Americus times-recorder., 1919-10-14
BEST FRIEND "sHOws UP" JOHNSON.

Chester Rowell, Senator Johnson warmest
personal friend and closest political ally has
spiked the guns of Senator Jcin,oa, according TO
message from San Francisco.
Rowell nationally famous editor proq essive
Republican and central figure in the Hughes cleo
ton controversy of l9 10, declares tha under the
League of Nations as it now stands
Uncle Sam will outvote John Bull.
The senate treaty amendment proposed by
Senator Johnson, to give the United States as many
votes Great Britain in the league, is a needless
bit of what Mr.. RowelI dubs gallery play"
All the confusion has been imported into this
question by the din of oratory, declared Mr.
ROwell in a speech before the Women's League
tor the peace treaty in San Francisco.
Excepting for Senator Johnson himself Mr..
Rowell is California leading political figure
Flatly disagreeing with Senator Johnson pro-
posed treaty amendments Rowell asserts:
Lit is not true that England gets six votes
2.-Uncle Sam has three votes now-could
easily get two more-could add two more after
that. g,y qa a. .sss I. IA IN 7Ew faq
Total, seven votes for the United States.
Instead of frantcaIly beseeching speakers to
tell you what is said in the covenant" Mr. Romell
warned his audience Read it yourself. And
what you find there let no orator rattle out
What is true is not only harmless but is tre-
mendousy beneficial to us
AS to the allegation that Great Britain has six
votes, Rowell says:
1t is not true. Even Great Britain, or the
British Empire, has six votes in the sense of six
votes comfortable by the one authority
Great Britain has one vote; Canada, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, South Africa and India have
in addition vote apiece.
The four votes of Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and South Africa are the votes of four in
dependent elf-governing nations included in the
British Empire by the theoretical sovereignty of
the king. England maintains no authority over
them, and they will vote they please
On any issue upon which England could con
ceivaby differ with US, these four will vote on our
side.
These colonies with ourselves constitute the
only four Anglo-Saxon nations facing the Pacific
They speak language, inherit our institutions
and sympathize with our purposes and our racial
problems. We shall always be sure of at least four
of the six votes popularIy attributed to England.
Certainly, if Venezuela and Honduras are to
be represented, it would be preposterous to deny
Ike representation to Canada and Australia
The President has already pointed out that
no action be taken either in the council or the
assembly without the concurrence of the United
States; unless we should be parties to the contro-
ve-5yr, n which case nothing could be done so LONG
as re1.ned one friend on the council
RoweI then ?. oceeded to show that the Unit
ed States already is esolred of three votes and
could get four more.
The fact is, that we have three votes al
ready he said
Our own, that of Panama and that of Cuba.
We have a treaty right to control elections
in those two countries, and he must be innocent
indeed who would doubt the ability of any resolute
American president to control those two votes
If these three are not enough we can easily
get two more by giving Porto Rico and the Philip
pines the same degree of self government without
theoretical independence, which New Zealand ano
Australia enjoy.
If we wish two more, they could easily be
got a little later by assuming protectorate over
Armenia and Syria.
The whole thing he concluded is q
play to the galleries We have three votes already
we can get four more if we wish them and we also
have four of Englands six.
Mr.. Rowel is not the only ardent admirer o
Senator Johnson who is in open disagreement with