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Show he became a part of the secret treaties ho denounced when he united in making them the basis of action at Paris." SENATOR JOHNSON ATTACKS COVENANT IN HOOSIER CAPITAL INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Sept. 11. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California was enthusiastically en-thusiastically received here tonight by a crowd which filled the largest hall In the downtown section of the city in the second sec-ond address of his speaking tour through the middle west to oppose ratification of the league of nations covenant by the United States senate. The mass meeting was arranged by a nonpartisan citizens' committee. In introducing Senator Johnson, Henry Lane Wilson, former United States ambassador am-bassador to Mexico, safd: "Like the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, Senator Johnson calls things by their right name." There were cries of "You are right! You are right!" when Senator Johnson insisted that American troops should immediately be brought back from Russia. He was frequently Interrupted in the course of his attack on the league of nations by. the cheers of the crowd. Senator Johnson began with this dec- la ration: "I am here and you are here because Americanism still lives. "President Wilson has said the league was being opposed by little Americans," he said. "I confess I am a little American, Ameri-can, but I am all American. "Our soldiers who won the war fought for America, for you and for me, and not for any league of nations. Friends of the league admit It is imperfect, but say we must try it because it is the only league of nations presented. Under this theory, I suppose ife we had but one egg and that egg was rotten we ought to eat it because it was the only egg we had." He referred to the official propaganda Issued by the national administration at Washington, and added: "They pick the taxpayers' pockets to poison the public mind." When he asked the crowd If it favored the league there were loud shouts of "No!" The audience laughed w7hen the speaker referred to William H. Taft as "a distinguished dis-tinguished ex-president whom many respect, re-spect, but none follow." Senator Johnson left at midnight for St. Louis, where he will deliver two addresses ad-dresses tomorrow. "President Wilson adds to his fearsome harsh names, appeals to our material in-terests. in-terests. and even taxes the two months that the league and treaty have been before be-fore the American people and senate with the high cost of living," said Senator Johnson. "He conveniently forgets the i eight months he spent abroad, secretly pledging our resources and our manpower I to European and Asiatic governments. ! The two months of discussion by our peo- j pie and our senate in the open of what i he discussed secretly for eight months ; has had, of course, no bearing upon, and the reasonable discussion in the future cannot possibly affect, the high cost of i living. If any single individual can be : charged with responsibility for the high cost of living, that man Is Woodrow Wil- : son. The living costs in December and January last were substantially what they are today. Mr. Wilson then had exactly the same laws ho now Invokes. He had neither time nor inclination to deal with a problem then practically as acute as 1 it is now. He never even touched the subject, except patronizingly and as an , ephemeral ill of no consequence or Importance. Im-portance. He makes its solution depend j now upon the immediate ratification of Irs treaty. He would frighten us by a cheap and specious statement, devoid of economic logic, and wanting in any sound reason. He covers his own derelfction by an unfounded counter-charge. Remember Remem-ber his address to congress, December 2 last. " 'The moment we knew the armistice to have been signed, we took the harness off. It is surprising how fast the process of return to a peace footing has moved in the three weeks since the fighting stopped.' His idea of reconstruction then was, it will not be easy to direct it any better than it will direct itself. When he had ample time for action last December De-cember and might have prevented the subsequent continuance of high prices, these are his words: 'Our people do not wait to be coached and led. Any leading strings we might seek to put them in would speedily become hopelessly entangled, en-tangled, because they would pay no attention at-tention to them and go their own way. The American business man is of quick Initiative.' At that time we had a competent com-petent federal food administration, com-P'etcly com-P'etcly organized throughout the nation. Mr. Wilson deliberately scrapped this vast organization, which might have re- j moved a part, at least, nf the causes of , high prices. Now, months after he has dismissed the federal and state agencies, I he is calling them together again to deal i with the question. The ratific- tion ot the treaty may increase exports; but Increase In-crease in exports will not reduce prices at home. If responsibility for the high cost of living rests upon any agency or J rrmi, it rests- upon the present admlnls- I trntion and Woodrow Wilson." I Speaking of article ten of the covenant of the league. Senator Johnson, after quoting President Wilson's interpretation of the section, said : "It makes America underwrite every territorial ffrab of every other nation, every wrong and injustice done peoples, every bargain by which human beings have been handed about from one sovereign sov-ereign tv to another, every violation of natural' rirht and se;f-determination, every ev-ery oppression of the strong over the we.-'k. Vaivcly the president remarks that secret treaties hampered him at the ponce con ference vand embarrassed the whole settlement. " Inferentially. he con-crocs con-crocs the wickedness of those secret treaties, trea-ties, but he was neither hampered nor embarrassed to such a degree as to cause him not to stand manfully nnd eouraee-nnsly eouraee-nnsly for his oft-expressed principles. Not onlv did he abandon his principles and abjectly surrender his idealism, but |