The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-12
WILSON IN THE WEST
TALKS TO THE PEOPLE
He Declares that America VIII Go
Into the League and That There
is No Other Way

Bismarck, S. D.-Sept. 10.-Presi.
dent Wilson told Bismarck audience
today that the issue involved in his
speech-making tour for the treaty was
ga question Of war or peace"
There was one only way in which
peace could be maintained, he said
and that was by such concert Of
nations as was proposed in the league
of nations.
Completing the first week of his
tour, the president spoke in the small
est hall in which he had yet spoken
seating about 1900. 1t was filled. Nc
other address was on Mr.. Wilson's
schedule for today.
When the presidents train arrived
a display of pyrotechnics was set off
carrying small parachutes with Amer
lean flags high in the air, On the ride
to the hall through crowded streets
an airplane flying low turned flip 1ops
over the presidential party,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson were cheered
as they entered the auditorium. He
was introduced by Governor Lynn j
Frazier.
Should the movement for world
concert fail, the president said, the
heart of mankind would be over
whelmed by despair" which would
result in chaos.
"Men in despair don't constitute
governments. If we stay out or if we
qualify our acceptance in any way
then the world will say: There can be
no peace.
If the world were in disorder, ask
ed the president, who would buy the
wheat of the United States? All the
processes Of international economic
rehabilitation, he said, waited on q
complete basis, because the world was
waiting, he continued; the great coal
fields of Europe were not being work
ed to capacity and the whole industry
of the world was "chilled."
"While we debate" he went on, "all
the world is raging today. Why does
America hesitate?"
The president declared there was
no more danger of America staying
out of the league eventually than OF
reversing all the other processes OF
her history. But it was the delay, he
added, that was upsetting affairs
everywhere.
Referring to proposals to separate
the peace terms from the league cove
nant, Mr.. Wilson said the covenant
had been put first in the treaty be-
cause without it the rest of the treaty
will be worthless. That conclusion
was reached unanimously at Paris,
asserted Mr.. Wilson, because the
peace conference realized that having
set up a peace settlement, there must
be some way to enforce it.
Replying to objections to article 10
of the covenant, Mr. Wilson reiterat-
ed that the article had no binding
force without the assent of the Unit
ed States, under the unanimous vote
required for action.
"Unless it's our war;" he continued,
1--WE can't be dragged into war with
out our consent. That's an open and
shut proposition; it's the heart of the
treaty. You have either got to take it
or you have got to throw the world
back into that old contest over land
titles.
"There is no other way to quiet the
world. and if the world isn't quieted,
then America sooner or later Will be
drawn into the melee"
The president asked whether any
one thought the United States could
stay out of the league without being
"hated" and intrigued against by the
other nations. Should the American
nation refuse to accept the treaty, he
asserted it would be in the position OF
repudiating it's promises to those who
fought the war and of saying it did
not like what had ben accomplished
by its armed forces. The peoples O.
Europe, said the president, "are in a
revolutionary state of mind" and in
danger of substituting one kind OF
autocracy for another"