Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
URGES TREATY AS
CHARTER FOR NEW
ORDER OF AFFAIRS
President Wilson in Kansas City Speech
Covers Many Points Previously Dis
cussed; Declares Pact Shot Through
With American Principles
EFFECTIVE DISARMAMENT
WOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED
By associated Press.

Kansas City, Mo, Sept. 4.-Prcs-
ident Wilson appealed to a Kansas
City crowd to-day to support the
peace treaty as a charter for a
new order of wo d airs. 1t was
his third speech fo~ 'h" +"s'.r" m
Missouri, and was delivered before
a capacity audience in Convention
Hall.
When the President. panied
by Mrs. Wilson appeared on the
platform of the vast auditorium the
crowd each of whom had a small
American ag, arose and cheered for
more than two minutes.
President Wilson had been cheered
as the presidential party paraded
through four miles of the city S
streets to Convention Hall.
The special train bearing Presi-
dent Wilson and his party arrived
here from st. Louis at eos o'clock
this morning.
Led by the Seventh Regiment
band. three companies of troops and
the machine gun battalion, the party
left Union station in automobiles
shortly after the arrival of the spa-
cial train.
Hall is Packed
tItSlutllN anu ME- " llSN4i ''N'+
Governor Fred G.. Gardner and
Major James Cowghill. of Kansas
City were in the first car.
The route of parade was lined
with people. and as the President
approached there were frequent out
hrusts of cheering.
The parade passed through the
business section to Convention hall'
where arrangements had been made
for seating 99,0GO persons. the
Gcors of the hall wnrs opened at
O'Clock Half an hour later every
seat was flied and ms crowd WITS
still pouring in. seeking standing
room.
Duplicates Points
In his address the President COW
cred many of the same points or
the treaty he had discussed in prev
ious addresses. He said he had
come to report to the people direct
about one of the greatest documents
in human histor~ The treaty ne
declared. was "strt through" with
American princiII's. put there by
the common consent of the world.
One of the things America had
had in heart throughout her Whole
existence said the President. was
that arbitration. and consultation
should be substituted for force. This
was accomplished, he declared, by
the League of Nations covenant.
Nine months of discussion of any
international controversy would be
assured under the covenant. he as
serted. adding that this princlple
previously had been written into
thirty arbitration treaties, all of
which we're confirmed by the Uni
ted States Senate. The principle
OF the league. he declared, already
had been adopted by the United
States.
Effective Disarmament
The boycotts imposed on COW
nnart breakers were emphasized by
the President as constituting meas
ure more effective than military
force THE most conclusive thing
that could happen to a nation, ne
continued. was ito be read out or
decent society"
Effective Disarmament would ne
accomplished under the covenant,
Mr.. Wilson predicted, dec arlng IL
was ridiculous to talk of the league
as tending to war when Its whole
esserce" is arbitration and peace.
The league, he declared, would mean
the end of the military clan
throughout the world forever.
There is no other way to dis
pense with great armaments without
an agreement by the great nations or
the world" said Mr.. Wilson, and
here is the agreement"
Autocracy would perish with mill
ttsrism, added the President ana
the intrigue which had terrorized
Europe for generations would be
eEded.
Must Be DESTROYED
He declared that "democracies
will sooner or later have to destroy
that kind of government, and If we
don't do it now the job will still
be before u.s." This task, he COLI
tinued, must be carried to the eX-
tent that no minority anywhere
could control the majority.
THE men who now control the
affairs of Russia" said Mr.. Wilson,