New-York tribune., 1919-09-07
Worlds Biggest Problems
A W ait Ratification,
President Tells Big
Des MOines Audience
Warns Against
Minority Rule
Don't Let Selfish Men
Plot U. S. Future, He
Pleads in Kansas City

DES MONIES, Ia, Sept. GA pos
sibility tha. Bolshevism may spread
in threatening proportions 70 tie
United States unless the peace treaty
is ratified promptly was suggested by
President Wilson in an address here
tonight.
The whole world was waiting unessi-
ly, he said, while the poison which
had wrecked Russia was spreading
among peoples who did not yet know
what guarantees there were to be
for liberty in the new world order
Labor and capital in the United
States. he asser3sd. could not proceed
intelligently with their settlements
nor could great problems like the
railroad situation be solved while the
suspense continued.
In his speech at Kansas City earlier
in the day the President, again defyins
opponents Of the league and treaty.
declared: II have come to hight tcs
q cause greater than the Senate, greater
Z suon SuC SobsS ~ 0A~Ss
as mankind. intend, in Office or out,
to fight that battle as long as live
Defends Shantung Section
Mr. Wilson in his night speech de-
Tended the Shantung provision Of the
treaty and said the league covenant
section referring 10 the Monroe
Doctrine had been inserted to give
the Monroe Doctrine righ' of way in
the Western Hemisphere" He de-
clared his conviction that It would do
so.
In his statement regarding Bolshe-
vism in America, the President cited
what had happened in Europe and said
the move of radicaism and disorder
was spreading.
"Do you honestly think that none
Of that poison has got into the veins
of this free people, he asked. "Mer
look you calmly in the face in Ameries
and tell you they are for that sort OF
revolution.
$50 long as the question OF what
kind OF peace the world was to have
and what guarantees we're to be behind
it remained open, the poison would
continue to spread"
"How long shall we be kept waiting
for the answer whether the world will
trust us or despise u.s." he continued
"The world stands annoyed because an
authority in America hesltates whether
it will indorse an American doctrine"
Speaks is Omaha Monday
The President will rest tomorrow
and Monday will resume his treaty
speaking tour. delivering an address
in Omaha in the morning and in
Sioux Falls in the evening.
Defending the treaty In his Kansas
City speech, the President said that to
alter 1t is to impair "one Of the first
charters Of mankind"
"And yet" he continued. "thers are
men who approach the question with
passion. with private passion. with
party passion, who think only Of some
immediate advantage to themselves, or
to a group of their fellow eountrymen,
and who look at the thing with the
jaundiced eyes Of those who have some
private purpose Of their own. When ct
last In the annals Of mankind they
are gibbeted, they will regret that the
gibbet is SO high"
After arraigning the sutoeratie
minority control OF Germany, which
brought on the war, the President de-
clsred, "We have got TO be frank with
ourselves, however. II ne do not allow
minority government In Germany We
must see to 1t that We do not have it
in the United States. II you do not
want little groups Of selfish men to
plot the future Of Europe, We must not
allow little groups Of selhsh men 70
plot the future Of America"
Opposition BoIshevistke"
Opposition" declared the President,
us tho speciality Of those who are Boil
shevistically Inclined" adding. II an
not comparing any OF my respected
colleagues to Bolshevists. but I sm
merely pointing out that the Bolshs-
vistic spirit lacks every element Of
constructive opposition; they have de-
stroyed everything and they have pre-.
posed nothing" .
In urging the peaceful processes