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Show CUIISIffS PSCT rllil Iowa Senator Declares That America Should Not Police Europe. i TYASHIXGTON", Sept. 26. "When President Wilson ended his work at the Paris peace conference, "the United States had not a friend in F.uropo, Asia or Africa, and our brilliant service in tae war was almost forgotten in the storm of protests which followed' him as ho t sailed for home," Senator Cummins, Republican, Re-publican, Iowa, declared touay in an ad- x dress in the senate auaeKmip' the league of nations covenant. i "Tho only tiling the prescient 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 be- '' cause these people behoved, many of them without inquiry, that the le.'tguo would bring peace to a war-weary world and would maintain it in all tho years to h come. Gradually ihey are understanding i that there are some provisions In the covenant which muse inevitably provoke war." Senator Cummins deplored the attempt of some senators to charge other senators sena-tors with opposing the treaty to accom-'" accom-'" plish their political designs, as well as efforts of the latter group to make it appen r that those supporting the uresi-: uresi-: dent were indifferent, if not hostile, toward to-ward the vital concerns of their own country." - Senator Cummins contended that when the war was ended "our exit should have j i been a? speedy and complete as possi- I ble." This did not mean, however, he added, that the United States should ; . have abandoned it s allies or made a separate peace with Germany, "but it , does mean ihat 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 victors had ! made it." Condemning the disposition of Shantung, Senator Cummins said .he wanted to relieve re-lieve the American republic "from 11m ctornn i odium of tho Sim ntung er:m" and "from the disgrace of passing oer Thrace to Bulgaria. " Tb.ere would be many Shantungs, he said, and if the principal aspocir. ted powers worked in harmony it would ice'an nothing let-s t''..-'n coir nit. te an! arbitrary power of t:e ' worid. .s much as ho deplored the f . v r r n g done C r. i n a , he would a J h e -e , h e said, to the p-;inciple3 he had previously ..' announced and vote against the commit-'. commit-'. lee ."mendment awarding- the province . to China. The man who attempts to preach the : doctrine that peace with Germany, witn or without the league of nations," means peaco for the world ;n tho relations of men with men. or producing, selling and j . buying according to ancient cestui::.--, in-: in-: fd -: incalculable injury on the public. J "I: America." he saiJ, "in shockltd to the proposed Icazue of radons just as it Is written, she will go biinulv and blunderingly blun-deringly into t.-e future, ircanable of gu icing her own peorde Kafely tlirougii - tnese rinrk ar.d dirkicu.t cl'iy:;." benatorn Hitchcock, I cn-.ocrat. Nebraska; Ne-braska; Moses, r.ej ubkean. New Kamp- shiro, and Owen, J.'en-Ta i, Oklahoma, t:-:ecarj:c d views with Senator Cummins wkilfi the latter was speaking. Answering Answer-ing Senator Hitchcock, Senator Cummins faid there were times when he believed 2n a war of conquest, declaring the . VnPed States existed as the resjlt of audi a war. Senator Moses Interrupted to say there had been twenty-three wars since "the league covenant wa3 o;Tered the world ae a valentine in February, and r.oi ody krow3 how many mora there might be if given to the world as a Chr.'Ltmas present." |