Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-26
BIC ARMY NEEDED
IF j. s. REJECTS
NATIONS LEAGUE
President Says We Shall Be
Compelled to Resort to Con-
SCription and Bear Heavy
Taxes If We Stay Out,

| the issue in the peace treaty discus
sion at last had been clearly drawn :
President Wilson said in an address
] here today that the question squarely
facing the nation was whether thu
| United States would keep its pledges
| to help guarantee the peace of the
world
! The presidents declarations re-
| peatedly were cheered by a crowd
which packed the Denver municipal
auditorium, said to hold more than
1l,0O0 Previously he had been greet
| ed with uproarious cheers along the
| line of an automobile ride through
the principal streets, the crowds lin
ing the sidewalks for many blocks.
Qualified adoption" of the treaty,
| Wilson said was mot adoption but
| rejection He declared that to quail
| ify the ratification would mean ask
ing special privileges for the United
States, a thing which would be un-
worthy of the nation. So the line had
been definitely drawn, he added, and
the only objection to be decided was
whether the United States would 90
into the league or stay out
Must Keep Our Proimise.
1t had been one of the purposes
of the war, Mr. Wilson said, to set up
a permanent peace guarantee, He de-
clared he was under bond" especial
ly to the children of the country, 10
make good the promises Of such a
guarantee. He added that the next
world war would be much more ter
rible than the last
ASK any soldier" he said 'if he
wants to go through a he'll like that
again. I'm for any kind OF insurance
against a barharic reversal of civiliza
ton"
Should the United States stay out
OF the league, continued the presi-
dent, it would have to have the big
gest army in the world and thero
would have to be conseription and
heavy taxation.
A wholesale moral clearing
house. was the way the president
characterized the covenant provision
under which disturbing questions
could be brought up for discussion by
the league That provision he said
would make such questions every
bodys business" while hitherto in
tel national law had meant ''minding
your own business particularly when
something outrageous is up"
Eulogizng the labor section of the
treaty. Mr. Wilson said it gives Amer
lea an opportunity to raise labor
standards ali 04. tlic world. I'm II
that was done he asserted, the full
energies Of the world could not be re-
!eased
In his reference to reservations the
president declared the people at last
were awake and no longer could be
misled upon what was in the treaty
Objections Cleared Away.
or all the subject matter in the
treaty, aside from the league cove |
nant, Mr.. Wilson said, the Shantung |
provision was the only one criticised. !
That objection now had been cleared |
away, he continued, as had the lesser |
objections urged against the covenant !
itself
The president touched briefly upon |
the voting power of the British en- I
pire in the league assembly, saying /
that objections on that score had |
"been exploded when it became
known that the British dominious
have six votes in the assembly, but
the assembly don't vote.
on the final issue, as it had Settled |
down about the question of reserva-
tons, said the president, there was no
organized opposition TO the treaty Eek
cept among the people who tried to
defeat the purposes of the government
in the war"
"Hyphens," added the president.
while the crowd cheered, "are the
knives being stuck into this docu-
ment."
He said he had no doubt about
what the result would be.
Effect of Staying Out.
There is no turning aside from the
straight line he said. eve must
either accept this arrangement or re-
ject it,"
To stay out. he added, would mean
that the United States would forfeit
The confidence of the world and would
find itself shut out industrially and
morally from the worlds society.
Pointing out that the power of ne
gotiating treaties vested with the ex-
ecutive branch of the government,
Mr. Wilson continued:
when the senate has acted, ii will
be for me to determine whether its
9ction constitutes an adoption or a re-
jection'
He added that he hoped the senate
would not leave the matter in doubt,
but would make its position unmistak-
able, and would put its action into
such form it would clearly constitute
A rejection or an acceptance.
Politics. said the president, should
nothing tn do with the trpatV