The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-06
When President Says War Was Won by Ameri-
can Spirit, Crowd Goes Wild i'm Noisy
Uproar. E1
PUT UP OR SHUT UP REITERATED
Treaty. Opponents With Jaundce Eyes Will at
Last be Gibbeted and on Very High
Gibbet.

of the great men wha are represent.
ing the peoples Of Europe.
When these principles were writ
ten into this treaty they were written
there by common consent and COM
mon conviction, but 1t remains true
nevertheless my fellow citizens, that
principles are written into that treaty
which were never written into any
great international understanding be-
fore and that they have their natural
birth and origin in this dear country
to which We have devoted our life and
f, service. (applause). And If you will
bear with me I will remind you of
some of the things that we have long
desired and which are at last accomp-
lished in this treaty. / think that
can say that one of the things that
America has had most at heart
throughout her existence has been
that there should be substituted for
the brutal processes of war the friend.
lily processes of consultation and arbi-
tration, (applause), and that is done
in the covenant Of the league Of ma
tions. am very anxious that my fell
low citizens should realize that that
is the chief topic Of the covenant of
the league of nations. The greater
part of it's provisions, the whole in
tent and purpose of the document are
expressed in provisions by which all
the member states agree that they
will never go to war without hrst
having done one or the other of two
things, either submitted the matter in
controversy to arbitration, in which
case they agree to abide by the yer.
dict, or submitting it to discussion in
the council Of the league of nations
and for that purpose they consent to
allow six months for the discussion
and whether they like the opinion ex.
pressed or not, that they will not go
to war for three months after that
opinion has been expressed, so that
you have, whether you get arbitration
or not, nine months discussions and
want to remind that is the central
principle of some thirty treaties en-
tered into between the United States
of America and some thirty other
sovereign nations, all of which are
confirmed by the senate of the United
States. (applause).
1--WE have such an agreement with
France, we have such an agreement
with Great Britain, we have such an
agreement with practically every
great nation except Germany which
refused to enter into such an agree
ment because, because fellow citizens,
Germany knew that she intended
something that didn't bear discussion
and that if she had submitted the pur-
pose which led to this war to so much
as one months discussion, she never
would have dared go into the enter
prise against mankind, which she fin
ally did go into and therefore | say
that this principle Of discussion is the
principle already adopted by Ameri-
ca and what is the compulsion to do
this? The compulsion is this, that 1t
any member state violates that pro-
mise to submit either to arbitration
or discussion, it is thereby ipso facto
deemed to have committed an act of
war against all the rest.
"Then you will ask, do we at once
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