Arizona republican., 1919-09-21
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Roosevelt Never Favored League Claims Senator in Last Speech Before Re turning to Washington
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 20.-With three addresses in the Twin Cities to- day, Senator Hiram W. Johnson con cluded his speaking trip through the middle west opposing the ratification of the league of nations covenant in it's present form. At noon he ad- dressed a large gathering at the Me tropolitan Opera house in St. Paul and at 1 D. m. he spoke to the Lincoln club in Minneapolis.
 Tongiht the climax of strenuous day of speech making was reached when he addressed a mass meeting which packed the armory in Minne apofis.
 Many were turned away unable to find standing room. Mayor J. E. Meyers introduced Senator Johnson at the armory meeting, where the Cali fornian was cheered for several min utes when he entered the hall
 Answering President Wilson's statement that Theodore Roosevelt would favor the league of nations were he alive today, Senator Johnson said;
 Wilson Hard Pressed
 MT. Wilson hard pressed, quoted yesterday Theodore Roosevelt. Oh, if Roosevelt were only here, the nation never needed him more; his command love for and pride in our nation, his lvoe for and pride in our nation, his very personality typical Of our repub- lie, his loyalty to the great cause or democracy, his fearlessness in attack ing any divided allegiance to our country. his. red blooded Americanisn. would have made short work Of the un- American thing which MT. Wilson seeks to foist upon us. How strange and weird and unnatural it seems for Mir. Wilson to quote Theodore Roose- vet They have never been the anti- thesis of each other.
 One with clear vision and unerrine wisdom saw the possibilities of the great world war and our interest in it. l The other with feeble and flakby phrases preached the doctrine of neu- trality in deed and bought Roose- 1 welt, when it was unpopular to do so, 1 denounced wrong and aggression. . broken national faith and ruthless mil itHf3W19 WjHon for three years before we got into the war, was unable to tel | Ioh what the nations of the eartl E Vffe fightIng. and told us each sid, was battling for the same hidden cause For two years and half he neithei saw nor understood the underlying
 
 i Unmoved and untouched he witnessed the crime against Belgium and the as. 1 sault upon humanity He now speak, learnedly on the initial phases of ihe conflict, the actuating reasons. tho roots of the cataclysm. Until the be. ginning of 1917, he told different taie and spoke another story. It is onI1 now. when the exigencies of his league demand another presentation, with 2 wholly different back ground, that he reverses his utterances from 1914 tc l lglf, and assumes now to tell us the causes of the war, the underlying fore es Of the ruthless militarism which bounced upon an unsuspecting world and paints picture utterly the reverse of that which he painted to the Ameri can people for nearly three years. And during all this time Roosevelt clearly saw and he sounded his trumpet cal to the American people of preparation | for the inevitable, while Mr Wilson ir utter indifference or with unseein, n,, eyes, again and again publicly statod that both sides were fighting for tbe | same unknown reasons and that jus tice substantially rested with neither
 Document Pro- British
 of course, MT. Roosevelt, like al the rest of us would have gone far .c have prevented war. But when any man says that he would for a single instant have accepted the pro- Britis document which would put the countrA he so dearly loved within the powei of direction command or recommenda tion of foreign ations, that man af fronts the revered memory of Theo- dore Roosevelt. None who knew Roosevelt, none who talked to hin during his last days, but know tha his heart and soul revolted at MT Will sons internationalism and Mr. Vii, sons endeavor to subordinate to for. eign nations the American republic | In discussing the debate over tn l league in the senate, the speaker said
 ''The debate in congress yesterda, indicates that gradually the issu
 which the proponents of the leagu have ever sought to obscure. is be | coming increasingly plain. The ab 5 and distinguished senator from Min nesota boldly announces that he be ] lieves in maintaining our troops Il . Russia and Siberia, and that upon Il is the moral responsibility at least { maintain the new nations set up b the peace treaty. If a moral respons