Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-06
To Weaken Covenant Is Be-
traya| Of Those Who Fought
the War, President Tells
St. Louis Crowd.
URGES ACCEPTANCE OF
SHANTUNG PROVISION
Refusal Would Be Un-Ameri-
can and Throw Away Only
Leverage China Has Upon
Japan for Province, He Says.

St. Louis, Sept. 5.-(By The Asso-
ciated Press.)-In two addresses
here today President Wilson dis
cussed at length disputed points of
the peace treaty and invited those
who opposed it to prove whether
they "are not absolute, contemplate
cutters if they do not see the game
through"
The Shantung provision, the presi-
dent defended as the only solution
possible by which China can be as
sisted in her efforts to regain control
of Shantung province. Analyzing
Article 10 of the league covenant, he
said the league council could only
advise and could not do that without
concurrence Of the American men,
bers. The right of revolution, he as
serted. was scrupulously preserved.
The presidents first address was
at the Chamber of Commerce lunch
con after he had been cheered along
liC loulC vi d SCFCil-lllllS dttoilioDiiN
ride through the streets. At night he
spoke in the Coliseum, where in
1916 he was renominatcd for the
presidency.
Visit School Chums.
Following the midday address the
president and Mrs. Wilson went for
an automobile ride and stopped at
Washington university to visit some
members of the faculty who were
school chums.
Turning, the president was driven
through the residential section of the
city. He and Mrs. Wilson had sup
per privately.
At 8 o'clock sharp the presidential
party started for the Coliseum and
arrived there at 8:l2.
The Coliseum was packed and
when the president arrived the crowd
arose and cheered for more than four
minutes. Thousands of small Amer
lean flags had been distributed and
the audience waved them wildly
while they cheered.
NO lrne lot FlCtuIc.
The president was introduced by
Governor Frederick D, Gardner,
who said the people of Missouri had
never been more sincere in extend-,I
ing a welcome to any visitor At
that the crowd cheered again.
When the governor introduced
Mr.. Wilson as "the father Of world
democracy" there was more cheer
ing. A photographer in lookout
gallery called through megaphone
for moments attention to take
flashlight, but the president did not
wait, saying, this is much too SER
ious an occasion to care how we
look; we ought to care how we
think
Mr.. Wilson declared that to
amend the treaty would mean its
failure and the isolation Of the Unit
ed States. Only those who are
ignorant of world affairs, he said,
could believe that even a great ma
ton like the United States could
stand by itself and apart.
Playing Lone Hand.
If the United States is to have
its own economic interests, said the
president, it must save the economic
interests of the world. That
was one reason, he continued,
why the United States should
have representative on the
powerful reparation commissions.
If there were no American voice in
this commission, he asserted, this
country would have to put into the
hands of foreign interests seeking
to control world markets American
can money for the rehabilitation of
the world.
THAT" said the president, "is
what they cali playing a lone hand.
1t is playing a lone hand; it is
playing a hand frozen out. Those
who propose these things do not
understand the interests of the Unit
ed States"
Should America fail to take its
Just part in the world rehabilitation.
the president asserted. the whole at
titude of the world toward America
would be changed. Because the
world trusted so much, he said, the
reaction would be accordingly great.
War Not Political.
Empha sizing how economic fea-
lures figure in war. Mr.. Wilson de-
scribed how the Germans had dis
mantled Belgian factories. The war.
he added, was not political war,
but a Commercial and industrial
war"
Should the United States stand
apart. economically and politically.
the president continued, then it must
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