Evening star., 1919-08-19
URGES HUN TREATY RATIFICATION,
SAYING 1T IS A MODEL FOR OTHER
PACTS HELD UP BY NAC7TON HERE
STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT
ON TREATY AND LEAGUE

President Wilson in opening th'
with the Senate foreign
committee at the Whit,
House said:
Mr.. Chairman:
am sincerely glad that the COM
mittee should have responded in
this way to my intimation that /
would like to be of service to it.
l welcome the opportunity for q
frank and full interchange of
views
! hope, too. that this conference
Will serve to expedite your consid-
Grafton of the treaty of. peace. I
beg that you will pardon and in
dulge me II I again urge that
practically the whole task Of
bringing the country back to
dustry waits upon the decision of
the Senate with regard to the
terms of the peace.
venture thus again to urge my
advice that the action Of the Senate
with regard to the treaty be taken
ment because the problems with
which we are face to face in the
readjustment Of our national. life
are of the most pressing and criti-
cal character. will require for their
proper solution the most intimate
onu oiSiHtcESSteO CO.Oper2tlon OF
all parties and all interests. and
cannot be postponed without mani
1est peril to our people and to
all the national advantages we
hold most dear. May / mention 4
few of the matters which cannot
be handled with intelligence until
the country knows the character
OF the peace 1t Is to have? do
SO only by very few samples.
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Mines Run at Great Cost.
The copper mines Of Montana,
Arizona and Alaska, for example,
are being kept open and In opera
ton only at a great cost and loss.
In part upon borrowed money. the
xinc mines Of Missouri, Tennessee
and Wisconsin are being operated at
about one-half their capacity; the
lead OF Idaho. Illinois and Missouri
reaches only portion of it's former
market; there is an immediate need
Tor cotton betting. and also for
Iubricating oil which cannot be met
ali because the channels of trade
are barred by war when there is no
war. The same is true Of raw cot
ton. OF which the central empires
alone formerly purchased nearly
four million bales. And these are
"a
single raw material. single impor.
tant foodstuff, or a single class Of
manufactured goods which is not in
the same case. Our full, normal
profitable production waits on peace.
Our military plans, of course.
wait upon 1t. We cannot intelli-
gently or wisely decide how large a
naval or military force we shall
maintain or what our policy with
regard to military training il to he
until we have peace, not only, but
also until we know how peace is to
be sustained, whether by the arms
of single nations or by the concert
Of all the great peoples. And there
Is more than that difficulty involved.
The vast surplus properties Of the
Army include, not food and clothing
merely. whose sale will affect nor
NAL production. but great manufac-
turing establishments also, which
should be restored to their former
uses, great stores of machine tools
and all sorts of merchandise, which
must lie idle until peace and mill
tary policy are definitely deter
mined. By the same token there
can be no properly studied national
budget until then.
European Markets Mark Time.
The nations that ratify the
treaty, sucn as Great Britain, Bel
gium and France, will be in a Do
sitfon to lay their plans for con-
trolling the markets Of central
Europe without competition from
US If we do not presently act. We
have no consular agents, no trade
representatives there to look after
our interests.
There are large areas of Europe
whose future will lie uncertain
and questionable until their people
and the forces which are to ad-
minister and sustain it. Without
determinate markets our produc-
tion cannot proceed with intelli-
gence or confidence. There can
be no stabilization of wages be-
ditions of employment. There can
be no easy or normal industrial
credits because there can be no
confident or permanent revival of
business.
But 1 will not weary you with
obvious examples. l will only ven
ture to repeat that every element
of normal life amongst US de-
pends upon and awaits the rati-
fication of the treaty of peace; and
also that we cannot afford to lose
single summers day by not do
Ing all tnat we can 10 mlClkdto
the winters suffering, which, un-
less we find means to prevent 1t.
may prove disastrous to a large
portion Of the world, and may, at
its worst. bring upon Europe con-
ditions even more terrible than
those wrought by the war itself.
Can't Understand. Doubts.
Nothing. 1 am led to believe.
stands in the way Of the ratffica-
tion of the treaty except certain
doubts with regard to the meaning
and implication of certain articles
of the covenant of the league of
nations; and I must frankly say
that i am unable to understand
why such doubts should be enter
tanned. You will recall that when
] had the pleasure of conference
with your committee and with the
committee Of the House of Repre-
sentatives on foreign affairs at the
White House in March last the
questions now most frequently
asked about the league of nations
were all canvassed. with a view to
their immediate Qualification. The
covenant of the league was then In
it's first draft and subject to re-
vision.
It was pointed out that NO ex.