Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-26
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SAYS WILSON

Aboard President Wilson's Special
Train.-More and more as he moves
eastward on his journey about the
country in behalf of the league oil
nations, the president is talking plain
talk" to those senators who are OPP
posing the acceptance by the United
States of the great plan for the end,
ing of all war. He knows he has the
great body of the citizenry with him
and he is becoming unsparing in his
criticism of the handful of Legislators
who threaten to hold up the restO.
ration of peace and normal conditions
to the whole world.
Wilson Uses Vigorous Language
Particularly vigorous were his re,
marks when, stopilpg at Cheyenne
Wyo., on his way toward Colorado
from the coast, he took up that par
tICular reservation which certain Of
his opponents in the senate want at.
ached to the ratification of the treaty
That Republican measure reads as fol
lows
The United States assumes no OBJ.
legation und the provisions of Arti
Gle X to preserve the territorial in
tegrity or political independence OF
any other country. or to interfere in
controversies between other nations
whether members of the league or not
OF to employ the military or naval
forces OF the United States under any
article of the treaty for any purposes
unless in any particular case the con
gress which under the Constitution
has the sole power to declare war OF
authorize the employment of the mill
tary and naval forces of the United
| States, shall by act or joint resolu
ton so declare"
Unworthy And Ridiculous
The president declared:
Such a thing is unworthy and RI
/ diculous, and | want to say distinctly
as | read this, that l would change
the entire meaning of the treaty ano
exempt the United States from all re
/ cponsiblities for the preservation Of
peace. 1t means the rejection of the
/ treaty nothing less. 1t means that the
! United States would take from under
the structure its very foundations ant
! support
q wish 10 call The attention Of
! those who favor this reservation tt
| the fact that if any such reservation
! as that should be adopted, | would be
! Obliged as the executive Of the Unit
ed States to regard it as a rejection
OF the treaty"
The president pointed out that The
servation-meaning the treaty's re
iecti0n-w would exclude us from all the
peopIes-those of Germany and those
of the United States. He said tina
Germany's dearest desire, ceiling he
present isolation, is to see us also Gu
eff from the gallant people with whom
side by side we fought the war.
The ELECTION of the treaty would
mean, he reiterated, that we Woult
have to make a separate peace will
Germany He added:
1T would mean simply the govern
ment of the United States going, ha
in hand. to the assembly at Vienna
and saving: May it please you. VIZ
have dis3Ociated ourselves from thos'
who were your enemies; we have
come to you asking if you will con
sent to terms of amity and peac'
which will dissociate us, both OF us
from the comradeship of arms and o
liberty" There is no other interpre
tation. That is the issue, and ever.
American must face 1t.
Refers To Chateau Thierry
The president told eloquently o
the victories at arms gained by tn
American soldiers at Chateau Thiel
nv. Belleau Wood and the Argonne
when. advised by the allies to tur
back. they asked the typical Amer
ioor, n1lnetinn'