The Mena weekly star., 1919-10-02
CALLS ON SENATE
 TO TAKE A. STAND
President Wilson Says Whole Contro- versy Now Is Whether the United States Will or Will Not Go Into
 League-Accept or Reject.

his fight for the peace treaty to a di- rect issue of acceptance or rejection, President Wilson today invited the Senate to take a definite and unmis- takable stand one way or the other.
 After declaring it would be his duty as chief executive to judge the senate's action constitut- cd acceptance or rejection, should be incorporated in the the president added warning that he did not consider "qualified adoption" as adoption in fact. He said, however. that he saw no objection to mere interpretations.
 In two addresses in Colorado dur ing the day, Mir. Wilson reiterated again and again that the whole con- troyersy had resolved itself into a clearcut question whether the United States should go into the League of Nations UT stay out 1t was time, lie said, that the nation knew where it was to stand.
 The president said in part:
 T always feel thrill of pride standing before great company of my fellow citizens to speak of this great document which we shall al- ways know as the treaty of Versailles. 1 am proud to speak for it because for the first time in the history of inter- national consultation men have turned away from the ambitions of govern ment and sought to advance the for tunes of peoples. The cen- ter and heart of this document is that great instrument which is placed at the beginning of it, the covenant of the League of Nations.
 q think everybody now under stands that you cannot work this treaty without a covenant, but you will notice that with this sin gle exception of the provision in re- gard to the transfer from the Ger man empire of the Shantung province to Japan, practically nothing in the body of the treaty has seemed to con- stitute any great obstacle to its adop- tion. All the controversies. all the talk has centered on the League of Nations and am glad to see the is sues centered
 T want to call your attention and to point out what is not often enough explained to audiences in this country --the actual constitution of the League of Nations. 1t consists of two bodies, a council and an assembly. The as- sembly is the numerous body. In its every self-governing state that has a vote on the league is represented, and not only the self-governing independ- ent states, but the self-governing col onies and the dominions, such as Can ada, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa; they are all represent ed in the assembly that the combined of the several members of the British empire are assigned six votes and we have one. 1 want you to the fuii significance of that, they have six votes in the assembly, and the assembly don't vote. So that bubble is exploded.
 There are several matters in which the vote of the assembly must coop crate with the vote of the council, but in every such ease unanimous vote of the council is necessary. Inasmuch as the United States is a permanent of the council, her vote is ne cessary to every active policy of the league, and there, the single vote of the United States always counts six, so far as the votes of the British em- pire are concerned.
 "Out of doors, that is to say out of the legislative halls, there is no or ganized opposition to this treaty ex- cept among the people who tried to defeat the purposes of this govern ment in the war. Hyphen is the knife that is being stuck into this doc ument. The issue is clearly drawn because, inasmuch as we are masters of our own participation in the action of the league of nations, why do we need reservations
 If we do not have this treaty of peace, labor will continue to be not what it ought to be, human func- tion, but a purchasable commodity thruout the world. There is incorpor- ated in the articles of this great treaty magma charta for labor
 We have not done our full duty in regard to the amelioration of the of labor in America, but the conditions here are better than any where else, and we now have an op- to exercise our full influ- ence to raise the standard everywhere to the levels we have tried to raise in this country, and also as between those who employ tabor and those who labor.
 "Men are not going to work and promise what they would produce if they feel they are not justly treated, and if you want to realize the real worth of this country, then bring about the human relationship between employers and employees which will make them co-laborers and partners and fellow workers. All of that is open to us under and thru the instru- of the League of Nations and under this great treaty and still we debate whether we should ratify it or not"
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