Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1919 — WILSON URGES SENATE ACTION [ARTICLE]

WILSON URGES SENATE ACTION

League or No League? Take a Stand, the President Challenges Body. SAYS IT'S THE WHOLE ISSUE Speaks Twice in Colorado, nt Denver in Morning and Pueblo in Afternoon —Crowd* at Both Cities Are Enthusiastic. Pueblo, Colo., Sept. 26.—Reducing his tight for the peace treaty to a direct Issue of acceptance or rejection, President Wilson Invited the senate to take a definite and unmistakable stand one way or the other. After declaring it would be his duty as chief executive to Judge whether the senate’s action constituted acceptance .or rejection, should reservation* be Incorporated in the ratification, the president added a warning that be did not consider "qualified adoption** as adoption in fact. He said, however," that he saw no objection to mere interpretations. In two addresses in Colorado Mr. Wilson reiterated again and again that the whole controversy had resolved itself into a clear-cut question whether the United States should go into the League of Nations or stay out. It was time, he said, tjiat the nation knew where it was to sfhnd. Meanwhile, White House officials In the presidential pnrty permitted It to become known that the proposed reservation which the. president quoted at Salt Lake City and Cheyenne, and which he announced he would regard as a rejection of the treaty, was one he had been Informed wa« agreed upon. Crowds' Enthusiasm Continues. Ths president’s first speech of the day was nt a morning meeting in Denver, and later he addressed a crowd which filled the Municipal hall here. Cheers many times interrupted hi* declarations at the two meetings, and in both cities a constant din of cheering greeted him as he passed through the streets. At every station along the way the people had gathered to see his train and at Colorado Springs, where a short stop was made, he was giver* a tumultuous welcome by a crowd which jammed the station pinna and overflowed into the adjoining streets. Before his speech here he drove through the state fair grounds, where another cfbwd cheered him. In his Pueblo address the president said the chief pleasure of his countrywide trip was Jhat it had nothing to’ do with his personal fortunes. He repeated his charge that an "unorganized propaganda” was opposing the treaty and that it proceeded from "hyphens.” “Any man who carries a hyphen about him,” he said, '‘carries a dagger which he is ready to plunge into the vitals of the republic. If I can catch a man with a hyphen in this .great contest, I will know that I have caught an enemy of the republic.” Reviewing the treaty provisions, the president stressed the self-determina-tion and labor features, asserting that if the treaty failed there would be no great international tribunal before which labor could bring its requests for better conditions. Light on Labor Question*. “What we want to do with the great labor questions,” he said, “la to lift them into the light.” Going to the League of Nations covenant, he declared, it was necessary for carrying out the peace terms. Referring to objections that the United States might be at a disadvantage in the league, Mr. Wilson said that whoever said that “either was falsifying Hr hfe hadn’t read the covenant.” He added that there was no validity in the argument that the British empire could outvote tfie other nations, because the empire’s six votes are in. the assembly, which is only the “talking body” of the league. The real power of action, he said, was in the council whose decisions must be unanimous. The president went into the Shantung settlement at length, declaring it was the League of Nations which would give China her opportunity to free herself from the Iproads made upon her by other nations. The disposlttonX>f Shantung, he said, was the- - best that could be obtained at the time. These and other objections had been, unmistakably arranged, he continued.: and the debate had settled down upoix the "heart of the covenant —the cele-’ brated article 10, under which the league members agree to respect and preserve one another's territorial ln-

tegrity as against external aggression. There was nothing worth considering in the other objections, he said, adding: “But there is something in article 10 which you ought to realize and ought to accept or reject.” Under the wording of the article, said Mr. Wilson, the league could only advise what action should be taken in international controversies and could give its advice only by unanimous vote. Therefore, the American delegate would have to vote “aye,” he added, before congress even could be advised what to do.