The sun., 1919-09-17
JOHNSON OBJECTS
TO BEING BULLIED
Senator Accuses Wilson OF
Using Bludgeon to Force
Action on Treaty.
SEES NO NEED OF HASTE
Decries Dictatorship of One
Man to Control Lives of
Americans.
SEES NO NEED OF HASTE

Sroux FALLS, s. D., Sept. 16.-ln an
en.leavor 20 accommodate the crowd
which wanted TO hear Senator hiram
Johnson tonight all chairs were taken
from the main floor Of the big hall and
the audience stood during the address
President Wilson spoke from the same
platform eight days ago. Senator Jonn-
son charged that President Wilson seeks
to establish substantially new gov
srrnsnt for the United States by the
provisions OF the League Of Nations COW
Grant.
Senator Johnson's appeal for the radi-
: cal amendment OF the peace pat was
: enthusiastically received by the Nrowo.
Upon his arrival here he was met nj
the train by a band and committee
OF citizens and later rode In An auto
mobile parade.
Among those on the stage were
Mayor George w. Burnside, w. c. COOK
Republican national committeeman from
South Dakota, and former Senator Rob-
+. ert J. Gamble.
Sees No Reason for Haste.
Commenting upon the Presidents In.
sistence that the treaty should be rati-
fed Immediately. Senator johnson said
The only country that has so far rati-
fed the treaty is England France. most
Interested in It Italy, tremendously in
terested in Il; Japan, vastly interested
have not yet acted. All four Of these
nations get enormous gains. The only
country which takes burdens alone Is oul
country.
-since three Of these nations have not
ratified the treaty, why should we be In
haste to act?
In his White House conference with
the Foreign Relations Committee the
President said that the treaty witt
Austria and Turkey contained provi'
sions as important and perhaps more
so than the German treaty.
The Senators asked for information
on these treaties and the President fatty
refused to give the Senate or the Ameri'
can people any information on them
They contain commitments as burden
some as the German treaty. We ough
to know all the commitments he ha!
secretly put on us before we act on any
You see to-day propaganda abroad
in the land saying to us: You must hur
ry. You must Immediately adopt thi!
document The United States Senate Il
taking too long. You must not wait an
other minute. You are going to hav,
your business affected You are goins
to have the high cost of living run ever
higher. You are going to lose profit
that might be yours unless the United
States Senate acts at once
Old, Old Way of Bullying.
TT is the old. old story. 1t is the old
old way of endeavoring to bully ant
bludgeon into action and to get thi
thing passed before the American peo
pie know what II means
why not tell the America npeople
That's what want to know.
after all, my friends. this Govern
ment doesn't belong to one man, even
he Is the President. II belongs to yol
and IL belongs to me 1t belongs to you
sons and my sons AndCif We go t
fight / rebel and revolt that In thi
nation to-day the destinies of a hun
died million people should be In on
mans hands, who, secretly, after prom
is.ng us again and again that secrec.
should never obtain. secretly is dispos
ing of your blood and mine.
Il demand that your sons and min
shall live, not under a dictator or a mai
who takes to himself the disposal o
our blood in secrecy, but under con
stitution and under laws that we our
selves shall make"