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Show uu SEN. JOHNSON IS 1CHPLEASE0 SALT LAKE CITY, Ocl. 12 -S-na ! tor Hiram W Johnson, who last nicht completed his transcontinental campaign cam-paign against acceptance of the leagued of nations covenant without amrnd-j metttA, left today for Washington to re-1 sume his fight on the document in th senate. Before leaving he gave out the following statement "It has been a wonderful trip. I have ev i had an abiding confidence in the people i have never doubted that upon a moral or a patriotic issue the great masS of our people arc always rlghl when they understand L'pon an important im-portant question the only problem Is to see that the facts r.ro presented and the issue marie plain. Speaking gen eralh. the monopolizers of publi tj have been for the league at nations. The vocal and vociferous, those Who most court the limelight end seek ap- proval by vehement expressions of an obvious generality, have been Its a. ! v oca t os. "Until the last few months the ordi nary citizen has accpted without question ques-tion and without knowledge of the (locument Itself, the oft-repeated assertions as-sertions of those who publicly embraced em-braced the League before its contents were known. Wh-n the smis'er purposes pur-poses of the instrument were disclosed, it became necessary, whatever labor and effort were reQUlfed, to brlni: home to ihe people the facts. "This has measurably been done. .Everywhere there has been the same, response. The west has differed not at all from the east. Just common folks the backbone of America the i men and women of the great inarticulate inarticu-late mass who compos- our cftizensbip and make our country great, with knowledge of the perils and the dangers dan-gers of the present league, have in no uncertain tones repudiated it. "After all the people are American, not selfishly so, but truly American, wishing to live their lives and work out their destiny as Americans under American command and American con trol "Thev will ever perform their duty to humanity and civilization, but they will do this in their own time and as they shall decree, not under the direction direc-tion or conirol of foreign nations. "The Pacific coast tour has been more than successful. It has been in no sense personal or partisan It has been a triumph for Americanism." |