The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-09-12
"QUITTER" SAYS
WILSON OF FOES
PRECEDENT FioATlko HARD FOR
LkAouk--REvEALe A NEW
GELFs
PACT or A WORSE WAR
Thousande Acclaim Mr.. Wilson In Mle
die West On Most Important
Trip OF He Public
CaraAn.

proceeds on what he frankly calls the
greatest journey of his life. No longer
Is he simply an eloquent orator or q
profound thinker with high ideals. The
president has become real fighter,
and In his crusade for the adoption
Of the peace treaty with the league
Of nations included, the only pre-
ventive, he asserts, Of an early and and
more terrible war that the world has
ever known, he has been delivering
the strongest speeches of his career,
putting into them his most powerful
words and gestures, and, indeed,
throwing into them personality more
virile than even his friends believed
be possessed. And this has won more
friends for him and the league, even
among his political opponents.
A Republican crowd of 1900 in st.
Louis Friday rose and cheered for
more than minute when Me-. Wal
son designated 90 CUTTERS" these enc
mics of the league who have been
holding up its adoption.
A mixed .assemblage of more than
10000 in Indianapolis on the proceed
ing night roaref approval when the
president, referring to these same
otstructionists Of the league, defied
them to put up or shut up"
The president challenged them to
produce something as good or better,
if they did not want to accept this
plan of preventing future wars. Be-
fore the st. Louis chambers Of COM
merce, the president, explaining the
purposes of the league, described it
rs chart and constitution for new
s~;tem for the world"-a system de-
signed to prevent wars by protecting
the weak, who have always been the
cause of rars, system entirely con
Trajectory to the old political system
of the world. It was for the purpose
of ending war that America entered
the world conflict Mr.. Wilson remind
ed his hearerj he demanded to know
OF his opponents how they would keeI
out of war if they failed to take part
in the great pact to protect the weak
He recalled the pledges that all Amer
lea made, that we should have a share
in this great pact. Then, referring tc
those who now oppose the league, ht
said: They are absolute, contempt
BILE cutters If they don't see the game
through" America will be despised
suspected and distrusted unless she
goes forward with her bargain, the pres
dent added in the st. Louis speech
To all of the objections to the league
MIR. Wilson offered explanations thai
satisfied his audience. The much-dis
cUssed article ten did not mean, he
said. that Americans would ever have
20 send troops across the seas to fight
other nations battles. Indeed, with
a league, there would be no more bat
ties, he explained, at least the pos
sibility was very remote.
Each nation agrees, first, he ex
planned, either to submit differences
to arbitration and accept the decision
of the arbitrator, or submit the diff
fererces to discussion by the council
of the league. In this latter case, the
nations agree to allow six months fol-
the discussion. If settlement failed
after that time, they agree to wait
three months longer before going tC
war. and no nations after that period
Il cooling off, would fight he asserted
In case a nation refused to agree
either to arbitration or discussion II
outIawed itself, the president explain
ed. It would be economically and so
cially boycotted by the rest of the
world. and this punishment, he said
would be more terrible than war.
AS to Japan's holding of Shantung
peninsula, the president said he agreed
to that only because England and
France, by secret treaty, had given
the territory to Japan, but he was
sure, he said, that japan would, as she
has promised, return it. OF those
league opponents who pose as China's
friends in this matter, he inquired
How do they expect to get Shan
tung back for China il not through the
league? Would they go to war for IT.
Accusing them of fearing the re
sponsibiIities of the league, he de
manded: "If you are China's friends
should you scuttle and run? That's
not the kind Of American am" Again
he crowd rose and cheered.
The president explained Americas
need for being part of the league be
cause of business reasons, but said
they came last in his mind. He said
IN conclusion, at st. Louis: IF there
ia no league, there will be, In the
yengeful providence of God, another
struggle in which not merely a few
hundreds of thousands of Americans
will have to die, but as many millions
as may be necessary to accomplish the
final freedom of the world.
More than 100000 persons lined the
streets of the Missouri metropolis as
the president and his party passed
through. and a wave of cheers marked
his progress. At the luncheon a
which he spoke. he was hailed as the
'Benefactor Of the World" and agar
as tie Greatest Citizen of the World
n the evening he spoke to 5000 a.
he coliseum, and on the previous
light TO twice that many IN the In