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Show League to Enforce Peace Members Answer J ohnson Arguments Advanced Against League of Nations . by California Senator in Tabernacle Refuted by Utah Men. THE committee on information and publicity of the Utah branch of the Iaitue to Enforce Peace has made public the following answers an-swers to United States Senator Hinun .Johns'Hfs arguments anainst tiie ratification of the league of nations and the peace treaty: By PROFESSOR GEORGE EMORY FELLOWS. ft Senator Hiram Johnson ha'l condensed con-densed Ms speech art'! presenter! only i-iurjie'.us. how ions would it have been? uno of the sre.uesi dangers to a democracy de-mocracy is tiie ahiliiy uf a skillful and tluent speaker to sway an audience by ir!l!iant sentences. flat:cr!nf attentions, patriotic phrases, par'.iaily concealing nii-ls, distor:ii;s' interpretations, and de-' :nerately misleading the unwary and the unread. I. Britain's Six Votes. In Mr. Johnson's tahornaelo speech his statement. "l,!oyd George took six votes for the Briiish empire and Kave us one," contains three misstatements in one brief sentence. (I, I.loyd George did not. could not. take six votes or any other number of votes. (2) The British empire has no; six votes in the league of nations. (U) He did not "tve us one"; it was not in his power to take or to prive. It is wilful distortion dis-tortion of the truth to claim that the Hrirish empire has six votes. Britain has just one vote in the council, as has the United States, and one vote in the assembly, as-sembly, as we have. Kach of five self-povernins self-povernins dominions attached to the Brit-is'. Brit-is'. empire has a voice in the assembly and a vote in the election of new members mem-bers of the league and in the selection of members of the council which are not permanent, and so do Nicaragua. Liberia, Poland. JuRO-Slavia. etc. Because of the !i:t!e more than sentimental attachment to Great PIritain on the part of Canada, Australia, etc., the assumption of enemies ene-mies of the league is a mere vasarv that on any and ail occasions thev wiil vote with, and at the dictation of, Great Britain. Brit-ain. While Great Britain apnears to have a t .leore'icai advantage in the votes of the 'ice dominions in the assemble, the Uniter) States has hm given a real advantage ad-vantage over all other nations in the ague by the recognition accorded to our Monroe doetrine. This makes us paramount para-mount in the western hemisphere, and will far more than offset the nnparent advantage advan-tage of Great Britain in the asemblv. In a long explanation that the five votes o-' British rolonies in the assemble wou;d enable Britain to outvote America in that Vooy. the senator omitted to sav that if any nation is dissatisfied with 'the vote of the council and appeals to the assembly, assem-bly, that nation must then secure a rnanimoas vote of all the nations renre-snted renre-snted in the council, plus a maioritv of rill tee other nations in the assemblv. :i a!! matters of peace and war, there-tore, there-tore, the league council is the rea de-:ertr,tning de-:ertr,tning bodv. whether or rrot the mat-:r mat-:r is referred to the assemblv. If Rrtt-n.n Rrtt-n.n were our ooponent. neither that eoun-'ry eoun-'ry nor our own would have a vote on "he question a' issue. Ard if f'-e British empire were one of the contestants. nrne of its colonies could vote. II- Our Army Overseas. When the senator brought his fol.owers to their f.-et cheering by declaring t'tat .-.me-l'-aa soldi, rs were beir.g sent to save the 'ii niir.es of Siberia from i-ttnshevik destruction by the league of nations sitting sit-ting at Paris, he was false as usual, for there is no league of nations, and our army in Europe is still under the supreme command of the allied council and General Gen-eral Foch. Troop movements there are the aftermath of the war, and we have not yet ratified the treaty of peace. He says he saw recruiting signs, "Fifty thousand thou-sand men wanted for service in Europe," Eu-rope," and added, "This under a league of nations the council sitting at Paris, which is the league of nations sitting thero today; nothing else than that." Our marines, he went on, "have been landed at Trail, In Dalmatia. under I the order of the secret council sitting at J Paris. That is the present league of nations." na-tions." Such statements are mere false- hoods. III. Open Covenants. He says the president promised open covenants of peace, yet that "when ht reached Parts the treaty was arrived at behind closed doors in seven months of stealth." The league covenant is an open treaty; it is being debated the world over before any nations accept it. That is what an open covenant means. The senator sena-tor seems to think that to be an open covenant It must be formulated In the open in the streets or theaters with the populace present. Nor is his Insulting falsehood "seven months of stealth" redeemed re-deemed by the circumstances. Each dav the results arrived at in the peace conference confer-ence were given out to all the world. There was no "stealth." True, there were "closed doors" against the president's wish during the deliberations. Just as there are "closed doors" in the senate, not merely upon such weighty subjects as the peace of the world, but whenever that body so decides; and closed doors do not prove "stealth," as the senator slanderously slander-ously alleges. IV. Freedom of the Seas. He says the president told us "there would be forever freedom of the seas; but when he got abroad freedom of the seas was never heard of again." The fact is that freedom of the seas has several sev-eral meanings, and the one that some Americans had during the earlv part of the war, that it means the right to ship supplies into enemy countries that are effectively ef-fectively blockaded, was given up by ail as soon as our own navy took part in the blockade of Germany. The league covenant, cove-nant, by providing for the boycott, shows that freedom of the seas does not mean the right to supply war-mad nations wit i the means to carry out their schemes of plunder and conquest. Freedom of the seas in time of peae is safeguarded in 'he league covenant. (Article XXI, freedom free-dom of the seas, etc V. The President Was Right H says the president told us there v.-ou:rt be "impartial adjustment of colonial co-lonial claims, and the endeavor in that I direction whs never attempted." But it was a'tpmuted (Arriele XXII) and is be-ins be-ins carried out lv the peace council. Colo-nie? Colo-nie? the encmv n at ion are htrintj he: J in trust, under mandatories to those nations na-tions willing and abb1 to accept them, subject to final di.snosition by the e By GEORGE W. MIDDLETOiN. I. Secret Treaties. From the spee h by Mr. Johnson in the tabernacle we are h-d to believe thai President Vi'iison and ih- American ti-ie-EHtes to th.' Yt-rsailit.- ronv-r.tio:i were a group of simpletons who sat by and allowed European diplomats to put It ail over them. It is of note that such ultra-soclallstic ultra-soclallstic periodicals as John Bull, published pub-lished In London, are asserting the exact converse of this story, and loudly denouncing de-nouncing Lloyd Lieore and his associates for being' so st upid as to allow this Yankee college professor to shape all the treaty provisions in the interest of American Amer-ican commercialism. Among" other things," Mi". 'Johnson denounces de-nounces the president for allowing the convention to incorporate into the coin-pnet coin-pnet secret treaties entered into between Kuropean countries previous to our advent ad-vent into the war. In a dramatic way he told how Balfour and Ishii and the representatives of France -and Italy pleaded with the United States senate for immevilate help, while their pockets were bulginj? with secret treaties. In his vivid word delineation you could almost see these men burdened to the limit with sate papers which their respective kov-ernnients kov-ernnients were allowing them to carry In their pockets, presumably for safe keeping. Mr. Johnson knows better by far than the average American citizen that no law can be made today which could legally le-gally punish a man for some act of yesterday yes-terday before the law was In existence. President Wilson's stand for open covenants, cove-nants, openly arrived aL, must of necessity neces-sity look forward and not backward. The peace convention could not In justice undo secret treaties of the pnst, no matter mat-ter how anxious it might have been to do it. Xo OK-post-fai.-to law could stand the test of the courts, nor even the test of common reason. II. The Shantung Award. One of the tie;uv provisions featured by Mr. Johnson and tin- rest of the objectors ob-jectors is that Mause pertaining lo the peninsula of Shantung. Tiie most casual ex a mi nation of the modern his: ory of F banning reveals the absurdity of t ne cont in Ion of the oppo-nents oppo-nents of the iengue. Abont the yea r 1 the iwmar.s sU up t!ie cHim . that two of their ministers ha-! het-n mMrd'-n-d in '':.ina and that they must b paid an indemnity -om-inensurat.- with th-tt national Indignity. Und.-r duress, the i'h;n--"' nutinn agreed to give tr.m a ninet y-niiu'-yt-ar .-.isv on t li e S h a n l n n s,' p -m t ; n n i ' a . I ' r"- i K-1 1 1 Mo-Kiah-y, une of o ir he.-t orsid-nts, was thou in ofri.-e. and .loh.n Ha'.', one ,( our ablest si;i tt- S'-'-rel a r:es wa s in bis c,i:'i -ra t. Tin: i;i.v.Tmn"n' was s: ronu'.y Ke-ub'.ioan. Ke-ub'.ioan. So far r'r ?n any I'r.n.-i Statf-i senator or anv orht.-r I"u:t--d sint--s oiii-fial oiii-fial raising a prole.-; against th. idch-hai'.b-d a. Lion. t.:e i.nly dFar:a tic r"'Tl h.ive ii i a run ! rn-n t f-mi ,lo:.n Hav in ih'- 'I'-Tinmi ofriria'.s com ti. etui'. iu: Lh ir stirewil d ; p ulna i ;-rri.i n solo s ai : led -a r'.h ''i '.:'-'.v i. -!.!- iiral built gf-at fortr.--.; of i Kiao lio v. an! tin- "brm.Mi ki'.'-rMiieiit I held undisputed p.fs.-s.on of ShanlunL-, ShanlunL-, until tln-y were driv.-n o:t nv Jai.in in :!.e .-ariy niont'ns of I'.-.i gr at Ku''; van I When KriL-'ard found h-rs.-lf uh. t ov I t'ae most ffrnii-.a hi" war machine of all :,;;irorv, she nal'ir '.y lo'.kfi ar.nitwi for ai.ie-t." ' To it the yl of J.tpin she ai;re.-d to th- Ir d-n.and of turrdng over ro tbeni the (M-rrn.ui I.-.is" on Sh.uit'in,. I-'rnni e 'one U i re, 1 in lli: s:iri- a n . fii'-nl a i id '."h! na : ser.-eif n.'ij i:-'"-d a n , ;,t !v rid lit a ry . d j" am and drove t li" ;.-;--nai.s oul of Si.ant iris, 'tnd h:i-l a.-t-.-adv held po.-. M .ion of it for upward of U-vr ';! w; a th-: a r tn : r: i - ? w a f H.une:!. .'.'.-, H ippos ne to-k 'ii-'i'M advice to su''tlf u(: In'.' word "'' iiKi" in thf tr. atv f.,r "Ja .an." Inure ha'ely w woidd or.' it- a r'ip'ure w I! a -l.i;an. with Kn-iand and 1m. .!- lo ha.d; her. Th-- Fnit- I .-'t;ii'-H r--e c.a ' . Hinnmly pnr-ti-in a n it s, siw l'n- I'd.; o' :'U- h a ,. .airs.- and vnlol o-. ei-w:i'liiihig.y j a-iiivt it. -I e ...-rt '!l.-on b . w th" 'i"MiNi' I from Japan r-.at .- won.d return .ii-iu- t;irig !r I'lilna. I "A o ililo tbe leal.-and leal.-and Jat.an go.-s In. w.- ; a v.. an e.inv r-wtriod of coin;'-;;:n-; Japan to ke.-; ier prome. III. The Monroe Doetrine. S.-iki to i- .IoMiiyo:i and his . n : ""-rev have said urn a ahout th- i.er.-P v of Ho:r'e form of 1 1' -1- rv.'it Ion or a m nd tn n I t., .afet:-jard the Monro" do- 1rlii" W h u j ' e :,rb-nt Wli-'Hi ' i til'' ow-r wiFl til" firu rremh draft oi the '!i'i" be raatu- I rs,'F foipponed thi.l J.rtiele , v. Idea 1 K"araii- d the t ,.n t oria i inie-.-rity of a'l 'the Mignatory eountra'M and uhiep would I of tie. e.-sl t V e Ten - I the J'i me Kua ra n t I (rp :li Olti'-r eoniittici-, roer( ground. Th- Monroe doetrine bv tins ni'ans would b-eome a world prlindp!". i,l, In r-on.'iUe.'r oi" the Vo'-'lfloUJI -banund from then- nenatoi;. th prei!-.1-nt had a P"aii- cLnie ln'--rbTl In t Im 'i.,--iii. roMMiant a-Vnov. -y.m: tne M.-n-roe" lo'-trine, and puitlni,' It Jn !t:e lli;ht f an abl'o'la- 1 principle, wtib'h th- i,.; - v. vi!d j-'-og-de. I ho .-(ofore Auterl-a only had asf.erfed til- Moiir-f Oo-M-in- and' all oln-r i-atlonn bad r--f ! i., ovl-fU'- 11. '''ii th- a'lop- ! ti,, of the l-a't'ie .'oven Kit whl pat ! t'liii" -'- na'ion'-i t -. i ' k ol" II a' on--, and a'r'i-!- V will establish tne pnne.!e as ;i WO! rl lnel!e... I ,nv o- iwon n-.l vrnut.lif on bv partb'an fana t l-hnn ''a n ' Jl ''a io" imw I u- ! lin'l. : r.j i lie- Monroe .lo-Wltl" be- : ,-oin-M with IhM -ai:u- ba-U of l eoin-I eoin-I pssrerl wllli it? Hlandln:; heretofore, with he I 'ul! d SI: ' lor U Mn, nil the world a:: tin"t it. Hy J. H. PAUL. i j. The Keynote. Th- h-viiole lo Senator Johnv-m'n jol-1I.1..,M jol-1I.1..,M jN that Hi- erlinlnal nalioiei, Iho , ( vt aula nnd pi 1 1 nd-r-rs wll Ii I Ii- hint of ; .x-orld .If.oilnlon In t li-ir hi a rln, t Im-i.-! n.at enslave p-opl'-s aiM ahnlbdi lib. . ay. not (hi ma ii v, A lift Ha a nd Tin U-y, hn 1 y,,. h;.( mii m: r but Hiilaln, I' i a n-n, . t;,V and Japan. Tiolr 'n'n-n lit I- Ih-rt . I ,,f terriiorv, he us, fioni l-;k,vpi I Ireland down to .'"liaul uni.;' a ml Ihe TurU-i TurU-i sh Mlld Chm.mii -olonle.,, m"rl-a mu"l : , for-ver, and "solely with the I bp,od or her sons," If an- eiil-ra Hi'' I ,.:iimo. of nallori-i. "The lo-ilv whirl) th- pi.-Mldent fiiouyhi bn-U." he Mays, "repr -a-nt m Uio ! r, a I v ail..-, which w.a e enl-i ed Into . by our o-b. !!!), -!'"til i, dUldln,'. up t he , ;,,lh and th- j.-opl.-.i of Hi- earth " "Tin r- nr- land;- divfrl-d hk n-'V-r b-lot-e ! hi1 lorv." "WIki I I he t r rait v dlvid-a. I the h ami" "f naMoia' I'. 1 'a ra ri I !- for nil ' I,,,,. " "Hill I or liil.'IM Vltll ' MU'l pM'Venl ' r.;laiv. th-1- Im no h'mmom why you t:ii,,nlf ko Into part n't ahlp wllh lb-hot lb-hot I'lm-V" "a II lor nia iipe-eh. I ,, .-p..;il(M of 111- "rTIOI IIM HI" I'aln.n" of i our alllea from Hi" war. and n-ealla bow '. ; 1 1 ' 1 1 b po-t M I -a a inbn ai.olorfi I laHniir of .;m'hiiid, Vlv'nnl of l-'i nie r, rdino of I jial' and -hll of Japan "-anie before I . .(in, f e," lelilnc of I b" I r hi" nla and I .Mr. Hi. - r In lb- war: "and at the Verv nioni' n' ," b- en ; "' ha t tin w-i - I alii i in; to li ill I nil. i ', .bion, I h -1 1 ' por(-t l were bulging with the secret treaties by which they had nl ready d Ivided up the earth and the peoples of tiie earth." In his Oregon .speeches he said that these "burglar" nations came from the peace conference "gorged with territory," so that h9 cannot find words strong enough to describe their treachery. "I pass without characterization," he says, "that sort of duplicity." He told the Califor-nlans Califor-nlans that "the four sreat nations, ("ireat Britain. France, Italy and Japan, hound by secret agreement to rob China, robbed her at Paris, and asserted that they could not do otherwise because they had agreed to Hie robbery in advance." II. Our Alleged Mistake. Of course, those who agree with Mr. Job n so n thn t we w e n t i r. t o t h e war by mistake on the wrong side, to aid the cause of "burglars," "robbers" and "dividers "di-viders of peoples," will applaud his conclusion con-clusion that, though the allied nations "could fool .us once or twice with their secret treaties dividing up the earth's surface," they cannot fool us with the league of nations. He therefore, adds: "I am not going to put my count it into their power again." Those who think that our great and faithful allies, to whose aid we rushed, and at whose side our boys fought to the death, ore robbers and burglars, must admit t'ua t we went blindly into the war on the wrung side and thus prevented Germany from putting1 put-ting1 such criminals wile re they belong behind prison bars as she tried to do ; that we should have aided our enemies In giving to ttie-e great thieves the punishment pun-ishment they merit. Hut 1 ehalh-nge anyone to show that our allies proiited from the war. or that any one of them is "gorged with t-rritory." The Son.nuO square mih.'S thai the senator says ijreat Hritain gets out of the war as her por'ion of the swag is a s'-r iuyih. Hritain, it I she gf-ts anything, wiil reluctantly a-ept the burdensome mandatories of lanJs lo be car-d for and htld at the final disposal dis-posal of the lean-. Ann rl a . beint? urged to accept similar mandatories, hut the burden Is rnirdid as too great for us to lake over even poor Armenia for protection. France gets no territory, except A sace-'a;rra iru. , wni-h belongs to her. Italy g-:s only a strip o," the Ad'-ialie coast, and will probably fail to acijutre Fiume, wnh'h is her onf r-r.t ambition. Japan nets only the ;ertnan rights in ShantunL. for n season and j w:tb a definite promise to turn Die prov- i in e o er to China. Ik ii the senator's Idea that these colonies should he. re- twrrtd to 'iTnan.- : nd TurUev? And dues he t.'.inh that A Isai e- I.oi ra in. , ShanUim: and til- I 'almatian coast constitute con-stitute "lhe e;.r:b.V Way ncv. he say I I thai our alii---- hav- "hurkOarl'a d" inno- 1 rent ;.;rmaav. A'lri I and Turk-y. when ail :hat the ei-:u cmintrleH ar- r-riuir-d j lo do Is to pav part of tne naniaC th-vj i h.ave fume ar:d :o reiiin pus'. , the lands 1 I ;he'.- ha e stohai and op;. ? H- de- j ! ciaref; that t':a- i-r.'ub-n t lo'tl us how tn-i ; r w freedom would d.-stroy "evtry arbi- j , frarv power that can s-creily disturb the 1 i.-.t,',' of the world," but at. the peace eon- I fere net- f.uvol ;Jil about it; yet the fa-n J hs thai cwry gre.K ar'atrarv power nan ' been overthrown, and tiie wot.-: of them I are now la ing put Into stral! -pa.-k-ts. To i e hare, the power of JbUaln. France. I I ; -ii y a "ti Ja pa n w:is not bs' rov. d, but ! only t : i of b'fir.an y, Aus'.rU. ) '.ulga ria j and Turke- . I m.-f, he iblnk Miai we iov.r'.iiiew the wrong powers'.' And wby :.:(.-( h- .-av he tmt speak of th- 1 har.-l-r.e-iH ami crue:-;," of' the peat' ! ' r ins ? I HI. Our European Alliance. 1 "Til,' pre-Oi-T.t told ;." fabl he. "that j there .-nrld 1 e no ailianc s wliidn the ' ::: .at fa n.ilv of n:ifoii1" yet "the fir-I fir-I docunienr he pres. tiled on ;U r-lurn i from K'irope was a special aH'.a:i-e with i:rl;ain and Fran -e." Marl the senft-I senft-I tor 1 -en frank K won hi have a'l ltd: "And I 'nil m cfdie;i;ue on tiie foreign relations; i coiniidi tee juive oliied in I'ne unanhnous: ' r-coinnn ndaMon to the senate tliat we at , once enter this alliance." Hw o'm. lull lu-ll I. can we s; f. l; un id our vctnry or prevent ' baana nv f. om a'.iackini; a -a in v.do n she ::. ready'.' Till the- Icag-a.e of natlot a H form-d. how els- eJin w- be i-onh-t-nt with tiie alliance in urms thai we ha' e ..Ir-adv mad- v.li'u Ibd'ahi ami .,;im. c in w.igt and w'.nnhiu ti lir-a I war? Si'all we rot now :n-.- U t'urouKa? I M ii-t w Ise i;i"-iii;iiiv may num. back. I The: - .attack-! upon our allies d-Miic jibe M-imMir'M a'titmle. All lie j.roalei-' j.roalei-' mans, radl ail L-h-huicn Im-mlm fo'- the overt h.row of the IhUSh r m pi re. , pa d tl st s, I and -erv forr'h:n e!eineti hostile to j I American Idea? ' f government -are all j j ui:h Senator Johnson. In Chic-mo and j J e! u i i-1 - t ho- hissed his every mention, I ,,f Itrltaiu and Japan. In Salt Lake, ap-I ap-I planse for tae pri'ddeiil causefl the senator sena-tor to lose Ills tenpier. IV. Reservations. j Air, John-on Hald: "A reservation h- a I mere deali:n on the pari of the de-di:ner :ai to mi il. t!i- tncanlier of a pai llcuhir ('MUse r thtH .-oV.-naMt (hit there Cllll be left no tnlatake." Then he iv;mI: "The j t ' nl t ed Slates a aan i n -s no oblh;n ( ion ! nnd. r urtl.-b- X." -tc, unless coiu;r--M'i ! -In.ll bv ac, or olnt resr.lulion mo de- , , i,,re," liui tbla Is not the referent mm 1 reported lo the senal- 1'V the for'-lgn v - I latioiia coinmlttr'e. The r-il reserv a I '.on j th-' pal. I polllb-al adverllseuientsl nnl.H; "Til- 1 nH -.1 Stales de-llnea to as-Minnr as-Minnr uii.br ai-Ii-le X or und-r any other ' nrlh-le iii i v obli.'.allon to em-ploy em-ploy tb- military or naval forces or to adopt ei mile rueaMurea I (in, nuindal" ahall be iireepled I ninler Hi- tr-iiiv of p. i " ecept , bV arllnn of coiiKl-esa." This r-s.-rva- (ion lhe real one - -epuPal-s all ic- , ..ponslbillt v, ameuda article X I. d.'siroyt i r pula In doubt article X. nulllllr th- of a vote of lhe leaiiue council lol -.mlotce a b..v'.dt or to advl.ae war. and ,.jveH to tom:ia'ss the rltiat to withdraw j tin- le u:ue oil IU1V ,pi.Mlhn (hat II I mlebt decline to conalder. niul t hen to re-enter bV Co 1 1 a b l r I 1 1 1; such VoKM of tb.'1 eouiK'll as It nilclll rl-li;u I o lHlir-e. (See (he le.ierel Nl'WM ilf I b-ol or I ) Vet Senab-r Johtn-fln raid, of the npurloiu1 leiervatloll. "tlleC" 'ail li'- l-lt no nil:-t:,k..." nil:-t:,k..." whlb' the real reservation leave i nnililui' but lini'-fl a lut y. Me iiiuhI have b'.en awat- of lhe fad thai ho did not ,-lte tin re-i rial Ion I hut w:iH actimlh1 re pro I ed to co n K re.'ifi, bill only the preai-ilenl'H preai-ilenl'H MUiuniaiv or laune other reKerva-llon. reKerva-llon. Otiller lelb. na Dial "A M" I bat Is n p., ninv l,e iirapnleil ami rom ht mil -rU-hl- but a lie thai Is In part a truth b, H inanl-r mntler to l;:iit," So Seu,.lor John. "h half d rut ha, evnaloiiH, nuppi e.-i lloiiM and Insinuation;! m i" each Incklmi In irnlh or fvtnctneHM, or in candor or ,.n,lipl"l h. U'lilb the r-iil r eser v a 1 1 o 1 1 , I widt h "coin the heart out" of the Imu-! Imu-! of nation', iuin pi in 1 1 nr. before '''Mir.i'i', , ! 1 1, j.enalor hehl up aiMdher, nml about - , r(p "if It ''iit Do' h 1 on! of this l eoveinitit, let IIM r-llt tlir. h-url Olll of II." l dm moment be spoke. II dual re-i- eivnllon that wan Intended to MH the I elu.,.. co einuil Wlia b'dlHt UKi-d by S-tmlor l.odg'h 1 |