The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-10
Senator Johnson Fires Opening
Gun Against Presidents
Speaking Tour Argu-
mentS.
GAME PLAYED IN PARIS
American Soldiers Slain In Siberia in
War Declared In Secret by
This League OF
Nations.
by Fred s. Ferguson, United Press
Gtaff Garracnordaat ]

| by Fred s. Ferguson, United Press
1 Staff Correspondent
| CHICAGO, Sept. 10.-The term
gutter" was passed back to Presi-
dent Wilson today by Senator john
/ son.
! In a bristling speech before the
Hamilton club here, the California
senator asked to what game" the
president was referring IN his St
Louis address and reciIed the list of
American principles he declared
European and Asiatic diplomacy de-
feated and left abandoned In Paris.
/ Senator Johnson did not apply the
/ direct epithet as he commented upon
I the presidents reference to the oppo-
sition senators as contemplate quit
! tiers II they do not see the game
through" but declared,
| ITO what game does Mr.. Wilson
! refer? Is it the game he started to
play in Europe and did NOT finish. or
! is it the game that was played for
him and in which finally he supinely
acquiesced? Is it the American game
that he so finely phraseG when he
went to Europe. or is the European
and the Asiatic game? The Ameri-
can people are not cutters They
rose majestically and won great
war They destroyed ruthless mill
tarism and they did not quit, until
they had done the job. When they
had played their game ana done their
job, Mr.. Wilson commenced his game
at Paris, and his game was Tor GER
tain definite objects, certain specific,
plainly phrased principles, and in the
nj inc IF Oar "a a N
people were ready to back him up to
the utmost and play It through no
matter what it cost. Who quit the
gamer"
Johnson then mentioned the prin-
ciples of open covenants, openly ar
rived at, adequate guarantees that
national ornaments be reduced; I'm
partial adjustment of all colonial
claims: self determination; no league
or alliances or special covenants
within the common family of the
league of nations, and others as hav-
| ing been abandoned and declared it
was not the American people who
had quit.
'And thus 1t was that the game
was played in Paris" Soanson CON
tinued, land the game was the game
of the sinister, cynical European and
Asiatic diplomacy, IN which the
American people neither have d part
nor want a part. This today js the
game of which Mr.. Wilson speaks,
and this today is the game witch
Mr. Wilson plays, and all who will
not play 1t with him are called &C, n
temptible cutters
THE American people will play the
American game and they will never
quit that. They saw with sinking
hearts, as the days passed at Paris. the
| flabbiness of good intentions surren-
! der to sordid, cynical old world diplo-
macy; and finally they held a sad
/ intellectual inquest over dead hope"
Thus opening his series of long .ls-
lance debates with the president, in
which he will be joined by Senators
Mccormick and Borah tonight, John
son declared the memorable facts
make the issue" with the president.
When he says the league of nations is
the only arrangement that will pre-
vent American soldiers going abroad
very soon again, and that because of
1t boys in khaki will not be ordered to
foreign lands. "the days events, the
I present COnulllOHS, answer dIlu CUL'
| found him." said Johnson.
AS the president was making these
statements, the senator declared seven
thousand American soldiers were
being ordered by the Paris conference
to patrol Silesian coal mines. At the
same time, he declared American
youths, sons of American fathers and
American mothers were being slain in
Asia, at vladivostok and in Siberia, IN
a war not declared by the American
people or the American congress, but
directed in secrecy at Paris by what
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