The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-10-17
URGES REJECTION
OF PEACE PACT
SENATOR JOHNSON DECLARES
THE PROMISES HELD OUT
ARE UNTITLED.
In Closing Address Of Western TOUR
California Senator Sets Forth
His Objections TO the
Peace Treaty

Johnson, of California, completed his |
western tour. in which he explained |
his stand on the league Of nations, !
when his address had been delivered
in this city Saturday evening, OCTOBER
IL. and left for Washington TO resume
his fight in the senate for reservations
10 the league covenant
Senator johnson arrived in ogden
Saturday morning from Spokane, after
tour of the northwestern states, IN
which he explained his stand on the
| league and asserted what he believes
are the rights of America under the
league covenant. Senator Johnson al
dressed a crowd of Ogdenites at the
| Alhambra theatre at = p. M, AFTER
which he Journey to Salt Lake, where
he spoke in the tabernacle at p. m.
Saving that the United States in the
discussion of the peace treaty ana the
league of nations stands at the cross
roads of destiny, he declared that one
path, that of the league OF nations
is the cynical path of European and
Asiatic diplomacy and the other the
straight and narrow path of 100 per
cent Americanism."
His attack was aimed at two targets,
part being directed against President
Wilson and the other against the
league covenant and the treaty of
peace. President Wilson he termed as
ever riding the clouds and painting
the rainbow" as in Paris having spent
his time painting the lily and gliding
refined gold.'
Article Y of the league was his prln-
ciple point of attack on the covenant
itself. 1t was to this article that he
directed again and again the shaft of
his criticism. He likewise emphasized
the provisions by which Great Britain
and her colonies have six votes in the
assembly to one for the United States,
and spoke again and again OF the
mine men of the council sitting Sc
cretly in Geneva, eight of them for
, eigners, controlling the destines of the
world
Senator Johnson's remarks, repeat
ed in various forms, concerning the
. obligation placed upon the United
. States under the league to keep the
5 "khaki-clad boys in Europe" he adj
{ dressed particularly to the mothers
| He spoke in ironical vein of the TOOK
. men requisitoned for Silesia of the
J. men now in Siberia and in other parts
of the world, holding their presence
n gument against the league.
n In regard to the reservation which
|, President Wilson held up to his Sal
# Lake audience as seeking to cut thu
?, very heart of the league, Senate
Johnson said:
IF this reservation designed t
$ grant congress the power to make wa
t and providing that the military an
10 naval forces of the United States shal
is not be used without the consent Q
G. congress, let's cut out the heart"
h He based this plea on an inter
e. probation he credits to the presiden
10 that the United States constitution cal
TO not be invoked and that congress ha
not the authority over our arme
- forces, for the league of nations take
that authority under article X.
Senator Johnson drew a laugh froI
] his audience when he said that /
q could go out on any soap box and &
y all the sympathy in the world for Il
81 woes of Armenia, for Czecho-Slovaki
81 for the Poles and other small cou
81 tries. while proponents of the leagl
az believe it to be a misdemeanor ~ ca
"a attention to the woes of this country
Senator Johnson found fault wi
the league because it is so entwin,
with the provisions of the peace trea
that it seems impossible to eXtrica
one from the other for separate co
Sderation.
He accused the president of DO
Judgment and poor craftsmanship
bringing back the two in such a w
- as to make it impossible to rejC
the one without rejecting the 9th
ri and claimed that the president h
M boasted of this condition before
left Paris.
He concluded by stating that /
United States outside the league wo,
be greater bulwark for the peace
the world than If it were "submere
IN the foreign control of the leagu
81 He referred to the United States
the greatest asset for peace in
one world, and said These nations Ii
Tor whose power we are about to &
ans ourselves owe us ten billions of 1
my lars" and asked why the United Sta
re- should put itself into the hands Of
'oie debtors.