Arizona republican., 1919-09-25
SENATE RESERVATION TO ARTICLE 10 MEANS REJECTION OF TREATY
Such is Definition Placed ol. Proposed Action by Presi- dent in Address at Chey- enne, Wyoming
Republican A. p. Leased wirel


 CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 24.-Read- ing again the proposed senate reserva- ton to article ten of the league cov- enant, President Wilson declared in an address here today that should any such reservation be adopted he would be obliged as chief executive to re- gard it as rejection of the treaty"
 The president added that rejection of the treaty would mean negotiation of a separate peace with Germany, and asserted that such a negotiation could not change a single item of the peace settlement.
 The reservation read by the presi- dent was the same that he laid before his audience last night at the Salt Lake City tabernacle. By it's pro- visions the United States would as sume no obligation to preserve the territorial integrity of other nations unless congress should so decide.
 Tt is as though you said we will not join the league now" said he, "but may join it from time to time. We won't promise anything but from time to time we may cooperate.
 Must Make Final Decision
 "The thing is unworthy and ridicu- lous. It means the rejection of the treaty, nothing less. The issue is final. We can't avoid it. We've got to make the decision now and once made, there can be no turning back"
 Unless the United States went into the league now, he added, and assumed its full responsibility it would have to come in later with Germany.
 Referring to the reservation which he mentioned at Salt Lake, the presi- dent said in part:
 Tn understand this reservation is now up before the senate, and I wish you would lend a very earnest ear. The United States assumes TO otliga- tions under the provisions oe article 10 to enter into the policies of any other country or controversy ! etween ct! CT nations, whether members of the league or not, or to employ military or naval forces of the United States for any purpose unless in a particular case. In other words, feel certain we should not leave this to guess work but should consider ourselves bound 70 be definite. We should not allow OUT selves to be in for a time, or from time to time want to say something in the council, but we should assume obliga- tions of the league to help the world and humanity along. In other words, this is ridiculous and would change the entire treaty and would exclude the United States. It means rejection of the treaty, it means that the United States could take away it's support. l know there are some men who are in favor of this-men who are learned, but I do not think they realize that the United States would be excluded from the treaty entirely.
 T would ask you to consider this matter very carefully, and for you to realize what the rejection of the treaty means to the people of Great Britain and to the people of the United States Germany is not anxious for the United States to be among the nations in the | league. She is not admitted to mem- bership until she changes her entire government, and at that time she vii | be admitted with the rest of the repre- sentatives of the free peoples of the world. I am not making this statement by conjecture. but am getting it directly from the mouths of persons in Ger many, who are thoroughly familiar anC know what the rejection of the treaty means. It means separate treaty witt | Germany, and this would be agains any of the doctrines of the league oi nations, and the whole world would bt against the United States. It would simply be a government of the United States hand in hand with Germany. w have come to ask that you will con slider it. There is no other way. Amer ica must face it now.
 Service Men Had No Reservations
 "The men who fought in Chateal Thierry, the men who fought in Belleai Woods and in the Argonne, neve thought of turning back. They neve thought of making reservations on thei service. They never thought of saying We are going to do this much of tn job and then scuffle and leave you t, do the rest And am here on thi journey to do what I can to fulfill an' complete the task. which the men wh died upon the bdttlefields of Franc began. And 1 am not going to turl back any more than they did. l an going to keep my face just as they kep their forward, towards tn enemy.
 My friends. the only organized fore es opposed to the league of nations ar hyphenated Americans outside, mean, of the congressional circle.
 beg you to observe that said the onl organized forces, because I would no include many individuals that I knov in such a charge as this, but l do meal that 1t is the pro-Germans that shove the hyphen during the war that are nov organized against the treaty. and W can please nobody in America any bet ter than by rejecting this treaty or b qualifying it in our acceptance of it"
 Following the address president an Mrs. Wilson and the members of thei party were taken for an automobile rid over the city and through Fort D. 4 Russell, three miles out.
 Upon their return their special trai