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Show I J0l0iJPE California. Senator Voices Ob-M Ob-M jection to Entry of United a I Slaies Into League W : - JNDIANA.POLTS, Tnd April 21. Senator HIcam "W. Johnson, of Call- f fornla, a candidate for the Republican '' ;f . nomination for president -voiced vig- ,." orous opposition to the entry of the United States into the league of na- tlons in an. address at a luncheon In his lionor yesterday. i "He argued against any compact ''. that might result in sending Amerl- t can soldiers to foreign countries to fight over national boundary questions fand criticised those who have said that the paco treaty should not become be-come a political issue. "Let me toll you, my friends," Sen- t ator Johnston said, "you cannot bury -. t . the American flag and have the Araer- .. ''V lean peoplj wall: over the grave of ' iM" liat' fIa "without its becoming an h -i' issue in an American campaign. Whyi t 1 sr.ould not the American people pass r ''' upon whetber their resources shall be J '- taken in rt!he future by foreign na- F jfV, lions' Wh; should not the American jf '.'';' people decide whether the American i youth shall, police the world or fight r . jp for boundary lines in Europe or in ' v . Asia? f j . "My Americanism would have us as j' over alive to humanity's cry, quick j i to respond to suffering and to resent . i 1 wrong; thnt would .ylew with sym- i pathy the struggles of peoples for free- 1 dom or scilf-determination; but an ' ' Americanism by which we would live v' . l our own lives in our own way, under 1 ; V. our own imstitutlons, treservng In all 1 i'V i& its qurity and radiance' the. precous 1 V : heritage which was bequeathed to us ! L 0 aiu Pssn;p it on to those who fol- J low with added glory.' 1 |