Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-09-26
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
At CHEYENNE, WYO.
Asks Showdown for League;
Lost If Amended.
MEANS PACT WITH GERMANS
Senate Amendment Would Be Rejec-
ton of the Treaty and Negotia-
tons With Berlin for separ-
ate Agreement.

ate Agreement.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 25.-Reading
again the proposed senate reservation
10 article X Of the league covenant,
President Wilson said in an address
here that should any such reservation
be adopted he would "he obliged as
chief executive to regard it as q re-
lection Of the treaty"
The president added that rejection
of the treaty would mean negotiation
of a separate peace with Germany and
asserted that such a negotiation could
not change a single item of the peace
settlement
The reservation read by the presi-
dent was the same that he laid before
his audience at the Salt Lake City
tabernacle BY its provisions the
United States would assume no obli-
CATION to preserve the territorial in
tegrity of other nations unless con-
gress should so decide
Unworthy and Ridiculous.
1T is as though you said we will
not join the league now" said he, but
may join it from time to time. We
won't promise anything, but from time
to time we may cooperate.
THE thing is unworthy and ridicu-
lous. It means the rejection of the
treaty, nothing less. The issue is final.
We can't avoid It We've got to make
the decision now and, once made,
there can be 10 turning back"
Unless the United States went into
the league now. he added, and as
sumed its full responsibility 1t would
have TO come ii later with Germany.
Opposed by Pro-cermans.
Asserting that the overwhelming
majority Of the people were for the
treaty the president said that the only
organized elements opposing ratltica-
tion were the pro-German elements
ana others who showed their hyphen
during the war;"
Opponents OF the treaty, Mr.. Wilson
said, made many insupportable objec-
tions. but had debated seriously only
one Of these objections. the Shantung
settlement.
lie went into the history of the
Shannug concession, pointing out that
President Mckinley did not protest
when Germany acquired the Shantung
rights now given Japan. The settle
ment Included in the Versailles treaty,
he asserted, was unavoidable" while
the League OF Nations offered the best
hope for China's recovery of her lost
province.
No Precedent for Protest.
The United States. asserted the
president, had no precedent in inter
national law for even protesting
against Japan's acquisition Of the
Shantung rights. But he added that
under article IL Of the league cove
nant it would be the friendly right of
nation to protest against any such
situation which endangered peace For
The first time, he said the United
Suites could. under the league, become
the effective friend of China
Asks Showdown"
Recalling Japan's promise 60 return
to China all sovereign rights in Shan
tung, the president said the only thing
retained by the Tokyo government
would be economic rights such as
other nations mold He said the United
States had no right to doubt that prom
Use.
He characterized as empty noise"
the professions of friendship of China
made by those who want the treaty
TO fail.
Turning to the league covenant. the
president said the question of whether
the heart of the league covenant was
to be cut OUT soon must come to
showdown"
II WOULD mean the vitiation of the
whole plan, he asserted Il tue nation
were to adopt reservations to article
10 as proposed in the senate.
Talks of Six Votes.
one by one, he said, the other OBJ
iections TO the covenant had been dis
posed of. TO all "candid minds,' he
asserted. it now was apparent that the
Monroe doctrine was fully protected +;
that there was no supergovernment
set up. aud that no danger was 10 be
feared from the speaking parts given
10 the British domlnions in the league
assembly