shantung
and Fiume. The record made by Senator
Hitchcock prior to Americas entrance
into the war was scathingly denounced.
His strenuous efforts to prevent arms
md Ammunition reaching the Allies at
that time was strongly contrasted by
senator Sherman with his present wish
.to make a general assignment OF pur
country to them in perpetuity."
The Senator turned his attention to
the arrival of a carload of presents for
the Wilson family, and said:
"These boxes entered at Boston. They
rsid no duty and they were not valued
or even inspected unless in the most IN
formal way. The value no one knows.
Cloakroom gossip lays the value at half
n million dollars. Who will ask Tor an
Investigation of the alien bounty ne
slowed on our long absent President
is the President above the laws? Is he
already acting under the League OF M,
nons 40 as to absolve himself from all
oh,Ioations under our Government? We
est him not to die for the league, but
to live under the Constitution and laws
Of our country.
Wilson Carried n Uniform.
'When the President went abroad he
took with him full uniform OF the
commander In chief of the army OF the
limited States, SO veracious local WISE
acres have it. So far as we KNOW ne
contented himself with citizens clothes.
This is the only mitigation appearing in.
the overseas pilgrimage of our ChieI:
The Treasury is charged with his and
his retinue's expenses. All the former
appropriatlons are exhausted. He mas
asked the House for $S25,00O more ana
been refused until an itemized report
of his expenditures Is made. How nave
these millions been used? Whose names
are on the pay roll? Wnat is tneir
compensatlon? What have they done?
Ha retnrned TO our shores with it all
spent. He brought with him gifts pre-
sented him In Europe besides which the
generosity and glory of Solomon and
Crooesus seem a beggars pittance."
Turning to the Shantung settlement.
Senator Sherman said of the President:
january 22, 1917, we listened In his
message to him saying: That no right
anywhere exists to hand peoples about
from sovereignty to sovereignty as II
they were property. To-day we read
his treaty delivering 36,0O0.00O Chinese
to an alien despotism. The same arro-
CANT power that drove us to war to
save our rights severed them from their
mother country. Again, we see him
deny Italy her historical national rights
redeemed by her loyalty and sacrifice in
the great struggle against a common
foe. Our surprise deepens into humilia-
tion when we realize the depths Into
which our President has drawn us-by
what we already know. Each descend
ing sun sees a new revelation extorted
from reluctant Executive or published
In the capitals of Europe for our official
Information.
Pledges to Italy Broken.
IAN ancient and friendly nation dis
membered the pledges Of three great
Powers to italy broken by an ex-post
facto edict of a dreamer and a novice.
the twin crusaders in the bloody chaos
Of internationalism. President Wilson
and Col. House. Here the self-determi-
nation of peoples would solidify, sta
blize, preserve, build up States against
future despotism 1t is secuted and ig-
nored In the Balkan region, where II
is a frebrand of domestic tumult, it is
invoked as a sacred maxim Of popular
rights.
THE very gods must smile at the huge
contradiction of aspiring mortals chained
in personal self-interest or lost in the
bottomless egotism reaching out for a
passport to the regions of international
Immortality. All must pass under the
yoke. of his epithets who will not respond
10 his fight into the dim world of Will
sonan dreams.
"a Chief Magistrate of this Republic
An accomplice of the active receiver o.