Show JOHNSON ASSAILS JOHNSONN WILSON N TREATY TREA TV ARGUMENTS California Senator Asserts Assert I Preside Presidents President's ts t's Mathematics Do Not Jibe i SEATTLE Wash Oct 9 Senator Senator j Johnson in his address at the arena aren a here last night said In part The mathematical demonstration recently made madd to you by President Wilson has been a a. delight and wonder wonder wonder won won- der Ho to the world Ho proved to the tho entire satisfaction of ot those In the sunlight of ot power that six equals two thirty-two and two thirty equals onelie one lIe He showed that the representative e of Great Britain at the peace conference conI conference con con- ter ference ence with fatuousness of which we I would hardly believe Lloyd Llod George capable insisted vehemently upon the granting to the British empire of si six x votes otes to one vote of ot the United States although it was perfectly pe obvious t to Lloyd George that the six votes fo for r which he fought so fervently were o ono of ot rf f no advantage whatsoever er He made it plain that an empty honor had been accorded to Canada New Zealand South Africa Australia I j and the self-governing self colony India and this boon coveted by Great Gre-at Britain Britain Britain Brit Brit- I ain and eagerly sought by her colonies colonies colonies col col- col- col onies they and he knew because he ho heI tell tells us so was of neither r consequence I nor value nor importance The president said The point to remember Is that the I energy of the league of nations re resides resides resides re- re sides in the council not in the assembly assembly assem assem- I bly and that in the council there is a I perfect equality Quality of votes That settles that matter malter I The difficulty with the explanation of the the- president is that it wars with the facts As usual the facts the inexorable facts make the tho issue with Mr 11 Wilson I The president on many occasions asserts th that t the assembly Is a mere I debating society and has no no actual I power and that the one vote of the United d States by virtue of those provisions provisions pro pro- I I visions of the covenant relating to toi i unanimity Ity equals the six of the British empire I It Is not a 11 mere debating debatin society i however It is not a bod body of impotence Impotence Impotence Im Im- and futility If It it were the league would be an egregious ious fraud It would be under Mr Ir Wilsons Wilson's construction a mere world governing oligarchy of the five great nations and the academic and idealistic conception conception conception con con- of a great reat forum orum to redress dress I the wrongs of the world would be beI mere sham and ami pretext and a shabby I diplomatic trick If It Mr Wilsons Wilson's conception of of the I assembly be sound the weak nations of the earth would forever be in subjection subjection sub sub- forever on their knees to the organized power of ot the five great nations If It Mr Dir Il Wilsons Wilson's description of ot the ass assembly of the league be correct Instead of securing self-determination self of peoples of justice to the weak we would have all the minor nations all the smaller peoples of this whole earth bound in perpetual shackles to the five great master nations Liberty would have fled forever from the world and organized tyranny would be perpetually secured upon the throne of power And Mr Ir Wilson as usual is Vron wrong in his construction of Ul the powers of I I the assembly The assembly so far tar I I j from being a a debating society is the reservoir of all the power of ot the league JI |