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Show JOHNSON IN A STRONG ATTACK ON PRESIDENT SIOUX FALLS, S. D-. Sept 16 ! Speaking before a large audience here fonlcht Senator Hiram W Johnson of California charged that President Wilson Wil-son eeeka to establish substantially a new government for the United Stages by the provisions of the league of nations na-tions covenant. Senator Johnson's stirring appeal for the radical amendment ol the peace pact was enthusiastically received by the erowdd. Upon his arrival here he was met .it the train by a band and a committee commit-tee of citizens and later rode in an automobile parade He spoke from the same platform where Tresid' nt Wilson urged the adoption of the league of nations covenant, eight days ago. To accommodate the crowd it was necessary lo remove the chairs from the main floor of the hall and the crowd remained standing while the senator spoke. Among tho?c on the stage were: Mayor George W. Burnside, W. C. Cook, Republican national committeeman committee-man for South Dakota and former Sen-dor Sen-dor Robert J, Gamble. The speaker was introduced bv Charles M. Day. "Mr Wilson fold you, so what 1 want to point out to you Is that we are making a fundamental choice of government. You may adopt a government gov-ernment in which Germany is pictured as a perfect flower or you must have a new system," said Senator Johnson John-son "This is exactly what Mr. Wilson Wil-son intends to do with his league of nations, adopt a new government substantially sub-stantially for the United States of America. It is exactly what we do not wish to have done. We do not require a new government at this time We are content to live under the constitution consti-tution and the declaration of independence. inde-pendence. "Wo insist that the government of Washington and of Lincoln ami of Roosevelt, the republic which we hfve cherished and which has grown great under the doctrine of Americanism, shall not be superseded by an over-lordship over-lordship of eight foreign nations or by a super-government in which our .voice will be but one of nine. In this omlnoud sentence Mr. Wilson has told his purpose and the purpose of th0 'league of nations. He has outgrown the government that has been oui.s 'for 140 years. We havp not. He has made 'n fundamental choice of a government gov-ernment with his league. We are I still Americans. "Mr. Wilson, in starting his tour, said he was making a report' to the country The American people have waited in vain for an report of Mr. Wilson's proceedings at Paris. Jn- stead of facts they have had plati-itudes plati-itudes and glittering generalities. They have been given no explanation for the surrender of the principles so often i eloquently announced by Mr. Wilson, no reason for the abandonment of Americanism and the easy triumph of European and Asiatic diplomacy. In this city of Sioux Falls he Indulged In-dulged in one or two significant remarks re-marks pregnant v. ith warning to our people 'Your choice,' he said, 'is between be-tween the league of nations and Ger manism' and he endeavored by veiled threat to convey that his opponert were tainted with pro-Germanism. It is a bad and lost cause which in it.v extremity resorts to epithets and vituperation. vitu-peration. "And the choice is not between the league of nations and Germanism. Th choice is between Mr Wilson's internationalism, inter-nationalism, which subordinates and ubjects of Americanism to European and Asiatic power and Americanisx "Mr. Wilson asserted to you tha; the treaty of peace laid down foreve; the principle that no territory ever should be governed except as the people peo-ple who lived there wanted it go erned. The millions of subject peo- pies of the earth make the Issue with Mr. Wilson and his own words to Dr Williams, the American expert, that the treaty of peace was founded upon the secret treaties, some of which he said, were unconscionable, make his ; statement grotesque." Commenting upon the president's insistence that the treaty should be ratified immediately, Senator Johnson John-son said: I "The only country that has so far ; ratified is England. France, most interested in-terested in it, Italy, tremendously in-jterested in-jterested in it; Japan, vastly interested, inter-ested, have not yet acted All four of I these nations get enormous gains. I The only country which takes bur-! dens alone Is our country'. "Since three of these nations have not ratified the treaty, why should we be in haste to act? "In his White House conference with the foreign relations committee, the president said that the treaty with Austria and Turkey contained provisions as important and perhaps more so than the German treaty. ! "The senators asked for infonna-ttofl infonna-ttofl on these treaties and the president presi-dent flatly refused to give the senate or the American people any informa -,tion on them. They contain commit- ' ments as burdensome l the German trer.ty. We ought to know all the j r unmitments he has seeretly put on us before we act on any. "You see today a propaganda abroad in the land saying to us. 'You must1 hurry, you must immediately adopt this document The T'nited States senate is taking too long. You must not wait another minute, you are going go-ing to have your business affected, you are going to have the high cost of living run even higher; you are going to lose profits that might be yours unless the United States senate sen-ate acts ai once ' Thit is the old story.it is the old. old way of endeav- ' orlng to bully and bludgeon into ac- tlon and to get this thing passed be fore you know and before the American Ameri-can people know what t means " Why not tell the American people what I want to know. "After all, my friends, this government govern-ment doesn't belong to one man even if he Is the president. It belongs io you and it belongs to me; it belongs to your sons and my son?. And If w go to fight I rebel and 1 revolt that! in this nation today the destinies of' a hundred million people should be in one man's hands, who secretly, after promising us again and again that secrecy should never obtain, secretly is disposing of your blood and mine. I demand that your sons and mine shall live, not under a dictator or a man who takes to himself the disposal dis-posal of our blood in secrecy, but under un-der a constitution and under laws th.it we ourselves shall make.'' oo |