The sun., 1919-09-20
IGNORE BANKRUPTS,
JOHNSON ADVISES
Broken European Nations
Seek Support Of U. S., a Co.
ing Concern, He Says.
WANT us FOR POLICEMEN
Gorged With Territory, Plan
Is to Have Americans Pro-
tect Holdings.


johnson OF California. addressing a large
and enthusiastic audience here tonight,
asserted that Americas entry into the
League of Nations will mark the forma-
ton Of partnership between the one
going. solvent country in the world with
certain European bankrupts. who, he
said. have come secretly to despise and
detest us.
THE League of Nations" he said,
comes to us after it's principal menu
bers have been gorged with territory,
with their boundaries and their limits
increased beyond widest dreams and
with other immense tracts Of the worlds
surface yet to be distributed among
them.
After these extraordinary accessions
Of territory. the one going. solvent ma
tional concern on earth undertakes by
Article x. to guarantee forever these
extraordinary territorial limits
This section freezes the world into
immuts, bility. 1t assumes to put the
world in a straitjacket, wherein there
can be no movement for betterment or
progress of humanity.
Beyond and above all this the MAIN
tenance of this static condition Is to
be accomplished by the blood of just
one nation and that is ours.
A Question for Parents.
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 territorial
| integrity of the nations which have inn
| mensely increased their boundariesT'
Senator johnson declared that the
rower of making war should be taken
from sovereign rulers and vested in the
eople, who should have authority to de-
eide the question by a referendum vote
" omen, he said. who bear such heavy
burdens of war should be permitted to
participate on an equal basis with men
| In determining whether their country
should go to war. He said that under
the league covenant such plan would
he impracticable
Instead OF coming closer to the peo-
pie in these vital matters the League of
Nations would go a step further from
them ard place the power to make war
| in the hands of the rulers and their rep
resentatives instead of the people," said
| Senator johnson.
He emphasized the point that the
league covenant had been drawn up in
secrecy and that popular support for 1t
| in this country had been promoted by
| official propaganda, paid for by taxation
| from the overburdened people.
The awful tragedy of the world" he
| said 'the sorrow, the grief, and the an
| guish of those whose dear ones made the
| supreme sacrifice, the fearful waste and
weller, of necessity turned the thoughts
] Of all men and all women to a proven
ton of another world cataclysm. We
were resolved after the experiences OF
this great conflict TO take, as far as
human agency could, some forward stei
! to preclude another.
Looked for n Real League.
ITO all these people. and I number
myself among them. the idea of a league
or confederation or union of the nations
of the earth In behalf Of the right, for
the protection of the weak against the
strong. to preclude the successful cul-
mination of national cunning and
| cupidity and to prevent future conflicts
of Gods creatures, possessed charm
and an allurement, a hope and an in
! spiration which we would have gone far
to realize and consummate. The various
phases of our establishment will not
dwell upon.
Each milestone OF the Peace Confer
ence successfully marks them.
| "The beautiful phrases of altruism
and idealism are found, as often has
been the case In the last few years, but
mere words. They were never translated
into deeds and ultimately with the pre-
sentation of the covenant came the shat
tering of all our fond hopes.
"Of all the singular and astonishing
intellectual distortions induced by the
advocacy OF the League of Nations not
the least remarkable 10 the reproach to
patriotism and the denunciation Of those
who think first OF our republic.
Little, Selfish Americans"
I'VE who would protect and preserve
our own nation, who loyalty and patri-
otically would hesitate to involve its
sons and its future generations in per-
petual and continuous warfare. are
designated as little. selfish ana provin-
ciar Americans"
Senator Johnson expressed the view
that the league covenant turned over
the Monroe Doctrine TO foreign Powers
for Interpretation. He declared 1t I'M
thinkable that any American wrote the
tenth article Of the peace pact or that
any American could subscribe to 1t.
| President Wilson's amendment to the
league covenant designed to safeguard
the Monroe Doctrine is a fraud. a delu-
sion and a snare" declared Senator
Johnson.
The crowd which heard Senator John
son packed the largest hall In the city
and hundreds were turned away.
JOHNSON SCORES