The sun., 1919-09-14
WILSON IN FEAR
SENATE MAY PUT.
U.S.IN new WAR
Assures Mothers of Safety
of Children if Pact Is
Unchanged.
SEES POLITICS IN ISSUE
Asserts League Of Nations Is
Based on Old Republican
Ideas.
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SEATTLE, Sept. 13.-"I will lead you
into peace; the Senate will drag you
into war" Mr.. Wilson's first speeches
TO the people of the Pacific coast, de-
lyefed in Tacoma this morning and
b Seattle tonight, precipitate this
crystal when the vapors of oratory
are blown away. He halls himself
as the deliverer Of the multitudes of
little children who greet him, flags
IL hand, along all the miles of his
pathway to the Pacific. He brands
the Senate as the blind power which
would hurl them at manhood into a
final slaughter of mankind.
Appealing directly to the women
folk, he tells them that IL he can have
bis League of Nations as 1t now
stands they never need shed a tear
for the future of their babies, buG if
bis league is rejected, II the Senate
80 much as changes syllable of Its
covenant, they. the women, may be
sure that when their boys come to
manhood "the whole horrible task
will have to be done over again"
Now that he stands upon the
Western rim of the country Mr.. Will
son discards the careful qualifications
Of violent prediction. Judging that
the country's greatest concern is to
avoid another war he strikes directly
at the heart of that concern. He
paints with the loveliest of colors the
beauties Of the peace he promises.
He limns with the ugliest Of colors
the horrors of the world conflict the
Senate would force America into.
Seeks to shift onus.
BE charges now that much Of the
inagonism to the League of Nations
b founded upon hatred for him; upon
party feelings "Some men have
dared" he says, "to introduce party
passion into this matter, and / want
to read the riot act to anybody who
tries to make this a partisan matter"
BE exhorts his hearers to contem-
plate the issue of the League Of Ma
tons without a thought to 1920
"I hope that nobody gives a thought
to the fact that there is an election
In 1920"-and he seeks to throw the
onus for partisan bias solely upon the
Republican party.
Realizing that he is among people
Of Republican views he prefaces these
charges with compliments TO the dis
tnguished record Of the Republican
party; states that his conception OF
league of nations originated twen-
H years ago from the ideas of dis
tinguished Republican leaders; as
serts that the Republican party has
been committed to the League of Ma
tons and demands Republican sup
port as a right.
But this appeal is subordinate to
his main appeal. which is the linked
promise and threat he has carried into
srery community he has visited. He
tones as the hope Of mankind. Mes
ash Of earthly millennium; one
trusted by "the dissatisfied and hope
kss to lead the world into security and
lppiness," and he tells the people
mat an ignorant and passion blinded
senate out Of touch with the country's
thought is wickedly opposing his ma
kstic purpose. He asks II there can
Dc choice between the supreme good
le represents and the supreme evil
INC Senate stands for. He bases every
promise and every threat upon the in
volatility Of the League of Nations.
House of Cards or a Gibraltar.
Without IT the nations of the
world" he tells Seattle and Tacoma,
are house OF cards, ready to col
npse at the first breath of force.
win 1t they are a rock of Gibraltar"
he strives by dread visions of a COM
ing war. by visions OF an era Of blood
sno terror. to draw the women Of the
@untry in his train. He seeks by argu-
Isnts OF commerce and trade lad
Iitteoly distasteful in his exalted and
Saophetic moody to rally the males Of
.a're material hhre. He asks the women
hey wa1t 70 90 through another
ystiod OF grief and mourning for the
n1ue children that now greet them oi
4ornlngs. He asks the men II they
snt sant to see the trade Of the country
noEen down and ruined. For world wal
~. .no tne death OF commerce will follow
..ose upon the rejection or alteration Of
covenant OF the League of Nations
&c persistently asserts.
were these statements not made daily
p'eeptible TO ear and proved by eye, 4
Continued ON Ek0hfeenth Pdoa