Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-04
Sets Up An OIigarehy.

PEdGG II IL a llldSkCu LildTLCT OF ull-
ceasing war; the voice of Mars, but
the hand OF Woodrow"
Sets Up An oligarchy.
OF the proposed constitution, SEN
ator Sherman said it would set I'D an
oligarchy of the worst possible sort.
adding:
"'f we cut the cables of oonstitu-
tional government here we are
caught in the irresistible tides that
will sweep up into the maelstrom of
the old worlds blood currents. The
feuds and spoliations OF a thousand
years will become our daily chart OF
action. All we know is that a few
men in some hidden chamber
known as the executive council
WELD over us powers of life and
death.
"The creation of a nameless thing
to sit in star chamber judgment and
decree implicit obedience to its
mandates cannot be borne by free
man. By an ukase it will embargo
our commerce. close our exchanges,
destroy credits, leave our merchan
disc rotting on piers, shut the Pan
anna canal. order congress to de-
clare war, levy taxes, appropriate
money, raise and support armies
and navies, and dispatch our men
to any quarter of the globe to fight
and die because an alien executive
council has willed it.
Deceived Sincere Men.
Sincere men may have deceived
themselves in their great hope for a
perfect world, but no delusion, how
ever sincere, will excuse this senate
from its duty to interpose its power
against this universal Utopia prom
Used by the president. It is the
tabled appeal of a great hope which
will turn to ashes on trusting peo-
pies lips. The senate never faced
a greater task nor a nobler duty
1t will not ratify an emotion nor
translate an impossible idealism in
to a weapon of national suicide"
Senator Sherman asserted that
against the wisdom and experience
of the American forefathers as
summed up in Washington's fare
we'll address, there was now rising
up the dreamer and the bookman,
the socialist, the mere habadasher
in phrases which intoxicate and mis-
lead"
United States Would Not Be Bound.
Senator Smith asked what would
happen in case the United States
should withdraw from the league,
leaving all other nations of the
western hemisphere as members,
among whom dispute might arise.
Would not the dispute be settled
by the league without reference to
the United States2" asked Senator
Smith.
IF America did not belong we
would not be bound by anything"
replied Senator McCumber. "But
the league constitution says that the
keep your hands off policy of the
Monroe doctrine shall be applied to
the whole world"
Senator Smith suggested that the
United States would have to place
its case "in cold storage" for three
months in the event of trouble with
Mexico.
I'VE bind ourselves not to make
an aggressive war on Mexico" re-
Piled Senator McCumber, but if we
are attacked by Mexico we are not
bound to take steps to defend our
selves"
He added that bandit raid could
not be considered as an act of war
if it was not conducted by a govern
ment.
THAT would depend on who was
president" responded Senator
Smith when Senator McCumber
said the fear that the United States
would be out-voted in the league
was overdrawn, and declared that
each self-governing nation should
have one vote, Senator Smith of
Michigan, said it would be possible
for Great Britain to outvote this