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Show LEAGUE GUARDS LAND GRABBING, SWISO! Senator Attacks President and Peace Treaty in Talk Before the City Club. Declares Epithet Is Chief Weapon of Vilson Against Those Who Oppose Pact. i ST. I.uTI.S, S.-pi. 1L'. Tr:illiiik' 1Y(-M-tk-iit Wil.son thiouli tho niM'ili; wcat, lH'St'lltl!lK IirKUMnrlltS (iI'lH'illl till I'Uti- fiLiiti.in of thi If.tKue f ii.uiu.is cuve-nant, cuve-nant, S.mklUt 1 lua in V. Jhiiun f Calilornia tutl.ty aMilrcnd two laro and otitlnis asilc amlUiuM-s In St. I -mi Is. At nuun Mio .spoko to it gathciing of bun ncss lrt-n at The City club. TmiiKlU udiln-siti-d a larKO mass mfotiii at tho CuliM-uin. wIhto I "i -.ldi.'iit Wihj.in spuku when lie vi.sitt-d SI. Louis Sonator .IohnfJii bi uiiKht tho crowd to its fect ohcerint; wh.-n he d-oiarrd: "The real question in thvs fi'iilruvirsy in whether we arc to do our duty as we set; lit in tho future or wiu-Uur u aro to bu I .subject to thi. will of Cruat liritaln and Japan." I Tho crowd hissed si-v oral times when ; Ora t ltritain was ino::t ioric J by the , :-ivaki'r. I "Tho roa! purpo.-'o of the 1cm true of nations na-tions is to guar. mire tho tliin.s that the peace treaty provide--, Senator Johnson said. "Uur allies want us to protect the spoils f: Yen I hem by th .s pea re treaty. That .is why the president insisted on combining into one due u men t the peace treat;.- and the league 01 nations." "lid t H president, when he was hero, explain why Great liritam was pi veil six votes in the long no of nat ions and the United States only one'.'" There were shuuL; of "So." Some Hisses Are Heard. "Of course he didn't, and he never will, because, he can't," said the senator. There weri hisses when the speaker said the president had declared that article ar-ticle ten of the leaguo of nations was only a moral obligation. "The M mroe doctrine Is handed over to tho sinister foreign powers by Mr. Wilson and his league of nat ions," said Senator Johnson. "We don't have to become be-come the partners oi burglars simply because be-cause we can't prevent burirlury. ' At the night meeting Senator Johnson was introduced by lr. John 11. Simon, a prominent democrat. In his plea for the defeat of the league of nations in its present form. Senator Johnson described the treaty of peace as a patchwork of the secret treaties made between the allies, unknown to America, before and during the war, and challenged chal-lenged the recent declaration of t he president that failure to concur in tho settlement of tho terms of peace by the United States "would put a stain upon our national honor which we never could efface." "Does the president intend to say that it will put a stain upon our honor if we do not carry out the secret bargainings which were, with a duplicity unparalleled unparal-leled In tho world's history, concealed from us?" asked the senator. Bulging With Secret Pacts. He described the visits to this country after our declaration of war. of t ho diplomatic diplo-matic representatives of England, France, Italy and Japan. "In the full flush of a righteous indignation indig-nation against a ruthless enemy, we were bending' every energy in behalf of a just cause,' said Senator Johnson. "Het'oro the United States senate, in terms as idealistic as those we employed, Mr. Balfour Bal-four for l-mgland, Mr. Viviani for France, Italy's prince and Japan's representative representa-tive spoke. Until they ca me. no foreigner for-eigner had ever stood upon tho rostrum of the United States senate since Lafayette's La-fayette's visit. While these representatives representa-tives of the four great powers were speaking to us upon the same plane upon which' we were acting, and appealing appeal-ing to the same lofty sentiments and altruistic al-truistic purposes. Their very pockets were bulging with the secret treaties they had made among -themselves lor the partition of the world and the distribution of the spoils of the war. "1 Hiring all the period that they were with us not a single one divulged to our government or to any representat ive of it the t reaties they had made, a hah' dozen in number, and which they had then determined to write Into the ultimate- treaty of peace. The president said with posit iveness at the recent meeting with the fore'gu relations committee lie had never even hoard ' of these secret treaties until he went to Paris. The secretary sec-retary of state lest if ied in like fashion. Indeed, in li17. while the treaty between the four grea t nations in relation not only to Shantung, but the isles of the Pacific, safely reposed in their archives, Viscount lshii. the preventative of Japan, concluded with our secretary of state jn agreement by which the United States govern me: it recognized the special interests inter-ests of Japan in China." Continues Execration. "Puring those negotiations," continued the senator, "not a word was said, not a syllable lisped, during the time we were pouring out our hlood and our treasure ; not a hint of a suggestion while we were announcing to the world our peace policies, poli-cies, of the secret partition of lands in Kuropo. Asia and Africa. Tho words we uttered as to our purposes in the war. the principles we laid down upon which poace should be concluded, were reechoed re-echoed and assented to by these very powers with whom we were fighting side by side." Senator Johnson enumerated the president's pres-ident's war-time declarations of America's Ameri-ca's peace aims. He ouoted the president's presi-dent's insertion that the processes of peace should be absolutely open and m Tin it no secret understandings oJ" any kind. "A general peaco cannot be pieced to- (Continued on Page 4, Comma 2.) Croat Tiri'.ain's diplomats, he said: "I wish ti.o L".'i:i--d Sia'es ccild Lave hired Lloyd George to represent it at the, peace conference." LEAGUE GUARDS LAND FRAUD, SENATOR SAYS (Continued From Page One.) pother out of the individual understanding understand-ing of the powerful states." "These very pnnoipVs of peace were accepted by the holders of the s-rret treaties," declared the senator. "We may view their denial now hv foreign natlon.j perhaps with only passing regret, re-gret, but if wo break our faith to the world and to our own people then our national honor will be stained as in all our proud history it lias never been Sta'ned before. "The stain upon our national honor, which w never could efface, would be 1 carried out with our blood should we agree to the Shantung decision of the j peace conference ba.ed upon the betrayal be-trayal vf China, our friend and ally in the war.' Bad Case Methods. Speaking at the City club luncheon. Senator Johnson said in part: "Mr. Wilson 1ms two favorite arguments, argu-ments, not unknown to a certain class of lawyers. He adopts the methods of the bar! case, and denounces his opponents. oppon-ents. He endeavors to frighten them with epithets of pro-Germanism, to which he became accustomed from August, 1!U4, to April, H7, and when the full effect of this belated and now obsolete cliarpe la not apparent lie adopts the second line of denunciation of entrenched power, and shout boishevtst; a characterization with which he is quite familiar. The day is past, thank God, when American citizens can be swerved from their duty by outworn out-worn war epithets. "In the remarkable address of Mr. Wilson Wil-son in this city a few days ago he discussed dis-cussed the league of nations with his usual us-ual facility of expression and hla usual mixture of facts and detail. In his description de-scription of the anatomy of the league, he supplied it with three hearts, presumably presum-ably all beating in unison. 'So that the heart of the covenant,' he said, 'is that the nations solemnly covenant not to go to war for nine months after a controversy contro-versy becomes acute.' Again, 'article X Is the article that goes to the heart of the whole bad business,' and then 'article 'arti-cle X is the favorite article of the treaty, so far as I am concerned.' Apostrophes Apos-trophes to article X with him have not been infrequent and had I the power 1 would indelibly impress it, with the guarantee guar-antee of political Independence and territorial ter-ritorial integrity, upon every American's brain. " 'It is,' to quote Mr. Wilson's language, lan-guage, 'the heart of the whole bad business.' busi-ness.' Won to Secret Treaty, ' "Naively, the president remarks that secret treaties hampered him at the peace conference and embarrassed the whole settlement. Inferentlally, he concedes the wickedness of these secret treaties, but he was neither hampered nor embarrassed to such a degree as to cause him to stand manfully and courageously for his oft-expressed principles. He wrote these secret treaties, condemned not only by him but by the righteous opinion of the world, into his treaty. He went to Paris, bravely and boldly proclaiming and all of us re-echoed his sentiments: 'No people peo-ple can be forced under a sovereignty under which it does not wish to live; no territory must change hands except for the purpose of securing those who inhabit it a fair chance of life and liberty. No peace can last or ought to last which does not recognize and accept the principle prin-ciple that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed gov-erned and that no right anywhere ex- ists to hand people about from sovereignty sovereign-ty to sovereignty as If they were property. prop-erty. Any peace which does not recognize recog-nize and accept this principle will Inevitably Inev-itably be upset.' "Our concern might be a mere passing regret and humiliation that the words of our spokesman were so soon forgotten ; but not only did he abandon his principles princi-ples and abjectly surrender his idealism, but he became a part of the secret treaties trea-ties he denounces when he United in making mak-ing them the basis of action at Paris. But he did more than violate America's high purpose, so eloquently voiced by him; Article X Attacked. "He not only made us partlceps crlmlnis in such frauds as Shantung but he guaranteed guar-anteed America's treasure and blood by article X of his league to the eternal preservation of the infamy. He made j it Impossible by article X of his league, to right the wrongs of the territorial j grabs of the secret treaties. Mr. Wilson ; Is right: 'Article X is the heart of the. whole had business.' " j Asserting that the league of nations, seeks to make the United States a ml- j nority stockholder in an international corporation. Senator Johnson added : "I have heard of nations placing themselves them-selves In the hands of their creditors, but this is the first time I evr heard it suggested sug-gested that a nation Place Itself in the hands of Its debtors." He said the United States was the only going, solvent nation in the world today. After paying tribute to the ability of |
