The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-29
DEMAND POLICY
OF GOVERNMENT
Senator Hiram Johnson Out
lines Program Which Pro
gTessives Ask to Be
Pushed Through.
RESTORE DEMOCRACY
Let American Life, Social and Eco
nomic, Be American Again,
Is Plea
Made.
RESTORE DEMOCRACY
4 IBy L. c. Martin. United Press Staff
.,4t sC0rresD0ndent

Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-In
speech In which he split definitely
with the leader of his Own party in
the senate, Senator Hiram Johnson,
California, today set forth the policy
which senate progressives from now
on will demand the government purs
sue.
johnson thus set forth his policy:
Bring home American soldiers.
2-Restore our own democracy.
3-Restore free expression.
4-Get American business into its
normal channels.
5-Let American life,. social and
economic, be American again.
johnson summed this all up with
the words:
1T is time for an American policy"
He took issue with Senator Lodge,
republican leader. on the recently an
snounced foreign policy which by vir-
tue Of Lodges position has since been
construed as the party's policy.
! II am quite aware said Johnson,
"that there exists two distinct lines
of policy for our country to pursue
in the near future. In the senate
(
these two policies is becoming in
creasingly plain.
Recently, the republican leader
stated with clarity and precision his
view of our future policy. He stated
that he deemed it essential by the
peace terms to create number of
new small nations, ten in all, and
to include the independence of Rus
sia's six Baltic provinces, and in adj
dition, that we must take and hold
ample security from Germany and
Austria"
johnson said he had no quarrel
with creation OF the new states.
T. He then quoted Lodges statement
that the United States must do its
share in occupation Of German terri
tory and in helping to stabilize the
new government
There is but one conclusion from
the language used" continued John
son, land that is that after the crea-
ton of the sixteen nations, the duty
devolves upon the United States in
part at least to maintain these ma
tions, with American soldiers.
81 will not subscribe to this docs
trine. / will not for one instant con-
cede that it is the duty of this
republic to maintain order in Jugo-
Slav, Czecho-Slav or any other new
state I am opposed to American
boys policing Europe and quelling
riots in every new nations back
yard.
keep in mind that the establish
ment and maintenance in part by US
Of these peoples must be paid for
byA our already overburdened tax
payers. But aside from the ma
terial considerations, would not
shed the blood of American boys in
the internal disturbances of an Es
thonia, IIivonia, or Courland.
"Our help to sixteen nations
which would be created in establish
ing themselves with ordered govern
ments' must be the aid which our
arms would give to one faction or
another in these new states, and l
am not ready to shed American blood
for any faction Of any foreign state,
or in maintaining the government in
any Baltic province.
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 been
distorted and misunderstood.
Anyone really ought to under
stand that when we say open cove
nants of peace openly arrived at. we
mean secret covenants secretly ar
rived at" said Johnson.
He assailed the method of handing
out Homeopathic doses of peace
conference news to the American
people, and charged that, notwith-
standing assurances to the contrary,
the news from Paris is being cen
sored
OF point two, freedom of the seas,
he said:
at has been lost for a consider
able period in historical mystery and
rests in oblivion with the unrealized
dreams of the Abound of Swat and
the Mahrajah of Ruritania.
Peace point three. for the re-