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Show SEN. JOHNSON ASSAILS LEAGUE IN LOSANGELES LOS angeles. Oct. 3 Addresateg an audit QQp ot severaj bnndsted per son? here today at a luncheon ten dercd him by the Los Ansele laeie for preservation of American inde pendence, United States Senator Hiram Hi-ram W Johnson atlacked tlo- peaei treaty and the lea.gue of nations C0Te- nant and declared that th Ural d States now stands at the Drops rp lf of ft destiny. Senator Johnson 'S to make another address tonlrht The people must decide, he lid, whether the United States sha'l enter into a partnership with "melodorotis European and Asiatic diplomncy," or pursm the ptraiglit paih of pur Americanism Amer-icanism Senator .lohnson was pivpn a demon-hira'i demon-hira'i reception and hi? addretSB l hp Interrupted man times when his ut-t' ut-t' lames brought the big crowd to Us ffet licering and waving nandKer-chiets nandKer-chiets The senator spoke in the ball room of a hotel, Brfcere two Seeke igo President Wilson defended the treaty and ih league of nattonr and urged its arl ratification. At the senator's tabic were .ath -ied many of his friends who w ere act : 1-in the raily days of the progressive party, par-ty, wbldl swept Hiram Y Tohnson into officp ns governor of ( alifrnia. "We saw the high principles of F'r-it!ii Wilson discarded," ssid s n ator Johnson. ' We saw altruism gonc-. gonc-. n. idealism buried and w :-rw ooen covenants openly arrived at accomplished accom-plished behind barred floor W e looked to scp the removal of e onornic barriers, we looked to see 'ational armnmnts reduced bu we never 1 11I ihe semblance of an accompt.sh nont We saw arbitrary power have its will in the adjustment of wor'd 1 f-!a.irs f-!a.irs and we pjw a defensive an ; of I en rive alliance brought aboui inrtea l of a desired understanding fo v. oi Id peace." Senator lohnson declared ihat the irc;iiy represents, Ubc understanding of the United States' co-belligerents be tore this country entered the war. is- imping the Shantung prorsipni ot thn treaty Senator Johnson spsejIiBd that Mmru - aeceptani Oi 'he uuiul'i of t'hinese ppvarejaptl nt tfcl Shan'-lung Shan'-lung p ninsula to Japan was r shame, tul blot on America ? bonor The United States government, the enalor ponlljtupd. ipWted Chloa to participate in the world war on pi m lag tbgl I blM would be taken care of ;.i thf peace table Si.e was tuhen 're ni in the pg(eni thai the i sited 81Xea became a party to her desp ;lavnt, Senator Johnson asserted The h-ague of nations was denounced de-nounced b the senator as tantamount to cont' rrlpg on loreje.n posers 'he ox-if:. ox-if:. 1 q America's participation in (ore-lgn altairs Light men, sitting in fjenevaj all foreigners, he said, could .nd would determine the SOUrf e 0 Ihe t mt J States in world quatrels in vlin h this country would be dragged 111 i.i aBSjgj in Mi. seitlnuent of matters mat-ters in which she could hve no con- cern. Senator Johnson said the threat the United States would he Isolated if 'he senate refused to ratify th peace treaty aad ihe covenant XVfiS ridicu I lous. So long as tbe AHant ic and Pacific Pa-cific oceans remain, said Senator John.-on. the United Slates could not in an sense remain isola'd Horn any .part of the world And President Wii? son cannot dry up these oceans, he I said. |