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Show URGES REJECTION OF PEACE PACT SENATOR JOHNSON DECLARES THE PROMISES HELD OUT ARE UNFILLED. In Closing Address of Western Tour, California Senator Sets Forth His Objections to the Peace Treaty Salt Lake City. Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of California, completed his western lour, in which lie explained his stand on the league of nations, when his address had been delivered in tills city Saturday evening, October 11. and left for Washington to resume his tight in the senate tor reservations to the league covenant. Senator Johnson arrived in Ogdeu Saturday morning from Spokane, after a tour of the northwestern states, in which lie explained his stand on the league and asserted what he believes are the rights of America under the league covenant. Senator Johnson addressed ad-dressed a crowd of Ogdonites at the Alhambra theatre at '-! p. m., after which he journey to Salt Lake, where he spoke in the tabernacle at 8 p. in. Saying that the United States in the discussion of the peace treaty and the league of nations stands at the crossroads cross-roads of destiny, he declared that one IKith. that of the league of nations, is the cynical path of European and Asiatic diplomacy, and the oilier the straight and narrow path of "1U0 per cent Americanism." His attack was aimed at two targets, part being directed against President Wilson and the other against the league covenant and the treaty of pence. President Wilson he termed as "ever riding the clouds and painting the rainbow,'' as in Paris having spent his time "painting the lily and gilding refined gold." Article X of the league was his principle prin-ciple point of attack on the covenant itself. It was' to this article that he directed again and again the shaft of lus criticism. He likewise emphasized the provisions by which llreat Britian . and her colonies have six votes in the assembly to one for the United States, ; and spoke again and again of the "nine men of the council sitting secretly se-cretly in Geneva, eight of them for- eigners, controlling the destines of Uie world." Senator Johnson's remarks, repeated repeat-ed in various forms, concerning the obligation placed upon the United States under the league to keep the "khaki-clad boys in Europe," he addressed ad-dressed particularly to the mothers. He spoke in ironical vein of the 7(XK) men requisitioned for Silesia, of the men now in Siberia and in other parts of the world, holding their presence in foreign territory as a concrete argument ar-gument against the league. In regard to the reservation which President Wilson held up to his Salt Lake audience as seeking to cut the very heart of the league, Senator Johnson said : "If this reservation designed to grant congress the power to make war and providing that the military and naval forces of the United States shall not be used without the consent of congress, let's cut out the heart." He based this plea on an interpretation inter-pretation lie credits to the president that the United Slates constitution cannot can-not be invoked and that congress has not the authority over onr armed forces, for the league of nations takes that authority under article X. Senator Johnson drew a laugh from his audience when lie said that he could go out on any soap box and get all the sympathy in the world for the woes of Armenia, for Czrrho-Shivakia, for the Poles and other small countries, coun-tries, while- proponents of the league believe it to be a misdemeanor to call attention to the woes of this country. Senator Johnson found fault with the league because it is so entwined with tlie provisions of ihe peace treaty that it seems impossible to extricate one from the other for separate consideration. con-sideration. He accused Hie president of poor judgment and poor statesmanship hi bringing hack the two in such a way us to make it; impossible to reject the one without rejecting the other, and claimed that the president had boasted of this condition before h left Paris. He concluded by staling that the United States outside the league would he a greater bulwark for the peace of the world than if it were "submerged in the foreign control of the league." He referred to the United States as the greatest asset for peace in the world, and said : "These nations into whose lower we are about to give ourselves owe us ten billions of dollars." dol-lars." and asked why the United States should put itself into the hands of its debtors. |
