Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-26
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
To $1,000 CHEERING
PEOPLE At DENVER.
He Declares That the Issue
at Last Has Been "CIearly
DraWn"-TaIks to School
Children

DENVER, Col, Sept. 25.-Pres-
ident Wilson left at IL o'clock THIS
morning for Pueblo, Col, where he is
to deliver his next address.
AUDITORIUM, DENVER, Col.
Sept. 25.-To the music of Onward,
Christian Soldiers" played on
great pipe organ, President Wilson,
cheered by crowd estimated at H.
900, entered the auditorium today to
make his appeal for ratification of
the peace treaty.
He spoke from a high pulpit, tow
ering ten feet above the heads OF
those seated on the platform. The
pulpit was adorned with awhile COW
ering upon which were the shields
of the United States.
On his way to the hall, Mr.. Will
son spoke few words to thousands
of school children massed before the
state capitol building.
The president started speaking at
1855 o'clock, after having been in
troduced by Judge Harrison S. White,
Of the Colorado League to Enforce
Peace, as the ''hrst man Of the
world"
Mr. Wilson declared that many of
the objections to the treaty had been
removed.
The treaty will not work, he said,
without the covenant of the League
Of Nations.
"I'm glad to see the issue clearly
drawn" he said, asserting that the
fight was centering on the league
covenant and the question was
whether the United States would
stand by it's pledges for the liberties
of the world.
Bubble Exploded
votes, he said:
"They have six votes in the league
assembly and the assembly don't
vote, so that bubble is exploded"
No active policy can be undertaken
by the league, he pointed out, with
out the affirmative vote of the
United States.
Talk of a supergovernment being
set up over the United States by the
league, the president denounced as
sheer nonsense"
American standards OF action are
set up in the covenant, he declared.
The covenant is a promise by ALI
the great fighting powers that they
never again will resort to war with
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delay and discussion.
"Hyphens are the knives that are
being stuck into this document"
President Wilson charged.
He made with emphasis the accu-
sation that ''outside legislative
halls" the only organized opposition
to the treaty, came from the same
forces that favored Germany in the
war.
There is no question of reserva-
tons or amendments to the treaty,
he said. The issue is fatty, accept
ance Or rejection.
Acceptance means insurance against,
war" he declared land that's worth
the whole game"
Tremendous Ovation
80 1u0T6 WAS d QSnOn~
stration when he said he was under
bond to the mothers, wives and
sweethearts of America to do all pos
sible to prevent another war in the
next generation.
1.-THE children are my clients" he
cried.
Declaring the League of Nations
was SO per cent insurance against
war; he said:
'That's what went over to Eu-
rope to get; that's what 1 got, and
that's what 1 brought back" t
If America stays out of the treaty
this country must have the largest
army in the world with huge taxes.
universal CONSUMPTION and military
government, because you can't run
such a machine with a debating So
ciety." the president said
More applause broke out when he
confidently declared a man never
would stand for such condition.
eff we don't have this treaty, labor
will be regarded as purchaseabIe
commodity throughout the world
said the president, drawing attention
to the labor provisions
"Accept or Reject"
I'VE haven't done our full duty,
with regard to lettering larger con
Gitions in this country" he added,
but added American conditions were
better than those in other countries
and should be extended to the world
as preliminary to general better
ment Of conditions.
Some men he knows, Mr.. Wilson
said, are very good takers and it's a
pleasure to hear them when they are
honest, and know what they are tallr-
ing about. But time for debate has
passed, he said. The people know
what is in the covenant and refua-
ed to be misled with regfard to il
he added.
If the treaty is turned down.
America will deserve to forfeit thu
confidence of the world, he asserted
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