Bisbee daily review., 1919-09-18
Says It Substitutes Interna- tionalism for AmeriCaniSm;
 No Power Except People Can Change Constitution
SHALL AMERICAN BOYS
 POLICE THE WORLD
Asks if President Possesses the Power to Say to the People and Congress, "You Must" U. s. Should Be Protected

LINCOLN, Neb, Sept. 17.-In ad. dressing a large and enthusiastic gathering here tonight, Senator Hir- am w Johnson of California, on the 132nd anniversary of the signing of the constitution of the United States at Philadelphia, denounced the league of nations covenant as an infamous document and declared that it's adop- ton would result in throwing the country into an international con federation and deprive the republic of it's future independence of action. It would, he said, substitute misty internationalism for Americanism.
 Senator Johnson said:
 .SThe President has E.aCe. az asked the senate to approve league covenant that Is to be higher than our constitution. Except the sover, eign people, no power on earth can legally change our constitution or make another to override 1t. None but the people should be permitted to throw this independent republic into an international confederation where it must necessarily lose it's in dependence of action. The people can do that, but no public servant or servants of those people should be permitted to do it. It is admitted by the president that we lose our inde- pendence in the league. Misty in- ternationalism has been substituted for Americanism."
 "ShaII U. 8. Police World?"
 '"The great, fundamental question which every American father and mother should answer is: Shall American boys police the world Shall American blood uphold, main- tain and preserve old world govern ments and the territorial integrity of the nations which have immensely increased their boundaries?'
 At Omaha the president definately announced himself against amend ments to the league of nations or re- servations of any sort. He said in effect to the American people: You must accept the foreign document which I present to you, without in. vestigation, analysis, amendment or reservations'
 Upon what theory does he thus limit the action of what is supposed to be the great democracy of the world. When did the president of the United States possess the power to say to it's people and its congress, You must
 Just one country is denied the privilege by Mr. Wilson of protest ing its life, its treasure, its sovereign ty, its blood and it's future and that country is the United States.
 : Senate Demands Rights
 "The senate insists that the Unit ed States shall be protected and that such reservations are as necessary for the preservation of our institu- tious and our rights shall be written into the instrument. The president ! denies that right to the American people and the senate, while accord ing it to every other nation. The | senate may have all the faults which | the president attributes to it, but | today it stands the bulwaIk of Ameri- can liberty. stands between the American people and the unholy at tempt to foist upon them foreign domination.
 "The league of nations comes to us after its principal members have been gorged with territories, with their boundaries and their limits in- creased beyond the widest dreams and with other immense tracts of the worlds surface yet to be distributed among them. After these extraordi- | nary accessions of territory, when each of the four nations possesses
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