New-York tribune., 1919-06-03

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made by the men and women who must
f.gh, and die for it,"
Urging adoption Of his resolution
asking the State Department Tor the
full text of the peace treaty. Senator
Johnson read into the record the Oft
quoted utterances of President Wilson
regarding "open diplomacy"
"Open covenants openly arrived at"
continued the Senator, "are now a bv-
word and joke. Their mention brings
bat cynical smile.
when you remember that England
frankly says her treaties are yet in
existence. her offensive and defensive
alliance with Japan yet controlling.
ard then you observe the United States
making some sort of engagement the
knowledge Of which for the present we
are denied. you will have some con-
ception of what the league Of nations
is intended to do"
Peril for Monroe Doctrine
The revised covenant. Mr.. johnson
continued. for from preserving the
Monroe Doctrine, would mean its de-
struction. He declared the league
would be partnership between tie
worlds one great "going concern" and
bankrupt nations, and charged that gov
ernment propaganda was discrediting
league opponents. BY the Paris nego-
tiations, he said, the United States has
made many powerful enemies.
at is rare indeed he asserted,
that any speech is made in favor of
the league which does not bitterly con-
demn Americans who think of their
own country first. For the first time
in our history the jealous guarding of
our own. the love Of our traditions and
our institutions. the passion for our
land and Our liberty have become venial
sins.
I'VE have learned in the last two
years a new thing in our national life
national propaganda. The propaganda.
paid for by the people themselves. has
been devoted to deceving the people
and to glorifying those who, by a
peoples grace, have been raised to high
position. This pervcrting process has
been one of the powerful agencies for
preventing people from knowing the
possibilities of the league Of nations.
Calls L. S. Prestige Lost
con November II America, as no
nation on earth ever had been before.
was respected, revored and beloved.
After six months OF meddiing and
nuddlng in European and Asiatic con-
troversies and contests over territory
the end of the peace conference finds
Italy detesting us, France secrntly
despisng US. England using US and
Japan bluffing US.
They are all willing and anxious
hat we should have our league of
nations. and willing and anxious be-
cause of the same spirit which has
Eu.ed them in the peace conference.
he one going solvent concern nation
ally is about to enter into partnership
with certain national bankrupts We
Give Of our assets. both moral and ma-
tarlal. end assume a part Of their
liabilities
"Gladly Will we do what duty COM
4nands, and humanity and civilization
may require; but that duty can Be bet
ter done, our obligations 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
quintuple alliance'
Leagues Members "Gorged"
i;ccailing in detail the abuses which
followed the Holy Alliance, the Senator
said it was organized or the same de-
c.arcd purposes and in the same
"erherial and celestial language" as the
league now proposed. He quoted Arti-
Gle y of the league covenant. in which
member nations undertake to respect
and preserve as against external
aggression the territorial ntegrity' Of
all tho members, and continued:
The league of nations comes to US
after its principal members have occn
gorged with territory; Will thcil
boundaries and their limits incrca &C
beyond the widest dreams The one
Going solvent national concern on cartF
undertakes by Article Y to guarantee
forever these extraordinary territoria
limits. This league of nations. witl
The men who really wrote it, wa.
meant to obtain peace only in so fa
as peace maintained forever inviola.,
heir territories and their subjcc
peoples"
Quoting the Monroe Doctrine amend
mont to the league covenant, Senate
Johnson continued:
If an American with The purpos
in view OF protecting the Monro
Doctrine wrote this article, his affec
ton for it was tepid and his allcgienc'
feeble 1t could not have been writtel
With any other purpose than tn
destruction Of the Monroe Doctrine
The amendment simply SAYS the valid
ity Of regional understandings 70
securing the maintenance of peace
hall not be affected. In other words
If the Monroe Doctrine is to be ad
mlnistered, it viii be within the juris
fiction of the league Of nations to ad
minister it.
Opposes Shantung Grant
The blackcst page in all our mis-. .or
was written when our name was signe
20 the treaty delivering Shantuny t
Japan. We have not only commi.te
me crime in the first instance, bu, W
nave guaranteed the crime for al time
We give by the peace treaty Shantun
10 Japan, and by the league OF nation
part OF the same document we guar
antee Shantung TO Japan, and guaran
zee " with our treasure and our BLOOD
a +ol cloo,