Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-09-26
WORLD LOOKS TO
UNITED STATES
ANY Reservation to Article Ten,
President Declares, Would Be
A Rejection of Entire Peace
Treaty.

Reading again the proposed sem
ate reservation to article 10 of tho
league covenant, President Wilson de-
clared in an address at Cheyenne,
Wyo., Wednesday that should any
reservation be adopted he would be
obliged as chief executive to regard
it as rejection of the treaty.
The president added that rejection
of the treaty would mean negotiation
of separate peace treaty with Ger
many and asserted that such nego-
tiation could not change single item
of the peace settlement.
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 I.
showdown" 1t would mean the WITH
alton of the whole plan, he asserted,
if the nation were to adopt the reser-
vations to article ten, as proposed in
the senate.
One by one, he said, the other OBJ
jections to the covenant had been dis
posed of. To all "candid minds" he
asserted, it now was apprent that
the Monroe doctrine was fully pro-
tected, that there was no super-gov-
ernment set up and that no danger
was feared from the "spcakng parts"
given to the British dominions i'm tho
league assembly.
Thus, continued Mr.. Wilson, the
whole discussion had settled down
upon article ten, under which the
members agree to preserve on
another's territorial integrity against
external aggression.
The reservation read by the presi-
dent was the same ns that hel aid be-
fore his audience last night at the
Salt Lake City tabernacle. By its
provisions the United would assume
no obligations to preserve the terrific
rial integrity of other nations unless
congress should so decide.
Unless the United States went into
the league now, he added, and assum-
ed its full responsibility # woulu
have to come in later with Germany.
Characterizing the peace treaty as
acomplete reversal Of the old auto
cratic processes of governments, the
president appealed to the people to
support the league of nations as con-
summation in the fight for democracy.
The example to which the whole
world now turned, said the president,
wa set by the United States in 1176,
Some European statesmen, he declar-
ed, had affected to disregard that ex-
ample, but now they all had to come
under its influence"
The presidents address, frequent
ly interrupted by cheering, was deliv-
cred in a Chyenne theatre which was
filled.
Discussing Americas place, and
leadership, Mr.. Wilson said the ma
tion must keep it's face turned for
ward just as the American sildiers
always did in the great war.
"They never thought of turning
back, not only" he said, "but they
never put any reservations on their
service"
Opponents of the treaty, Mr.. Will
son said, made many insupportable
| objections, but. had debated serious
ly" only one of these objections-the
Shantung settlement. He went into
sion at lenght, pointing out that pres
ident Mckinley did not protest when
Germany acquired Shantung rights
now given to Japan. The settlement
included in the Versailles treaty,( he
asserted, was "unavDidable," while
the league of nations offered the best
hope for China's recovery of her lost
province.
The United States, asserted the
president, had no precedent in inter
| national law even to protest against
Japan's acquisition of the Shantung
rights. But, he added, under article
eleven, of the league covenant, it
would be the friendly right of nation
to protest against any such situation
which endangered peace. or the. fipGt
time, he said, the United States could
under the league, become the "effec-
tive friend" of China.