Arizona republican., 1919-10-10
TREATY NOT DESIGNED
 TO PREVENT WAR SAYS CALIFORNIA SENATOR
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SPOKANE, Wash. Oct. 9.-In fight ing mood, Senator Hiram W. Johnson reached Spokane tonight in his speak ing tour against acceptance of the league of nations in it's present form. He spoke before an audience that filled the state armory with an estimated capacity of 4,000 persons, The Cali fornia senator left Montana and Utah points immediately after his address here.
 Senator Johnson, speaking tonight at the armory here, said in part:
 To-day, my friends, this nation stands it the crossroads of it's destiny, On one hand is the tortuous, the sinu- ous, the cynical path of European and Asiatic diplomacy and on the other hand is the straight and narrow path of 100 per cent Americanism and it is this latter path that some men in Washington have chosen and we are going along that path of Americanism until our country, our republic, shall be safeguarded and we are going to the goal of safeguarding this country in the league Of nations, no matter what obstacles and no matter what the cost may be.
 You, I take it, just like myself, would have been glad to advocate a measure which would have brought peace unto the world. good will unto men, and would have prevented for all time in the future any other wars. But when the reality came to us, when we first learned to analyze and to understand, we began to realize, faintly at first, but finally with increasing plainness and with increasing sorrow too, that what was presented to us in the form of a league of nations was not a design to prevent war at all, bu. was purpose upon the part of Euro pean and Asiatic nations to make the ! United States of America bear the | burden Of every future war that should be brought in all this world
 "When this became apparent to us then it was that the opposition arose | But already a sentiment has been created by men throughout this land created for a document which they had never seen, which we had never seen, and which indeed our people lit 1 tie understood and this sentiment thus created, we have been endeavoring tC combat in the last couple of months
 
 l feel am able to predict to this great audience that the league of nations. ii it passes the United States senate, vii have annexed to it such protectins reservations as will enable us in tho future to govern ourselves just as we have governed ourselves in the past.
 There are many reasons whicf have been advanced why this docu ment should be adopted in our coun- try. All of them I can not touch upoT in my address within the limits O any one evening. But those wheel you have heard most frequently re fer to m order that you may under. stand that the advocates of the leagu, of nations really present nothing tangi ble upon which that document shoult become a part of the law of this land You have heard, just as I have heard that We have entered upon our worl, career; that we have become a par Of the worlds politics and that tn splendid isolation which has been our in the past can no longer obtain il thls country. Again and again ou opponents ring the changes upon tn 1act that this country can not be iso lated in the future longer and say t us that it is necessary. in order tha we play cur part in world politics an, stabilize the world and that We Q forward upon our world career east ing our fortunes with all the rest o the world. We have never been iso lated, my friends. We have never bee isolated in any fashion from the res of the world, neither commercially no financially nor socially. We hay