New-York tribune., 1919-09-12
Tells Montana A udience
1t Is SsPeople's Pact
and Unwise for Con-
gress to Change 1t
Warns Apostles of
Lenine Are Active
Declares America Must
Ratify CIR Live With
a "Cun in Its Hand''

HELENA, Mont. Sept. lin two
addresses in Montana to-day President
Wilson asked that the peace treaty be
ratified without delay so that the spirit
Of universal unrest spreading from
Russia may be quictcd. He declared
the question of the trcaty's ratification
was whether the United States would
fulfi its pledges to its people and to
the world. at is this treaty. or no
treaty. he added. at is this treaty
because there can be no other"
The Presidents first speech this
morning was at Billings. Tonight,
when he was introduced at the meet
ing here by Governor Sam Stewart, the
crowd stood up and cheered
Declaring that the treaty could not
be carried out without the league Of
nations, the President cited the terri
torial adjustments of mid Europe as
an example of the sort of tasks which
he asserted only a concert of nations
could accomplish. The league was to
be the nstrumentality, he said, "by
which the goods are to nc delivered to
the people to whom they belong" in
territories Of disputed sovereignty.
Holds U. S. Responsible
Under the league, Mr.. Wilson as
serted there would be no opportunity
for a people to be thrown into war
without their consent, but if the league
failed, he declared the United States
would be deliberately guilty of "pre-
pairing situation which would bring
on the final world war"
Mr.. Wilson said he wondered where
the men had been living who now
wanted America to stand alone and
disconnect herself from the world.
"Her ambition has been to connect her
self with the world commercially" he
said, "and they're bankrupt if she
doesn't"
He added that during the last few
years great business enterprises, anx-
ious not to suffer from the excess
profits law, had put large sums into
the enlargement Of their facilities for
r-thewar trade. If foreign trade
could not be secured, he said, the
giant would burst his jacket"
Monroe Doctrine Guaranteed"
Referring to objections to the league
covenant, Mr.. Wilson repeated his
previous arguments that no reservation
or change is needed to protect the
nations right to withdrawal the Mon
roe Doctrine, domestic questions or to
shape its own course under Article X.
Mr.. Wilson said while the Monroe
Doctrine section was under discussion
at Paris, he tried in vain to think of
any language which would be more
specific guarantee of the doctrine The
language chosen, he said was decided
upon as an absolute guarantee.
Enumeration of domestic questions
by name, as proposed by some of the
league opponents, would be dangerous,
MIR. Wilson said, because something
might be left out
"This settlement said the Presi-
dent to-day at Billings, in discussing
the peace treaty, "is the first inter
national settlement that is based upon
the happiness of the average people
throughout the world. 1t is a peoples
treaty and | venture the prediction
that il is not wise for parliaments and
congre sses to attempt to alter it,"
Not an Ordinary Treaty"
1t was mistake the Preside said,
to debate the peace treaty as if it were
an ordinary treaty. 1t was not merely
treaty with Germany, he said, but a
treaty efFecting settlement of the
affairs Of the world.
1t is a severe treaty, the President
went on, but justly so. Some of the
men who had called it unduly harsh,
he added, were critcising the Admins
tration year ago because they
thought the United States would be too
easy with Germany. "They were pitt
less then," 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 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 ITO take gun and 60 myself"
The basic principle of the treaty,