Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-21
JOHNSON OBJECTS
To MAKING j. 8.
SUBSERV|ENT To
FOREIGN NATIONS
Ratification of League Plan
Would Result in America
Trucking to Four European
and ASiatic Countries,
OBJECTS TO HANDING
AWAY OUR LIBERTIES
Great Principles to Which We
Gave Unqualified Endorse
nent Have Been Abandoned,
Californian Declares,

irv soSsiNs JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,RE1
Minneapolis, Mimi. Sept z0.-With
three addresses in the Twin Cities to-
day, Senator Hiram W. Johnson con-
cluded his speaking trip through the
middle west opposing the ratification
of the league of nations covenant IN
its present form. At noon he ad-
dressed large gathering at the Met
ropolitan opera house In st. Paul and
at y. m. he spoke to the Lincoln
club in Minneapolis
Tonight the climax of strenuous
day of speech making was reached
when he addressed a mass meeting
which packed the armory in Minne-
apolis. Many were turned away. un-
! able to find standing room. Mayor j.
f. Meyers introduced Senator john
son at the armory meeting. where the
Californian was cheered for several
minutes when he entered the hall,
Senator Hiram w. johnson of Cali
fornia, speaking here tonight in OPP
position to the league of nations cove
nant, said:
II feel very keenly that our nation
stands today at the crossroads Of its
destiny.
'"The document that has been pre-
sented TO us and which we are asked
to make a part of our great nation
comes to us at q time most peculiar
in our history. We have a singular,
PSYCHOLOGICAL reflex from the world
war, working on the lives of the peo-
pie with distorted intellects, nations
are unable to see with the same clari-
ty as at other periods / assume that
each of you would go to almost any
extremity in order to preclude the
possibility of another catacysm such
as we have seen in The past four years
Covenants Virtues Extolied.
9 "You recall that before we knew
y anything about the great covenant OF
( the league, gentlemen were going
t about from city So city, from state
} to state, preaching of its virtues anc
5 telling of the marvellous things thai
: were going TO happen as result OF
e the great, unknown document. Anc
: most of us, indeed. welcomed any
q thing that might render less likely
= war in the future; but we haV,
: watched the proceedings abroad witt
e a growing disillusionment. We saw
Q one by one of the great principles tt
y which we had given unqualified en-
= dorsement and approval abandoned
d and surrendered.
= There are some places that arr
e payed with good intentions. Paris il
y not one of them.
9 "I cast my first vote in the United
States senate for the direct declara
4 ton of war. In the cary discussion o
Il the war, after hs declaration, ther
d was a spell on me, just as | imagin
# every American experienced, a desir
e to do something superhuman, to de
ir vote my utmost energies to the coun
trys problems, that ii might perform
m its great part and do its duty in tn
Ly vast conflict confronting us. ] remem
D. Der in those days sitting in my sea
~ and seeing Balfour of England com
t, from the side door, and mount the ros
ID trum of the senate. For the first tim
p, so lender is the senate of its prece
70 dents-for the first time since La
le fayette stood there-Balfour was tn
he only foreign diplomat to address tina
body | member him telling how h
lt and his people were fighting the wa
IN for the same things we were, 70
of democracy of the world; ] heard VI
ss viani of France. ! didn't understan
re him but the musical eloquence of hi
w words were apparent; he told us !
IN like altruistic tenor how he and hi
countrymen were struggling tha
democracy might be made safe;
heard Ishii of Japan and Undine {
Italy, talk from this same rostrun
NV heart throbbed and my eye
"A strained, during hose fateful moment
"A while they were talking to us
idealistic phrases; and during the ver
time they were talking to us the
an pockets were bulging with secret tret
IL ties made before we had entered IN
Nv war. treaties which disposed OF Il
C. peoples and territories of the cart
ed and which partitioncd the earth's SUI
u face: but they never mentioned thei
IN 20 senator or congressman, or to u
es urcsident or to the secretary Of sta
~ never lisped syllable OF their exis
ne encc: and the president told us
ne never heard of those secret treaties III
w ill he reached Paris.
DupIicity and Dealing.
20 "I wouldn't stoop to character.
lis this sort of duplicity and double-dea
10y ing, but / say that, when we have ht
iii i,ii that sort of experience with the me
~ in whose power we are about TO pia
ny ourselves under this treaty. that v
20 ought to know Just what we are g
~ ~, ing to do before we undertake 1t.
~ whenever mankind calls, whenev
mankind is in distress, or the angus
20, ed cries of civilization are heard.
,as would have our country in the futu
~, do Just what it has done in the pa
ps as il will answer to that cry and do
~ fun duty by peoples and humani'
What say to you is that we at was
ington are fighting for this: When I
x time and the call comes for acting
as Americans. shall determine tn
a time and mode of acting. without I
q British empire or any other nation .
a Gliding for us. This is the issue. n
a that we want to live isolated from
4 the rest of the world, but when
~ put us at the conference at Geneva
\ secrecy with eight foreign nations,
Z. reality it's only five-because it's
= big five that are going to rule
y world in the future-you put us tht
!. with one minority vote under
control and power of the other fo
great nations OF the earth and
+ make them determine the charac
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