The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-13
PACT
ACCEPTANCE MUST
Be UNQUALIFIED
President Tells Spokane Audi
enCe That Only Thus May
Present Unrest in World Be
Ended-ChaoS Otherwise.

SPOKANE. Sept. 13.-"Amerief's ac-
ceptance of the peace treaty n ust be
unqualified" President Wilson dnelared
here Yesterday, II IL is 70 end promptly
The spirit Of unrest throughout the
world. Any change which would make
the publication conditional, he said,
would reopen h negotiations and pro-
long doubt and uncertainty.
Replying to objections that Great
Britain would have q preponderance OF
voting power In the league Of nations
assembly, President Wilson said any
possible danger on that scare was re-
moved by the fact that decisions must
be unanimous.
The league Of nations assembly, the
president declared, was largely a de-
batting body" and seldom would act on
important questions and when Il did the
United States with its one vote would
have an absolute veto" under the rule
requiring a unanimous vote.
II had been proposed al Paris, said
the president, that the covenant pro-
vide that the members should auto
m%atlcally be at war with a covenant
breaker. But, he added, that he had
opposed the suggestion because II would
take away from congress the power 10
declare war.
Il fought that fight said Mr.. VIII
son, while the crowd oheered, and /
won H. They don't have to fight 1t
|VNNN AAhIas ."...
Going on 70 the proposed Monroe doc
trine resolution, the president said the
peace conference Gied 10 define tho
doctrine as clearly as possible.
That is the most extraordinary SEN
tence In the document he continued.
Because up to that time there wasn't
q great power In the world that was
willing to admit the validity OF the
Monroe doctrine"
II was absolutely Irrational" said
Mr., Wilson, to ask for anything more.
Domesticl questions, too. the president
said were fully reserved to national
clearer, he said, was to list those quess
"The danger Of making a list is that
| the mention Of the things you mention
constitutes the exclusion Of the things
you don't mention"
Text in Part.
The presidents address in part fol-
lows.
Il want to discuss with YOU very
frankly indeed, Just as frankly as !
know how, the difficulty that has been
suggested because l think, lot In the
spirit Of crictlcism but IN a spirit Of In
tended fairness that not one OF the
qualifications which has been suggested
In this discussion Ia justified by the
L lMnBuMkN vi the IlAHJF uIHcNls
at Il provided that any member
state may withdraw from the league
upon two years notice. provided that
at the time OF withdrawal II has full
filled It's national obligations and the
obligations under the covenant. And
gentlemen object that II Ia not said
who shall determine whether y has full.
filled its international obligations and
lite obligations under the covenant OF
not.
Having sat ut the table where tn,
instrument vas drawn, | know that thai
was not done accidentally, because tina
10 n matter upon which no nation cal
sit In Judgment upon another. Tina
IL left to the conscsences M 10 tn
independent determination OF the ma
tion that 10 withdra wing. And there |
only one Jury that Il need fear an,
that Is the great embodied Jury ex
pressing the, opinions OF mankind, ZAP
plausel. There 10 n part Of the cove
nant--the principal part Of II, where !
speaks OF arbitration and whore II pro
J vides that any member state failing 4
keep these covenAnts-these particula
oovenants--shall be regarded as thereb,
lpso facto TO have committed an act 0
war against the other members. Tn
way It originally read was shall there
by ipso facto DO deemed at wa wit
tho other nations and l said. No,
cannot agree to that, That provisio
would put the United States al wa
without the consent OF the congress- q
the United States, And l have no rich
In this part OF the covenant, or any 9th
4 err, 70 consent to a provision while
would deprive the congress OF the Unit
ed States OF It's free choice whether
makes war or not (~Applausc).
AT every point in the covenant wher
II was necessary TO do so | insisted upo
Language which would leave the cor
gress Of the United States free.
~ have finished about article 10. 70
will say II is NIL very well what yo
say about the word Of the United Stats
being necessary provided the Unite
states In not one OF the parties to Il
dispute. In that case II cannot vot
That IL very true. But In that case
s. has got the fight on Its hands anyho,
\. Because II II Ia one OF the parties
the dispute the war belongs TO II.
Ut does not have TO 10 into 1t, Therefor
tt cannot be forced by the vote In
the war. The only thing the vote CO
do Ia to force II out OF the war.
And l want TO ask o 10 thir
es what II means when II Is suggested tn
40 the United States may be q party,
'" party to whatI A party to seize som
II body else's property A. party to- 4
fringe some other country's political I
en- dependencef In anyone willing TO sta
nd on this platform and say that the Uni
~ ed States IL likeiy 10 do either OF the
thingf challenge any man to stal
before an American audience and 8
OF that that 10 tho danger. 4
"Ah, but someone may seek to sci
our territory. imDalr orr nulifiCAl /