Baxter Springs news., 1919-07-18
LEAGUE is WORLDS
HOPE, SENATE IS TOLD
President Tells Senate that Covenant Is Necessary to End oil
Order and Guarantee Civilization to
to All Peoples
Administration That Fight for the League Of Ma
hons and Ratification Of the Treaty Of Peace Would
Eventually Be Won

Washing SoA1 eeAy 'ASs AAc F~~~
treaty, with It's league of nations GOV
enant, was laid before the senate b!
President Wilson today in an address
accounting to the country for his par
In the negotiations at Versailles.
The league, declared the president
was born Of the conviction of practica
statesmen that an international con
cert had become a world necessity Il
end the old order and guarantee civ
ilization. He asserted that in such 9
concert the world looked confidently
to America for leadership, and addet
that while the treaty might not be lex'
actly as the American delegation
would have written it, no vital prin'
ciple had been sacrificed by the nee
essary' compromises.
The senate, already divided in bit
ter fight over the league proposal, re-
ceived the president with cheers and
listened to his words in grave silence
When he had concluded there was an
other burst of cheering until he had
passed out Of the chamber and had
gone to his capitol Office, where he
talked for an hour with senators who
wished to ask about specific features
of the treaty or Of the negotiations
In these conferences the president dis
cussed freely such subjects as the dis
position Of Shantung, the German in
IDENTITIES and Irish freedom.
Questions Not Mentioned
In his address, however, there was
no direct reference to many Of the
questions around which senate debate
has centered, the president declaring
he could not construe details Of the
treaty in q short address. He did not
directly mention the Monroe doctrine,
Shantung or the obligations assumed
under article ten of the league COW
enant, nor did he allude to the pro-
posal to write reservations into the
ratification. He asserted hope that
he would be given opportunity to dis
cuss details later, either with the
whole senate or the foreign relations
committee. =,
my services and all the informa-
ton possess" said Mr.. Wilson, will
be at your disposal an dat the disposal
Of your committee on foreign rela-
tions at any time, either informally
or in session, as you prefer; and /
hope that you will not hesitate to
make use Of them"
American isolation, the president
asserted, was ended twenty years ago
when the war with Spain put the ma
tiOn in partial control Of Cuba and
the Philippines.
"But we have not exploited them"
he continued. 1--WE have been their
friends and have sought to serve
them. There can be no question OF
our ceasing to be world power. The
only question is whether we can re-
fuse the moral leadership that is Of
fered us, whether we shall accept or
reject the confidence of the world.
I'VE Cannot Turn Back"
"The stage is set, the destiny dis
closed. It has come about by no plan
of our conceiving, but by the hand of
God who has led us intp this way. We
cannot turn back. We can only go
forward, with lifted eyes and fresh
ened spirit, to follow the vision"
Abiding to the skepticism with
which the plan for a league Of ma
tions was first received, the president
said that as the peace negotiations
proceeded it became apparent to all
the delegates that such concert was
"a practical necessity" demanded by
call the peoples Of the world" For
the United States to reject it, he as
serted, would ''break the heart of the
world" Pointing out that many minor
compromises were necessary to secure
the support Of all the interested ma
tions, he continued.
'The treaty as a result, is not ex-
actly what we would have written. It
Is probably not what any one Of the
national delegations would have writ
ten. But results were worked out
which on the whole bear test. ! think
that It will be found that the COM
promises which were accepted as in
.evitable nowhere cut to the heart Of
any principle"
Z In disregard Of precedent, the SEN
ate received the address in open ses-
sion and afterward ordered that the
tredty be published in the cOngression-
al record and as q public document.
The galleries were overfowing with
crowds unable to gain admission
waited in the rain to cheer the presi-
dent when he arrived and departed.
Many members Of the house crowded
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