Arizona republican., 1919-09-14
JOHNSON DEMANDS
 DEATH OF LEAGUE
 IN BITTER SPEECH
Says Wilson Loses Ideals at Peace Conference Table Crowd Roundly Cheers Speaker
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Convention hall, the largest audi toriurn in the city, was crowded and | many were turned away. The crowd stood while it cheered, waved flags and sang patriotic songs. There were | shouts of Johnson is the next presi- dentl"
 Take Straight and Narrow" Path
 The meeting was under the auspices of the local chapter of the League for the Preservation of American lnde- pendence.
 Senator Johnson, in his address, wig orously attacked the peace treaty and league of nations pact. He declared the league covenant the most impor- tant question that had confronted the American people since the Civil war
 We are at the crossroads of our national destiny" said Johnson. "One i road leads to sinister European and Asiatic complications. The other is the straight and narrow path of patriotic | Americanism We want to take the straight and narrow path. That is the only safe course.
 T dare say that this country never has been isolated, financially, com mercially or socially from the rest of the world the senator continued 'Our only isolation has been geograph ically, because of the great oceans on our east aud west coasts. God gave us these great oceans and neither the league of nations nor Woodrow Wilson can dry them up.'
 Loses Ideals at Paris
 He described the league of nations | covenant as an infamous nostrum which the president promises will cure every i'll. President Wilson went to Paris with certain idealistic principles, but came home without any of them" :" said the senator. When the people learned of the presidents failure at Paris. America held an inquest for its dead hopes.
 While Senator Johnson was speak ing. Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the central division, and l formerly commander of Camp Fun stan, Kansas, appeared on the platform and was cheered by the crowd.
 We say to Mir. Wilson" Senator Johnson added, make any secret treaties you desire, but you can't guar antee them with the blood of American boys"
 There were loud cries of "impeach Wilson from hundreds in the crowd when Senator Johnson. after dramat- ically summing up his objections to the league, shouted:
 Let us end the whole rotten busf- ness by defeating the entire pact.
 He praised Senator Reed of Miss ouri for his courageous stand in oppos- ing ratification of the league covenant. At the conclusiNp of Senator John sons speech there were calls for Gen eral Wood, and he responded, speak ing briefly of the plans and purposes of the American Legion.
 Senator Johnson was welcomed to the home city of Senator James A Reed by a non-partisan citizens com mittee of 100, R. E. Ball, democrat, called the meeting to order and in- troduced B. E. McJimpsey, of Spring field. Mo, republican, who acted as chairman and presented Senator Johnson to the audience.
 Tt is difficult to think that the presi- dent spoke otherwise than ironically in much that he said to you here in Kansas City, said Senator Johnson in beginning his address.
 His opening sentence, forgetful, ap- parently, of other utterance, and of the facts assumes like forgetfulness on the part of our people.
 Sacrifices All Pledges
 His initial remark to you was: I came back from Paris bringing one of the greatest documents of human his- tory. One of the things that made it great was thaf it was permeated throughout with the principles to which America had devoted her life
 ''The facts, the memorable facts, make the issue with MT. Wilson. The American principles to which we were devoted and which he so eloquently voiced open covenants, freedom of the seas, guarantees of reduction of na- tional armaments, impartial adjust ment of colonial claims, destruction of every arbitrary power, self deter imitation, no special alliances, justice to 4he weak. no people to be handed 2bout from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property, no territory to change hands except for the happi- ness and liberty of its people. were one by one sacrificed to old-world diplo- macy and the secret bargains of our CO., belligerents.
 "The treaty, in it's dealings with ter ritories and peoples simply rewrites the secret treaties of which the presi- dent says he never heard until he reached Paris. At Paris the president said to Dr. Williams, the far eastern expert of the United States, and his testimony given before the foreign re- lations committee of the senate, that the war seemed to be fought to es- tablish the sanctity of treaties, and that, while some treaties were un- questionable at the time, 1t looked as though they would have to be ob- served It is necessary to deny that the presidents treaty observing and carefully following unconscionable se- cret treaties of which he knew nothing is penetrated throughout with the principles to which America has devot- ed her life?
 Facts Make Issue
 Nor is that all. We know from the admission of all parties, including the president, that the other American peace delegates protested against the infamy of the Shantung decision; and yesterday the testimony of Mir. Bullitt { one Of the presidents appointees at Paris, clearly indicated the adverse opinion of the present treaty His re- mark that Secretary of State Lansing said the American leople would never accept 1t if they knew it's contents is (contlnued on Page Fiyel -