The sun., 1919-09-21
JOHNSON BITTERLY
ASSAILS PRESIDENT
DenounceS Suggestion Roose-
welt Would Have Favored
League.
SCORES WILSON STAND
Tells Minnesotans Shantung
Deal Is Partnership With
Burglars.
SCORES WILSON STAND

..dresses in the Twin Cities to-day SEN
.,or Hiram W. johnson concluded his
,D..kInR tour through the middle West
o,nosing the ratification Of the League
=, Nations covenant in its present
form.
Al noon he addressed large gather
,rs at the Metropolitan Opera House in
81 Paul, and at p. NJ. he spoke to
tbs Lincoln Club in Minneapolis
Tonight the climax of strenuous
a.y Of speechmaking was reached when
n. addressed a mass meeting which
hacked the Armory In Minneapolis,
Many were turned away unable to md
Standing ROOM
MAYOR ]. E. Meyers introduced Sena-
,or johnson at the armory meeting.
where the Californian was cheered for
several minutes when he entered the
hall.
Answering President Wilson's state
uent that Theodore Roosevelt would
fsyor the League of Nations were he
alive to-day, Senator johnson said
"Mr. Wilson, hard pressed, quoted
Yesterday Theodore Roosevelt. Oh, IL
Roosevelt were only here The nation
psysr needed him more. His COM
handing personality. his lofty patriot
inn. his love for and pride In our ma
ton, his very personality typical of
our republic, his loyalty to the great
esuse Of democracy, his fearlessness in
country, his red blooded Americanism,
would have made short work of the I'M
American thing which Mr.. Wilson seeks
10 foist upon US.
Praises Roosevelt.
sFIuv strange and weird and unnat-
ural Il seems for Mr.. Wilson to quote
COL Roosevelt They have ever been
ne antithesis OF each other. One with
clear vision and unerring wisdom saw
the possibilities Of the great world war
and our interest in It. The other with
feabls and fiabby phrases preached the
doctrine of neutrality in deed and
thought. Roosevelt, when 1t was unpop-
ular to do 30, denounced wrong and ag-
gression, broken national faith and
ruthless militarism. Wilson, for three
years before we got into the war, was
unable to tell for what the nations of
the earth were fighting. and told us each
side was battling for the same hidden
causes For two years and a half he
uellnck saw hOi uiluctceOOo tl0
lying forces in civilizations titanic
struggle. Unmoved and untouched he
witnessed the crime against Belgium
and the assault upon humanity. He
now speaks learnedly of the initial
phases Of the conflict, the actuating rea-
sons, the roots of the cataclysm.
Until the beginning of 1917 he told
different tale and spoke another story.
It is only now. when the exigencies of
his league demand another presentation,
with a wholly different background. that
he reverses his utterances from 1914 to
1917 and assumes now to tell US the
causes Of the war. the underlying forces
Of the ruthless militarism which pounced
upon an unsuspecting world.
Paints Reverse Picture.
He paints a picture utterly the re-
verse Of that which he painted to the
American people for nearly three years.
and during all this time Roosevelt
clearly saw and he sounded his trumpet
call to the American people of prepare
ton for the inevitable, while Mr.. Will
son. utterly Indifferent or with unsee-
ing eyes, again and again publicly stated
mat both sides were fighting for the
same unknown reasons and that Justice
Substantially rested with neither.
of course Mr.. Roosevelt. like all. the
rest OF u.s. would have gone far to have
prevented war. But when any man says
that he would for a single instant have
accepted the pro-British document which
would put the country he SO dearly loved
within the power or direction, command
or recommendation OF foreign nations,
that man affronts the revered memory of
theodore Roosevelt.
None who knew Roosevelt, none who
talked to him during his last days,
put know that his heart and his soul
fevolted at Mr.. Wilson's International
i'm and Mr.. Wilson's cndeavor to subor-
oinate the American republic to foreign
nations.
In his speech at the Lincoln Club
Senator Johnson said
i feel very keenly that our nation
stands to-day at the cross roads Of
Its destiny
The document that has been pre-
sented 10 US and which we are asked
10 make part of our great nation comes
US at time most peculiar in our
history We have a singular, psychology
cal reflex from the world war. working
on the lives of the people with dis.
WED lntellects; nations are unable to
Ee with the same clarity Of vision as
~ other periods. l assume that each
vi you would go to almost any ex-
Sune.Hllty IN order to preclude the possi-
putty OF another cataclysm such as we
nave seen In the past four years.
Al, lou recall that before we knew any
uns ABOUT the covenant of the League
o. Nations, gentlemen were going about
ron city TO city from State to State
preaching OF its virtues and telling of
20 marvellous things that were going
" happen as result of the great, un-
shown document And most of us. in
See1 welcomed anything that might
Senoer less likely wars in the future !;
out we have watched the proceedings
n uoad with a growing disillusionment
saW one by one the great principles
winch we had given unqualified in
semtnt and approval abandoned and
surrendered.
There are some places that are
S -, with good intentions. Paris IL
nut one OF them.
Desire for superhuman.
ST. cast my first vote in the United
ss@tes Senate for the direct declaration
war; In the early discussion OF tina
~, AFTER Its declaration, there was a
On me- Just as 1 imagine every
sonD]. cah experienced. a desire to do
wishing superhuman. to devote my
utmost energies to the country's nrob-
nan. ms mat 1t might perform It's great
a., and do its duty In the vast con-
met confronting US.
r,, remember In those days sitting in
CO.., seat and seeing Baifour of England
ro. ae from the side door and mount the
t,uun or the Senate. For the first
n." tender is the Senate of its
f',soents-for the first time since
orI. stood there. Balfour was the
SoS g foreign diplomat to address that