Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-29
JOHNSON SPLITS WITH
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he to MAINTAIN order IN a Jug0-SlaV
Czeeho-SlOvak or any other new state
l am opposed to American boys polio
ing Europe and quelling riots in every
new nation 5 backyard.
"Keep in mind that the establish
ment and maintenance in part of these
peoples must be paid for by our al
ready overburdened taxpayers. But
aside from the material considera-
tions, / would not shed the blood of
American boys in the internal disturb
a9ees of an Esthonia, Livonia or Cour-
land.
"Our help to 16 nations which
would be created in establishing them
selves with ordered governments must
be the aid which our arms would give
to one faction or another in these new
states and / am not ready to shed Am
erican blood for any factions of any
foreign state, or in maintaining the
government in any Baltic province.
America Wants Peace"
"America wants peace. Let us have
peace and get out of Europe"
Taking up President Wilson s four
teen peace terms, Johnson declared the
first, calling for "open covenants of
peace, openly arrived at" has peen
"distorted and misunderstood.
"Anyone really ought to understand
that when we say open covenants of
peace openly arrived at, we mean Sc
eret covenants secretly arrived at, y
said johnson.
He assailed the method Of handing
out homeopathic doses' of peace
conference news to the American peo-
pie and charged that in spite of as
surances to the contrary the news from
Paris is being censored.
OF point two, freedom of the seas,
he said.
cit has been lost for considerable
period in historical mystery and rests
in oblivion, with the unrealized dreams
of the Abound of Swat and the Maha!
raiah of Rurtania.
peace point three, for the removal
of economic barriers, four for the re-
duction of national ornaments, and
five, for the impartial adjustment of
all colonial claims, apparently have
been submerged in weightier questions
and no longer agitate the over bur
dened minds of statesmen. The sixth
peace point regarding Russia, l will
mention hereafter.
"All of the other peace points, with
the exception of the league of nations,
deal with territorial adjustments.
Now, the difficulty of the president
in interpreting his peace points as to
territorial acquisitions is that long
ago, England, France and Italy reach
ed their conclusions and the president
is up against the contracts, signed,
sealed, and delivered and in the pock-
cts of the allies.
Treaties Quite Definite
"'The secret treaties which were ex-
ecuted before our entrance into the
war were quite definite in form and
apportioned territories to the three
great belligerents and also to Russia.
These secret treaties with the elimi-
nation of Russia, | feel sure, are deem
ed effective and binding; nor do l
doubt that substantially the terrstory
they embrace will be divided in ae-
eordance with their provisions.
Taking up the Russian situation,
johnson demanded immediate return
of American soldiers. He declared this
government policy of terminal in
tervention has heightened the life of
the bolsheviki and is resulting in starv
ing, not the bolsheviki leaders, but the
women and children of Russia, for
whom this and the allied governments
profess love.
'fRussias treatment by the United
States and the allies shows that our
idealistie statements on the rights of
self determination have gone into OBJ
hvion with the rest" he said.
Declaring he does net defend "in
any degree the soviet power of Len
inc and Trotsky, johnson said:
"Why, our dealings with Russia
have not only been an exhibition Of
the crassest stupidity, but have con-
tributed to the woeful tragedy there.
Read Document
johnson then put into the record a
document hitherto unpublished in the
United States which was sent to the
allies Iby the soviet government in
March, 1918. A favorable answer to
this, said johnson, would have pre-
vented the signing of the Brest-Li
tovsk treaty and would have kept
Russia in line with the allies.
"In this document, the soviet gov
ernment asked what the allies. partic-
ularly the United States would give
in the struggle against Germany if
the Brest-Litovsk treaty was denounc-
ed.
"This communication was received
apparently with indignant and con-
temptuous silence" said johnson.
'This may have been proper" he
said, but pointed out that the United
States government had begged New
York socialists and anarchists to cable
Lenine and Trotsky to refuse the
Brest -Litovsk treaty and continue the
war.
eff the emergency and the crisis
justified the government in using the
anarchists of New York to eommuni-
cate with. the anarchists of Petrograd,
it would have justified the United
States government answering the com
munication Of the soviet government,
without recognition of government at
all and in encouraging it by its ans
wer to renew the war with Germany"
said johnson.
Cited Examples
johnson cited examples Of allied CO.
operation with bolsheviki. He said: