The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-08
WILSON
ONAAA
SAYS Pc Treaty and League
of " rs Plan are Work
of Honest
Men.
NEED NO RESERVATIONS
Admits He Dislikes Shantung Proxis-
ion, But 1t VIII Do No Good
to Refuse to
Ratlfy.
[By Hugh Baillie. United Press Stan
Correspondent

[By Hugh Baillie. United Press Stah
Correspondent
AUDITORIUM, OMAHA, Neb., Sept
Reservations to the peace treaty
were argued again today by President
Wilson in an address to crowd es-
timated at 5000.
He said there was no need for res
ervations. The Monroe doctrine Is
authenticated in the treaty by all
the great nations of the world. he
said: therefore there is no need for
Monroe doctrine reservation.
| He wanted to know If those who
favor a reservation for quick with
drawal from the league were such
iapoor patriots they thought the
United States would not fulfill it's in
| ternational obligations.
A reservation to exempt domestic
obligations from the league OF nations
would be superfluous. he declared.
Domestic matters are not interfered
with in the treaty, he said.
There was intent silence as Wilson
painstakingly explained the league OF
| nations plan for preventing war by
providing a cooling off, process and
boycott for offending nations.
The president held copy of the
treaty in his hands as he spoke ana
got a prolonged cheer when he said !:
"This is the work of honest men.
Reservations would send the treaty
hack to the peace conference, he said,
and when he asked if the people
wanted that, there was a great shout
ing of mo! MOI"
Wilson was loudly cheered when he
criticized the senate's delay saying
no man could tell how long that oody
would take to do anything.
He admitted he "disliked" the Shan
tung provision of the treaty, but salo
If would do no good to refuse to ratfy
t the treaty; China would not be aideo
thereby.
He asked if the people wanted TO go
TO war against Britain, France anu
Japan to get Shantung for China.
He again reiterated, with regard to
his opponents, that they must put up
q, shut up" This repeated challenSe
was greeted with cheers.
Wilson asked if it were possible
that any little group in America de-
sired to dominate the world by force'
to stay out of the league and suostl-
tute "sinister pan-American1sm fof
"pan- Germanism.'
"Trhat is hideous," he cried Yet,
ba said there were indications that
some men In this country 40 not hiio
such a program unpaia.aole.
THE covenant of the league OF ma
tions is the only guarantee asaihs' :,
more wars. the president asserted
Without it, there will De anotnei
world war within generatlon' hs
predicted.
Wilson said he would consider him
saIf recreant to every American Wlte
mother and sweetheart II TINS wal
we're ended without salesuaio
against future wars. ST.,
He said he would be glad TO ole
+nat +he treaty might be ratified
He praised Senator Hitchcocks
st,nd IN favor Of the treaty, ana salC
he would be just as proud 10 s,aho
Nth senator Norris, (the repupilcan
senator from Nebraska) III he Woulo
let me-"
Text Of Speech.
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. s-Mr' Cnair
nan and nv fellow citizens, now rec
more pleasant In facing my feiio" clcl
yane than when I realize I am no
representing peculiar cause. That
am not speaking for single group O
NV fellow citizens. That am not she
representative of a party but the repre-
sentative of the people of the Unitet
states Of America. (Applause.)
went across the water with tina
lbappv consciousness. In all the wori
mat was done on the other side of th'
seas where was associated with dis
tinguished Americans of both politsea
parties we all of us constantly KEEP
in our heart the feeling that we wer