The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-03
SENATOR JOHNSON
AASAIIS LEAGUE OF
NATIONS COVENANT
Continued from page u

NOuOUutu tioht t-Ao'
ny first. For the first time In our his
tory, the jealous guarding OF our own
the love OF our traditions, and our IN
stitutions. the passion for our land ana
our liberty, have become venlii sins
1--WE have learned In the last Two
years new thing in our nitiohai me-
national propaganda. The propaganda
paid for by the people themselves mas
been devoted to deceiving the people,
and TO glorifying those who by peo'
ple's grace have been raised TO hish
position. This perverting process nus
been one Of the powerful agencies ior
preventing people from knowing the
possibilities Of the league or nations
ION the 1lth of November America
A. no nation on earth ever had been
before, was respected. revered' ana oe'
loved. After six months OF meddiins
and muddllng In European and Asiatic
controversies and contests over terri
tory the end Of the peace conference
finds Italy destesting w, France secret,
ly despising us, England using us, ana
Japan bluffing us.
.They are all willing and ANXIOUS
that we should have our league of ma
tons. and willing and anxious because
Of the same spirit which has ruled
them in the peace conference. The one
going solvent concern nationally Is
about to enter into partnership with
certain national bankrupts. We give
of our assets, both moral and material
and assume part of their liabilities
"Gladly will we do what duty com
ruands. and humanity and civilization
my i&quire. but that duty can be
better done. our obligation TO humanity
and civilization better fulfilled in the
high position of the worlds greatest
democracy than in the subordinate
position OF the least consequential OF
a quintuple alliance"
Recalling in detail the abuses which
followed the holy alliance. the Calitor-
mia senator said it was organized for
the same declared purposes ana in the
same "ethereal and celestial language
as the league now proposed. He quot
I'd article Ten in the league cove
nant in which member nations "un-
dertake to respect and preserve as
against external aggression the terri
torial integrity of all the members,
and continued:
THE league of nations comes to US
after its principal members have been
gorged with territory, with their poun'
daries and their limits increased beyond
the widest dreams. The one going
solvent national concern on earth un-
dertakes by article Y to guarantee for
ever these extraordinary territorial lin
- x.ftln
men who really wrote ii. who meant to
obtain peace only insofar as peace
maintained forever inviolate their ter
ritories and their subject peoples.
Quoting the Monroe doctrine amend
ment to the league covenant. Senator
Johnson continued.
IF an American, with the purpose
in view of protecting the Monroe doc
trine, wrote this article, his affection
for 1t was tepid. and his allegiance
feeble 1t could not have been written
with any other purpose than the de-
struction of the Monroe doctrine The
amendment simply says, The
validity of regional understandings
for securing the maintenance of peace
shall not be affected. In other words,
v the Monroe doctrine is to be admin
Istered, it will be within the jurisdic-
tion of the league Of nations to admin
lster it,
"The blackest page in all our history
Has written when our name was sign
ed to the treaty delivering Shantung |
to Japan. We have not only commit
ted the crime. in the first instance, but
we have guaranteed the crime for all |
time. We give by the peace treaty
Shantung to Japan and by the league
Of nations part of the same document,
guarantee Shantung to Japan, and
guarantee with our treasure and our
blood
1T is absolutely clear that questions
like immigration, those arising from
the alien law of California. and similar
matters, will be within the jurisdiction
Of the league. Remember that there
is In existence an offensive and de.
fensive alliance between Japan and
Great Britain and when the question
uf Shantung was recently approached
Britain very frankly said this treaty
alliance still existed. AS q Californian,
am not ready to submit any race
problems we may have TO the jurisdic-
tion of the council of the league Of
nations. or to the league itself.
II am unwilling that either body
should pass upon possibly the gravest
question that eonfronts us. You gen.
tleinent from the South would resent
the suggestion that u race problem
OF yours should be decided by nations
bound to the race affected by secret
treaties"