Show PACT STRIKES AT DEMOCRACY 1 I SAYS SENATOR I II I Johnson Tells Big Bib g Audience I at Duluth People Lose I Control of War WarT Tar I T Minn Sept 19 Americas America's Americas America's J entry Into the thAc league of or nations will mark the tale formation of a partnership partnership part part- between the one olle going solvent countr country In the world with certain gu- gu bankrupts bankrupt who after our frat first I experience In Ili med meddling ling and muddling I In foreign politics have come to se secretly secretly so- so despise and detest us declared Senator Hiram W Johnson In address address- jIn j- j lag ing a large and audience here tonight Tho league of nations he said comes cornea to us after aCter Its principal mem mens- bers have o been gorged with territory with their boundaries and their limits Increased beyond tho the wildest dreams and with wIlh other immense tracts of or the worlds world's surface yet et to be bo distributed among them Article X Freeze I After Ater these extraordinary accessions accessions of oC territory tho the one going solvent solvent sol sol sol- vent national concern on earth undertakes undertakes under under- takes b by article X N to guarantee under under-I forever forever for for- or- or ever these extraordinary territorial limits This section freezes the world Into Inlo I Immutability It assumes assume to put pct the thew w world In n a straitjacket et wherein there I can be no movement I for bet betterment or t progress 1 s of nf I 1 Beyond ne ti and above above b e all this the I maintenance of oC this static condition Is Isto Isto to be accomplished by the tho blood o of Just 18 l one nation and that is ours Arc Are you ready Americans to pledge I your Our sons ons and your our sons son's sons eons to maintain maintain main maims tain lain and preserve c for or all time Lime the present present pres- pres ent governments of oC tho lie little nations I wo we arc are setting up in Europe and the j I present governments Jo and boundaries of or of the British and Japanese empires j The great fundamental question which every cry American father and I mother should answer answer- Is 18 this Shall American boys boy's police the world Shall I American blood uphold maintain and preserve old world governments go and m the territorial Integrity o of the nations naLlon I which have Immensely increased their I boundaries I Senator Johnson declared that the I I power potter o of making war ar should be taken I from Crom sovereign rulers and vested In the I people who should have ha authority to t decide tho the question b by a 1 referendum I vote vot Women he said who bear such I heavy burdens o of war should be per per- permitted permitted per per- to participate on an equal basis 1 with men in- in determining whether their country should go 0 to war ar Ho lie said that under the league covenant such a plan would be impracticable Instead of ot coming closer to the tho people people people peo peo- In the c vital m matters the league of nations would go JO a step further from them and place the thc power to tomake tomake make war In the hands of the tho rulers ruler and their representatives Instead o of the people said Senator Johnson I Pact I He Ile emphasized emphasized- the point that the league covenant co had been drawn up in I secrecy and that popular support for tor forIt forit It in this thia country countr had been prompted b by official propaganda paid for by taxation taxation taxation tax tax- I from an nn overburdened o people The awful tragedy tras-edy of or the world he said the sorrow the grief and the anguish of oC those whose dear ones male maJe the supreme sacrifice the fearful waste and welter of ot necessity turned the thc thou thoughts of oC all alt men and all women to a 11 prevention of or another world cataclysm cat cat- We c were resolved after the experiences of this great rent conflict to take as far ar as human agency could some forward rd step to preclude another an an- other To all these people and I number myself among them the Idea r r-f r f C a l I league or cI confederation C r I or union of i the In tl of nf tho the earth In lir lr of I the right f for iii the pr protection te l of C tho the weak a against the strong to preclude tho the successful culmination o of nall 1131 l cunning and cupidity and anti to prevent ent future conflicts o of Gods God's creatures turc possessed a charm and an a hope und and an Inspiration which luch ww wu would have gone tar far to realize and consummate Tho The various arlous phases or of our disillusionment I will not nol dwell upon Each milestone o of the peace pence conference con con- ference forence successively marls marks them The beautiful praxes praises es of altruism and Idealism are found Cound as often ha has been the case in th the last few yearn cars ear but mere words They The were never nc translated Into Inta deeds and nd ultimately ultimately with the presentation of the covenant co came the shattering of ot all ou our fond hopes In Inte unI r loii astonish astonish- hIng h- h Of all the singular and m Ing lag Intellectual distortions Indu induced cd by the advocacy of the l league a u of r nations na- na nations na na- lIon not the least remarkable Is th the lie reproach to patriotism and th the denunciation of or those who think first ot of If our r republic Wo We who would protect and pr Preserve e our own ov nation who 10 loyally 1 and I patriotically patri patri- patriotically would hesitate to Involve t It its Its sons and ll its future generations In perpetual and continuous war warfare are designated as ns little selfish and provincial pro Americans Senator Johnson on expressed sed the vie view w A that the time league covenant nant turned o over Or OrI cr crI I he the Monroe doctrine to foreign powers sowers for Cor interpretation He lie d declared It unthinkable that thit any an American 1 wrote the tenth article lIethe ol of the peace pact or that thit an any American could subscribe to It President Wilson's Wilsons amendment tolie to the lie lea league ue covenant designed ned to ta safe sare- vard Ua t the hc Monroe Ion roe doctrine Is IL mt fraud rn u v l delusion and a snare declared Johnson The crowd which heard r Johnson packed the largest hall lI in n tho Iho re u wn city and hundreds were turner turned |