The sun., 1919-09-17

threat Of vague but terrible retribu-
ton:
Let gentlemen beware, therefore.
how they disappoint the world Let
gentlemen beware how they betray the
immemorial principles of the United
States. l should be very sorry to have
the United States Indirectly defeat this
great enterprise by asking for some
thing, some position of privilege, which
other nations in their pride cannot
grant / would great deal rather say
fatty, She will not go into the enter
prise at ALL and that Is exactly what
Germany is hoping and beginning to
dare to expect"
And along with this the President in
tends to reiterate his warning that PRO
Germanism is again lifting its head" and
that the opposition to ratification Is
enthusiastically supported by German
sympathizers OF a familiar type. He
pictures new Germany as standing by in
the hope that the United States also will
BIZ a refugee from the good will of the
world. a sort of national pariah.
He intends to dwell heavily upon his
conviction that failure to ratify or even
failure to ratify the treaty as It Is writ
ten means an era of revolution and war
into which the United States will be
drawn, and with this will be presented
the picture he sketches in heavy lines:
A vast standing army costing the peo-
pie 50 much that their backs win be
broken by taxation and the probability
of kind of government which can only
direct militarism, an autocratic govern
ment which will be the death OF democ-
racy. This threat is for the ears of the
twomenfolk, and labor especially.
ArEuments for All.
Mr. Wilson has other arguments for
other folk-trade arguments for manu-
facturers and merchants; a nation os-
TRACKED in commerce unless a member
Of the league; arguments for church
folk, arguments for idealists but mostly
and most directly he appeals to war
WEAKNESS and to the apprehension of
spreading anarchy. The whole tenor Of
his speeches cannot better be epitomized
than by:
II offer happiness and peace the SEN
ate would plunge you into misery and
war"
| His attitude toward Senators grows no
milder as he rounds down the Pacific
coast. After directly alludlng to Sena-
tor Lodge as having delivered an ad-
dress at Union College in 1915, an ad-
dress demanding the League of Nations
now before the Senate, the President
said:
81 hope you will not construe any
| thing that l say as indicating the least
| lack of respect for the men who are
criticising any portion of this treaty
must frankly say that 1 haven't any
respect at all for some of them but
for others, for most of them, I have
reason to have respect My contest
with them is a contest of interpreta-
ton"
He will beg California. as he has
begged other Republican States, to re.
! gard the League of Nations controversy
from a non-partisan standpoint, ito for
get that there Is an election day in 1920
to dissociate the League of Nations
from me"
He has not chosen to state to any au
dience what many audiences very palpa
bly, desire to hear. whether he himself
will be candidate for reelection.
| Makes No Progress.
His tour is half finished after NOR,
than twenty speeches in dozen States
yet none of Mr. Wilson's most devou
disciples in his present company of as
sociates would say that he had mad,
the slightest progress. Oregon gave hin
the best reception he has received any
where, but so far as cheers for hit
cause is concerned It shone by contrss
with the apathy and inertia in othe
States. The general opinion is that HI
has wasted his time II he expects t.
arouse such public sentiment as will
compel the Senate to his purpose. fol
the disposition OF the people seems Il
be to let the President and the Senate
fight it out and get it done with al
quickly as possible. There can be M
questioning the fact that the majority
of people wherever the President goe!
lean toward treaty reservations stronl
enough to protect the United States.
The President will arrive at Oaklan,
at 8 A. NJ. tomorrow and will be imme
diately taken across the bay to the foo
of Market street. A motor parade will
escort him to the st. Francis Hotel anC