New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-09-24
SENATOR JOHNS0N'S
ATTACK ON LEAGUE.
CALIFORNIAN CHEERED FOR IL
MINUTES AT ARMORY IN
MINNEAPOLIS.
SAYS PUBLIC PAYS BILLS AND
BLAMES WILSON FOR ALL
DELAYS.

Pleading as a champion of America
against entanglements and against ''un-.
derwriting and guaranteeing secret trea-
ties" Senator Johnson of Californian,
closed his 10 day tour Of the middle
west, Saturday night at the armory in
Minneapolis.
His day in the twin cities, involving
four speeches to as many audiences,
was one of the most strenuous. of his
tour, and according to his travelling
companions, one Of the most successful.
Taft Raped By Speaker.
Shortly after opening his speech at
the Minneapolis ar1nory where more
than 10000 people had gathered to
hear the Senator's arguments, Mr.
Johnson referred to former President
Taft, saying:
I recall distinguished former presi-
dent, whom many respect but none fol-
low, who went from state to state paint
ing in alluring colors a document he
had never SEEM
Continuing the Senator said in part:
Stop war, they say this document
will do. Stop war! Over in Paris today
sits the League of Nations, the men,
the very personnel Of the council that
will sit at Geneva. Do you realize
that now % wars are raging in the
world, many of them wars growing
out of the treaty of peace guaranteed
by the League of Nations?
The president has stood before an
American audience and said that the
League OF Nations mean disarmament.
Not bit of it. There is nothing in the
covenant of the league that conpels
any nation to disarm. Disarmament is
left to the option of every nation a
member Of the league. IT,.
Just as in the days to come should
the call come to them the boys will
again play their part, but they must
do it as Americans under American
command, and not from Versailles,
- Paris or any other place.
Lion Gave One Crovl."
When l heard principles of peace
voiced by President Wilson, that were
fundamental principles Of peace, l gave
him my very hearty approval.
| remember when he went to Eu-
rope, how he blazoned forth the ideal
of open agreements openly arrived at.
l remember how quickly in Paris the
principle Of open agreements were for
gotten. / remember that we were to
have freedom Of the seas; and the British
lion gave one growl, and the principle
Of the freedom of the seas was abandoned.
This is the lachrymose appeal, ''The
sacrifices of our boys in Flanders field
will have been in vain if we do not ap-
prove the League of Nations"
Not at all, not at ALL The sacrifice
will have been in vain if you subject
our boys to the command, the direction
or even the suggestion of those foreign
powers, as arranged in the League Of
Nations, the direction of France, Eng
land and the Japanese nation.
About Weak Peoples.
/ remember how he told US how the
weak peoples of the earth should at last
have justice in the great Paris confer
ence And then | remember how repre-
sentatives Of Egypt, taking him at his
word, sailed from Egypt; | remember
how they we're stopped at Malta, thrown
into jail like common criminals, and
were only released after President Will
son had left Paris
/ rem. ember he tod US that subject
peoples were not to be handed about
from one sovereign to another. And
then I remember how Shantung with
its 3S,OOO,OOO human beings, was ruth
lessly handed from it's rightful sover-
eighty to that OF Japan.
T recall how he told Us there would
he guarantees of reduction of anna
ments, and when he got to Paris there
was never mention of such thing. I
remember how he talked Of self deter
mination and recall how at Paris
certain subjected peoples raped at his
door and he turned deaf ear to them.
remember how he said there should
be no special alliances, and ! recall how
old Clemenceau cast an eye on him
and brought forth a special alliance Of
offense and defense with France.
I remember how he told us that
no territory could change hands with
out treaties Of the peoples Of those lands.
/ recall how territories were traded and
banded from one nation 70 another.