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WILSON
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SPEECH
Says Pc Treaty and League
of " as Plan are Work
of Honest
Men.
NEED NO RESERVATIONS
Admits He DisIikes Shantung Proxis-
ion, But 1t VIII Do No Good
to Refuse to
RatIfy.
[By Hugh Baltic. United Press STAFF
Correspondent

[By Hugh Baillie. United Press Staff
| Correspondent
| AUDITORIUM, OMAHA, Neb., Sept.
observations to the peace treaty
were argued again today by President
| Wilson in an address to crowd es-
tlmated at 5000.
He said there was no need for res
ervations The Monroe doctrine Is
authenticated" in the treaty by all
the great nations Of the world. he
/ said; therefore there is no need for
! Monroe doctrine reservation.
| He wanted to know II those who
favor reservation for quick with
drawal from the league were such
spoor patriots they thought the
| United States would not fulfill Its In
ternational obligations.
! A reservation to exempt domestic
obligations from the league OF nations
would be superfluous, he declared.
Domestic matters are not interfered
with in the treaty, he said.
There was intent silence as Wilson
painstakingly explained the league OF
nations plan for preventing war by
providing cooling off" process and
boycott for offending nations.
The president held a copy OF the
treaty in his hands as he spoke and
got a prolonged cheer when he said !:
| This is the work Of honest men.
| Reservations would send the treaty
back to the peace conference, he said,
and when he asked if the people
wanted that, there was great shout
ing Of mo! MOI"
Wilson was loudly cheered when he
| criticized the senates delay saying
no man could tell how long that body
would take to do anything.
| He admitted he "disliked" the Shan
tung provision Of the treaty, but SAID
! it would do no good to refuse to ratlfy
1.-THE treaty; China would not be aided
thereby.
He asked if the people wanted to go
to war against Britain, France anu
japan to get Shantung for China.
/ He again reiterated, with regard 10
his opponents, that they must put up
OF shut up." This repeated challenge
was greeted with cheers.
Wilson asked if it were possible
that any little group in America de-
sired to dominate the world by rorce'
TO stay out of the league and suostl'
tute "sinister pan-American1sm fol
pan Germanism.'
"That is hideous," he cried Yet,
he said, there were indications that
soma men In this country do not fno
such a program "unpalatable.
The covenant Of the league OF ma
lions is the only guarantee against
more wars, the president asserted
without it, there will be another
world war within a generation, ne
predicted.
Wilson said he would consider him
self recreant to every American VIE
mother and sweetheart II TINS wa
were ended without saesu"io
against future wars. a.,
He said he would be glad TO ole
that the treaty might be ratineo.
He praised Senator Hltchcock
stand in favor Of the treaty, ana salc
he would be just as proud 10 stane
with Senator Norris, (the repupllc1i
senator from Nebraska) III ne "oui'
let me-
Text Of Speech.
OMAHA. Neb., Sept. S.-Mr. Chalr
man and my fellow citizens, now zee
more pleasant in facing my fellow c1ti
zens than when I realize I am no
representing a peculiar cause, That
am not speaking for single group o
nv fellow citizens. That am not sh'
representative Of party but the repre-
sentative of the people of the unlte'
states Of America. (Applause)
! I went across the water with tina
ihappy consciousness. In all the wori
that was done on the other side of rh'
seas where I was associated with dis
tinguished Americans Of both politsea
parties we all OF us constantly KEEP
in our heart tho feeling that we wer