The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-12
WILSON TO BLAME
Hiram Johnson Charges H.C.L.
Up to President.
California Senator Now Square
Iy Astride His Trail.
IS At ST. LOUIS TODAY
Declares Treaty Was Drawn
Along Secret Lines.
care We To Eat Rotten Egg,
Because It's Only Onel"

sauarely astride President wilson's
trail, and receiving cheers for his
criticism On the League OF Nations
from the same localities which heard
the chief executives arguments. Sena-
tor johnson was today developing a
very definits line of attack on the
presidents demand for unqualified &C
ceptance of the peace treaty.
Cordial Welcome ut ST. Louis.
Senator johnson was given a cordial
welcome when he arrived mere To-Day
to deliver two addresses opposing rau-
ffcation of the League of Nations
covenant by the senate. He was met
az the train by Mayor Henry w. kiel
and n large reception committee ana
escorted to the st. Louis CLUB Tor
breakfast.
automobile parade thru the business
section OF the city. At 1 o'clock Sena
tor johnson talked to large and rep
resentative crowd Of business men at
the city club, and In this talk. as In
others, he vigorously attacked Pres
ident Wilson and the League OF Ma
tions.
Tonight he will speak at the COLI
scum, where President Wilson spoke
a week ago.
HAS Lots OF Hearts"
Speaking at the city club luncheon
Senator Johnson said in part;
I'm the remarkable address or Mr..
Wilson In this, city a few days ago, he
discussed the League of Nations with
his usual facility Of expression ana
usual confusion of detail and facts. In
his description of the anatomy OF the
League, he supplied 1t with three
hearts presumably all beating in uni
SON so that the heart OF the cove
nant' he said, is that the nations SOL
EMMY covenant not to go to war for
nine months after controversy be-
comes acute Again, Article Ten Is
the article that goes to the heart OF
the whole bad business And then,
Article Eleven is the favorite article
Of the treaty so far as 1 am con-
cerned' Apostrophes 10 Article Ten
with him have been not infrequent
and had the power 1 would indeibly
impress II. with the guarantee Of po-
iitical independence and territorial in
tegrity, upon every Americans brain
att is. to quote Mr.. Wilson'S Ian
gunge. tho heart of the whole bad
business
"Nalvely. the president remarks that
secret treaties hampered him at the
peace conference and embarrassed the
whole settlement. Inferentially. he
comedies the wickedness of these
secret treaties, but he was neither
hampered nor embarrassed to such a
degree as to cause him to stand man
fully and courageously for his Oft-ex-
pressed principles. He wrote these
secret treaties. condemned not only by
him but by the righteous opinion Of
the world into his treaty
Blamcs Wilson for II. c. l..
Senator johnson declared Thursday
night at Indianapolis that II respon-
sibility fOr the high cost of living rests
upon any agency or man, II rests upon
the present national administration
and Woodrow Wilson.
IF any single individual can be
-.
high cost of living" he said, that
man Is woodrow Wilson. The living
costs in December and January, last
were substan tially what they are today.
Mr.. 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 1t
Is now. He never even touched the
subject. except patronizingly and as
an ephermeral Ill of no consequence or
importance.
"He makes its solution depend now
upon the Immediate ratification OF his
treaty. lie would brighten us by
cheap ana specious statement, devoid
Of economic logic and wanting in any
sound reason"
Insisting that the treaty was drawn
purely on the lines OF the secret en-
Ragements entered into among the big
powers before America entered the
war, he points out that Article X of
States guarantees this secret barterlng
OF peoples and territories for all time.
Indianapolis Chccred.
A big crowd. packing every inch of
space in TOmlinson hall at Indianapo-
lis last night. rose ond shouted its APP
provai OF the senator's statement that
America would not be party to such
infamy.
Before the Indianapolis audience he
drew dramatic picture of BalfOur
Vivianni and other foreign statesmen
and diplomats standing before the SEN
ate after our entrance into the war
and talking of the rights of free peo-
pies and other democratic principles
for which America was fighting.
"And while they stood there. and
our hearts throbbed and thought that
these men had in their mindS what we
had in ours. they had their inside
pockets bulging with secret treaties
carving up the world" johnson shout
ed. such duplicity Is unexampled in
the history of the world. But wheT
the president seeks to keep up the
duplicity by binding our sons to guar
antee II, / say II shall not be-"
He asked the crowd whether It wa.
willing since other powers of tho
world were bankrupt that American
boys should go out and police thu
world. The answer was resoundinI
mo" that fairly shook the building.
Starting in Chicago and developing
the theme of the president in Indian
apolis. johnson is also driving over al
attack on espionage laws and laws o
repression and suppression" which
are still preventing Independent
thought.
Can Speak Freely Now.
There was time" the senator de
clared III any man stood with hi
head high, and dared have an indie
pendent thought, differing from tina
49,. Nv. ha NC,
dlately called 'pro-German.' It mat
tered not what test of his loyalt
might show. Later. this was change
and people dared not speak what wa
in their hearts because they would b
termed a 'Bolshevik.'
But you can't brighten people an