The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-07
Rev. J. G. Murray, Chancellor
of Hartford Diocese, Scores
the President.
ANSWERS CHAIN LETTER
Gloves G.. o. P. Better Than
Life, and Would Prefer Hang
ing to Covenant"
Special Despdtch 10 TIE suS.

the influence of the League TO Enforce
Peace to bear on the attitude of Senators
Brandeeee and Mclean Comm through
enlistlng the support of prominent Re-
publican clergymen. and the complete
failure Of this plan, has come to light in
between the Rev. John G.
Murray, chancellor Of the diocese OF
Hartford, and Col. Isaac NJ. Ullman.
president of the Chamber of Commerce
at New Haven.
Col Ullman wrote to Chancellor Muir
ray asking him to sign a series of "chain
letters" two OF them to 60 TO tho Con-
necticut Senators and stating that he
was doing 80 at the suggestion of Mr..
Taft and other members of the League TO-
Snforce Peace" Chancellor Murray
promptly wrote to Senator Brandegee,
enclosing the letter from Col. Ullman
and thanking the Senator for his 'un-
fiinching opposition to the modern Mo-
loch. the proposed League of Nations
He also enclosed the form letters for
which the Chancellor's signature was
sought and his own reply to Col. I'LL
man, which follows:
my DEAR Col. ULLMAN: Your letter
OF January ~ concerning the support
in the mail this morning. In order that
you may appreciate my position as a
humble citizen OF the United States.
want to tell you that ever since the
campaign for SUCH league was origi-
mated some FIVE or six years ago l have
done all in my power to oppose 1t. An
experience gained by residence OF three
years in Europe from 1897 to 1900
makes II psychologically and morally
q
organization.
"Since the matter came up for de-
bate in the United States Senate
have given all the moral support in my
power to Senators Knox, Brandegee ana
Borah begging them to preserve TOT
me and every citizen Of the United
States the only country on the face
of the earth At for me to live In and
die in. / want no super-country ana
want no alliance between the United
States and any other country in the
world, be It France, England, Ireland.
Germany, Italy. Greece, Russia, Poland,
Egypt, Palestine, Turkey. China or
Japan.
Would educate" Soldiers.
You ask me to sign letter to the
effect that he soldiers and sailors re-
turned from the world war support your
league. For every soldier and sailor
whom YOU can find in Connecticut ready
to subscribe to such a league / am will
ing to go out and beg or borrow a dollar
for fund to educate them as to the
agregious error that would induce them
to deliver themselves and their country
to the slavery of European intrigue,
which is now more insidious and more
persistent in it's selfish designs TO swal-
low the United States than at any time
in history.
you are asking me TO deprive my
country Of the place OF honor which she
has attained as model and arbiter in
the disputes OF other nations and man
acle her to a vicious circle of political
expediencies after she has acquired
glory and independence by her unswerv-
ing adherence to principle.
LAS a clergyman of my church I am
not permitted publicly TO voice my per-
sonal views on any topic primarily po-
litlcal. This matter. however, has as
sumed for me the character OF deeply
ethical problem concerning 100000
OF my fellow citizens, and were ii posi-
BILE | should consecrate myself to the
task OF speaking on every street corner
from Portland, Me, TO Los Angeles. Cal,
to proclaim my convictions as to the
dangers OF such a league.
"You are the first of my friends who
has in any way expressed himself as
favorable 10 such league and l am at a
! loss to know what ground you can find
for considering the opposition OF the
Republican party as partisan. I con-
slider the opposition American as OPP
posed to a new spirit of International
ism.
please read the messages of Presi-
dent Wilson to his fellow citizens on
Nav al nav q
and tell me whether you can find therein
either the word America or American.
Can you find a sentiment or a. principle
| that is American in anything that he has
said or done since he went into Office on
| the slogan He kept us out OF war? My
opinion OF President Wilson was formed
on the occasion OF his reception Of the
Belgian delegates who came to tell him
I In the first weeks of the war about the
immoral violation OF fundamental princi-
| ples underlying the very existence of the
human race and he proclaimed neu-
trality where a man with the faintest
voice Of conscience would have taken up
| arms.
II have had nothing but sincere es-
TEEN for my friend William Howard
Taft. for whom voted when he went
{ 10 victory and when he went to defeat
and for whom would vote to-day in
everything except his League OF Ma
tons But would rather go To the
gallows as a public criminal than vote
! for his League OF Nations.
Sees Danger in League.
For me the League OF Nations Is
several degrees more menaclng, more
sinister and more insidious than eithe,
the Prussian or Turkish Empire ever
was In the days when each threatened
the destruction Of Christian civilization
! Against those forces the American peo.
pie were always free to put forth thei,
magnificent and irresistible power in III,
cause OF justice, freedom and righteous
uess. BY the League of Nations all tina,
power is manacled and bound to a rims
! wherein the predominatlng influence
may be either Prussian or Turkish.
/ Your letter asking me to support
such measure has been the occasion
OF greater sadness than any message
that have received since the announce.
ment OF destruction OF my alma mater
the University OF Louvain. looked
upon you as force for genuine Ameri.