Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-20
California Senator Will Re-
: turn to Washington to Speak
in Behalf Of His Treaty
Amendment.
MESSAGE TO HOME STATE
WILL ANSWER WILSON
Turn Away Crowds From
Largest Hall in St. Paul
When He Speaks in 0pposi-
ton to Peace Treaty.

ica's entry into the league of nations
will mark the formation of part
nership between the zone going,
solvent country in the world with
certain European bankrupts who
after our first experience in med
ding and muddling in foreign poll
tics have come to secretly despise
and detest u.s. declared Senator
Hiram w Johnson. in addressing a
large and enthusiastic audience here
tonight. u
"The league of nations" he said,
comes to US after its principal mem
oers have been gorged with territory,
with their boundaries and their linn.
its increased beyond the widest
dreams and with other immense
tracts Of the worlds surface yet to
be distributed among them.
f. Hits Article X. -
after these extraordinary acces-'
sions of territory. the one going,
solvent national concern on earth
undertakes by Article X to guaran-
tee forever their extraordinary ter
ritorial limits. This section freezes
the world into immutability. It as
sumes to put the world in a. strait
Jacket, wherein there can be no
movement for betterment or prog
ress of humanity.
Beyond and above all this. the
maintenance of this static condition
is to be accomplished by the blood
Of just one nation, and that is ours.
"Are you ready. Americans, to
pledge your sons and your sons
sons to maintain and preserve for
all time the present governments of
the little nations we are setting up
in Europe and the present govern
menti and boundaries of the British
and Japanese empires
Let Women Vote.
"The great fundamental question
which every American father and
mother should answer is this: Shall
American boys police the world ?
Shall American blood uphold. MAIN
tain and preserve old worlds gov
ernments and the territorial integ-
rity of the nations which have inn
me!nsss,ly increased their bound
aries?"
Senator Johnson declared that the
power of making war should be
taken from sovereign rulers and
vested in the people who should
have the authority to decide the
question by a referendum vote.
Women. he said. who bear such
heavy burdens of war. should be
permitted to participate on an equal
basis with men in determining
whether their country should go
to war.
He said that under the league
covenant such a plan would be
impraeticablS
Halts Peoples Power.
"Instead of coming closer to the
people in these vital matters. the
league of nations would go a step
further from them and place the
power to make war in the hands
of the rulers and their representa-
tives. instead of the people, said
Senator Johnson
He emphasized the point that the
leagut covenant had been drawn
up in secrecy and that popular sup
port for it in this country had been
prompted by official propaganda,
/ paid for by taxation from an over
burdened people.
"The awful tragedy Of the world,
he said "the sorrow, the grief, and
the anguish of those whose dear
ones made the supreme sacrifice
the fearful waste and welter. OF
necessity turned the thoughts Of all
men and all women to a prevention
of another world cataclysm. We
we're resolved after the experience
of this great conflict to take as fal
as human agency could, some for
ward step to preclude another.
To all these people. and ! mum.
Der myself among them. the idea
OF a league or confederation or ,un-
ion Of the nations Of the earth ir
behalf of the right, for the pro.
lection of the weak. against the
strong, to preclude the. successful
elimination of national cunning ant
cupidity and to prevent future con-
tlicts of Gods creatures. possessed
a charm and an allurment, a hops
and an inspiration which we would
have gone far to realize and con.
summate. The various phases o.
our disillusionment, | will not dwell
| upon.
Each milestons Of the peace con.
ference successfully marks them.
"Of all the singular and astonisll
ing intellectual distortions induced