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Show SHERMAN I ATTACKS I LEAGUE I Declares Covenant Will I Involve U. S. in I Wars. I HAVE REACHED CRISIS I Accuses Wilson of Seeking Seek-ing Third Term as I President. I WASHINGTON. Sept. 1G. Senator Sherman, Republican, Illinois, attacking attack-ing the league ol nations today in the. I senate, declared ii the league covenant cove-nant were ratified as drafted American Ameri-can mother B will but cradle their rons to nil the muster rolls of armies to give their lives In foreign wars." Replying to attacks by President Wilson on bi nanus opposing the li Igue, He Illinois senator asserted the president himself is the crowned crown-ed monarch1 of quitters without a rival ri-val In the western hemisphere' and that In- silence and speed when escaping es-caping Irom his imperishable prince pies of yesterday is as absmai and ; Bwlfl as primal chaos." "We have now reached that crisis." said Senator Sherman, "where we nu.-i choose between exhausting our-elves our-elves to make the old world safe for tome ol Its uai ion-, and making the United Man-.-, safe for the American pi opl When we decline to ruin ourselves," oursel-ves," he continued, "by a mad cruel- around 'he world as the knight errant of oppressed humanity, we are denounced a quitters and poltroons by the Benator trom Nebraska (Mr. Hitchcock) and our executive who avowi he thinks more of the league than hia oath to protect the government.' govern-ment.' Declares Wilson Seeking Third Term. Suggesting that President Wilson is inclined to seek a third term, Senator Sherman declared: i "The- president's second hegira from the capital is the threshhold of that Candida, j He has announced the league and treaty are greater than our government. He is ready to die lor It Ner in his most exalted heights has he been ready to die for our government. A third term he puts by again and again. But each time g. ntler thau Uie o'her. To save the greatest document in the world's iii-.'.ry. no sacrifice wHI be refused A third term yn an Issue oi subordinating subordi-nating our government to the league is as little as an internationalist patriot pat-riot can offer to the world. Who would not h. ar voices In the air on such a proposal. The gravity of such a service will justify him in doing anything. any-thing. The Issue is joined now.' Bj the Shantung agreement, Sena- jH tor Sherman said, an ancient and friendly nation was to be 'dismembered" 'dismem-bered" and because of the Fiume con-troversy con-troversy Italy's good will losL "All must, pass under the yoke of his epithets who will not respond to his flight into the dim world of Wil-soniao Wil-soniao dreams," Mr. Sherman declared declar-ed in again turning to President Wilson. Wil-son. "And from this cavern of coun- ! terfeit moralities and cock loft of scholastic scho-lastic gabble has the sublime assur- j ance to asperse senators who refuse ! to abase themselves before the tottering tot-tering throne of the chief rhetorician whose metaphysical thunder no longer inspires either respect or fear. Let the swarm of satellites basking in the sunshine of patronage and sniffing the fragrant trade winds of administration favors gratiy him with their anthems of ineffable perfection. The louder their halleljahs now the more fer-ent fer-ent the maledictions at the inevitable |