Arizona republican., 1919-09-16
LEAGUE COVENANT
 IS "GIGANTIC TRUST
 OF WAR" SAYSHIRAM

continue party to the denial of these peoples rights whenever they are as serted, but to our diplomatic denial we will add denial economically and by force of arms too.
 T am not quarreling that our allies make Germany pay the full price, " continued Senator Johnson.
 T do quarrel with requiring our treasure and our blood for all time in the future to preserve the spells 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 it's close, none of it's spells, but in the name of America. let us at least re- fuse to be treated as part of the spells. Out of the war Great Britain comes with a supremacy of the sea unques- toned. By the treaty she has fourth of the earth's surface and an over whelmingly preponderance of the peo- ples of the earth. 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 ter ritories beyond the widest dreams of their statesmen and it is demanded that Am erica shall underwrite all their immense accessions.
 We have been told by the president that we must now by this league of nations make the supreme sacrifice and throw in our fortunes with the rest of the world. Why? The very query evokes from league enthusiasts immediate and angry retort and, w,.Ae they will not enlighten us, they hint darkly at our motives and deny even our good faith. Occasionally we hear that we have at last entered upon a world career, that we have become a part of the world politics and that we can not now either withdraw from the course into which the war drew us, or desert the world which so needs us In the language of famous editor ol the west all of this is important ii | true, but it by no means establishes l that we must surrender our cherished | position or our loved ideals by becom- l ing party to the sordid quarrels ano | the diplomatic duplicity of Europe and Asia. The United States will play her proud part in the world in the future as she has done in the pasta part | prouder because based upon American principles and American ideals. It die not require secret treaties anC | stealthy bartering of unwilling peoples to make our nation play her part in the war; it does not require the guaranty 1 of secret treaties and bargaining ant | bartering of unwilling peoples to have | the nation play it's part after the war Throwing in our fortune with thu | fortunes of the rest of the world, mean. with our altruistic brethren throwins | our fortunes to the rest of the world | that the rest of the world may do witt | our donation as it sees fit. Gladly vii
 we do what duty commands and hu. manity and civilization may require | but that duty can be better done oul | obligations to humanity and civiliza
 tion better fulfilled in the high posi- 1 tion of the worlds greatest democracy
 than in the subordinate position of tn, | least consequential of a quintuple al | liance, or as one of many bound ire.
 vocably to the guarantee of the many! | power and territories.
 This is not a league of nations tt | PiCNtnL wal. IL IS d JedSue Ol dTUlPf
 nations in a gigantic trust. In it's very
 creation it has been stripped of ever, | idealistic purpose it ever had. It con
 tains within itself the germs of man!
 wars, and worse than that, it rivets, a.
 in the Shantung decision. the chains 0
 tyranny upon millions of people anC
 cements for all time unjust and wicked annexations. It is a great worl,
 economic trust, wherein a few men sit
 ting in secret may control the econo
 mic destinies of peoples. It is not
 league of people, nor does it anywher,
 concern itself with people whose pas
 wrongs and future rights were so elo
 quently portrayed by the president. I
 is trust of existing present power
 It will never prevent war, it will sane
 tify power in new, a terrible, ant
 sinister sense"