Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-21
Climax of Strenuous Day of Speech-Making Reached at Packed Mass Meeting and Many Unable to Find Room
SAYS ROOSEVELT WAS
 ANTITHESIS OF WILSON
Regrets Necessity for Giving Up Pacific Coast Tour, But
 Importance of Situation in
 Senate Makes it His Duty

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept 2O.- With three addresses in the twin cities Senator Hiram w. Johnson concluded his speaking trip through the middle west opposing the ratification of the league of nations covenant in its pres ent form. At noon he addressed a large gathering at the Metropolitan opera house in St. Paul and at p. m. he spoke to the Lincoln club in Min neapolis.
 Tonight the climax of strenuous day of spechmaking was reached when he addressed a mass meeting which packed the armory in Mime apolis. Many were turned away, un- able to find standing room. Mayor j.. F. Meyers introduced Senator John son at the armory meeting, where the Californian was cheered for severaI minutes when he entered the hall.
 Answering President Wilson's state ment that Theodore Roosevelt would favor the league of nations were he alive today, Senator Johnson said:
 Says Wilson Hard Pressed
 "Mr. Wilson, hard pressed, quoted yesterday Theodore Roosevelt. Oh, if Roosevelt were only here! The na- tion never needed him more. His commanding personality, his lofty pa- triotism, his love for and pride in our nation, his very personality typical of our republic, his loyalty to the great cause of democracy, his fearlessness in attacking any divided allegiance to our country, his red blooded Ameri- canism, would have made short work of the un-American thing which MT. Wilson seeks to foist upon us. How strange and weird and unnatural it seems for MT. Wilson to quote Theo- dore Roosevelt. They have ever been the 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 feeble and flabby phrases preach ed the doctrine of neutrality in deed and thought. Roosevelt, when it was unpopular to do so, denounced wrong and aggression, 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 cause. For two years and a half he neither saw nor understood the underlying forces in civilizations titanic struggle.
 Wilson Reversed Self
 "Unmoved and untouched he wit messed the crime against Belgium and the assault upon humanity. He now speaks learnedly on the initial phases of the conflict, the actuating reasons, the roots of cataclysm. Until the be- ginning of 1917 he told different tale and spoke another story. It is only new when the exigencies of his league demand another presentation, with 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 bounced upon an unsuspecting world, and 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 sound ed his trumpet call to the American people of preparation for the inevit- able, while MT. Wilson in utter indif- ference or with unseeing eyes, again and again publicly stated that both sides were fighting for the same un- known reasons and that justice sub stantially rested with neither.
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