Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-29
SENATORS SCORE
LEAGUE IN GOTHAM
Meeting Under Auspices q
Society for Preservation of
U. S. independence.
PRESIDENT is KISSED

NEW YORK, June 2s.-The league
OF nations was denounced as "a gi-
gantic war trust" tonight by United
States Senator Hiram Johnson Of Cal
ifornia in an address before a mass
meeting called by the League for the
Preservation of American Independ-
ence. He demanded the reputation of
the league covenant. and similar de-
mands were made by United States
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri
and George Wharton Pepper.
Ireland was referred to by the
speaker as "a litigant with a perfect
case who can get no hearing" and he
maintained that 1t was the purpose of
the league to use the great wealth
power and blood of the great democ
racy of the earth to retain revolving
peoples, without regard to the right
eousness of their cause, within the
governments and powers OF which
they would be free"
What Nations League Means.
After asserting in closing that the
league means that American boys
shall police the world" Senator John
son said:
This league means the hating and
triumph Of cynical old-world dipio-
macy. the humiliation and the end OF
American idealism."'
Senator johnson asserted that in
stead OF coming closer to the peo-
pie. the league Of nations would go
der its proposed covenant the repre-
sentatives of rulers. not of peoples
would govern the world. sitting far
away in secret" He said that the
t tssnSs SHa import.ncs," ' had been
drawn up In secrecy and that popu.
lar support for 1t in this country had
been promoted by q tremendous ma
tional propaganda. paid for by mill
by taxation from an overburdened
people.
"Pick Pockets, Poison Ninds."
we have been picking our pock
ued, land that recent national prop
uganda had been devoted not to the
dissemination Of the truth. but to de-
ceiving the people and glorifying
those whom they had raised to high
position.
The heavy hand Of q wartime gov.
destroyed the liberty Of the press and
manufactured public opinion. which
but echoed what the national propa-
ganda decreed, and prevented the
people from knowing the facts and
Senator's Conclusion.
In conclusion the senator said
I'm a word, this league means that
American boys shall police the world /;
that all the tottering nations of the
earth shall be upheld by our blood
and our bone; that Europe, Asia and
Africa may draw upon US in their
every dispute and quarrel: that our
ropean and Japanese diplomats who
never had and never will have any
sympathy with our aspirations or our
ideals; that we. with our glorious past,
shall guarantee the territorial fnteg-
rity of every country on earth and the
bondage Of every suffering people in
anguish begging for freedom; that We
destroy our Monroe doctrine and sub
init controversies on the American
continent to determination by foreign
powers. It means that must A6a0-
don the lessons of my youth. which
until this moment have been the creed
of my manhood, of American ideals.
patriotism; that I must deny the
Americanism that l taught my children
and that under Gods blessing l hope
to teach my grandchildren. 1t means
the hating and betrayal Of new world
liberalism, the triumph of cynical old
world diplomacy. the humiliation and
end Of American idealism. The issue
is the republic-the republic that Wash-
ington gave us. that Lincoln saved Tor
us. whose traditions and ideals have
been 30 gloriously upheld by our valiant
sons abroad. The issue u America, and
am an American"