The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-13
PRESIDENT ASKS
REPUBL|CANS NOT
To THINK OF 1920
Britains Six Votes to One for u.
S. Not So Bad
VOTE MUST BE UNANIMOUS
Wilson Pictures the World Again
Aflaim with War Unless Peace
Treaty Is Accepted


A world again alame with war unless
the Peace Treaty was accepted, was
pictured by President Wilson in his
address here today.
America was face to face, he said
with a decision as to whether she
would prove to the world that she
meant what she said in promising to
aid in peace concert
While he could understand why
men might differ as to details of the
treaty, Mr.. Wilson said, he was
amazed" that some men wanted to
reject 1t Altogether. 1t was America
who saved the world, he declared, and
now it was proposed in some quarters
to desert the world"
The forthcoming treaty with Aus
tria. said the President, would be
drawn along exactly the same lines
as that with Germany and would be
another step in the effort to prevent
another attempt at conquest He as
serted that the field for future con
quest lay directly to the east of Ger
many, and that Germany was already
negotiating with the Boishevist Gov
ernment of Russia in the hope of find
ing soil there for industrial and poll
tical intrigue. 1t was the Peace
Treaty with its League of Nations
covenant, he asserted which alone
could prevent the success of such a
plan.
Germany wants us to stay out of
this treaty" said the President, mot
under the delusion that we would
seek to aid her, but with the know
ledge that the guarantees would not
be sufficient without America She
to see America alienated from the
great powers from which she herself
has been alienated.
The pro German propaganda has
started up in this country coincident
with the opposition to the adoption OF
this treaty
Are we going to prove the enemy
of the rest of the world just when we
have been its savior? The thing is
intolerable. II is impossible"
Spokane, Washington, Sept. 12.-
President Wilson addressed a large
audience here today
Replying to objections that Great
Britain would have a preponderance
of voting power in the League of Ma
tions Assembly. President Wilson
said that any possible danger on that
score was removed by the fact that
devisions must be unanimous.
The Assembly, the President went
on, was largely debating. body and
would seldom act on important ques-
tions. When it did the United States
with its one vote would have an "ab-
solute veto" under the rule requiring
unanimous vote.
There was only one case in which
the Assembly could decide an import.
ant question, he said, and that was
when such question was unanimous
| ly referred to it by the Council The
! Assembly also must act unanimously
he added so that in either Council or
Assembly the one vote of the United
State would constitute veto power
The unanimous rule added the
President, seemed to him the only
weakness of the League, but it was a
weakness In the direction of throwing
a safeguard around national SOW
ereignty.
| DEPRESSING TO say that there was an
element of bitterness in the League
controversy, the President said that
persons seemed to think that a man
named Wilson" originated the League
Adding that he had wished he had
done so. the President asserted that
on the contrary the idea had grown
out of years OF discussion largely on
the part of Republican statesmen,
Mr. Wilson asked the Republicans
present not ito think of 1920 when
thinking of the redemption of the
world adding that he himself did
not for moment do So