The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-06
TERMS
CHARTER FOR
NEWER ORDER
SAYS WILSON
Declares Men Who Make
Treaty Impossible Have
Lifelong Reckoning With
Those Who Won War.
$1,000 HEAR SPEECH
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY. Sept 6.-President
Wilson appealed to a Kansas City
crowd today to support the peace
treaty as a charter for a new order Of
world affairs.
Making his third speech for the
treaty in Missouri to a capacity audi
ence, President Wilson spoke in Con-
vention Hall. said to accommodate
5000.
When the president, accompanied
by Mrs. Wilson, appeared on the plat
form Of the vast auditorium the crowd
each OF whom had a small American
flag. rose and cheered for more than
two minutes.
Cheered In Streets.
President Wilson had been cheered
as the presidential party passed
through four miles of the city street
to Convention hall.
In his address the president covered
many of the same points in the treaty
he had discussed in previous address
ses. He said he had come to re-
port to the people direct about one of
the greatest documents in human
history. The treaty. he declared. was
shot through" with American prtnci-
pals, put there by the common consent
Of the world. One of the things Amer
lea had had in heart throughout her
whole existence, said the president.
was that arbitration and consultation
should be substituted for force. This
was accomplished, he declared by the
League of Nations covenant. Nine
months of discussion of any interna-
tional controversies would be assured
under the covenant, he asserted add
ing that this principle previously had
been written into thirty arbitration
treaties, "all of which were confirmed
by the United States"
The principles Of the league, he de-
clared. already had been adopted by
the United States.
Ends military Clam.
The league. he declared. would mean
the end of the military clan" through
out the world forever. There is no
way to dispense with great armament
without an agreement by the great ma
tions of the world" said Mr. Wilson,
"and here is the agreement" Auto
cracy would perish with militarism,
added the president, and the intrigue
which had terrorized Europe for gener-
ations would be ended.
Citing conditions in Armenia, Mr..
Wilson. said, he wondered that men
do not wake up to the moral respon-
sbility of what they were doing" when
they were debating and debating"
while tragic situations waited to be
dealt with as soon as the debating
was over
Help for every people in the world
that haven't got what they think they
ought to have" was seen by the presi-
dent in the league provision which
empowered one nation to call friendly
attention to what it thinks Is an in
justice inside another nation.
Have World Forum
Every people, said he, would have
a world forum" in which to present
it's case.
The people said the president, had
been misled about the treaty by men
who look at it with the jaundiced
eyes of those who have some private
interests of their own" When these
men were gibbeted by public opinion
he said, they wold regret that the
gibbet is so high"
"If anybody dares to defeat this
great instrument" he continued, then
they will have to gather together their
councillors for the world and do some
thing better"
II say it is case Of put up or shut
up? Negotiations will not save the
world"
The president said some men oppos-
| ed the treaty conscienciously and he
would take off his hat in the presence
| of any mans conscience.
Il tell you," he added, "the war was
won by the American spirit. And
! America in this treaty has realized
what those gallant boys fought for
| Then men who make this impossible
or difficult, will have a lifelong reck-
oning with the men who won the war"
The president asked the audience
not to think he had come out to
fight or antagonize" anybody
Il have the greatest respect" he
said, "for the senate Of the United
States. But l have come out to fight
cause that is greater than the SEN
ate and intend to fight that cause,
in Office or out as long as live"