The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-09
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CHARGED BY WILSON


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tinues his tour through the Middle
West that the Senate would have him
reapproach Germany. hat in hand,
knee crooked, a suppliant for fayors.
after he had dictated in Paris a mas
ter's terms to beaten foe. For this
IL the humiliation, he tells the peo-
pie Of Nebraska ana North Dakota,
the Senate would force upon him II
any sort Of qualification Is made of
the treaty; shame pictured by him
with every stimulation Of grief and
anger that must fall upon him whose
proud attitude to the humbled Teutons
had been "sign here"
1t was the most artfully worded,
artfully acted flor eyes. facial express
sion, indignant gestures all were en-
ployed) appeal to hair trigger patriot
ism that could be imagined, and Mr..
Wilson did not hesitate to make 1t
directly an appeal to patriotism.
"Are there any patriotic Americans
who desire the method changed7" he
asked and paused for rush Of voices
to I'LL the emotional vacuum he had
created. He as much as said that II
would be impossible to get the nations
to accept any changes because, let
me say, there are indications that peo-
pie are not in as good humor over
in Paris now as when / was there,
and 1t Is going to be more difficult to
get agreement from now on than
1t was then"
Holds Reservations Unpatristfc.
His speeches to-day were levelled d.
rectly at those who believe that reser-
vations at least would be wise and could
be associated smoothly with the treaty.
He did not go so far as to commit
himself to the point of saying he
would not accept any reservations-he
has never blocked the doorway-but
he overlooked no means Of belittling and
discrediting both the reservations sug-
gested and their authors. He argued,
first, that reservations are totally un-
necessary; second. that they are I'm
patriotic. He calls that-the suggested
reservations "a work of superer-
ogation dragged in by a Senate whose
mental processes are so slow as not
even to be comprehensive by God
Almighty.
This is his very latest compliment
to the body of men he has described
through the States east Of the Mis-
souri, as contemplate cutters, scut-
tiers. poor patriots, trade runners and
men incapable Of altruistic purposes.
It is noticeable that the more highly
Mr.. Wilson protests his respect for
the Senate the more contemptuous
grow his illusions to that body.
These persons, he told his audiences
out here, insist on putting into the
charter of mankind what is clearly
implied in the whole instrument"
And thereupon words burst from him
Well. you say. why notr Well. why
not, my fellow citizens. The conference
at Paris will still be sitting when the
| Senate of the United States has acted
upon this treaty. Perhaps 1 ought not
| TO say that so confidently. No nan.
cvenin the secrets OF Providence. can
t3n how long It will take the United
states Senate to do anything. but 7 irn-
agine that in the normal course OF hui
man fatigue the Senate will have acted
upon this treaty before the conference
in Paris gets through with the Aus.
TRAN treaty and the Bulgarian treaty
and the Turkish treaty. So they will
still be there on the job.
Must Go Back to s.gnatories.
| every lawyer viii follow me in this -
and change the words. even though you
| do not change the sense, you hava IN
get the other parties to accept those
| words. Every reservation will have 70
| be taken back to all the signatorios of
| this treaty, and I want you to nottc"
that that includes Germany We win
have to ask Gcrmany's consent to read
| this treaty the way we understand II.
1 want to tell you that we did not ask
Germanys consent to the meaning Of
any one of those terms while we were
| in Paris. We told her what they meant
| and said: Sign here
N"Are there any patriotic Americans
who desire the method changed? Ami
| do they want me to ask the Assem- bly,
at weimar IL I may read the treaty the
| way 1t means but in words which the
United States thinks 1t ought to have
| written In it7 Reservations have come
| down to this. that. they want to change
the language OF the treaty without
| changing its meaning, and involve Ill
the embarrassments."
This antagonism to reservations. this
extremely carefully worded opposition
for Mr.. Wilson has invariably refrained
from stating that he, will not agree even
tualy to reservations. was delivered
[ with its accompaniment of an appeal "a
a kind of patriotism before the large
and holiday spirited audience which
faced him in the auditorium In Omaha
some 5000 persons, for they build bis
halls out here for the exercises of the
human voice. But. as Mr. Wilson put
it, as the question of an unshaded choice
between maintaining the status of the
United States he had won as the mas
ter OF conquered Germany, and the
| status he insisted the Senate was trying
to force upon the country, that of q
humble suppliant before Germany, the
| appeal was shrewdly calculated to pro
| duce applause, which 1t did.
Created Little Interest OtherwlSe
1t was one of the few outbursts o.
noise that troubled the serenity OF the
meeting, for Mr.. Wilson's visit to Omahs
was an coca sion for which his nervousls
intent disciples rapidly found apologies
for-"the middle Of the day people busy
in shop and factory used to seeing hin
/ hare this being his third visit to Oma