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CUMM|NS MAKES
DEFENSE OF the
LEAGUE FOES
Deplores "Attempt" to Show
Opposition Due to Political
Designs.

Washington, Sept. 26.--When Pre-
sident Wilson ended his work at the
Paris peace conference, tine oni7
ted States had not friend IN hu-
rope, Asia or Africa, and our prli,
liant service in the war was almost
forgotten in the storm OF protests
whicr followed him as he sailed TOT
home" Senator Cummins, republl-
can, Iowa, declared today IN an ad-
dress in the senate attacking the
League of Nations covenant.
"The only thing the president
brought with him which was Joyfully
received in America by multitudes
of good people," Senator Cummins
said, "was a covenant for a League
of Nations and this only because
these people believed, many OF them
without inquiry, that the League OF
Nations would bring peace to a
war-weary verdi and would mann
tain it in all the years to come. era
dually, they are beginning to see the
tremendous burdens we are asked
to assume and gradually they are
understanding that there are some
provisions in the covenant which
must inevitably provoke war"
Senator Cummins deplored the at
tempt Of some senators to charge
ether senators with opposing the
treaty simply to discredit the pre-
sident and to accomplish their poll
teal designs, as well as efforts OF
tire latter group to make it appear
that those supporting the president
were indifferent if not hostile, to-
ward the vital concerns of their own
country.
"The casual observer in the SEN
ate," he said, "would be inclined to
reach the conclusion that the most
influential senators upon this side
of the chamber are altogether IN
sensible to the awful horrors of war
and are determined to keep the
world in conflict simply to antago-
nize the president or to work out
some petty party supremacy, while
at the same time, he could not we'll
resist the inference that the most
persuasive senators upon the other
side of the chamber are bent ON
wreckine their own country simply
to vindicate the AVAILABILITY Of the
chief executive in his work at Paris. y
Blindly Into Future.
Senator Cummins contended that
when the war was ended "our exit
should have been as speedy and COM
plete as possible" This did not
mean, however. he added, that the
United State should harve abandon
ed it's allies or made separate
peace with Germany, "but it does
mean that it was not our duty to
associate ourselves with foreign
powers in reforming the map of the
world and in agreeing to maintain
it as the victorsr had made it."
Condemning DISPOSITION of Shan
tung, Senator Cummins said he
wanted to relieve the American re-
public "from the eternal odium of
the Shantung crime" and "from
the disgrace of passing over Thrace
to Bulgaria" There would be many
Standings, he said. and if the prin.
cipal associated powers worked in
harmony it would mean nothing less
than complete and arbitrary pow,
err of the world. AS much as he de-
plored the wrongs done China. he
would adhere. he said, to the princi-
Piles he had previously announced
and vote against the committee
amendment awarding the province to
China.
The man who attempts to preach
the doctrine that peace with Ger.
manv with or without the League
of Nations. means peace for the
world in the relations of men, OF
PRODUCING. selline and buying ac-
cording to ancient customs, inflicts
incalculable injury on the nublic.
eff America" he said. "is shack.
led to the proposed League Of Ma.
tions. just as it is written, she will
90 blindlv and blunderinoly into the
future, incapable of guiding her owr
neonle safely through these dark ant