The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-11
M0NTANANS
APPLAUD WILSON
This Treaty or None, He De.
cIares-Terms for Ger
many Only Just
CRITICS PITILES YEAR AGO.

Billings, Mont, Sept. 11.-(A. P.)--
Laying his appeal for the peace
treaty before the people Of Montana
today, President Wilson declared the
question of its ratification was
question whether the United States
would fulfill it's pledges to the people
and to the world
There were two addresses on his
days program, Mr.. Wilson speaking
at the Billings auditorium before
noon so that he could reach Helena
in time for a meeting at night. He
arrived here from Bismarck, N. D.,
only short time before the hour for
his address. At the auditorium he
found all of the 5000 seats had been
taken and many were standing.
Mayor Mains introduced the presi-
dent, saying that. where a man. went
across the sea and did the major por-
ton of the work of "righting the
whole worlds troubles, he was some
man" Yells from the crowd greeted
this declaration and there were more
cheers when the mayors little daugh-
ter presented a bouquet to Mrs. Will
son.
Mr.. Wilson said he had come "to
consult" with the people in the light
Of circumstances which affected the
whole world. Everywhere. he de-
clared, the human heart beats the
same and on both sides of the ocean
there was sincere desire that there
should be no more war.
1t was mistake, therefore. the
president continued, to debate the
peace treaty as If it were an ordinary
treaty. 1t was not merely treaty
with Germany, he said, but treaty
affecting a settlement of the affairs
Of the world.
"And it is this treaty or no treaty"
he added. 1T is this treaty because
there can be no other.
This settlement is the first inter-
national settlement that's based
upon the happiness of the average
people throughout the world. 1t is a
peoples treaty, and venture the pre-
diction that it is not wise for parlia-
ments and congresses to attempt to
alter it,"
ut is a severe treaty." the presi-
dent went on. but justly So"
Some Of the men who had called it
unduly harsh, he added, were critics.
ing the administration year ago be-
cause they thought the United States
would be too easy with Germany"
"They were pftiless them" he said;
they are pitiful now"
The American dead in the war, Mr..
Wilson declared, had fought not for
the redemption of America, but for
the redemption of the world.
Hard Not to Take Gun During War.
II was one of the hardest of his
trials during the war; he said, to be
able merely to direct the policies of
the nation and not take a gun and
go myself"
The basic principle of the treaty,
said Mr.. Wilson, was that the terri
tory everywhere belongs to the peo-
pie who live upon it. 1t was the Ia
borious work of many minds, he
added. and "has very few compro-
misses in it." following in general
American specifications. Should 1t
fail, he declared, it would be impos-
sible to get together again the ele-
ments necessary to make new set
tlement The United States either
must take the treaty, he said, or play
a. lone hand in world affairs.
IF you're going to play a lone
hand" said he, 1.-The hand that you
play must have weapon in 1t. And
the weapon must be all the young
men of the country, and the business
of the country must be to pay the
piper"
There was a spirit Of unrest every
where" he continued, "and 1t was
the province of the treaty to set up
an industrial democracy as well as
a political democracy. He continued
that there were domestic questions
to be settled in that connection be-
cause there could be no industrial
democracy as long as monopolies ex-
listed.
He was interrupted by applause
when he added:
"And we have not yet finished with
the monopolies."
Citing again the upheaval in Rus
sia, the president asked If his bear
ers had not seen evidence of the
spread of the unrest. 1t was the
dread" of every statesman in Europe,
he continued, and a propaganda
was spreading it in the United States.
Apostles of Lenine Here.
There are apostles of Lenine In
our midst" he said, land it means
to be an apostle of darkness. Our
business is to see that no minority, no
matter how rich, how poor, shall get
control Of the United States" The
publication of political conditions
never could be accomplished until
the treaty was accepted and peace
established. Some men debating the
treaty, he added, seem to think there
was leisure" but there should be no
leisurely discussion of such an issue.
Can't Hate Fellow You Know.
Repeating declarations made in his
previous addresses, the president said
the whole heart was in the provision
for discussion and arbitration of in
ternational controversies.
You can't hate a fellow you know,
said Mr.. Wilson. Il know some
crooks that 1 can't help liking"
The league m, y not prevent all
wars, he said, but 10 per cent. insur-
arce was better than none.
Saying he had heard "radicalism'
pervaded the west, Mr.. Wilson con-
tinued: There's only one way to
beat radicalism. and that is to de-
stop men from agitation against a
grievance is to remove the griev-
ance."
He added as long as there were
things that should be corrected he