The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-03-04
SHERMAN SHARPLY
ABUSES PRESIDENT
FOR LEAGUE STAND
WILSON I'm SPOTLIGHT AS
FOUNTAIN OF PERPET-
UAL PEACE"
WASHINGTON CITED AGAIN


Which Will Turn to Ashes Upon
Trusting Peoples Lips" - He
Quotes Shakespeare.
Washington, March 3.-The con-
stltuiion OF the League of Nations
as presented at the peace conference
was pictured to the senate today by
Senator Sherman Of Illinois as
"Pandora's Box full Of evils, which
would empty upon the American
people the aggregated calamities Of
the world"
Senator Sherman sharply crti-
ciscd President Wilson, asking who
authorized him to rear above the
republic an autocratic power"
He added that the authority was
not TO be found in the constitution
OF the United States, nor was it i'm
piled from underlined war powers,
and gave it as his opinion that the
president had been acting either as
a usurpcr or a DICTATOR"
Shall we not ask with the dra-
matist" the senator said, CHOW in
in the name Of all the gods at once,
upon what meat does this Caesar
feed that he has grown so great?"
He adroitly maneuvers himself
in the spotlight as the fountain of
peace perpetual and the guardian of
mankind, " Senator Sherman contin-
ucd "As he kept us out OF war in
1914, so he will keep us out of inn
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 civilization, eternal peace, betting
the earth and brooding like a gentle
spirit DER still and credulous world
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 4 masked charter of un-
ceasing war; the voice of Mars but
the hand OF Woodrow
OF the proposed constitution.
! Senator Sherman said it would SET
Iup and oIlgarchy of the worst pos
sible sort adding:
III we cut the cables OF consti-
| mhonal government here. we are
caught in the irresistible tides that
| will sweep us into the maelstrom
Of the old worlds blood currents.
Tho funds and ,poilations OF a thou
asnd years will become our daily
chart of action. All we know is that
4 few men in some hidden chamber
known as the executive council
WELD over us powers OF life and
death.
Under the creation of a name.
less thing, it sits in a start chamber
judgment and decree implicit obe-
dience to its mandates cannot be
borne by free man. BY an ukase
it will embargo our commerce, close
our exchanges, destroy credits, leave
our merchandise rotting on piers,
shut the Panama Canal, order con-
gress to declare war, levy taxes, ap-
propriate money, raise and support
armies and navies and despatch our
men to any quarter OF the globe to
fight and die because an alien ex-
ecutive council has willed it.
"Sincere men may have deceived
themselves in their great hope for
perfect world, but no deusion,
however siacere, will excuse this
;, senate from its duty to interpose
] its power against this universal
, Utopia promised by the president.
J 1t is the tabled apple of a great
hope which will turn to ashes on a
trusting peoples lips. The senate
never faced a greater task nor a
, nobler duty 1t will not ratify an
, emotion nor translate an impossible
idealism into a weapon of national
y suicide"
, Senator Sherman asserted that
against the wisdom and experience
D 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 habcrdasher
in phrases which intoxicate and mis-
5 lead
The senator urged that the warn
a ing of the founders of the Ameri-
y can government to let Europe settle
e her own quarrels be regarded now
0 adding that when the United State,
@ went to war against common dan
q ger it did not bind itself "in perpet-
: ual alliance to draw the sword when.
ever and SO long as the majority oil
q European governments voted il
4 upon us"
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