The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-13
ALLIES WERE
NOT FAIR TO
U. s., STATES
CALIFORNIAN
Treaty Patchwork Of Secret
Covenants Made Unknown
to America, Johnson De-
clares at St. Louis.
CLAIMS INCONSISTENCY

PRESIDENT wilson through Lne Mluule |
West, presenting arguments opposing |
the ratification of the League of Ma i
tions covenant, Senator Hiram w.
Johnson. of California. Friday ad- |
dressed two large and enthusiastic |
audiences in st. Louis.
At noon he spoke to gathering of |
business men at the City club.
Last night he addressed a large
maLs meeting at the Coliseum, where |
President Wilson spoke when he Wis |
tied st. Louis a week ago.
In his plea for the defeat of the |
League of Nations in it's present form, |
Senator johnson described the treaty
of peace as a patchwork OF the Sc
cret treaties made between the allies. |
unknown to America, before and dur |
ing the war, and challenged the re-
cent declaration of the president, that
failure to concur in the settlement
OF the terms of peace by the United
States would put a stain upon our
national honor which we never could
efface."
Secret Treaties Are Assailed.
Does the President intend to say
that 1t will put a stain upon our hon.
or II we do not carry out the secret
bargainings which were with du-
plicity without parallel in the worlds
history. concealed from u.s." asked the
senator.
He described the visits to this
country after our declaration of war
of the diplomatic representatives or
England, France, Italy and Japan.
I'm the full flush of righteous in
dignation against ruthless enemy,
we were bending every energy IN De-
half of a just cause" said Senator
Johnson
Before the United States senate, in
terms as ideaiistic as those we en-
ployed, Mr.. Baifour, for England; MT,
Viviani, for France, Italy's Prince and
they came no foreigner had ever
stood upon the rostrum Of the United
States senate since Lafayette Visit.
While these representatives OF the
four great powers were speaking to us
upon the same plane upon which we
we're acting and appealing to the same
lofty sentiments and altruistlc pur-
noses their very pockets were bulglng
with the secret treaties they had made
among themselves for the partition OF
the world and the distribution OF the
spoils of the war.
Allies Silent on Treaties.
During all the period that they
were with US not single one diVulged
70 our government or to any repre-
sentative the treaties they had made,
a half dozen in number and Whlch
they then had determined to write into
the ultimate treaty OF peace. Inc
president said with positiveness at the
recent meeting with the Foreign Rela-
tions committee he had never even
heard of these secret treaties until
he went to Paris. The Secretary or
IN, il-n IA
Indeed in 1917, while the treaty be-
tween the four great nations in fela-
ton not only to Shantung. but the
isles of the Pacific, safely reposed in
their archives, Viscount Ishii. the rep
resentative of Japan, concluded with
our Secretary of State an agreement
by which the United States govern
ment recognized the special interests
of Japan in China.
During these negotiations" contin-
ued the senator, mot a word was said,
not syllable was lisped while we
were pouring out our blood and our
treasure not a hint Of suggestion
while we were announcing to the
world our peace policies, of the secret
partition of lands in Europe. Asia and
Africa The words we uttered as to
our purposes in the war, the principles
we laid down upon which peace should
he concluded, were re-echoed and as
sented to by those very powers with
whom we were fighting side by side"
President is Quoted.
Senator Johnson enumerated the
presidents wartime declarations Of
Americas peace aims. He quoted the
presidents assertion that the pro
cesses of peace should be absolutely
open and permit no secret understand
ings of any kind.
"A general peace cannot be pieced
together out of the individual under
standings of the powerful states. he
said.
Speaking at the City Club luncheon,
Senator Johnson said in part:
Mr. Wilson has two favorlte argu'
ments. not unknown to certain class
of lawyers He adopts the methods OF
the bad case, and denounces ms OPP
ponents He endeavors to frlshten
them with epithets of Pro -Germanism,
10 which he became accustomed from
August, 1914. to April, 1917, and when
the full effect of this belated and now
obsolete charge is not apparent ne
adopts the second line of denunciation
of entrenChed power and shouts Boil
SheviSt. a characterization with which
he is quite familiar. The day is past.
thank God. when American citizens
can be swerved from their duty by
out-worn war epithets.
Treaty Has Three Hearts.
In the remarkable address of Mr..
Wilson in this city few days ago he
discussed the League of Nations with
his usual facility of expression and his
usual confusion of detail and facts. In
his description of the anatomy of the
league he supplied 1t with three
hearts, presumably all beating in uni
son.
$50 that the heart of the covenant,
he said. is that the nations solemnly
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