Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-07
Treaty Must Be Ratified Prompt
~ to Stop Radicalism,
He Says.
POISON WHICH MADE
RUSSlA'S RUIN SPREADS
President Points Out Dangers of I'm
rest Which He Says Settlement
of World Affairs viii
Alay.

Des Moines, Ia, Sept "a pos
sibility that bolshevism may spread
in threatening proportions to the
United States, unless the peace treaty
| is ratified promptly, was suggested
by President Wilson in an address
here tonight.
The whole world was awaiting an
easily, he said, while the poison
which wrecked Russia was spreading
among peoples who did not yet know
what guarantees they were to be for
liberty in the new world order. Labor
and capital in the United States, he
asserted, could not proceed intelligent
| thy with their preparations, nor could
great problems like the railroad
situation be solved while the sus-
pense continued.
Mr. Wilson defended the Shantung
provision of the treaty and said the
league covenant section referring to
the Monroe doctrine had been in
serted to "give the Monroe doctrine
right of way in the western hemis-
phere" He declared his conviction
that it would do so.
The Versailles treaty with it's
league Of nations covenant was ex-
planned by the president as purely
American document extending demo-
cracy ovcer the world and shifting
foreign relations from a basis OF
force and war to one of arbitration
and peace.
Making his second address Of the
day, the president spoke in the Des
Moines Coliseum, said to seat 1900.
Every chair was taken and many
were standing. Earlier in the day,
he had spoken at Kansas City, Mo-,
more than 300 miles away.
Drop Flowers on Train.
An escort Of airplanes dropped
flowers on the presidents special
train as it approached the city and
he was cheered during an automobile
ride through crowds that packed the
down town streets far out bevond the
curb. When he entered the Coliseum
he was cheered again.
The meeting was opened with an
invocation and Mr.. Wilson was in
troduced by J. B. Weaver, president
lof the Des Moines chamber of COM
merce, who spoke of him as the "out-
standing figure in the life of the
world todav." Mrs. Wilson was not
on the platform.
Describing the world as desperate-
lv in need of the settled condition of
peace, the president said the United
, States, the last nation which the
world expected to have to wait upon.
was delaying the coming Of that
peace.
The treaty, he said not only would
a establish peace but it would end for
ever the rule Of few men over the.
destines of the many.
, Citing what happened in Eurone
with the rise of bolshevism Mr.. Will
son said the move Of radicalism and
disorder was spreading.
"Do YOU think that none of that
noison has got into the veins of this
free peonles?" he asked
"Men look you calmly in the face
in america. and tell YOU they are for
, that heart of revolution"
$50 long as the question of what
, kind of peace the world was to have
: and what guarantees were to be be-
3 hind it remained open. the poison
/ would continue to spread.
t elbow long shall we be kept waiting
: for the answer whether the world will
|. trust us or desuise us?" he continued.
s'The world stands ANNOYED because
an authority in America hesitates
whether it will endorse an Ameri-
lean document.
n Labor Waiting.
The president said he had not been
able to work out the solution Of rail-
t way problems and would not be able
: to do so until he should know a peace
$ basis had come. The conference Of
I labor and capital in Washington next
: month. he continued, also would
{ have it's deliberations affected bv the
}. answer to their question. Labor
Q "all over the world is waiting" he
t asserted, "to see whether the United
n States accepts the treaty's provision
q for an international labor organiza-
$ ltion.
"The United States" said the
e president. eould not participate y
e 1.-THE world labor conference TO be held
q in Washington soon under the treaty
{ unless the treaty Is accepted by Inns
lcounty."
Such a condition would be aincon.
ceivable" he added, and would lead
to the greatest "mortifieation:
n "The world is waiting" said the
n president, ITO see. not whether w
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