The sun., 1919-09-13
JOHNSON EXPOSES
ENJOYS DUPLICITY
Loaded With Secret Treaties,
They Upheld High Aims
of American Nations.
POOR BASIS FOR A TREATY
In st. Louis Speech Senator
Calls Article Y. Heart of
Whole Bad Business.

81. LOUIS, Sept. 12.--Trahing Presi-
dent Wilson through the middle West,
presenting arguments opposing the 'rati-
fication of the League of Nations cove
nant, Senator Hiram w. johnson of
California addressed two large and en-
thusiastic audiences in ST. Louis to-day.
At noon he spoke TO o gathering of
business men at the City Club. Tonight
he addressed a large mass meeting in the
Coliseum, where President Wilson spoke
when he visited ST. Louis a week ago.
At the night meeting he was introduced
by Or. John II. simon. a prominent
Democrat.
II want to deny Mr.. Wilson's charge
that the American people are cutters IL
they refuse TO approve the League of Ma
tions. The American people never quit.
When Mr.. Wilson went to Paris to de-
mand his fourteen points and came
home without them the American people
did not quit somebody else quit
ibid the President when he was here
explain why Great Britain was given
six votes in the League of Nations and
the United States only one?"
There were shouts of MOI and Kisses
for Great Britain.
''Of course he didn't And he never
will because he can't" said the Senator.
THE Monroe Doctrine is handed over
to the sinister foreign Powers by Mr..
Wilson and this League of Nations" he
continued I'VE don't have to become
the partners of burglars simply because
we can't prevent burglary"
In his plea for the defeat of the League
of Nations in its present form Senator
johnson described the treaty OF peace
an q patchwork of the secret treaties
made between the Allies, unknown 10
America, before and during the war. and
challenged the recent declaration of the
President that failure to concur in the
settlement of the terms of peace by
the United States would put stain
upon our national honor which we never
could efface" Paraphrasing the Presi-
dent, the Senator called Article X. the
-heart of the whole bad business.
"Does the President intend to say that
A will put a stain upon our honor If we
do not carry out the secret bargaininss
which were. with a duplicity unparalleled
In the worlds history, concealed from
us?" asked the Senator.
He described the visits to this country
after our declaration Of war of the dtplo-
matte representatives OF england,
France, Italy and Japan.
Duplicity of Foreign ENJOYS.
in the full flush of righteous indigna-
ton against a ruthless enemy, We were
bending every energy in behalf Of Just
cause" said Senator Johnson. Before
the United States Senate in terms as
idealistic as those we employed, Mr.. Bal
four for England Mr.. Viviani for France,
Italy's Prince and Japan's representative
spoke Until they came no foreigner had
ever stood upon the rostrum of the
United States Senate since Lafayette's
visit While these representatives of the
four great Powers were speaking to US
upon the same plane upon which We were
acting and appealing to the same lofty
sentiments and altruistic purposes, their
very pockets were .bulging with the SCI
cret treaties they had made among them
selves for the partition OF the world and
the distribution of the spoiis of the war
During all the period that they were
with US not word was said, not a syl-
liable was lisped while we were pouring
out our blood and treasure, not hint of
a 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
70 our purposes In the war. the princi-
pies We laid down upon which peace
should be concluded, were reechoed and
assented to by those very Powers with
whom we We're fighting side by side"
Senator johnson enumerated the Presi-
dents wartime declarations of Ameri-
cas- peace aims. He quoted the Presi-
dents assertion that the processes of
peace should be absolutely open and
permit no secret understandings Of any
kind.
"a general peace cannot be pieced to-
gether out of the individual understand
ings of the powerful States" he said.
'@These very principles of peace were
accepted by the holders Of the secret
treaties" declared the Senator. I'VE
may view their denial now by foreign
nations perhaps with only passing re-
greet, but II we break our faith TO the
world and TO our own people then our
national honor will be stained as in
all our proud history 1t has never been
stained before"
War Worn Epithets Obsolete.
Speaking at the City Club luncheon
Senator Johnson sad in part:
"Mr Wilson has two favorite argli-
nnents, not unknown to a certain class of
lawyers. He adopts the methods of the
bad case and denounces his opponents.
Ho endeavors 10 brighten them with cpl
theta of pro-Germanism, to which he
himself became accustomed from August,
1914, to April. 1917, and when the full
effect Of this belated and now obsolete
charge Is not apparent he adopts the
second line OF denunciation of en-
trenched power and shouts Bolshevist, a
characterization with which he is quite
familiar. The day is past, thank God,
when American citizens can be swerved
from their duty by outworn war cpl
thets"
Asserting that the League OF Nations
seeks to make the United States a mi
nority stakeholder In an international
corporation, Senator johnson added
81 have heard OF nations placing them
selves in the hands of their creditors,
but this Is the first time ever heard 1t
suggested that nation place itself in
the hands OF its debtors"
He said the United States was the
only going, solvent nation in the world
to-day.
After paying tribute to the ability OF
Great Britain's diplomats he said; 81
wish the United States could have hired
Lloyd George TO represent 1t at the
Peace Conference"
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