The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-13
WILSON FINDS
WEST FAV0RS
RESERVATIONS
President Now Pleads That
They Be Mild if Any
Are Made.
AGAIN PREDICTS CHAOS
Tells Idaho and Washington
People Qualification Will
Mean Staying Out.
AGAIN PREDICTS CHAOS
By Q Stur Correspondent Of tn. Sun.

SPOKANE, Sept. 12.-President VIII
son finds In the Northwest no en-
! couragement whatever for his In
sistance that the peace treaty mus
be ratified without qualifications
The people Of Montana, Idaho ant
Washington are not impressed by hi:
argument that the cause of the
League Of Nations is greater thar
the interests of the United States
They are not in the least frightened
by his prediction that rejection oil
qualification will mean an era oi
blood and terror.
The ratification issue has broken
down in this section of the country
the line fences of party policies and
Is as non-partisan as Mr.. Wilson
himself could desire. Democrats, have
Joined with Republicans in supporting
the views Of Senators Borah, Poin-
dexter and johnson. The so-cAlled
extremists of the Senate opposition
tc Mr.. Wilson have vastly more sup
port than rallies to Mr.. Wilson, but,
as everywhere, there Is general de.
mand for speedy settlement of the
whole controversy by such reasonable
compromise as will protect the United
States while affording an opportunity
TO try a world peace experiment
Public opinion in this section OF
the country was expressed in Spokane
this afternoon, in C9ur d'Alene,
Idaho, this morning and in Helena
Mon, last night, expressed by the
utter unresponsiveness of large audi.
ences to Mr.. Wilson's most downright
appeals for support. Nowhere on this
trip has the Presidents defiance
to the Senate been more frigidly re
ceived than In these three cities. His
reception In Helena last night was
81 absurdly inadequate Of what was
due to the President of the United
States that embarrassed citizens
touched In their local pride, apollo
gized to the newspaper correspond
ents. The Panhandle of Idaho was
scarcely less cool to his arguments
and Spokane, a most vigorous commu.
nifty Of most vigorous pride in itself
confined Its welcome to the President
as the President.
Was It, perhaps, recognition OF
this palpable sentiment that induced
Nr. Wilson to state more frankly than
hc had previously stated just what he
was willing to accept In the way OF
reservations? 1t wasn't much, indeed
for It amounted simply to a willing
ness to let the Senate draw up presum-
ably in a separate memorandum an
understanding" by the United States
that its vote in the council OF the
League of Nations would be based
upon its understanding" Of the treaty
That is all. For Mr.. Wilson leaped
to the assertion that any qualification
o. the treaty amounts to staying out
altogether: to "a change in the spiri;
of the instrument"
Not a Changed Letter in Text.
America is at liberty" he informed
the Northwest, ito state how she
understood the articles Of copartner-
ship" but there must not be the
change of a dotted 1 or a crossed I
In the text OF the treaty II the United
States doesn't want civilization to
l.Vs.se. L. IL
to ensue in this country as over the
rest OF the earth, and shame bought
by America at the price of the ruin
and degradation of mankind.
These were not inferences con-
veyed by his method of delicately
shading his phrases and prudently
qualifying his threats. They were
out and out statements, more def
nitely couched than in any previous
speeches. Take your choice of a
heaven on earth or a hell, says MIR.
Wilson to the Northwest
Everybody who loves justice, who
loves reform. must support the unquali-
fed adoption Of this treaty" he told
Montana, Idaho and Washington. al
send the challenge out j don't want to
say this and have 1t proved by tragedy.
. uOh want " oSc HI Crd OF piCCr hnu
chaos IN convert men. Don't mistake
the signs OF the times. Universal dis
order may follow universal unrest Don't
think America is immune"
He SCOTS at the mere suggestion 'tnat
n few reservations can do no harm and
might do good. He pours whitening con-
tempt upon the idea. He brands 1t as a
bubble, silly suggestion put forward
by men who doh't understand the mean
ing OF the English language. He tells
the people that he thinks he knows
something about the meaning OF words
and that he has no difficulty under