Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-22
TAKES STAND
AGAINST THE LEAGUE
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known there was an emotional
move on the part of many in the
country to support it in order TO
prevent further wars. Later. how
ever" Senator Johnson said, dis
5illusionment came and the people
began to realize what the league
would mean to this country"
Senator Harding insists that there
shall be no surrender of our rights
to a world conference which shall
have the power to summon the sons
of this country to war. He insists
America shall be left free, inde-
pendent and self reliable, offering
friendship to all the world. The
league strikes a blow at our consti-
tutional integrity. This country can
not be governed from both Wash
ington and Geneva at the same
time.
1T is said we are ungenerous and
selfish and do not want to do our
part. We have played our part, we
have done and will do what is need
ed when humanity calls or civiliza-
ton cries, but when that time comes
the American people will decide and
no European nation shall decide for
us.
when the League came to us 1t
was intermingled with the treaty of
peace, President Wilson brought
them to US intertwined so that we
could not act upon one alone. If
we passed one we automatically
passed the other. This was not right
of him. Where the peace treaty
does a wrong the League of Nations
perpetuates it for all time"
Senator Johnson told of the flow
cry addresses made by representa-
tives of Great Britain, France, Italy
and Japan in the senate chamber IT
Washington just after the United
States entered the war. These men,
he said, told the American m
tors that they were fighting this war
for civilization, but at that very
moment their pockets were bullying
with secret treaties made unknown
to US, dividing up practically the
whole surface of the earth" The
!. senator said he asked President
Wilson when he first learned OF these
i secret treNties and the president
gaid 1t was not until he went to
Paris at the conclusion of the war.
81 think he was mistaken as to the
date" declared the senator. did
the treaty of peace recognize any
of these secret treaties? Yes. The
peace treaty was written by u
co-belligerents around the secret
treaties and the territorial acquf-
sitions had been decided before we
entered the war;"
America is the only non-proflt-
ing nation that came out of the war.
1t is our proud boast that we got
neither peoples, territories. booty or
spoils. And yet We, the unprofit-
ing nation. are asked to guarantee
all the spoils of the profiting ma
tons" Senator johnson then told
. of the hundreds of thousands of
square miles secured by each of the
allied nations is a result of the war
and added, ''our sons will o guar
antee with their blood these new
territories"
Our boast has always been that
we never broke our faith with a
friendly country. For the first time
in the history of the United States.
1t broke it's faith in the Shantung
settlement. The president has tar
nished and tainted the honor and
idealism of America by ~consenting to
this settlement.
by the terms of the league you
are to take care of the territorial
dispositions. That's why we are so
necessary. Once you get in, look
out. The other nations will accept
: reservations and interpretations and
will fall on u necks welcoming us.
But when you sit In secrecy at
Geneva behind locked doors you will
begin to realize what you have been
let in for. Beware the man who
eighteen months ago said accept the
league as it stands, but today says
go In and make your own TERMS"