Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-11
President Says We Must
Chose Between World
Work and Isolation.
NOT GERMAN BUT
WORLD DOCUMENT
President in Address in Montana Dis
cusses Political Observation-Disclosures
at Billings Filled to Capacity
Spreads Alarm Thru Threat of Doi-
shcvism-Spoaks Tonight in Helena,
Mont.

Billings, Mont, Sept. 11.-Laylng MS
appeal for the pease treaty before the
people of Montana today. President
Wilson declared the question of It's
ratification was n question whether
the United States would fulfill It's
There were two addresses on today's
program, Mr. Wilson speaking at the
Billings auditorium before noon so that
he could reach Helena in time for
meeting at night. He arrived here
from Bismarck. N. D., only short
time before the hour for his address,
and was taken for an automobile ride
thru the principal streets. He was
cheered by the crowds rs he passed
along, and at the auditorium he found
all Of the 5000 seats taken and many
persons standing.
p MAYOR W. Lee Mains. introducing the
president. said that when a man went
across tho sea and did the major por-
,tion Of the work Of writing the whole
worlds troubles. he was some man.
Yells from the crowd greeted the dec
laration.
Not German But World Treaty.
Mr.. Wilson said he had come west to
consult" with the people in the light
of circumstances which affected the
whole world Everywhere, he declar-
ed. 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 pres
ident continued, to debate the peace
treaty as If 1t were an ordinary treaty.
8 e. was not merely a treaty witkFG Ger-
many. he said. but a treaty affecting
a settlement of the affairs OF the
world.
And it is this treaty or no treaty..
he added. ut is this treaty because
there can be no other
This settlement Is the first interna-
tional settlement which is based upon
the happiness of the average people
thruout the world. 1t is peoples
treaty. and 7 venture the prediction
that 1t is not wise for parliaments or
congresses to attempt to alter it,
It Is a severe treaty,-the president
went on. but justly so. Some of the
ded. were criticizing the administration
a year ago because they thought the
United States would be too easy with
Germany
"They were pittiless then" he ad-
ded. they are pitiful now"
4, The American dead In the war. Mr..
Wilson declared. had fought not for
the redemption of America. but for
the redemption Of the world. 1t ~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"
Accept or Play Lone Hand.
Should the treaty fail, he declared.
against the elements necessary to
make new settlement. The United
States either must take the treaty or
play a lone hand in world affairs.
.Tf you're going to play world
hand" he said "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 pay the piper"
Talks Politics.
There is spirit Of unrest every
where, he continued, and 1t was the
province of the treaty to set up an in
dustrial democracy as well as politi-
cal democracy. He continued that there
were domestic questions to be settled
in that connection because there could
be no industrial democracy as long as
monopolies existed. >He was interrupt.
ed by applause when he added:
"And we have not yet finished with
the monopolies" and citing again the
upheaval in Russia the president asked
IL his hearers 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.