Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-09-11
BORAH Ev0KES
OPPOSITION To
j. 8. FIGHTING
WARS Of. WORLD
Chicago Hearers Cheer
Protest Against Send
ing Yanks Abroad.
JOHNsAN CHALLENGES
PRESIDENT WITH NEWS

Chicago, Sept. 1O.-Crowds tonigh,
besieged in vain the Auditorium theater
where republican senator's began their
western speaking tour in answer To
President Wilson's demands for uncondi-
tional acceptance of the peace treaty and
league Of nations covenant. Before 5
O'Clock, the hour for opening the speak
ing. the theater was filled and thou
sands of persons were left in the
streets.
The thousands within and without
had come to hear Senators William r.
Borah Of Idaho. Hiram w. Johnson. Of
California, and MediIl Mccormick of Hi
nois, the latter presiding at the meeting,
expound their views of the peace treaty
and league covenant and reply to Presi-
dent Wilson's utterances on his swing
around the country. Senator Johnson had
spoken earlier in the day at a luncheon
at the Hamilton club, but Senator Borah
did not arrive until late in the day.
Inside the vast theater, the crowd
applauded and perspired in shirt
sleeves. Senator Johnson spoke first;
then Senator Borah. Both men were
wildly cheered and there were occasion
al comments from the crowd
Was Anti-League Crowd.
''We in the senate, want TO construe
III
Senator Borah. THE president says that
the treaty assures peace. Well, in 1916.
he said we must elect him for he would
keep us out Of war. A few months la
ter we were in the war. l don't believe
much in prophets.
DO any of you want to 60 into a
league that you can't get out of"
All over the hall there were cries Of
mo, no,'
as there an American who wants a
foreign nation to say when and where
the Monroe Doctrine shall apply?'
went on the speaker, and there were
cries of "No.'
Not In Humor to Flight for Others.
Prolonged cheers greeted his stric-
lures on the presence Of American
troops in Siberia, and there was pro-
longed cheers when he asserted that one
of the senates differences with the
president was the formers insistence on
an amendment to the league of nations
plan which would make it impossible to
send American boys to fight anywhere
except by order Of their own govern
ment.
The Interruptions grew more frequent
and excited as the senator proceeded
When he spoke Of the power in the
hands Of the president there were cries
Of Take it away from him., cat calls,
boOes and cheers.
Before we talk Of that let's see to it
that he is not given more power"
shouted the Idaho senator as soon as he
could make himself heard.
Giving Back Liberty, He Says.
The audience rose and cheered wildly. |
They want us to sign on the dotted t
line; they say our amendments take |
time went on the senator and a spec
tator called out, 1T took Wilson six |
months
Yes" said the speaker, taking the
cue. "and it took George Washington /
seven years to gain the independence
from George III that they now want
The first speech of the campaign was
made by Senator johnson, this noon,
before the Hamilton club.
Senator Johnson from the start chaI-
leDged statements made by the president.
saying that "his reputed report to his
on those affairs of the
world which now need to be settled" had
apparently degenerated into rather in
temperate and harsh criticism.
But Boys in Khaki Do Go.
The inexorable facts make the issue
with Mr. Wilson, Senator johnson de-
Of nations is the only conceivable ar
rangement which will prevent seLding
our men abroad again very soon. and
that, because of it, the boys IN khaki will
not be ordered into foreign lands the
day events. condemn the president aud
him. At the very time he WAS
making these statements, American boys
were upon the Rhine, condemned to re
main there for 1J years in the future, BY
virtue of his action As ne uttered his
words, 1000 American sons were being
ordered by the Paris conference ,the
zeal league of nations now to en-
Dark from this country to Silesia to pro-
.ect coal mines and police that terri
,ory.
Ties United States Up Till 1851.
AS the president made his boast of
10 khaki-clad boys across the sea,
American youths were being slain in
Asia, at Nladivostok, and in Siberia in ,
war not declared by American people
n the American congress, but directed
n secrecy at Paris. The instrument for
which he pleads unless vitally amended,
les us until 1861 in the internal af-
airs of Germany and in all Europe.
THE facts make the issue with Mr.
wilson, and the issue is. shall American
,oys be brought home shall America be
america again or shall American boys MT
he behest Of Mr.. Wilson and his col
eagues be involved in secrecy and death
q Europe and Asia.
Armenian act Withheld.
although every other member Of the
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