South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-02
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSEMBL Y
AND THE UNITED STATES SENATE
BABEL. OF TONGUES"

n FACTION. indeed. IS a terrible despoller OF its
x own face; a hysteria that knows no con-
stancy; condition which headed for no
where IN particular. plunges anywhere and every
where and meeting itself coming back dsclalms It's
own identity.
Thus We have Hon. Leslie Shaw. secretary OF the
treasury under Prest Roosevelt lecturer. etc. VIC
lousy opposed as was Elihu Root TO the secrecy"
81 tho Paris conference. now complaining 20 Prest-
elect Harding. Mr. Root complained at The Hague
that the League OF Nations is too much OF Babel
Of tongues or az Sen. Medm Mccormick OF ILL
nois put It. talks too much"
A. The Hague. where Mr.. Root served on the COM
mission FOR the formation OF the League interna-
tional court, the closest Of secrecy was maintained
as 20 the deliberations. and because al the Geneva
assembly the doors were thrown quite omen. and
the discussions given TO the world Mt shaw calls
it a Babel OF tongues" Sen. Mccormick saws the
delegates Geneva talked too much; says it prob
ably because the assembly did too much and doing
10 openly. it is less safe for egoisca statesmen
OF the Mccormick il to lie about it,
The trouble with these gentlemen IS that none cf
them can qualify critics II Mr.. shayy's mouth has
ceased running since long before ne entered the
Roosevelt cabinet IL must have been while he slept
while as TO Mr.. Root letting the people know what
he thinks on this subject and that with all the why's
and Hherefores takes the place of his middle name
If Sen Mccormick were a member OF Il body that IS
.alkative II ne talked himself It might be
proper for him TO express opinion but belonging
TO chamber like the United states senate 10 which
only the tongue-tied eIgibIe-that being his own
CHIEF qualfcauon,-he is certainly prcsumptuous
The way the United States senate ponders the i'm
ponderabIe in silence. and then without speech
votes upon them. IS proverbial indeed That is the
reason. we suppose that much fun is made Of the
Congressional Record; accounts for its thousands Of
pages OF immense nothingness made up during the
iar special and regular sessions OF the congress.
nothing save political asinnity and the manufacture
OF campaign ciaptrap-while the nations business
went 10 rack and ruin. The League assembly talks
roo much does fl? The Paris conference was too
silent The United states senate. under domino
ton Of the party of Messrs Shaw Root and Nc
Cormick. presumably, talks just exactly right. no
Babel OF tongues Capitol Hill in Washington
But among the things that Mr. shaw was driving
at seems TO have been the tongues OF so many ma
tons: so many nauonaIties We take It that he IS
particularly partial TO the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
can,-the Italian and the French lie wants n league
OF favored nations" not OF all nations He Nigh.
let in the Japs. maybe the Spanish and eyentual,,
the Germans but seems strenuously opposed to the
Leagues system Of mandates or anything that would
give protection, opportunity, or even voice 10 tho
weaker powers 1t is these weaker powers. who
and aspirations known; whose Babel Of tongues"
worries the eX-secretary OF the treasury-aud the
senator from Illinois
And too, it is significant OF present day Ameri-
canism. We longer stand. even before ourselves
as the champions Of the weak as against the strong
but have been driven IN our sense OF our own rover
appreciation OF our wealth, and conceit anent our
importance. into CHASING ourselves as a sort Of in
ternatiOnai arstocrat Right no more makes might
with US today than it did with tho kaiser when he
began his invasion OF Belgium IIysterca in the re-
action that followed the war. we have fallen into
the very rut that sent our boys 10 France to fiji
with dead Germans Nressrs. Shaw and Mccormick,
have merely spoken the average OF American minds
Heavens but how. in these latter days. we do like
10 stand on the street like the pharisees Of
old and thank God that we are not like the poor
puboans. Babel Of Tongues"
OUR DIVISION ST Dbl EMMA AND THE