New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-06-11
CALLS LEAGUE WAR.
TRUST IN SENATE
SENATOR JOHNSON CRIT1CISES
PACT AS COVENANT OF
RULERS.
SIGNING is BLACKLIST PACE
IN AMERICAN HISTORY,
III HE AYERS.

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HE AYERS.
Assailing the league of nations as a
combination of armed powers Sin a
gigantic war trust" Senator Johnson,
Republican, of California, told the
Senate last wees that the Paris conference
dared not amend the league covenants
so that the declaration of future war
would be decided, not by established
rulers, but by popular vote of the peo-
Piles concerned:
ut is not league of nations to pre-
vent war;" he asserted. sIn it's very
creation it has been stripped of every
idealistic purpose it ever had. 1t con-
tains within itself the germs of many
wars and worse than that, it rivets as
in the Shantung question the chains Of
millions Of people and cements for all
time unjust and wicked annexations.
1t is great world economic trust
wherein few men, sitting in secret
may control the economic destinies of
peoples. 1t is not league of peoples,
nor does it anywhere concern itself
with peoples.
Goes Away From People.
Instead of coming closer to those
most concerned, the men and women
for whom governments should exist, the
league goes a step farther from them.
If those who wrote this document real
ly wanted to prevent war, they would
have permitted the men and women
who must bear the burdens of war, to
determine by their votes whether or
not there should be war !"
Urging adoption of his resolution
asking the State department for the
full text Of the peace treaty, Senator
Johnson read into the record the oft
quoted utterances of President Wilson
regarding "open diplomacy"
Open Covenants Held Joke.
"Open covenants, openly arrived at,'
continued the senator, are now a by
word and joke. Their mention brings
but cynical smile.
when you remember that England
frankly says her treaties are yet in
existence, her offensive and defensive
alliance with Japan yet controlling, and
then you observe the United States
making some sort of engagement, the
knowledge of which for the present we
are denied, you will have some concep-
ton of what the league Of nations is
intended to do"
Condemned for Criticism.
cit is rare indeed" he asserted, that
any speech is made in favor of the league
which does not bitterly concern Ameri-
cans who think of their own country
first. For the first time in our history,
>he Jealous guarding of our own, the
love of our traditions and our institu-
lions, the passion for our land and our
liberty have become venial sins.
con the 18th of November, America,
as no nation on earth ever had been
before, was respected, revered and
beloved. After six months of meddling
and muddling in European and Asiatic
controversies and contests over terri
tory, the end of the Peace conference
finds Italy destesting us, France secretly
despising us, England using us and
Japan blufing us.
Joining Bankrupts, He Says.
"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 sol
vent concern nationally 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.
Recalling in detail the abuses which
followed the holy alliance, the Califor-
MIA senator said it was organized fol-
the same declared purposes and in the
same ethereal and celestial language
as the league now proposed. He quoted
Article 10 Of the league covenant, in
which member nations undertake Ia
respect and preserve as against external
aggression the territorial integrity Of
all the members, and continued:
Gorged With Territory.
'sThe league Of nations comes to us
after it's principal members have been
gorged with territory, with their boun-
DIARIES and their limits increased be-
yond the widest dreams The one sol
vent national concern on earth under
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