The daily times., 1919-09-09
uv.,.1,to SAYS
.,WILSON OF FOES
PRESIDENT FIGHTING HARD
FOR LEAGUE REVEALS A
" NEW SELF.
| PACT OR WORSE WAR
1 Thousands Acclaim Mr.. Wilson In
| Middle West on Most lmpor-
r. tant Trip Of His Pub
r. lie Career.
PACT OR WORSE WAR

Train, Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 6.-le
is a new kind of Woodrow Wilson
that this middle western country is
observing as he proceeds on what he
frankly calls the greatest journey OF
his life. No longer is he simply an
eloquent orator or profound thinker
with high ideals. The president has
become a real fighter, and in his cru
sade for the adoption Of the peace
treaty with the league of nations in
cluded, the only preventive, ne as
serts, of an early and more terrible
war than the world has ever known,
he has been delivering the strongest
speeches of his career, putting into
them his most powerful words and
gestures, and, indeed, throwing into
them a personality more virile than
even his friends believed he possessed.
And this has won more friends for
him and the league, even among his
political opponents.
A Republican crowd of 1900 in st.
Louis Friday rose and cheered for
more than a minute when Mr.. Wilson
designated as "quitters' those enc
mics of the league who have been
holding up it's adoption. A mixed as
semblage of more than $4,000 in In
dianapolis on the preceding night
roared approval when the president,
referring to those same obstruction
lists of the league, defied them to put
up or shut up"
Challenged them to produce some
thing as good or better if they did
not want to accept this plan of pre-
venting future wars.
Before the st. Louis chamber of
commerce the president, explaining
the purpose of the league, described
it as a "chart and constitution for
new system for the world" a system
designed to prevent wars by protect
ing the weak, who have always been
the cause of wars, system entirely
contrary to the old political system
of the world. 1t was for the purpose
of ending war that America entered
the world conflict, Mr.. Wilson remind
ed his hearers. He demanded to know
of his opponents how they would keep
out of war if they failed to take part
in the great pact to protect the weak.
He recalled the pledges that all Amer
ica made, that we should have a share
in this great pact Then, referring
to those who now oppose the league,
he said:
'They are absolute, contemplate
cutters if they do not see the game
through" America will be despised,
suspected and distrusted unless she
goes forward with her bargain, the
president added in the st. Louis
speech.
To all of the objections to the
league, Mr.. Wilson offered explana-
tions that satisfied his audience The
much discussed article ten did not
mean, he said, that Americans would
ever have to send troops across the
seas to fight other nations battles.
Indeed, with league, there would be
no more battles, he explained. At
least the possibility was very remote.
Each nation agrees first, he explain
ed, either to submit differences to ar
bitration and accept the decision Of
the arbitrator, or submit the differ
ences to discussion by the council OF
| the league. In this latter case the
nations agree to allow six months for
the discussion. II settlement failed
| after that time, they agree to wait
three months longer before going to
war And no nation. after that period
of cooling off, would fight, he as
serted.
In case a nation refused to agree
either to arbitration or discussion, it
outlawed itself, the president explain
ed 1t would be economically and
socially boycotted by the rest Of the
world, and this punishment, he said,
| would be more terrible than war;
AS to Japan's holding of Shantung
peninsula, the president said he agreed
to that only because England and
France, by secret treaty, had given
the territory to Japan. But he was
sure, he said, that Japan would, as
she has promised, return it. Of those
| league opponents who pose as China's
friends in this matter, he inquired
"How do they expect to get Shantung
back for China IL not through the
| league? Would they go to war fol
| it?'
| Accusing them of fearing the re
sponsibilities of the league, he de
manded: eff you are China's friends
should you scuttle and run? That's
not the kind of an American I am
Again the crowd rose and cheered.
The president explained Americas
need for being part Of the league be
cause Of business reasons, but sale
they came last in his mind. He sale
in conclusion, at St. Louis: "If there
is no league there will be, In the
vengeful providence of God, another
struggle in which not merely a few
hundreds of thousands of Americana
will have to die, but as many mil
lions as may be necessary to accom-
plish the final freedom Of the world