The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-05
PRESIDENT SAYS
THE TREATY WILL
Be ACCEPTF D
Challenges Senate Opponent.
IS Offer Better Program
EXPOUNDS TREATYS AIMS
Declares He Would Not Have Come
Back Without That Kind
of Treaty
ExPOUNDS TREATYs AIMS


son arrived here today on the third
lap of his swing around the circle in
defense of the League of Nations and
the peace treaty, having sounded the
keynote in addresses yesterday at
Columbus and Indianapolis. He plan
ned to take brief respite from speech
making today before plunging into
the arduous program that will carry
him, into virtually every western
state.
Arriving here early, he planned to
sleep late and keep most of the day
free. Early in the afternoon he was
To attend luncheon at down town
hotel where it was expected he would
make a brief talk on the treaty, and
In the evening he was to speak in the
Coliseum where in 1916 he was re.
nominated for the presidency.
Indianapolis, Ind, Sept 4.-Presi-
dent Wilson had great reception
here tonight, where he made his Sec
ond address of the day in his nation
wide campaign to insure the ratiflca-
tion OF the Peace Treaty with the
League covenant
The meeting was held in the Coils
cum at the State Fair Grounds, about
FIVE miles from the business center of
the city. Not fewer than 10000 per-
sons were packed into the building.
One police estimate placed the
throng as $4,000 or more.
Columbus, o., Sept 4.-In the first
speech of his trans-continental tour,
President Wilson here today urged
the American people to exert their in
fiuence for acceptance by the United
States Senate of the peace treaty
signed with Germany, and predicted
that the Senate would ratify the
treaty.
when this treaty is accepted" he
said, "the men in khaki will never
have to cross the seas again. and
say when it is accepted, because it
will be accepted"
Speaking to a capacity audience
which filled every nook in Memorial
hall, the President said it was not his
purpose during the trip to debate"
the treaty but to expound it to the
people. He declared there was
concert of feeling among the allied
representatives at Versailles Refer
ring to the American delegation. he
said.
I'VE were under instructions and
we did not dare to come home with
ONT fulfilling these instructions. II
couldn't have brought back the kind
Of treaty did bring back, | never
would have come back"
President Wilson appealed to his
hearers il they would not read the
tfeaty themselves, to at least accept
the account Of its contents as given
by those who made It, He declared
the only persons he owed report to
"are you and the other citizens of the
United States" He said such a re-
port was necessary because he had
read many speeches about the treaty
end war rrable to gather from them
much Of hit the treaty contained.
T'residcn Wilson said the treaty
undertook to punish Germany, but
that there was no thought to over
whelmingly crush any great people.
The reparation demanded of Ger
many. he said, was no greater than
Germany could pay
The league of nations. he declared.
was formed in fulfllment of the
Promise that the United States was
fighting this war to lend business of
that sort" forever. Not to establish
the league, he said, would have been
unfaithful to those who had died
Besides, the President said, the
treaty tears away" the chain Of op-
preston and gives small nationalities
the right to live their own lives,
THAT" he said, "was the American
position and | was glad to fight for
IT,
gThe President praised the treaty
provision providing for an interna-
tiohsl labor organization which will
hold its first meeting in Washington
next month. He declared the meet
ing would be held whether. the treaty
had been ratified by the Senate by
that time or not.