The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-04-02
SENATE FIDDLED AS ROME
BURNED, SAYS WILLIAMS
Mississippi Senator Would Rather Be
Dog and Bay at the Moon

Dog and Bay at the Moon
Jackson, Miss, March 26.-Dec-
laration by United States Senator
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi,
that defeat of the League of Nations
"More than any one thing in my life
made me come nearer doubling the
cause of Democracy, sometimes al
most the providence of God himself" 4"
enlivencd joint session of the legis-
| lature here to-day.
Senator Williams in his address
said:
II am just from Washington,
where I have listened ad nauseum
to the most confused gabfest in the
history of the world since the Maker
created it. l do not see how any
man who loves his country can look
with unconcern on what has just
occurred. But the trouble is we
don't seem to know what we want to
do while the continent of Europe is
in chaos.
There was a chance for the I'm
tied States to stand at the head of
council of nations of the world; to
lead the universe in the pathways
of peace. The opportunity was re-
jected and future historians will re-
fer to the last two years as the time
of the geat conspiracy, that the his
tory will be discreditable to some,
especially in the American Congress.
America went to war not because it
wanted to, but because it was ne
cessity. We preached to our boys
at home and in France that this war
was fought that wars might be no
more. We looked on the sufferings
of Belgium and Serbia and resolved
what we would do when it was over
Then it finally was over and we have
done nothing. So far as we are con-
cerned it appears we are willing to
go back to 1914 before it all began.
"The long winded arguments in
the Senate were like fiddling as
Rome burned, talking with world
in chaos. Do you blame me for say
ing that / would rather be dog and
bark at the moon than to spend one
minute in the Senate after the expi
ration of my term of office.
"The great conspiracy commenced
when the President went to Ver-
sailles and every time news came
from Versailles that the President
advocated or opposed something the
opposed his plans. They
are two-by-four politicians. / call
them that because that Is what they
are no matter how high their station.
Senator Lodge is the head of the
poison squad, and then, after the
treaty had been emasculated with
that no Democrat could
that no Democrat could
accept, he sought to blame the party |
for it's rejection.
Has any great institution founded
by cur forefathers fallen down at
the time of stress and travail like
the Senate has fallen down?
81 believe there are now men glad |
that the President is sick, perhaps
hope for his death. When Mckinley |
was shot down, when Garfield was
shot, was there a Democrat but ex
pressed sorrow? Has any one seen
words of sympathy for the President
in any Republican paper? A great
nan is sick, great mind and a
great character and they have whis-
Dered, We've got him nowH
"Men sometimes disparage ideal
SITS, but they are coarse grained
ackasses who do SO, and do it be-
,ause they are coarse-grained, but
he idealists point the way and cheer
mems souls.
"If the Republicans elect the Pres
dent the first thing he will have to
10 is to make explanations, but the
Democrats will enter the fight with
omething definite.
"Let us do as Saint Paul said he
lad done, fight the good fight of
aith and keep the faith"
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