Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-17
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Californian Says President Is
Trying to Set Up New Re-
gime Here BY Provisions of
the League Covenant.
PRESENT FORM OF RULE
HAS STOOD TIMES TEST
Objects to Changing That
Which Has Been SatiSfac-
tory Since Days Of Wash
ington; Big Crowd Turns Out
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Sioux City, Sept. 16.-Speaking be-
fore large audience here tonight,
Senator Hiram w. Johnson of Cali
fornia charged that President Wilson
seeks to establish substantially a new
government for the United States by
the provisions of the league OF nations
covenant.
Senator Johnson's stirring appeal
for the radical amendment of the
peace pact was enthusiastically re-
ceived by the crowd.
Upon his arrival here he was met
at the train by band and commit
tee of citizens, and later rode In an
automobile parade. He spoke from
the same platform where President
Wilson urged the adoption of the
league of nations covenant, eight days
ago in his swing through the west.
To accommodate the crowd it was
necessary to remove the chairs from
the main floor of the hall and the
crowd remained standing while the
senator spoke.
Among those on the stage were;
Mayor George w. Burnside. w. c.
Cook, republican national committee
man from South Dakota. and former
Senator Robert J.. Gamble,
The speaker was introduced by
Charles NJ. Day.
what Wilson Intends TO Do.
"Mr. Wilson told you: SO what L
want to point out to you is that we
are making a fundamental choice of
government. You may adopt a gov
ernment in which Germany is pic
tured as perfect flower or you must
have new SYSTEM said Senator
Johnson.
This is exactly what Mr.. Wilson
intends to do with his league of ma
tions, adopt a new government sub
stantially for the United States OF
America. 1t Is exactly what We do
not wish to have done. We do not
require a new government at this
time We are content to live under
the constitution and the declaration
OF independence.
I'VE insist that the government OF
Washington and of Lincoln and of
Roosevelt, the republic which we have
cherished and which has grown great
under the doctrine of Americanism,
shall not be superseded by an over
lordship of eight foreign nations or
by a super government in which our
voice will be but one OF nine. In this
ominous sentence Mr.. Wilson has told
league of nations.
He has outgrown the govern
ment that has been ours for f4O
years. We have not. He has
made "a fundamental choice of
government with his league. We
are still Americans.
MIR. Wilson in starting his tour
said he was making n report to the
country. The American people have
waited in vain for any report of Mr..
Wilson's proceedings at Paris. In
stead of facts they have had platitudes
and glittering generalities. They have
been given no explanation for the sur
render of the principles so often elo-
quently announced by Mr. Wilson. no
reason for the abandonment of Amer
icanism and the easy triumph of Eu-
ropean and Asiatic diplomacy.
Opponents Pro- Germans.
I'm this city of Sioux Falls. MIR.
| Wilson INDUCED in one or two signifi-
cant remarks, pregnant with warning
! to our people. Your choice he said.
is between the league of nations and
Germanism,' and he endeavored by
yelled threat to convey that his OPP
ponents were tainted with pro-Ger-
manism. 1t Is a bad and lost cause
which in its extremity resorts to epi-
| thets and yituperation.
"And the choice Is not between
the league of nations and Ger
manism. The choice is between
the league of nations and Ameri-
canism. The choice Is between
Mr.. Wilson's internationalism,
which subOrdinates and subjects
Americanism to European and
Asiatic power, and Americanism.
Mr.. Wilson asserted to you that the
treaty of peace laid down forever the
principle that no territory ever should
be governed except as the people who
lived there wanted it governed. Ths
millions of subject peoples of the
earth make the issue with Mr.. Wilson
and his own words to DIR. Williams.
the American expert that the treaty
Of peace was founded upon the secret
treaties, some of which he said were
unconscionabe, make his statement
grotesque"
One Nation Ratlfies Treaty.
Commenting upon the presidents
insistence, that the treaty should be-
ratified Immediately, Senator johnson
said;
1.-THE only country that has so far
ratified the treaty is England. France.
dously interested in it, Japan, vastly
interested, have not yet acted. All
four of these nations get enormous
gains. The only country which takes
burdens alone Is our country.
"Since three of these antions have
not ratified the treaty. why should VIC
be in haste to act?
I'm his white house conference with
The foreign relations committee tho
president said that the treaty with
Austria and Turkey contained provi-
sons as important and perhaps moro
so than the German treaty.
THE senators asked for information
on these treaties and the president
flatly refused to give the senate or
the American people any Information
on them. They contain commitments
as burdensome as the German treaty.
We ought to know all the eommit-
ments he has secretly put on us be-
fore we art on any.
'you see today a propaganda
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