Show Senator Johnson Says Wilson Is Misinformed On League W Workings I By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Oct 2 Senator Senator Hiram V. W. Johnson in two addresses here took arguments In behalf of the league of nations presented to two San Francisco audiences by President PrE Wilson Wilsona a fortnight ago and sought to disprove the points in the presidential arguments He spoke at a luncheon and a mass meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing of citizens here Wednesday night President Wilson in behalf of the peace treaty and league of nations covenant and Senator Johnson against some parts of the treaty and the league as planned in m the covenant appeared before San Francisco audiences exactly two weeks apart Senator Johnson appeared before audiences audIences audiences audi audI- of his own townspeople and was given fervent welcome He Ile was often Interrupted in his addresses by applause particularly as he attacked the six otes votes given England and five fhe of Great Britain's colonies or dominions against one vote for the United States when he lie declared that the league of nations will not bring disarmament but already has led to the I administration seeking to pass an arm army I program calling for a standing army inthis in inthis inthis this country of men costing substantially substantially substantially sub sub- a billion dollars a year with cone com conscription in peace time of youths of 19 years and when he declared that the fight himself and other senators were waging was to prevent British or AsiatIc Asiatic Asiat ic control of Americas America's policies ARMY BILL DOOMED In his first address at a luncheon to I Imore more than 1600 San Francisco businessmen business business' businessmen men the California senator made reference reference reference refer refer- ence to the administration military program pro pro- gramI gram I I will tell you ou a a. secret about this he be said and that is the they will not get any such army at all He declared the award to Japan of I Shantung with the United States a II party to the deal E-a E wa was s the first fir st time America AmE had ever broken its word o or promise The promise he said was given I China when the United States and other othe powers sought China as an ally any that th the united States would protect Its Interests interest at the peace conference He declared Pre President ident Wilson had admitted th the wrong done China and that Secretary of State Lansing had said that if It th the people of the United States understood the peace treat treaty the they would not have it He declared that ratification of the treaty by the United States would make this till country a party to perpetuate the wrongs wrong ho he charged PARTNER OF BURGLAR Because you wont won't commit a burglary burglar I is no reason why you should enter int into partnership with a a. burglar he said The senator attacked the presidents president's address In Salt Lake City In which th the I president said that amendment offered in the senate to article 10 of the Covenant was a a. knife at the heart of the document This amendment said Senator Johnson John John- son son seeks to keep the economic and military power of America from being given Eiven into the hands of Europe and Asia S1 U UHe He declared article 10 took powers o of control from congress and the American il people and r gave it to the league of nations na na- I without recourse c r e. e na-I na Twice during his luncheon address Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Johnson referred to friends who sent telegrams to him vi whIch were made public upholding the league covenant In his first reference he said I do not care to refer to any of ot the telegrams sent to me but how little do these men understand me ma when they think that I would turn back from irom my course because any man or any set of men demanded it of me REFERENCE TO TELEGRAMS This reference brought his audience to Its feet He had prefaced It by saying his entire fight was being made to get Ifor I for the tho United States Its Us Just deserts I Near Near- the end of ot his address he said I I am sorry more sorry than I can tell teli you that some friends of mine whom I 1 hope will still be my friends have havo seen fit to become part of ot a a. propaganda in the partisan press throughout the East and in the United States senate This fight tight some of us are making in the senate is bigger than any party It is an Issue of ot Americanism TEXT OF ADDRESS Following Is the partial text of ol the address address ad ad- dress of ot Senator Johnson at the luncheon here I The TrIe mathematical demonstration re recently recently reo re- made to you by I President Wilson Vilson has been a delight and wonder to the world He proved to you ou to the entire satisfaction of those who basIc bask In the sunlight of honor apparently conclusively conclusive conclusive- Ily ly that six equals one and one equals six and finally that one equals two thirty-two I and two thirty-two equals one He showed that the representatives of I Great Britain at the peace conference with a fatuousness of which we could hardly believe Lloyd Llord George capable insisted In Insisted Insisted In- In I vehemently upon the granting to the British empire pf six votes to one vote of the United States although it itI I was perfectly obvious to Lloyd George that the six votes for which he fought to eo I fervently were of no advantage to him whatsoever He made it plain that an empty honor had been accorded Canada I New Zealand South Africa AU Australia and I the self seU governing colony India and this I boon coveted by Great Britain and eagerly eager eager- ly sought by her colonies they and he knew because he tells us so was of ot neither consequence nor value nor imI im im- po I The difficulty with which the tion of the president is that It was at I variance with the facts and as usual the facts the Inexorable facts make mate the Issue with Mr Wilson I The entire contention of Mr Wilson depends upon two propositions first that thata the assembly m J has no power and Is a mere debating a society i and Jo secondly n ih that the power of the league resides in the council council coun coun- cil where Great Britain as he pe ie inferentially inferentially Insists will ever have but one vote It is not the fact tact as the president says Great t t that Britain a in and case de t the of a tn United quarrel Jr States a between the British empire would be deprived of ot her six votes SIGNED THE TREATY The colonies of Great Britain even Including India were taken Into the league as separate and distinct entities entitles with membership as full and powers as great as those of an any sovereign nation Not only this they actually signed In their separate and individual capacities the treaty of peace and the league of nations nations nations na na- and by its very terms in this first article became original members of the league Equally In error Is the president in his designation of the ats assembly It Is not a mere debating society It Is not nota a body of Impotency and futility If It were the league would be an egregious fraud It would be under Mr Wilsons Wilson's construction a mere world governing f the oligarchy I academic e of fc the and d five idealistic great t c conception nations rona and ofa of ofa 1 a great forum to redress the wrongs of the weak would be a mere sham and pretext and a a. shabby diplomatic trick ALWAYS IN SUBJECTION If It Mr ir Wilsons Wilson's conception of the assembly as assembly assembly as- as be sound tho the weak nations of the earth would forever be In subjection forever on their knees to the organized power of the five great nations If Mr Wilsons Wilson's description of the assembly of the he league be correct Instead of securing securing ing ng self determination of peoples and justice justice Jus- Jus tice Ice to the weak we would have all the minor nations and all the smaller peoples peoples peo- peo ples les of this whole world bound in perpetua perpetual per- per petua shackles shackle to the five great master nations lations Mr Wilson as usual is wrong In n his construction of the powers of the assemblY The assembly so far from being being beng be- be ing ng a debating society Is the reservoir ot of f all the powers of the league The most Important function of the league eague of nations is to prevent war by arbitration of International disputes but every very dispute between nations according to o article 15 upon the demand of either party arty to the dispute shall be referred to the he assembly Consequently the assembly assem- assem by bly ly becomes not only the court df the first instance but the ultimate tribunal to o decide such a as well WHAT WOULD HAPPEN Let us see then what would happen Ifa If ifa a dispute should arise between Great Britain and the United States and be referred referred re- re erred to the assembly as It must be referred re- re erred if 11 Great Britain demands demand it The United States being a party to the dispute dispute dis- dis ute would have no vote in the assembly assem- assem bly ly Great Britain being a party to the dispute would have no vote in the as- as embly The five British dependencies however would have their five votes otes in inthe inthe the he the assembly There is no conceivable process of reasoning by which this places the he two disputants Great Britain and he the the United States upon an equality Great real Britain starts with five votes Inthe in inthe the he assembly the United States with none one The argument Is made that so soong long ong as the United States has one friend in n the council it would prevent any adverse adverse ad- ad verse erse action b by the assembly and that If It It did not have at least one friend in the council there would be enough votes to cast the decision against the United States tates without the five votes of the British dependencies But this argument assumes that the United States is the defendant In the litigation and that the United States merely endeavors to prevent affirmative action but assume that the United States is the plaintiff In the litigation and is seeking affirmative relief relic from the league of ot nations and assume that all the re remaining remaining re- re members of the council favor the United States VICTORY UNLIKELY In the assembly however with Its twenty three twenty members exclusive of the council Great Britain enters the controversy con conr with five votes and the United con j States with none and yo add to the five British colonies the and Slam Siam Great Britain therefore out of the tho twenty-three twenty remaining votes otes of the I asE bly has its five depend dependencies plus and Siam Slam making malting seven ou out of ot the twenty In order to win the United States must get therefore twelve I out of the remaining sixteen And when you consider some of the nations that are members of the league like Ilce Liberia only a league of nations Imagination could conjure up success for Cor the United States |