Arizona republican., 1919-09-20
MAKES US. PROP ID EUROPE CLAIMS JOHNSON
Would Make American Rich
 Partner Among Ruined
 Nations That Now De- spise Us--Senator Cancels Trip to Return to Capital
Republican A. p. Leased wire1

ca's entry into the league of nations will mark the formation of a partner ship between the one going, solvent country in the world with certain European bankrupts, who after our first experience in meddling and muddling in foreign politics have come to secretly dispise and detest us, de- clared Senator Hiram W. Johnson, in addressing a large and enthusiastic audience here tonight.
 '"The league of nations" he de- -clared, "comes to us after it's prin- cipal members have been gorged with territory, with their boundaries and their limits increased beyond the widest dreams and with other im- mense tracts of the worlds surface yet to be distributed among them.
 After these extraordinary accessions of territory, the one going, solvent na- tional concern on earth undertakes by article ten to guarantee forever these extraordinary territorial limits.
 This section freezes the world into immutability. It assumes to put the world into strait jacket, wherein there can be no movement for better ment or progress of humanity.
 Beyond and above all this, the maintenance of this static condition is to be accomplished by the blood of just one nation. and that is ours.
 Are you ready, America, to pledge your sons and your sons sons to main tain and preserve for all time the present governments of the little na- tlons we are setting up in Europe and the present governments and bound aries of the British and Japanese en- pires?
 The great fundamental question which every American father and mother should answer is this: Shall American boys police the world2 Shall American blood uphold, maintain, and preserve old world governments and the territorial integrity of the nations which have immensely increased their boundaries@
 Senator Johnson declared that the power of making war should be taken from sovereign rulers and vested in the people who should have authority to decide the question by a referendum vote Women, he said, who bear such heavy burdens of war, should be per- mltted to participate on an equal basis with men in determining whether their country should go to war.
 lie said that under the league coven- ant such a plan would be impracticable
 Instead of coming closer to the people in these vital matters, the league of nations would go step further from them and place the power to make war in the hands of the rulers and their rep resentatives instead of the people" said Senator Johnson.
 The awful tragedy of the world" he said, the sorrow, the grief and the anguish of those whose dear ones made the supreme sacrifice, the fearful waste ana Welter, of necessity turned the thoughts of all men and all women to prevention of another world cataclysm We were resolved after the experiences of this great conflict, to take as far as human agency could, some forward sten to preclude another.
 To 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 culmination of national cun- nlng and cupidity, and to prevent future conflicts of Gods creatures, possessed a charm and an allurement a hope and an inspiration which we would have gone far to realize and consummate. The various phases of our disillusion- ment I will not dwell upon.
 Each milestone of the peace con- ference successively marks them.
 The beautiful phrases of altruism and idealism are found, as often the case in the last few years, but mere words. They were never translated into deeds, and ultimately, with the presentation of the covenant came the shattering 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 is the reproach to patriotism and the denunciation of those who think first of our republic 1 We who would protect and preserve our own nation, who loyalty and pa triotically would hesitate to involve it's sons and it's future generations in perpetual and continuous warfare. are designated as little, selfish and pro vincial Americans"
 Senator John expressed the view that the league covenant turned over the Monroe doctrine to foreign powers for interpretation.
 [ AAO dCNleL CQ At uLilHiUhdDi6 mat any American wrote the tenth article oi the peace pact. or that any American could subscribe to it.
 President Wilson's amendment to the league covenant designed to safe guard the Monroe doctrine is a fraud delusion and a snare" declared Sen- ator Johnson.
 Senator Johnson announced tonigh, that he had abandoned his proposed speech making trip to the coast, and would leave for Washington, D. c Sunday. He will close his tour of the middle west with an address al Minneapolis tomorrow night.
 T am greatly disappointed because l am unable to go to the Pacific coast but have decided that my presence is urgently needed at Washington next week." said the senator T want tc be in the senate when my amendment to the league covenant abolishing tht preponderance of Great Britain's vot- ing power in the assembly of the league comes up for consideration. I vii answer President Wilson's speeches or the Pacific coast in an address whicf I will issue to the people of California;