The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-09-19
SENATOR JOHNSON SWINGS
AROUND SOME HIMSELF


binder himself. Keep your eye on
him. He is the great California polit-
ical asset. He is following the pres
ident in his swing around the circle,
md at Demoines, Iowa, made several
speeches. The following pointed ex-
tracts are taken from his speech and
are worth reading and bordering:
"When men in power violate the
constitution they are breeders of Boil
shevism," said Senator Johnson.
This menace is bred in the breasts
of mothers whose sons were drafted
to fight againts Germany, but were
shot down in Russia, a country with
which the United States is not at war.
81 do not fear Bolshevism in this
country. ! have too much faith in the
common sense of the American peo-
pie.
"The only kind of wars you are go
ing to stop under the league of ma
tions are England's wars with Amer
ica's blood" said Johnson.
1--WE fought righteous war and
won," said Senator johnson. "With
our might and our treasure we deter
mined to destroy a ruthless mllltar-
ism and it was done. In the peace we
would make it impossible for this
monster ever again to threaten this
world.
"The victory for the United States
means neither territory nor repara-
tions. 1t should mean the triumph OF
our olud-trumpeted ideals for civiliza-
ton, for the rights of small nations
for self determination, for democracy
It means for England, France, Italy
and Japan huge territory and vast
numbers of people, immense national
gain. The burden must be bourne OF
protecting and safeguarding these
enormous allied gains. The question
is, and the league of nations square
ly presents it, who shall bear the bur-
den?
"ShalI not the burden rest upon the
gamers, thos who made mock OF
self-determination, of the rights of
weak peoples, of all our high-sound-
ing idealism, or shall the burden, at
the command of one who was a party
to the mockery, be thrust upon the
only nom rofiting nation, the United
States? The sole reason, whispered
in fear or ominously Kissed to create
fear in the rest of us, why the United
States should become the worlds
guarantor and underwrite the rape OF
China and the partition of hundreds of
thousands of square miles of territory
and the transfer of millions of human
beings to England, France, Italy and
Japan, is that by doing so the POSSIBLE
itv of future wars will be minimized,
and there may be greater sense OF
security in the possession by Eng
land, France, Italy and Japan of their
newly acquired peoples and territories.
"But this argument in its last an
alysis means that United States pow
er and treasure and blood will do for
England, France, Italy and Japan
what otherwise they would be com
pelled to do for themselves. 1t means
not the end of discomfort or the ces-
sation of war, for peoples held in cruel
subsection like the Koreans or Chinese
will ever be striving for their liberty
and the elf-determination for which
we talked so much and did so little.
1t means that the great democracy
of the world-our country-must not
only continue party to the denial OF
these peoples rights whenever they
are asserted but to our diplomatic de-
NAL we will add denial economically
and by force of arms too.
81 am not quarreling that our allies
make Germany pay the full price" "
continued Senator johnson.
81 do quarrel with requiring our
treasure and our blood for all time IN
the future to preserve the spoils OF
war to England, France, Italy and
Japan under secret bargains, which in
bad faith were concealed from us dur
ing the war. During the war we,
properly and rightly, made every sac
rifice. We are demanding now, at
its close, none of the spoils, but in
the name of America, let US at least
refused to be treated as part of the
spoils. Out of the war Great Britain
comes with a supremacy of the sea
unquestioned. By the treaty she has
a fourth of the earth's surface and an
overwhelming preponderance of the
earth.
ContempIates British World
Great Britain proudly contemplates
out of this peace a British world.
Shall we, who neither ask nor get
anything from the peace, guarantee
this British world with our wealth
and our man power? France and
Italy and Japan emerged with terri
tories beyond the widest dreams of
their statesmen and it is demanded
hat America shall underwrite all
their immense accessions.