The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-12
BITTER TRADE
BY JOHNSON
California Senator Says It.
ally Detests u. S., France
Secretly. Despises Us
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
CALLED A TERROR
Address Was Delivered Be-
fore Large Audience
at Burlington

burlington, july lE-Iaklng the peace
conference as am illustration of what
may be expected. of the league of nations,
Senator Hiram w. johnson of California
in a dynamic speech delivered here at
The Strong theatre last evening
sketehed vivid picture of the humilia-
ton of Americas idealism and altruis-
tic aspirations by the other world pow
ers. He was listened to by a large audi
ence.
"On the 18th of November last" said
the SENATOR America, as no other nation
on earth ever had done before, was re-
spscted, revered, and beloved. After six
months of meddling and muddling in
European and Asiatic controversies and
contests over territory, the end of the
peace conference finds Italy detesting us,
France secretly despisng us, England
using us, and Japan blufiing u.s. They
are all willing and anxious that we
should have our league of nations, and
willing and anxious. because of the same
spirit which has ruled them in the peace
conference.
The one going solvent concern nation
ally is about to enter into partnership
with certain national bankrupts We give
of our assets both moral and material,
and assume part of their liabilities
We do not need them as partners. They
require us. They yield to us nothing;
they can yield to us nothing. We give
to them everything. We can protect our
borders for centuries to come, Just as we
have in the century past. The Lord has
given us our geographical isolation, and
the Lord has denied just that thing TO
the different races of Europe. And, while
our internationalists in behalf of the
league of nations pirate of the fact that
we can not remain longer isolated, they
forget that the geography of the stu
alton remains immutable. Isolation 9th
erwise, except to refrain from European
entanglements or to indulge in European
controversies and wars, has never exist
ed, and, Of course, never will exist. But,
when distinguished gentlemen say that
we can no longer remain in a position
of splendid isolation and play our own
part in the world, they forget all the
events of the past century. We are in
constant touch with all the world. We
can, whenever we think it in consonance
with humanity, 90 wherever we will and
do whatever duty demands, Our posi-
tion has been, and ought to be, the COM
manding one in all the world. And it is
necessary, in order that we preserve this
position and maintain ourselves, in order
that we NAV suecor the weak or rescue
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the bankrupt nations of the earth or to
enter into a confederation for the pro
lection of their boundaries and the preser.
walton of their territories.
I'VE have observed" continued the
senator with establishment and indig-
nation, our country inextricably bound
in the sordid, cunning secret and crafty
designs Of European and Asiatic govern
ments. We would wish, if we could not
stem the tide of greed and svarice, sell
fishness and sordidness, and stop the
secret plotting and plumber, at least to
be no part of it; to be ourselves again,
with our ideals untarnished; to be just
Americans"
Solemnly declaring that the proposed
league would never prevent war, the
senator from California said that it
would "sanctify power in new, terri
bic and a sinister sense"
United States the Guarantor.
He said that the league Of nations was
written around the one central idea,
that the great democracy of the Unit
ed States shall guarantee and maintain
the British empires boundaries, with its
seething millions of disconnected PEG.
pies, the increased territories Of France
the vastly extended boundaries Of Italy,
throbbing with revolution, and the rape
of China by Japan"
Dwelling bitterly upon what he termed
"the un- American article x" of the
league covenant, the senator said that
its mutual guarantee against external
aggression" would be construed to apply
to internal revolutions and uprisings,
just as similar clause in the constitu-
tional of the Holy alliance was con
strued century ago. He declared that
/ Gar Alexander | of Russia, who pro-
claimed the Holy alliance, was lust as
prolific in idealistic speeches and nebu-
lous altruistic generalities as some of
our modern statesmen"
"If any people with perfect case
| for freedom should rebel" the senator
/, added, "the advocates Of the league of
nations would enthusiastically rush in,
because this is exactly the design of the
league of nations Tomorrow it may be
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