The sun., 1919-09-24
WILSON SAYS PACT
FOES ARE EDWARDS


these pro-German purposes. VIII they
make it possible for Germany to do in
1919 what she failed to do in 1918?
IL would be objectionable II / over
stated this matter I have searched
my conscience. 1 know from Govern
ment sources that cannot always reach
you what people in Germany are hoping.
They are hoping we will reject the
league"
Seeking to influence Senator's.
President Wilson admitted that he
was making a public appeal to the peo-
pie not to follow Senator'S who have de-
clared for reservations. He asked his
hearers TO think what they were about,
as he hoped the Senator'S would give
thought to what they were about.
President Wilson's first allusion to
William Mckinley as a humane and hon.
orable man was received with immense
applause. but when he said that McF<in-
ley and Hay in 1898 did not try to help
China but only to help American trade
there was dead silence. And after the
applause at the mention of McKinley's
name he carefully avoided mentioning
the name of Theodore Roosevelt as he
did last night in precisely the same con-
nection.
Here he defended the Shantung settle
ment at leangth and said his heart, never
theless, went out to China. He closed with,
II ask your assistance to redeem the
reputation of the United States by way
of compelling judgment" and by pictur-
ing the HAPPY vision of a new world.
News that eight Democratic Senators
were prepared to vote for reservations
to the peace treaty was flashed to Pres
ident Wilson last night before he arose
to speak in Reno by Senator Ashurst
Previous TO the receipt of this telegram
the President had been elated over the
prospects of the peace treaty and the
League of Nations to pass unamended
and without reservations. The mood of
the President was reflected in the spe-
cial as the train entered Nevada from
California. Then came the thunder
bolt--the telegram from Senator Ash
urst.
The telegram also informed President
Wilson that Senator Thomas had writ
ten to the Colorado State Democratic
committee that duty and conscience
would not permit him to vote for the
treaty in its present form. On arrival
in Utah tonight Mr.. Wilson heard that
the State heartily approved the attitude
of Senator Smoot (Utah).
1t Is now known that Mr.. Wilson had
counted on the final opposition Of two
Democratic Senators only, Reed and
Gore that he had been confident of the
eventual obedience OF all others of his
party He had been assured that the
opposition at Washington was largely
wind and fury; that the tour to the
Pacific coast had stirred the people
vastly that wave of enthusiasm for
his programme had been rolled up by
his addresses.
Speaking at Reno President Wilson
threw out differences touching the char
acter and the motives OF the opposition
in the Senate that far exceeded in bit
terness and dislike for these gentlemen
anything he had said previously in the
course of the tour. He accused them of
deliberately ''perverting'' the meaning Of
the treaty. He insinuated that they are
seeking to betray the soldiers of Amer
lea who fought overseas. He charged
that they had diligently misinformed"
the people, and he capped the whole
pyramid of abuse with charge that
they are towards, adding:
II am not afraid to go before the jury
Of mankind at any time on the record Of
the United States with regard to the
fulflpent of It's international obliga-
tions; and when these gentlemen who
are criticising 1t once feel, II they ever
should feel, the impulse of courage in
stead of the impulse Of cowardice, they
will realize how much better It feels
Your blood is at least warm and com
Portable, and the red corpuscles are in
command when you have got some spunk
in you; but when you have not, when
you are afraid somebody is going to put
over something on you. you are furtlve
and go about looking out for things, and
your blood is cold and you SILVER when
you turn a dark corner"
Once more he sought to excuse what
so many persons designate as his sur
render to Japan in the ShantunG settle
ment by comparing his course at Paris
with the failure of President Mckinley
and Secretary Hay to protest in 1898
when European nations and Japan OBJ
tanned territorial concessions from China,
and this time he cited in his own defence
the acts of three Republican statesmen
who cannot defend themselves because
they are dead-Mr. Mckinley, Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr.. Hay. His alluslon to
Mckinley and Hay was as follows:
They made no protest against the
cession to Germany or TO Russia, or to
Great Britain, or to France. The only
thing they insisted on was thak none
of those Powers should close the door
those territories they were taking from
China They were interested only in
the rights Of the merchants of the
United States"
Asserts Critics Look backward.
The whole tenor of the speeches the
President is now delivering as he moves
eastward is that come of his opponents
have deliberately deceived and misled
the people, and that others have mis-
stated the real meaning of the treaty
and covenant because of ignorance that
amazes him. He put it this way:
Some OF the critics of the League of
Nations have their eyes over their Shout
ders They are looking backward. I
think that is the reason they are STUN
bling all the time. They are always
striking their feet against obstacles
which everybody sees and avoids and
which do not lie in the real progress of
civilization And their power to divert
or pervert the view of this whole thing
has made 1t necessary for me repeatedly
on this journey to take the liberty Of
telling you just what kind of a treaty
this is"
And then follows in nearly every ad-
dress (for the method remains I'M
changed) a picture of the world before
the war as recalled by Mr.. Wilson; a
world where men who work with their
hands were outraged in their most sa-
cred rights by the men who controlled
industry; a picture of the growth of
what he calls "the revolutionary spirit"
He implies that 1t was TO Farther and
protect this agitation that America
fought the war. Following ,his is the