The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-10
TRADE DEPENDS
UPON SIGNING
Minnesota Doesn't Want Sem
ate to Cause Any
Trouble.
WANT TREATY OUT OF WAY
(BY DAVID LAWRENcE.)

En- Route With President Wilson
to Bsmark, N. D., Sept. 10.-(Copy-
right, 1919, for The Chattanooga
News.)-More sinister than political
chaos abroad is the menace of in
dustria revolution, more vital to
America than mere choice as be-
tween foreign policies is the pros
pect of trying to do business with. a
Europe disordered, financially feeble
and physically -decrepit.. I.
That is the new tack on which
President Wilson has launched as he
passes through Minnesota and the
Dakotas For President Wilson,
foodstuffs are produced to feed the
world. The people are interested in
foreign markets and the ability of
foreign countries to pay for their
purchases.
The president sought in his
speeches at Sioux Falls and before the
Minnesota legislature to show that
the cost of living Is related to the
disturbed economic situation of Eu-
rope and that the economic turmoil
in Europe cannot be quieted until the
people there know what kind of peace
is to ensue and who is to guarantee
it: and finally the president insisted
that Europe cannot tell the immediate
direction of her trade winds and well
fare until she knows whether or not
the United States means to assist her
or stand aloof.
People Want Treaty.
Mr.. Wilson did not need to make
an analytical argument for the
league of nations or treaty of peace
in this region. For the people are
Overwhelmingly in favor of the idea.
If reservations do not mean textual
amendments, then there is no par
ticular objection to them. AS between
a league without reservations and no
league at all, tho people would vote
for an unqualified covenant. but they
Will follow Senator Knute Nelson on
that point.
In the Dakotas and Minnesota
the unmistakable fact is that people
who are bitterly opposed to Mr.. Will
SON and some of mis- domestic poli-
cles, and they are not a small per-
centage but a large majority, would
rather see the treaty of peace out of
the way than see it delayed by a
quibbling senate.
Until the president came out this
way, they had taken it for granted
that the senate would net delay
peace. They had assumed that the
treaty would be ratified Only from
the lips of the president are they
learning of the dire consequences of
defeated treaty and are wondering
whether the senate really means to
put America into the unfortunate po-
sition of holding up the peace of the
world. And the impression which
Mr.. Wilson makes is not very con-
Vincing in these particulars, because,
while the people do not dissent from
Mr.. Wilson'S picture of the possibil-
ity, they do not believe the senate
would dare amend the treaty and
send 1t back to further conference
and delay at Paris.
President at Sioux Falls.
The president made a pleasing
speech in Sioux Falls. simple in con-
struction and plain in its meaning.
He dealt in dignified restraint with
the Minnesota legislature, where he
made less of a stump speech and
more of a formal address. The Min
nesota legislature contains not a few
members of the Nonpartisan league,
a growing manifestation of the po-
litical power of that organization in
Minnesota
l was told by a man who would be
the last to contribute to such a re-
suit that Minnesota might be carried
by the Nonpartisan league in the
next election and that the whole state
may find itself in the same position
as North Dakota. In this section.
therefore, where radicalism is begin
ming to overflow into neighboring
states, the presidents speeches are
cdd confirmation of many of the
arguments used by the radicals dur
ing the war. The president talks
of the dangers of trade rivalry and
of the seeds of commercial jealousy
which were sown before the late war
and does not hesitate to say that a
big standing army and an expensive
navy will have to be carried on the
shoulders of taxpaying public If
America decided to go it alone, as
Senators Borah and Johnson are ad-
vising.