Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-10-17
URGES REJECTION
!. :. OF PEACE PACT
SENATOR JOHNSON DECLARES
THE PROMISES HELD OUT
ARE UNTITLED. ws
In Closing Address Of Western Tour,
California Senator Sets Forth
Ftf4fs IS HE Objections to the sai9
Peace Treaty

Salt Lake City.-Senator Hiram w.
Johnson, Of California, completed his
western tour, In which he explained
his stand on the league of nations,
when his address had been delivered
In this city Saturday evening, October
IL, and left for Washington to resumei
his fight in the senate for reservations
to the league covenant.
Senator Johnson errived in Ogdeo
Saturday morning from Spokane, after
tour of the northwestern states, in
which he explained his stand on the
league and asserted what he believes
are the rights of America under the
league covenant. Senator Johnson ad-
dressed crowd Of Ogdenites at the
Alhambra theatre at 2 p. M, after
which he Journey to Salt Lake, where
he spoke in the tabernacle at p. m.
Saying that the United States in the
discussion of the peace treaty and the
league of nations stands at the cross
roads Of destiny, he declared that one
path, that of the league of nations.
is the cynical path Of European and
Asiatic diplomacy, and the other the
straight and narrow path Of 100 per
cent Americanism." .st
His attack was aimed at two targets,
part being directed against President
Wilson and the other against the
league covenant and the treaty of
peace. President Wilson he termed as
lever riding the clouds and painting
the rainbow" as in Paris having spent
his time painting the lily and gliding
refined gold"
Article X of the league was his prin-
ciple point of attack on the covenant
itself. 1t was to this article that he
directed again and again the shaft of
his criticism. He likewise emphasized
the provisions by which Great Britain
and her colonies have six votes in the
assembly to one for the United States,
and spoke again and again of the
"nine men of the council sitting Sc
cretly in Geneva, eight of them for
eigners, controlling the destines of the
world" .-,. E
Senator Johnson's remarks, repeat
ed In various forms, concerning the
obligation placed upon the United
States under the league to keep the
''khaki-clad boys in Europe" he adj
dressed particularly to the mothers.
He spoke in ironical vein of the 1000
men requisitioned for Silesia, of the
men now in Siberia and in other parts
of the world, holding their presence
in foreign territory as concrete ar
gument against the league.
In regard to the reservation which
President Wilson held up to his Salt
Lake audience as seeking to cut the
very heart of the league, Senator
johnson said:
"If this reservation designed to
grant congress the power to make war
and providing that the military and
naval forces Of the United States shall
not be used without the consent OF
congress, let's cut out the heart"
He based this plea on an inter-
probation he credits to the president
that the United States constitution can
not be invoked and that congress has
not the authority over our armed
forces, for the league of nations takes
that authority under article X.
| Senator Johnson drew a laugh from
| his audience when he said that he
could go out on any soap box and gel
| all the sympathy in the world for the
woes of Armenia, for Czecho-Slovakia
for the Poles and other small coun
tries, while proponents of the league
4 believe 1t to be misdemeanor to cal
attention to the woes of this country.
Senator johnson found fault witt
the league because 1t is so entwinet
with the provisions of the peace treat!
hat 1t seems impossible to extrlcat'
one from the other for separate con
sideration.
He accused the president of poo
judgment and poor craftsmanship II
bringing back the two in such wa.
as to make 1t impossible to rejec
the one without rejecting the other
and claimed that the president ha,
boasted of this condition before h
left Paris.
He concluded by stating that tn
United States outside the league woul,
be a greater bulwark for the peace o
the world than If 1t We're 'submerge,
in the foreign contiol of the league.
He referred to the United States Il
the greatest asset for peace in tn
4 world, and said: These nations int
whose power we are about to Civ
ourselves owe us ten billions of dol
lars" and asked why the United State
should put itself into the hands of 1t
debtors.