Show VILE PARTNERSHIP PROPOSED SAYS SEN JOHNSON Live Growing Concern Would Be Linked With Bankrupts He AversEly Avers vers Ely By Associated Press DULUTH l Sept 20 Am Amer Americas America's ricas rica's r- r ica's entry Into the league ot of nations will mark mark the formation of a partnership partner partner- ship between the one going solvent country in the wo world ld with certain European European Eu Eu- bankrupts who after our first experience In meddling and ancI muddling in for politics have hatt c come me to Secretly se secretly se- se despise and detest us declared Senator r Hiram W VV Jo JohnsOn n in addressing addressing ad addressing ad- ad dressing a large and enthusiastic audience audience audience audi audi- ence here Friday night The league of nations he said comes to us after its principal members mem mem- b hers bers rs have been gorg gorged d with territory ry with the their t boundaries and their limits increased asEd bc beyond ond th the wildest dr dreams arps and with other immense tracts ot the I worlds world's surface yet to be distributed among them I After these extraordinary r lY accessions of t territory r the on one going solvent national na national na- na concern on earth Undertakes by by article 10 to guarantee forever th thOse these S extraordinary territorial l limits I This section freezes tile the world into immutability lit It assumes s to put the world in itt a straitjacket wherein ther there can be no movement for betterment or progress of humanity Beyond and above all this the maintenance maintenance maintenance main main- of this static condition is tobe tobe to tobe be accomplished by the blood of just one nation and that is ours outs Are you read ready Americans to pledge your our sons and your sons' sons sons Sotis to mainI main main- and preserve tc for all aU time the I ent governments of the little nations we are setting up in Europe and the present governments and boundaries of the British and Japanese empires AMERICANS AS POLICE The great fundamental qU question stion which every American father and mother should answer is this Sh Shall ll American boys bors police the world Shall Shan American bl blood od uphold maintain and preserve old world gov governments and the territorial integrity of the nations which have hae immensely increased their boundaries Senator Johnson declared t at the power of making war should be taken from sovereign rulers and vest vested d in the thep p people ople who s should 1 uld have authority to decide the q question b by a r referendum vote vole Women he said who bear such heavy burdens of war wai should be permitted to participate on an equal basis bass with men in determining whether r their country country coun coun- try tty should go tl to war lIe He said that under th the l league iague covenant such a plan would be Im impracticable instead of f coming Closer r to the people people peo peo- pie in these vital matters the league of nations would go a step further further from from th them m and place the power to make war warin warin warin in the hands of the rulers and their representatives instead ot the p ople said Senator Johnson TRAGEDY OF WORLD lIe He emphasized emphasised the that the league covenant had been drawn up in secret secrecy and arid that popular s J support ort for forit forit forit it in this country had be been beOn n prom prompted lett by official propaganda paid for by taxation from an overburdened people The awful tragedy of the world I h ho o I said the sorrow the grief and nd the anguish of those whose dear deat on ones onOS s made mad the supreme sacrifice ni the fearful was waste to and welter of ot necessity turned the thoughts of all men and all women to toa toa a prevention of another world cata cata- We Ve were resolved after the experiences of or this great gr t conflict to take as S far as S human n ag agency c could Uld some Come forward ste step to preclude an another an- an other otheO To all the these thes people anti and I number r I thyself myself among them the thO Idl idea of a It league of of confederation or union of the nations of the earth in behalf of the right for the protection of the weak against the strong to preclude the successful culmination n of national I cunning and cupidity and nd to pr prevent v nt future conflicts of ot Gods God's creatures possessed a charm and an allurement a hope and an inspiration which h we would have gone far to realize and consummate The various phases of our bUr disillusionment I will n riot not l dwell upon N Each milestone of or the peace conference conter con con- ter ference successively cly m marks maiks time The ThO beautiful phrases of altruism and Idealism ar are found a as often has been the case in the last few years pars but mere words They were nr ver r translated into deeds and ultimately with the presentation of the covenant came the shattering of all our fond hopes INTELLECTUAL DISTORTIONS Of all the singular and astonishing intellectual distortions induced by the advocacy dvO cy of the l league ague of ot nations not the least remarkable is the reproach to patriotism and the denunciation of those who think first of our republic We who would pt protect arid and preserve our own nation who loyally and patriotically patrioticallY patri patri- would hesitate to Involve its sons and Its future generations in perpetual perpetual perpetual per per- and continuous w warfare are designated as little selfish and provincial provincial provincial pro pro- Americans Senator Johnson expressed the view that the Ic league gUe covenant over the Monroe doctrine to foreign powers for Interpretation He declared it unthinkable that any American wrote the tenth article of the peace pact or that any ny Am American rican could subscribe to it President nt Wilson's Wilsons amendment b tj 11 the league covenant designed to safeguard safeguard safeguard safe safe- guard t the e Monroe dO doctrine trin is a tr fraud UtI a delusion and a snare declared Johnson The crowd which heard Senator Johnson packed the largest hall in th the city and hundreds were turned away |