The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-07
WILSON DECLARES
TREATY AMERICAN
DOCUME PURELY
EXTENDS DEMOCRACY OVER THE
WORLD: SHIFTS FOREIGN STAT
Us FROM WAR TO PEACE
IN MISSOURI AND IOWA
President Greeted by Huge Throngs at
Kansas City and Des Moines and All
Along ROute-Speaks in Both Cities
Shakes Hands With Children, White
and Black, and With Railroad Work.
ers at ST. Joseph

Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. G.-The Yer
sailles treaty with its league of ma.
tions covenant was explained here to-
night by President Wilson as a purely
!, American document extending democ.
racy over the world and shifting foreign
relations from 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 $500. Every
chair was taken and many We're stand
ing. Earlier in the day he had spoken
at Kansas City, Mo, more than 300
miles away.
An escort of airplanes dropped flowers
on the presidents special train as it
approached the city. and he was cheered
during an auto ride through crowds
that packed the downtown streets far
out beyond the curb. When he entered
the Coliseum he was cheered again.
The meeting was opened with an in
vocation and Mr.. Wilson was introduced
by j. C. Weaver, president of the Des
Moines Chamber of Commerce, who
SPOKE OH lIt OulSldllulllS liz Wv III AAl'
life of the world today Mrs. Wilson
was not on the platform.
Describing the world as desperately 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 establish peace,
but it would end forever the rule of Il
few men over the destinies of the many.
Bolsheyism i'm America
Citing what happened in Europe with
the rise of bolshevism, Mr.. Wilson said
the move of radicalism and disorder was
spreading.
do you honestly think that none of
that poison has got irn he veins of
this free people," he asked. Men look
you calmly in the face in America, and
tell you they are for that sort Of revo-
luton"
A so long as the question of what kind
ROT peace the world was to have and
what were to be behind it remained
open, the poison would continue to
spread
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for answer whether the world will trust
us or despise u.s." he continued. THE
world stands annoyed because an au-
thorty in America hesitates whether
ii will endorse an American doctrine
Labor Problem Waits
The president said he had not been
able to work out the solution of railway
l., a ~
so until he should know when a peace
basis would come. The conference of
labor and capital in Washington next
month, he continued, also would have
it's deliberations affected by the answer
to their question. Labor "all over the
world is waiting" he asserted, ito
see whether the United States accept
ed the treaty's provision for an inter
national organization"
The United States, said the presi-
dent, could not participate in the
world labor conference to be held in
Washington soon under the treaty
unless the treaty was accomplished
by this country. Such a condition
would be conceivable" he added, and
would lead to the greatset "mortifica-
ton"
The world is waiting" said the
president, ITO see, not whether we
will take part, but whether we will
take the lead
Mr.. Wilson said he had been IAN
noyed to see that the craftsmanship
of some gentlemen consists of the
very proposition of doing nothing at
all. 81 have heard Of standing pat
before. but | never have heard OF
standpatism to that length"