Arizona republican., 1919-09-06
AMERICA WILL BE
 SENIOR PARTNER
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 rived there at S:10 p. m.
 The Colise iim was packed and when
 the president arrived the crowd arose utes. Thousands of small American
 audience waved them wildly while
 they cheered.
 The president was introduced by
 Governor Frederick D. Gardner who
 said people cf Missouri never had been
 more sincere in extending a welcome
 to any visitor. At that the crowd
 caeered again
 When the governor introduced MT.
 Wilson "as the father of world democ-
 racy," there was more cheering. A
 photographer in a lookout gallery gallery called through a megaphone for
 moments attention to take flash
 light, but the president did not wait,
 saying, this is much too serious an
 occasion to care how we look, we ought
 to care how we think"
 Amended Treaty Means Failure MT. Wilson declared that to amend the treaty would mean it's failure and
 the isolation of the United States.
 Only those who are ignorant of world
 affairs, he said, could believe that even {. great 1aBiOls 1lh6 Lfl6 OHllSQ ObcStSS
 could stand by itself and apart. If the United States is to save it's own economic interests said the presi dent. it must save the economic in
 terests of the world That was one
 reason, he continued. why the United States should have representative on , the powerful reparation commissions
 If there were no American voice in this commission, he asserted, the , country would have to put into the hands of foreign interests seeking to control world markets American money for the rehabilitation of the { world
 5 That" said the president. lis what } they call playing a lone hand. It is
 playing a lone hand; it is playing a hand frozen out. Those who propose , these things do not understand the interests of the United States l Should America fail to take it's just part in the world rehabilitation, the 7 president asserted the whole attitude of the world toward America would be
 changed. Because the world trusted so much, he said the reaction would , be accordingly great.
 Was Not Political War
 Emphasizing how economic features  how the Germans had dismantled Bel { was not a political war, but 'com- z mercial and industrial war l, Should the United States stand apart. economically and politically, the president continued, then it must be : physically ready for trouble The 7 nation must become, he said, na- , tiOn in arms"
 You can't afford to be unfriendly
 to everybody" he continued, unless r you can afford Q have everybody un- ! friendly to you"
 Germany was not the only nation , which had secret service, MT. Wilson I said, but every other nation in Europe
 was also spying on it's neighbors be- cause they all had to be ready for $ schemes of conquest to be sprung. Will Be Senior Partner g There can be no league of nations | in true sense," he continued, with
 out the partnership of this great peo- . pie. And if we are a partner, let me . predict we'll be the senior partner. The ,. other nations are looking to us for leadership and direction" Q It was a clear choice, said the presi- e dent, betewen armed isolation" and q peaceful partnership" He said he had e heard asserted with annoying ignor- t ance" that this league would be a league for war.
 0 T wonder" he continued, If some
 of the gentlemen who are commenting
 on this treaty have read it. There
 isn't a phrase of doubtful meaning in
 the whole document
 V When the president said if somebody { would give him the name of "one oi Q these gentlemen" he'd send him a copy : several people in the crowd yelled r Reed" The president laughed.
 The league opponent, said the presi- s dent, seemed to be figuring out how f soon we could get out of it." Then ' he added:
 , Based on Wrong Theory , 'I for one am not a quitter and goi z another cheer from the crowd.
 All the arguments of the opposition
 MT. Wilson said, were based on an as-
 sumption that everyone was going tc = break the covenant, and that bad faitl
 was to be the universal rule. He de-
 scribed the arbitration and boycott provisions to the covenant and said il [, any nation went to war after thest e means had been exhausted, it meam t that that nation was determined to TUT amuek anyway.
 i The president declared there was nc & party politics in the treaty and es- 4 serted that both the republican and \ democratic national platforms in 191t advocated such an arrangement as tht H league of nations So at Paris, he said < he had been obeying both parties. H. < said he was glad to get away iron
 Washington where he heard polite! * until some times I wish both parties d were smothered in their own gas"
 The American people. said MT. Will 4 son. are ito see it through to the end & and the end has not come yet" If thu * United States keeps out of the league Y he declared, another war like the las
 Twill come soon," but if it goes in 'i