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PRESIDENT WILSON.
SHARPLY ATTACKED IN
U.S. SENATE
Washington, March 3-After Senator Sherman, of Illinois, Re- publican, had delivered an ad- dress in the Senate to-day.
harply attacking the League of Nations and President Wilson, North Senator MeCumber, of
Dakota, a Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, took the floor and urged that the United States become a party to a league for preserving world
peace.
Senator McCumber urged amendment of the league so that there could be as possibility of American any surrender of
vereignty Dr.
the Monroe
etrine. The Senator deplored
..some recent criticismus by Re
publican Senators,
declaring
many of the arguments were **far-fetched.“
The constitution of the League of Nations as presented at the Peace Conference was pictured by Senator Sherman 1.9 * Pandora's box full of evils." which would "empty upon the American people the aggregated calamities of the world."
Senator Sberman sharply criti- ed President Wilson. asking no authorized him to rest above the republic ar autocratic power," He added that the authority was not to be found in the Constitution of the United States, nor was it implied from undefined war powers, and gave it as his opinion that the Presid- ent had been acting either as
A usurper or a dictator."
"Shall we not ask with the dramatist" the Senator said. now in the name of all the gods
once. upon what does this Caesar feed that he has grown so great?"
"He adroitly manoeuvres him- self into the spotlight as the fountain of peace perpetual and the guardian of mankind,"
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Presiden: Wilson and Premiers Digressing from his prepared speech, Senator Sherman de-Clemenceau, Lloyd George, and Orlando, Peace Conference. manded that there be an oper
Paris. discussion of the League's con- stitution, and said:
to
Referring to questions affecting "Like his neutrality device was the prelude to unprepared war. "If the President is not our Tsingtao and the railways in Shantung, we learn that the and governmental his Peace League engages not in political
Japanese Delegates are claiming one war, but in all wars that coward he will give it to us...
succeed to the rights Scourge the earth. It is simple And if I cannot find expression
and privileges which but deadly. Apparently, an open of this privilege in my own party,
China formerly conceded to covenant of peace. it is a masked I will go elsewhere for it."
by virtue of Germang.
the Senator France, of Maryland, Twenty-one Demands Treaty in charter of unceasing war, the voice of Mars, but the hand of Republican, interrupted to say
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that those favouring the constitu- 1913 and all tion of the league as it now stood, compacts made in 1918. We find do not dare to let the American that these treaties were concluded people discuss it, and they will under duress or by one of two of not remove the censorship that our military faction in their own private capacity and without the If we cut the cables of con-prevents free speech of the press sanction of our Parliament, and stitutional Government here and the people."
"And." Mr. France added, "if the people-of our whole country we are caught in the irresistible tides that will sweep you do not find the privilege of will, therefore, rather die than us into the maelstrom of the Old free speech in the Republican or accord them their recognition. World's bloody currents. The the Democratic barties, you will We earnestly pray you to give fends and spoliations of and it among the people of us your energetic support in thousand years will become our America."
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SURE SHIELD OF EMPIRE. requirements, learned by bitter experience in the past four and a obtaining the cancellation of all
helf years.
It must be our the aformentioned secret agree- London, 29th March.Admiral endeavour to profi: by that ex- ments and the restitution of Sir David Beatty, speaking in
perience. The Navy is to-day, Tsingtao and the railways to us Liverpool on the Navy's services what it has been for the past two directly by Germany in the name during the war, paid a tribute to hundred years, a sure shield of of justice and right,
Liverpool's efforts in fitting out Britain and the British Empire. Signed: The Provincial As the famous Tenth Cruiser This sure shield
must be kept: semblies, the Educational As Squadron which, during the war, sure by clear thinking judgment and decree implicit if the State wants children it will Commerce, the Agriculture Socie of Germany. Admiral Beatty scientific lines. In the necessary obedience to its mandates cannot have to pay for them. Moderaties, the Union of Chinese
that said
the blockade struggle for retrenchment such be borne by freemen. By an life offers Woman
many Emigrants' Associations in Man- 80
was one of the most important economies as will certainly be ukase it will ambargo our com-counter-attractions to mother-churia, Mongolia, Turkestan and factors in bringing about the required must be applied with our exchanges, hood that hosts of our girls. Tibel of the Republic of China,defeat of Germany. Its main wisdom and proper understanding destroy credits, leave our mer including many of the very finest, and the China Peace Union tenance demanded seamanship of the problems before us in the chandise rotting on piers, shut make a choice which twenty Society.--April 16, 1919.
of a high order with a vigilant height of knowledge gained during the Panama Canal, order Con-years after they will regret-tou The Chinese Legation, for and untiring devotion to duty the war. Only so shall we avoid gress to declare war, levy taxes, late. The conditions of marriage delivery to Special Delegates Lu and stretched across the waste impairing the essential efficiency ppropriate money. raise and and divorce must be made fit for Cheng-hsiang, C..T. Wang and waters from West Hebrides of the Navy. The Navy is a support. armies and navies, and the modern mind and will. Wellington Koo, Paris.
the Arctic ice-fields. They kept shield and not a rattling sabre. dispatch our men to any quarter Meanwhile, thanks not least to Referring to questions concern-their
watch and ward The Navy and the Mercantile of the globe to fight and die bo- some of their stupid defenders.ing our Tsingtao and the railways weather that had to be ex Marine have learnt to respect cause an alien executive council marriage, parenthood.and the race in Shantung, we have telegraphed perienced to be understood. each other as never before, I: decay. Machineryjs exalted above to the delegates representing the Every ship sighted had to be "Sincere meg may have motherhood, and we prate of Powers, requesting them to uphold boarded and examined. They must, be our care to foster and deceived themselves in the great increasing production whilst we justice and right by giving us their also had to contend with an future and for all time the Royal strengthen that feeling so that in hope for a perfect world, but no cease to produce producers. It strong support in obtaining the enemy which appeared in many! Navy and Mercantile sholl delusion, however sincere, will is a foolish spectacle, at which cancellation of all secret agree-guises. Raiders masqueraded as together provide a sure shield excuse this Senate from its the High Gods would wonder but ments and the restitution of peaceful merchantmen, and which will enable the Empire to duty to interpose its power that they have so often seen it Tsingtao, etc. to us directly by blockede runners exercised every continue to prosper." against this universal Utopia precede the submergence of once Germany. Pray your Ex- stratagem to avoid detection while! promised by the President. It is great nations in the night of cellencies to contend energeti- the ubiquitous sabrgarine was the fabled apple of a great hope, time.-Dr. Saleeby in the Nation- cally on principle and the people
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100 with the other great trusting people's lips. The Senate,
services the Navy has learnt never faced a greater task nor a
many lessons during the four and nobler duty. It will not ratify an
a balf years just past. "We made emotion nor translate an impos
many mistakes and it is our busi- Washington, April 15.-Demo- sible idealism into a weapon of
ness to-day to see that the lessons bilization has reduced the total national suicide."
have been taken to heart, and strength of the American army Senator Sherman asserted that census. Governor Yen in er-group reports together will form that we shall again be found below 2,000,000 men. General against the wisdom and experi- ranging for the census will work the village report, and this will be in such
announced
the Ban Miguel's Speciál Brew, Guaranteed to be non-alcoholic but tastes ence of the American forefathers, through the villages to the dis- forwarded to the magistrate of the bave to face the greatest strength according to complete
and looks like Beer. It Creates an Appetite, and Easures, Good as summed up, in Washington's tricts and from the districts to a district in which the village is
history. With reports up to April 8 showed an
Digestion. Recommended for Children, Women, and the aged. Since Fazewell Address, there was now head census bureau at Taiyuan-located. Each district census improvised methods and working aggregate of 1,970,506.
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. riding up the dreamer and the fu. The headmen of all the report will be sent to the head from hand to mouth we in the November 11, 686,114 men have brkman, the Socialist, the mere villages in the province have census bureau af Taiyuanfu. Navy Fnow full well our own sailed for home and up to April 8,
VICENTE ATIENZA. Salberdasher in phrases which in- been instructed to divide their where a final report for the entire defects and it is our business to 604,772 have landed. A total of villages into groups of ten houses province will be worked out. efface them and to avoid the 170,116, officers wad 2,925,000 men The Senator urged that the each and appoint a man who will Taiyuan officials expect to have repetition of mistakes from which have been discharged under orders warning of the founders of the be responsible for counting the their census completed before the we have suffered in the past faut returned to civil life. American Government to let inhabitants in his group. The end of the year. Europa settle her own quarrols be
toxicate and mislead."
of our whole country will back CENSUS FOR SHANSI.
you even until death." Governor Yen Hsi-shan, of Signed: The China Peace. Shansi, is about to take complete Union Society--April 16, 1919. census of the province. This re- presents the first effort yet made
in China to take a comprehensive
ia crisis
In com-
·LESS THAN 2,000,000 MEN IN US ARMY.
state that we March
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