The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-08
rQUtITERs' SAYS
WILSON or FOES
PRESIDENT FIGHTING HARD FOR
LEAGUE REVEALS A
NEW SELF
PACT OR A WORSE WAR
Thousands Acclaim Mr.. Wilson In
Middle West on Most impor-
tant Trip of His Public
Career
PACT OR A WORSE WAR
BY Mount Clemens News bureau

GToSlueuJ Wy llSOH DpSCidi liam -
is a new kind CT Woodrow Wilson that
this middle western country is observ-
ing as he proceeds on what he frank
ly calls the greatest journey of his life.
No longer is he simply an eloquent
orator or profound thinker with high
ideals. The President has become a
real fighter, and in his crusade for
the adoption of the peace treaty With
only preventive, he asserts, Of an
the league of nations included, the
early and more terrible war than the
world has ever known he has been
delivering the strongest speeches OF
his career, putting into them his most
powerful words and gestures, and, in
deed, throwing into them a person
atty more virile than even his friends
believed he possessed, and this has
won more friends for him and the
League even among his political OPP
| ponents.
A Republican crowd of 1900 in st.
Louis, Friday, rose and cheered for
more than a minute when Mr. Wilson
| designated as CUTTERS" these enemies
| of the League who have been holding
! up it's adoption. A mixed assemblage
| of more than $4,000 in Indianapolis
on the preceding night roared APPROX
al when the President, referring to
| these same obstructionists of the
League, defied them to put up or shut
up" challenged them to produce some
thing as good or better if they did not
want to accept this plan of preventing
future wars.
Before the ST. outs Chamber of Com
merce, the President explaining the
purposes of the League described 1t
as a chart and constitution for
new system for the world" a system
designed to prevent wars by protect
ing the weak, who have always been
the cause of wars, system entirely
contradictory to the old political
system of the world 1t was for the
purpose Of ending war that America
entered the world conflict, Mr., Wilson
reminded his hearers. He demanded
to know of his opponents how they
would keep out of war if they failed TO
take part in the great pact to pro-
tect the weak. He recalled the
pledges that all America made, that
we should have a share in this great
IL.
now opposed the League, he said,
"They are absolute, contemplate
ouitters if they don't see the game
| through America will be despised
suspected and distrusted unless she
goes forward with her bargain, the
President added in the st. Louis
, speech.
To all of the objections to the
League, Mr.. Wilson offered explana-
lions that satisfied his audience. The
much discussed article ten did not
mean he said, that Americans would
ever have to send troops across the
seas to fight other nations battles
Indeed, with a League, there would pc
no more battles, he explained. All
least the possibility was very remote
Each nation agrees first, he ex'
planned either to submit differences
: to arbitration and accept the decis-
' ion of the arbitrator, or submit the
differences to discussion by the Coun-
: ell of the League In this latter CASE
the nations agree to allow six months
for the discussion. If settlement
S failed after that time, they agree tC
r wait three months longer before go
ing to war. And no nation after tina
period of cooling off" would fight
). he asserted.
In case a nation refused to agree
. either to arbitration or discussion, i
- outlawed itself, the President eX
Z nlained. 1t would be economically
u and socially boycotted by the rest o
+ the world. and this punishment, HI
G said would be more terrible than war
d AS to Japans holding of Shantunt
D Peninsula, the President SAID M
n agreed to that only because Engian'
h and France, by secret treaty, q max
! given the territory to Japan. But n
u was sure, he said that Japan would
G as she has promised return 1t. U
= those eague opponents who pose a
e China's friends in this matter, he in
It CURED:
e "How do they expect to get Shan
q tlng back for China if not through
y the League? Would they go to wa
" for it?"
y Accusing them of fearing the re
sponsibilities of the League, he de
manded: IF you are China's trlends
should you scuttle and run? That'
not the kind of American / am.
n Again the crowd rose and cheered.
The President explained America
is need for being part of the League DC
causeN of business reasons, but sal
, they came last in his mind. He sal
5 in conclusion at st. Louis: IF Their
9. is no League there will be, in tn
n vengeful providence of God, anothe
struggle in which not merely fe'
hundreds of thousands of American
will have to die but as many million
:. as may be necessary to accomplis
~ the final freedom of the world"
More than 100000 persons lined th
streets of the Missouri metropolis a
the President and his party passe
~ through and wave of cheers marke
le his progress. At the luncheon
ID which he spoke he was hailed as IL
=. "benefactor of the world" and agar
:, as the greatest citizen of the world
- In the evening he spoke to 81
~ thousands at the Coliseum, and on tn
W previous night to twice that many
he he drove through five miles OF chez
t. the Indianapolis Coliseum, to whic
ing crowds His tour thus far is