The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-17
WILSON'S WORDS
GR0TESQUE, SAYS
TRAILER JOHNSON
California Senator Scores
League From Same Plat
form Used by President
Eight Days Ago


Sioux Falls, S, d., September 16.-ln an
endeavor to accommodate the crowc
( which came tonight to hear Senator
johnson, all chairs were removed from
the main floor of the big hall and the
audience stood on its feet during the
address. President Wilson spoke from
the same platform eight days ago. Sena-
tor Johnson charged that President Will
son seeks to establish substantially new
7 government for the United States by the
provisions of the league of nations COW
enant.
Senator Johnson's appeal for the radical
amendment Of the peace pact was en-
thusiast ically received by the crowd.
Upon his arrival here he was met at
the train by band and a committee OF
citizens and later rode in an automobile
! Parade.
Among those on the stage were: Mayor
4 George w. Burnside, w. c. Cook, repub~
! lican national committeeman from South
/ Dakota, and former Senator Robert J.
Gamble.
+ Mr.. Wilson intends, with his league
I OF nations, to adopt new government
for the United States of America" Sena-
! tor johnson said.
i 'Tt is exactly what we do not wish to
4 have DONE We do not require a new
/ tent to live under the constitution and
4 the Declaration of Independence.
/. 1--WE insist that the government OF
I. Washington and of lincoln and of Roose-
I welt, the republic which we have cher
:, ished and which has grown great under
I the doctrine of Americanism, shall not oe
/, suppressed by an overlordship or elgn'
s foreign nations or by a super-government
4 in which our voice will be but one OF
+ nine. In this ominoLs sentence, Mr.. Will
I son has told his purpose and the purpose
Of the league of nations. He has out
grown ths government that has peer
Il ours for 40 years We have not. He ha:
I wade a Fundamental choice of a govern
! ment' with his league. We are SUI
I Americans.
1 FACTS STILL OBSCURE
n "Mr. Wilson, in starting his tour. sait
I. he was making report to the couh
\ try. The American people have walte'
4 in vain for any reports OF Mr.. wilson
d proceedings at Paris.
L Instead of facts they have had platf
4 tudes and glittering general1ues. Inc.
\ have been given no explanation 10
!. the surrender of the principles SO o1tel
n eloquently announced by Mr.. Wilson, n
Il reason for the abandonment of Amer
II icanism and the easy triumph OF EURO
h pean and Asiatic diplomacy.
\ I'm this city of Sioux Falls, Mr.. VIII
\ son INDUCED in one or two significan
|, remarks, pregnant with warning to gu
II people Your choice, he said is be
1 tween the league of nations and Ger
Il manism,' and he endeavored by veile
H threat to convey that his opponent
L we're tainted with pro-Germanism. L
I is a bad and lost cause which in IT.
L extremity, resorts to .epithets and vitu
II peration.
II And the choice is not between tn
Il league of nations and Germanism. TIL
L. choice is between the league of nation
u and Americansm. The choice is be
tween Mr. Wilson's internationalisn
N and Americanisn
"Mr. Wilson asserted to you that tn
treaty of peace laid forever the prin
u ciple that no territory ever should b
governed except as the people VIII
II, lived there wanted it governed.
II '"The millions of subject peoples o
h the earth make the issue. Mr.. viii
|, /, son and his own words to DR.. Williams
H; the American expert, that the treaty @
III peace was founded upon the secret trea
h. ties, some of which he said were un
L, considerable. make his statement gro
II. tesque."