The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-09-13
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. 1919.
QUITTERS!

When President Wilson decided [
carry the fight for the League 0
Nations to the people," it was tn
one thing needed to awaken the ma
tion to the dangers confronting it
He little dreamed of the results tha
would follow. From the start h,
could but not notice an indifference,
that foreshadowed disapproval of hi!
plan of entangling the American
people in the labyrinth of European
chaos and intrigue. But even the
most optimistic could not have
hoped for the frenzy of opposition
that is arising, as indicated by the
action of the audiences that greeted
Senators Borah. Mccormick and
Johnson in Chicago, the first city in
which they undertook to answer the
charges that are being made by
President Wilson and to tell the peo-
pie why the senate is refusing to
place its stamp of approval upon a
document that is sure to spell disas-
ter for the United States.
In his St. Louis speech President
Wilson stated: Let them (the SEN
ate) show how they will prove that
having gone into an enterprise that
they are not absolutely contemplate
Quitters il they do not see the game
Through" 1t was this phase Of the
Presidents speech that Senator
johnson undertook to answer, and
the result is best told in report of
the the meeting and the effect his
words, and those of Senator Borah,
had on the assemblage. 1t shows
that the American people are becom-
ing aroused and it indicates that
when the President returns to Wash
ington he will have learned that his
League of Nations has been repudi-
ated.
The report follows:
Before a crowd that packed the
huge Auditorium theater to the
dressing rooms and overfiowed into
the streets, 10000 strong, Senators
William E. Borah of Idaho, Hiram
johnson of California and Medill
Mccormick of Illinois last night
smashed away at President Wilson
and the League of Nations until the
great theater trembled from roof to
pit with cries of "Impeach him!
Take the power away from him."
Outside, where the speakers were
forced to repeat their speeches from
the fire escape, the cries echoed
through the streets.
Point by point Senator Johnson
took the Presidents famous IA
points, analyzed the way in which
they had been incorporated in the
treaty and asked who Quit? Who
was the quitter?"
"Wilson!" howled the audience.
He started off, as you recall,
with open covenants of peace openly
arrived at. You and | echoed the
sentiment All America applauded.
Who quit? Who was the Quitter?"
"Wilson." beloved a sea of
voices.
"Who Endorsed vociferously the
freedom of the seas and the British
lion growled? Who quit?"
"Wilson!" came the roar.
He talked of removal of all eco
nomic barriers and we all yielded
a ready assent. But economic bar
riers were forgotten. The American
people didn't quit. Somebody else
quit"
"Wilson!" was the roaring anti
phony.
HE talked, my friends, of ade-
quate guarantees given and that ar
maments would be reduced. No ar
maments were ended. None will be
reduced, admittedly under the
League of Nations. Somebody quit
upon the reduction of arm aments." "
Again the throng took up it's cue.
HE spoke of free, open-minded
and absolutely impartial adjustment
of all colonial states and we all
nodded in acduiescence. But there
was nothing of that sort done. The
American people did not quit. Some
body else did"
rWilson!'
Not since the last Bull Moose con-