Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-07-09
Sen. Johnson
Still Pounding
Away at League

Boston. July s.-Hiram W. Johnson,
United States senator from CaIifur-
MIA, campaigning in opposition TO the
League of Nations. today declared
that the international pact was "a
document born n secrecy. denied eX-
position and presented to US with a
cynical Indifference 10 our right of
knowledge
The senator addressed a meeting
in Faneuu hall at noon and another
al fremont Temple tonight. On each
occasion he aroused a large audience
10 demonstrations of approval.
This afternoon the Californian
called upon Governor Coolidge al the
State Mouse and was presented to
the House of Representatives by
Speaker Warner. Speaking briefly
IN response tn his reception. senator
Johnson said that California mad cop
led MANY things from Massachusetts
There is as much need Today Of
Anerlcanism as there ever was; there
Is as great d requirement of patriot
ism. rs much necessity for every -
thing that goes to make a country
great as ever in her history" he
said. The one prayer which we Ut
ter. the prayer n which l know you
lnin with us of California. is that in
the cr1sis now Of the republic Amer
lca shall not fail
In his noon address and again TO-
night Senator Johnson followed gen.
orally the Ine of mis- earlier addresses
attacking the covenant
"A century ago we had the quad
ruple alliance he said, and sub
seuuently one made with France. in
addition for the maintenance nf ex-
lETinC treaties and the preservation
Of the peace Of the world. Today we
have league composed substantially
of five nations pledged TO the preser-
vatlon. as against external agrees
sion. Of the territorial integrity and
existing political Independence Of its
members. The League Of Nations
comes to Us after its principal mem
bers have been gurEed with territorr.
with their boundaries and their lin
it's increased be-ond the widest
dreams and with other immense
tracts Of the worlds surface yet TO
be distributed among them.
After these extraordinary acces-
sions Of territory. when each Of the
four nations possesses lands far
greater than ever before, the one 90
ing, solvent national concern on earth
undertake by Article 10 to guarantee
forever these extraordinary terrific
rial limits
1T is unthinkabse that anv Amer
lean wrote Article n These who
penned this provision knew exactly
what they meant and exactly what
they intended. With sccrupuious care
the provision was designed tn pre-
serve for all lime existing govern
ments and the territorial integrity Of
existing governments
The meeting tonight was under the
auspices Of the Massachusetts
branch of the League for the Pres
ervatiun Of American Independence
and the president Of the branch. Lou
is A. Coolidge. presided. The audito-
rum was filed and an overflow
meeting was held in a hall on the
street tioor.
George Wharton Pepper Of Phiia-
delphia. vice president Of the league,
supplemented Senator Johnson S ar
ruments against the Leagne Of Ma
tons
THE greatest asset for peace. Mr..
Pepper said. 'is the free will of
America. The moment you deliver
II over to an international tribunal
to bind the United States to a par
ticular course of action. that instant
you transfar the balance. not merely
of government, but of moral power,
to Europe and Asia
Reserve for the United States the
final right of self determination un-
bound by blanket guarantees for un-
specified future conduct"
He said that during the last two
years the administration had SET an
example of "kaiserism". and that
there had been non one in the chair"
Of the chief executive of the United
States 10 SIT in Judgment on the case
of the chief commissioner of the
United States at the peace confer