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Show JOHNSON ATTACKS i THE LEAGUE PLAN VIGOROUSLY OBJECTS TO APPROVAL AP-PROVAL OF PEACE TREATY IN DES MOINES ADDRESS. Sf-'jakers Following in Footsteps of President Take up Gauge of Battle Bat-tle in Behalf of Reservation-ists Reservation-ists to League of Nations. lies .Moines. Iowa. Vigorous objection objec-tion to i In' approval of Ihe peace treaty trea-ty and ihe league of mil ions covenant by Hie senate without amendments which protect every interest of the Vnitod Slates was voiced by Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California here Monday night in iwo addresses delivered deliv-ered before large and enl husiast ic audiences. au-diences. Senator William K. Borah of Idaho was to have spoken here with Senator Johnson, but he sent a telegram from v, Chicago slating that he had been call- -ed back io Washington to participate in Ihe senate debate on the peace pact. Senator Johnson was Ihe guest of the Crant club tit ti p. m., where he iiiade a brief address. His principal address was delivered later at the Coliseum, arranged under the auspices of the League for the Preservation of American Independence. Independ-ence. Senators Johnson and Borah have taken up the gauge of buttle in behalf of the reservationists to the league of nations covenant, and announce that addresses will be made in all the cities visited by President Wilson during his speaking tour of the west. The opening addresses on behalf of the opponents to the administration plan were made at Chicago. Senator Johnson launched his attack upon the Shantung award and the eirticism by President Wilson of senate sen-ate members who opposed the ratification ratifi-cation of the covenant. Senator Borah assured his audience that "the treaty problem is the most vital since the Inception of the American Amer-ican republic." He asked whether American government "shall be transferred trans-ferred from American to European bands," which he asserted would be the case should the administration program prevail. At St. Louis, on Friday, when Senator Sen-ator Johnson stepped on the stage at the Coliseum to plead for the defeat ol Ihe league of nations covenant in its present form, he was given an ova-lion ova-lion that lasted eighteen minutes. The Coliseum was packed to the doors. "In my brief career I have never failed to accept a challenge from an opponent, whether he be a president or an humble private citizen," said Senator Johnson. "I want to deny Mr. Wilson's charge that Ihe American people are quitters if they refuse to approve the league oT nations. The American people never quit. W hen Mr. Wilson went to Paris to demand his fourteen points and came home without them the American people did not quit, somebody some-body else quit." Senator Borah, ' in an address at Omaha, frankly declared his wish not merely to amend, but' to wreck the league of nations covenant. The senator denounced the transfer of Cermany's rights in Shantung to Japan as "the turning over of 40,000,-KM) 40,000,-KM) friendly people to our enemy," and ...us an act of treachery to an ally un-' un-' surpassed in history. -' The sending of American soldiers to Siberia was declared to be in violation viola-tion of the constitution of the United Slates. Senator Borah repeatedly declared that the real issue between friends and opponents of the league of nations is a difference between those who would betray the American republic and those who would defend it. In an address at Indianapolis on Thursday, Senator Johnson declared that if responsibility for the high cost of living rests upon any agency or man. il rests upon Ihe present national administration and upon President "Wilson. Speaking of article X of the covenant cove-nant of the league Senator Johnson, after quoting President Wilson's interpretation inter-pretation of the section, said: "Il makes America underwrite every lerrilorial grab of every other nation, every wrong and injustice done peoples, peo-ples, every bargain by which human beings have been handed about from one sovereignty to anoiher, every violation vio-lation of natural right and self-determination, every oppression of the strong over I he weak." i On September 13. Senator Johnson spoke at Kansas City, while Senator ' Borah delivered an address at Fort I Hodge. Iowa. He praised Senator Keed of Missouri for his courageous stand in opposing ratification of the league covenant. |