Connecticut western news., 1920-10-07
BISHOP MURRAY OP-
 POSED TO THE LEAGUE
Urges Preservation of Only Country Fit to Live and
 Die In

The following letter will be of interest to many, if not all, readers of the News. The letter was written by Bishop John G. Murray of Hart ford in reply to Col. Isaac Ulman of New Haven, asking the bishop to endorse the League of Nations.
 Chancery, 134 Harrington avenue, Hartford, Conn.,, June 30, 1919. My dear Colonel Ullman:
 Your letter of June 27 concerning the support of the league of nations came to me. in the mail this morning. In order that you may appreciate my position as humble citizen of the United States, I want to tell you that ever since the campaign for such league was originated some five or six years ago, I have done all in my power to oppose it. An experience gained by a residence of three years in Europe from 1897 to 1900, makes it psychologically and morally inn possible for me to support such an organization. Since the matter came up for debate in the United States senate, I have given all the moral support in my power to Senators Knox, Brandegee and Borah, begging them to preserve for me and every citizen of the United States, the only country on the face of the earth fit for me to live in and die in. I want no super-country and I want no alliance between the United States and any other country in the world, be it France, England, Ire land, Germany, Italy, Greece, Russia, Poland, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, China or Japan.
 You ask me to sign a letter to the effect that the soldiers and sailors returned from the world war SUD- port your league. For every soldier and sailor whom you can find in the state of Connecticut ready to sub scribe to such league I am willing to go out and beg or borrow dollar for a fund to educate them as to the egregious error that would in- duce them to deliver themselves and their country to the slavery of Euro pean intrigue, which is now more insidious and more persistent in its selfish desgns to swallow 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 arbi- | ter in the disputes of other nations and manacle her to a vicious circle of political expendiencies, after she has acquired glory and independence by her unswerving adherence to prin- ciple.
 As Q clergyman of my church, l am not permitted to publicly voice my personal views on any topic pri- marily political. This matter, how lever, has assumed for me the char acter of a deeply ethical problem concerning 11O,00O,000 of my fel- low citizens and were it possible I 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 league. You are the first of my friends who has l in any way expressed himself as fa- vorable to such a league, and I am at loss to know what ground you can find to consider the opposition of the republican party as partisan. I consider the opposition American as opposed to new spirit of inter nationalism. Please read the mes sages of President Wilson to his fel- low citizens on Memorial day and on other occasions 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 snce he went into office on the slogan 'He kept us out of war;. My opinion of President
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