The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-10
peace OR WAR
ISSUE" WILSON
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President Tells Bismarck Au-
dience That Treaty Means
Just This.

BISMARCK, N. D., Sept. 1o,-Presi-
dent Wilson told Bismarck audience
today that the issue involved in his
speech making tour for the treaty was
question of war or peace"
There was only one way in which
peace could be maintained, he said, and
that was by such a concert of nations
as was proposed in the league of
nations.
Completing the first week of his tour,
the president spoke in the Bismarck
auditorium. 1t was the smallest hall in
1900. 1t was filled. No other address
was on Mr.. Wilson'S schedule for today.
When the presidents train arrived
display of pyrotechnics was set off, car
gying small parachutes with American
flags high into the air On the ride to
the hall through crowded streets, an
over the presidential party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson were cheered as
they entered the auditorium. He was
introduced by Gov. Lynn J. Frazier.
Should the movement for word con-
cert fail, the president said, the heart
OF mankind would be overwhelmed by
despair which would result in chaos
Men In despair don't construct gov
ernments," said he, .they destroy gov
ernments. lf we stay out or II we
qualify our acceptance in any way,
then the world will say. There can be
II the world were in disorder, asked
the president, who would buy the wheat
of the United States.
All the processes of international
economic rehabilitation. he said, watt
ed on a complete peace basis, because
the world was waiting, he continued
the great coal fields of Europe were
not being worked to capacity apd the
nxnNA H.. sxf LA
while we debate" he went on, 'all
the worid is raging today Why does
America hesitate"
Ae declared there was no more dan,
ger of America staying out of the
league eventually than OF reversing all
the other processes Of her history. But
1t was the delay, he added, that was
upsetting affairs everywhere.
Referring to proposals to separate
the peace terms for the league cove
nant, MIR. Wilson said the covenant
had been put first In the treaty be-
cause without It the rest OF the treaty
would be worthless. That conclusion
swered Mr. Wilson, because the peace
conference realized that having set up
peace settlement there must be some
way to enforce Il.
Replies to Kicks.
heptyInK TO ODpeCllOnS TO Article ~
OF the covenant, Mr.. Wilson reisSated
that the article had no binding forc&
without the assent Of the United States,
under the unanimous vote required for
action.
'Unless it's our war" he continued,
I'VE can't be dragged into war with
out our consent That's an open and
| shut proposition; it's the heart Of the
| treaty. You have either got to take
| 1t or you have got to throw the world
back into that old contest over land
| titles. There Is no other way to quiet
| the world and II the world can't be
quieted, then America sooner or later
| win be drawn into the melee"
The president asked whether any one
| thought the United States could stay
| out of the league without being
hated and intdigued against by the
1 other nations. Should the American
| nation refuse to accept the treaty, he
/ asserted, IL would be in the position oi
repudiating its promises to those who
| fought the war and Of saying 1t did not
| like what had been accomplished by its
| armed force. The peoples Of Europe
| said the president, ARE in revolu.
| tionary state OF mind, and in danger of
| substituting one kind Of autocracy for
another"
| President Wilson was cheered when
| he concluded his address. The presi-
l Dental party was escorted 10 the
| Northern Pacific station and the Wilson
! specie. left fe& 4illings, Mont. shortly
after D. nh