The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-09
LEAGUE STRIPS u.s.,
JOHNSON CHARGES
America Pledged to Police
World for Benefit of
Others, He Says.
WILSON'S NAME KISSED
Violation Of China's Rights
Held Up as Reproach to
Covenant.
sp,einl De,patcA TO Tan suN.

Special Dsspdtch 10 Tar Sur.
Boston. July s.-The proposed League
Of Nations was described ~ gigantic
war trust. an arrangement by which the
United States profited nothing and
pledged her sons to police the world for
the Powers gorsed with territory In q
speech delivered here tonight by Ben
ator Hiram Johnson Of California at q
meeting held under the auspices OF the
League for the Preservation Of American
Independence.
The name Of Woodrow Wilson was
hissed in Faneuii Hall during Senator
Johnson's address. He had Just COM
pieted an attack on chose who derided
the Declaration Of Independence ss
thing Of the past, although It has brought
peace and riches and happiness to this
country"
Choose ye between that old document
OF the old galaxy of immortals OF Amer
lea and the document Of Woodrow Will
son and the men across the seas"
charged the Senator. It was then that
the Kisses mingled with cries Of "No,
no." broke forth.
Senator johnson expressed himself as
Of the conviction that by the covenant OF
the League OF Nations this country
would strip itself Of many OF the safe
guards which have made it great 30 that
might undertake with It's manhood and
treasure to guarantee the fair dealing
OF nations which have no understanding
OF fair dealing.
'Tt 10 q league Of armed nations In a
gigantic war trust" he asserted. I'VE
fought q righteous war and won. With
our might and our treasure we deter
mined to destroy a ruthless malitarism,
and II 10 done. In peace we would make
Il impossible for this monster ever again
to threaten the world.
The victory for the United States
means neither territory nor reparatlons
II should mean the triumph OF our loud
trumpeted ideals for civilization, for the
rights VI small nations. for self-determi-
nation. for democracy. IT means for
England. France, Italy, ana Japan huge
territories. vast numbers Of people. I'm
mense national gain. The burden must
be borne Of protecting and safeguard
Ing these enormous allied gains. The
question IL. and the League Of Nations
sQuarely presents II, Who shall bear the
burden? Shall the burden rest upon the
gamers. those who made a mock of self
determination. OF the rights OF weak
peoples. Of all our high sounding IDEAL
ism, or shall the burden. at the COM
mand Of one who was party to the mock
cry, be thrust upon the only non-profit-
ing nation. the United States?
The sole reason. whispered in fear, or
ominously hissed. to create fear In the
rest OF us. why the United States should
become the worlds guarantor and under
write the theft OF China and the partition
OF hundreds OF thousands of square miles
Of territory and the transfer Of millions
OF human beings to England. France,
italy and Japan IL that by doing so the
possibility Of future wars will be mini
mized,. and there may be a greater sense
OF security in the posse ssion by England.
France Italy and Japan Of their newly
acquired peoples and territories.
But this argument In Its last analysis
means that United States power and
treasure and blood will do for England.
France. Italy and Japan, what otherwise
they would be compelled TO do for them
selves. 1t means not the end OF dis
content or the cessation of war. for peo-
pies held in cruel subsection like the
Coreans or Chinese will ever be striving
FOR their liberty and the self-determina.
ton for which we talked 10 much and
did 20 little. 1t means that the great
democracy OF the world--our country
must not only continue a party to the
denial Of these peoples rights whenever
they are asserted, but to our diplomatic
denial we will add denial economically
and by force Of arms. too.
The great fundamental question which
every American father and mother
should answer Is this: Shall American
boys police the world? Shall American
blood uphold, maintain and preserve
old world governments and the territor-
ial integrity Of the nations which have
immensely increased their boundaries?"
In conclusion Senator Johnson said !:
TN word. this league means that
Am -rican boys shall be upheld by our
blood and our bone; that Europe. Asia
ana Africa may draw upon us in their
every dispute and quarrel; that our ma
ton will be at the mercy of European
and japanese diplomats who never had
and never will have any sympathy with
our aspirations or our ideals; that We
with our glorious past shall guarantee
the territorial integrity Of every coun-
try on earth and the bondage OF every
suffering people In anguish begging for
freedom: that we destroy our Monroe
Doctrine and submit controversies on the
American Continent to determination by
foreign Powers.
1T means that must abandon the
lessons of my youth, which until this
nloine"t nave oeen ue creed OF my man.
hood, OF American ideals, American
principles and American patriotism :;
that must deny the Americanism that
I taught my children and that under
Gods blessing hope to teach my grand
children. 1t means the hating and be-
rayal OF new world liberalism. the tri-
umph OF cynical old world diplomacy, the
humiliation and end OF American IDEAL
ism. The issue Is the Republic, the Re-
public that Washington gave US, that
Lincoln saved for US. whose traditions
and ideals have been so gloriousiy up.