The sun., 1919-10-19
EVILS OF PACT
EXPOSED WHILE
CROWD CHEERS
Senator Reeds Attack on
Treaty ArOuses Intense
Enthusiasm.
CALLS LEAGUE GOLD BRICK
Declares European and Asiatic
Diplomats Outwitted U. S.
ENJOYS at Versailles.
CALLS LEAGUE GOLD BRICK

Reed of Missouri, Democrat Senator
at odds with his party because he
turns from the will of a man to hear
the voice of people, told the truth, as
he sees it, in Madison Square Garden
last night about the League of Ma
tions proposal.
The truth, as he sees it, is that in
valuable months necessary to the
worlds tranquility were consumed at
Versailles while a coterie of very able
European and Asistic gentlemen, who
knew perfectly well what they wanted,
perfected a scheme to make the
United States OF America the treasure
house and man power reserve of
weakened Europe.
And 1900 men and women packed
within the walls of New York's most
historic auditorium rose up to acclaim
the unshaded directness of Senator
Reeds declaration. The old Garden
has shaken to applause stirred by
many men OF note, on many patriotic
occasions, but 1t is doubtful If any man.
except for one or two. has ever
reached down so deeply into the hearts
Of an audience. This is true: that the
President. travelling with a Pres
ident's prestige. nowhere found in his
whole transcontinental tour an au-
dience so responsive to an appeal for
the League Of Nations as James A.
Reed found in opposition to the league
In the Garden last night.
Audience Shows Feeling.
There was a concentrated power of
feeling in Senator Reeds audience last
night which compelled thought. Time
after time the Senator (who, by his
own private confession, should have
been in bed from the exhaustion of his
long battle for Americanism) had to
appeal 10 the people to moderate their
enthusiasm-to refrain from those cy-
clcnic demonstrations of approval which
waste speakers time and so consume
his strength. There was nothing hysteri-
cal about these demonstrations. They
came in irrepressible explosions as Reed
hit upon first one, then another. of the
thoughts more or less inarticulately ex-
isting in the minds of his hearers. He
Illuminated. simply, the ideas that COM
mon sense Cor Americanism, II one
pleases) had constructed in many thou
sands of minds that gave him attention
last night.
The meeting arranged by the Ameri-
can Women Opposed to the League OF
Nations more than measured up to the
expectation of its sponsors. Every seat
of the last possible seat of 10000 was
taken, and many hundreds OF persons
stood eagerly through the long pro-
gramme of speechmaking. Outside, from
P. NJ, when the doors of the Garden
were slammed shut by the careful fire.
men, until after 10 p. NJ. long lines Of
persons that had not been able to find
space besieged the police for permission
TO enter.
Senator johnson Ill.
This was peculiarly interesting in that
the news of the illness of Senator Hiram
Johnson of California, who was to have
Joined Senator Reed last night, had been
well circulated. 1t seemed to prove, as
Senator Reed said. that the people were
interested In the topic much more than
in hearing any public man. Senator
johnson could not take part in the rally
because he had worn himself out In a
long and arduous speechmaking tour TO
the Pacific coast and back. and was in
bed in Washington when his regrets
were telegraphed to the 'womens asso-
ciation. Senator Reed himself came to
the Garden tired and half sick, out
spurred by the opportunity offered him
by the American Women Opposed TO the
League of Nations to make one more
address in New York before the senate
settled down to voting on amendments
or reservations
For this final effort in the greates'
city of the country he drew upon the
last resources OF his vigor. For cour-
age. power and directness II was. prob
ably. the most effective speech the Mar
from Missouri has made in the course
% his dynamic stand for what he be-
lieves is the right.
Calls League Plot.
With blazing eyes and a voice thai
rang with Indignation, Reed denounced
the League of Nations project as moth
ing short OF plot to entangle the United
States in international turmoil; plo
formed behind the locked doors and II
the regulated secrecy OF Versailles u
use the United States for the benefit o.
European nations and to no benefit u
the United States.
Here was the heart OF Reeds speech
that an effort has been made TO impos'
on the intelligence OF the American peo
lle 10 lead them, by cunning and dis
INGENIOUS promises INTO an arrangement
which strikes az the very foundations o
Vie Republic and which would be certaiI
o. cause war rather than prevent 1t.
was a scheme to make an internationa
r.tdder out OF the country that Wash
,ugtou had expressly warned against en-
Judgements. the Senator from Missouri
warned; and he asked his hearers, an
asked the womenfolk especially, II the
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