The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-12
 FOR HIGH COSTS RESTS0N WILSON
 JOHNSON
If Any Individual Can Be Charged With Responsible ity for Cost of Living,
 He Is Wilson, Charge
JOHNSON

Indianapolis, Ind. September l. Senator Johnson, continuing his speech making in the middle west in opposition to the league of nations covenant. in an address here tonight declared that if responsibility for the high cost of living rests upon any agency or man, it rests upon the pres ent national administration and Wool row Wilson.
 Presidents %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 peo- living said Senator Johnson. ''IIe conveniently forgets the eight months he spent abroad secretly pledging our resources and our manpower to Euro pean and Asiatic governments.
 The two months of discussion by our people and our Senate in the opcr, of what he discussed secretly for eight months has had, of course, no bearing upon. and the reasonable discussion in the future cannot possibly affect, the high cost of living.
 If any single individual can be charged with responsibility for the high cost of living, that man is Wood row Wilson. The living costs in De- cember and yanuary last were sub stantially what they are today. Mir. Wilson then had exactly the same laws ne now invokes. He had neither time nor inclination to deal with a problem then practically as acute as it is now. He never even touched the subject. ex- cept patronizingly and as an ephme al III of no consequence or importance He makes it's solution depend now upon immediate ratification of his treaty He would frighten us by a cheap and spacious statement. devoid of economic logic and wanting in any sound reason. He covers his oyn dereliction by an unfounded counter charge. Remember his address fo Congress, DecembeS 2 last
 The moment we Mew the armistice to nave been signed we took the harness off It Is surprising how fast the process Hof returning to peace footing has moved in the three weeks since the fighting stopped. His idea of reconstruction then was. it will not be easy to direct it any better than it will direct itself Wfer. he had ample time for action last Decem- Der and might have prevented the subse auent continuance of high prices, these are tile words:
 QUOTES PRESIDENT
 "Our people do not wait to be coached and led. Any leading strikes we might seek to put them in would speedily be come hopelessly entangled, because they pay no attention to them and go their own way. The American business mar is of quick initiative
 At that time we had a competent fed eral food administration. completely or. ganized throughout the nation. sfr Vii son deliberately scrapped this vast or. ganization. which might have removed a part, at least, of the. causes of high prices Now months after he has dis missed the federal and state agencies, he Is calling them together again to deal with the question. The ratification oi the treaty may increase exports. but in creases in exports will not reduce prices at home If responsibility for the high costsof living rests on any agency or man, 1t rests upon the present administration and Woodrow Wilson,
 Speaking of article ten of the covenant of the league, Senator Johnson, after quoting President Wilson interpretation of the section, said:
 '.It makes America underwrite every territorial grab of every other nation
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