Arizona republican., 1919-09-12
Is outspoken

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 Like the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Johnson calls things by their right names.
 There were cries of you are right. you are right when Senator Johnson insisted that American troops should immediately be brought back from Russia. He was frequently interrupted in the course of his attack on the league of nations by the cheers of the crowd. Senator Johnson began with this declaration.
 q am here and you are here because Americanism still lives.
 President Wilson has said the league was being opposed by little Americans, he said. T confess l am a little American but I am all Ameri- an
 our soldiers who won the war fought for America, for you and for me and not for any league of nations. Friends of the league admit it is im- perfect but say we must try it because it is, the only league of nations pre- sented Under that theory l suppose if we had but one egg and that egg was rotten, we ought to eat 1t because it was the only egg we had.
 He referred to the official propa ganda issued by the national admins tra ton at Washington and added:
 Taxpayers Pay Propagsnda Costs
 They pick the taxpayers pockets to poison the public mind"
 When he asked the crowd if it fav- ored the league there were loud shouts Of no.
 The audience laughed when the speaker referred to Vim. H. Taft as "a distinguished ex-president whom many respect but none follow
 Senator Johnson left at midnight for St. Louis, where he delivers two ad- dresses tomorrow.
 Salient Address Points.
 President Wilson adds to his fear some harsh names appeals to our ma terial interests and even taxes the two months that the league and treaty have been before the American people and senate with the high cost of living said Senator Johnson. He convent ently forgets the eight months he spent abroad, secretly pledging our re- sources and our man power to Euro pean and Asiatic governments. The two months of discussion by our people and our senate in the open of what he discussed secretly for eight months has had, of course no bearing upon and the reasonable discussion in the future can not. possibly affect the high cost of living. If any single indi- vidual can he charged with responsi- bility for the high cost of living that man is woodrow Wilson. The living costs in December, and January last were Substantially what they are to- day Mir Wilson then had exactly the same laws he now invokes. He had neither time nor inclination to deal with problem then practically as acute as if is now. He never even touched the subject except patroniz ingly and as an ephemeral ill of nc consequence or importance. He makes it's solution. depend now upon the i'm mediate ratification Of his treaty He would frighten us by g cheap and spe- cious statement. devoid of economic logic. and wanting in any sound req son. He covers his own dereliction by an unfounded counter charge. Re member his address to congress De cember last.
 Policy Changes.
 The moment we knew the armis- tice to have been signed, we took the harness. off. It is surprising how fast the process of return to a peace foot ing has moved in the three weeks since the fighting stopped His idea of re- construction then was it will not be easy to direct it any better than it will direct itself. When he had ample time for action last December and might have prevented the subsequent con tinuance of high prices, these are his words: Our people do not wait tt be coached and led. Any leading strings We might seek to put them ir would speedily become hopelessly en. tangled because they would pay no at. tention to them and go their own way The American business man is o quick initiative At the time we hac q competent federal food administra ton, completely organized throughout the nRtion. Mir. Wilson deliberately scrapped this vast organization. whicl might have removed a part. at least of the cost of high prices. Now aftel he has dismissed the federal and stat. 1geneie. he is calling them togethe again to deal with the question. Tn, ratification of the treaty may increas. exports; but increase in exports vii
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