The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-26
WILSON THREATENS
TO SCRAP TREATY

ASSURANCES OF individual support to be
given a wider application than can prop
erly be given to them. But thank
God that on this occasion the whole
issue has nothing to do with me-"
good many persons asked subse-
quently why he could not have said that
he didn't intend to run for President
again IL that was what he meant but
II has been noticeable that Mr.. Wilson 9
elusive style OF shading meanings never
has been seen to subtleN advantage than
In touching on this very>topic. He has
had numerous opportunities to dissociate
third term candidacy from the League
or Nations Controversy, but he carefully
has RETAINED from committing himself
on that point
His Colorado speeches laid stresses on
his point that there was nothing left
TO discuss about the treaty except the
Snantung matter. and as for that dis
cussion was useless, no matter how bad
me Shantung settlement was, unless we
wanted to fight France, Great Britain
and japan. and he was sure that the
women did not want any more war. He
again insisted that the single vote Of
the United States In the assembly of the
League OF Nations would balance the
six votes Of Great Britain and continued
to assert that the assembly practically
means nothing; that II Is for ornament
only: that It can take no action, has no
vote; that its functioning is nothing to
bother ones heads about. He dismisses
the matter with the phrase:
so that bubble is exploded"
Ihen he bent his mind to Article X,
proclalming II assurance against war
sS per cent strong. the insurance rate
having risen from 10 per cent to 80 per
cent. since he came West; denying that
1t ever could involve the United States
In war; insisting that there was no
legal obligation whatever for the United
states to take any action under Article
x. though the moral compulsion was
one not to be resisted without shame
and the degradation that would cover a
betrayer of mankind. In other words,
he told the people of Colorado that we
didn't have to do n thing under Article
X. yet that we didn't dare to refuse
to do anything asked. This was an
especially fine sample of Mr.. Wilson's
double action method of appeal.
He returned to his pro-German accu-
sations against all that oppose his viii
"Hyphens are the knives that are
being stuck into this document" he
said, "and the issue is clearly drawn"
Makes Issue Clear Cut.
His opinion OF reservations was again
stated with such bitterness as defies the
writer.
we therefore" he said, have come
to the straight cut line-adoption or re-
lection. Qualified adoption lie not adop-
ton. 1t Is perfectly legitimate, I admit,
to say in what sense we understand
certain articles, But qualification means
asking special exemptions and privi-
leges for the United States We cannot
do that / am under bonds. l am I'M
der bonds to the mothers of this coun-
try and to the wives and to the sweet
tearta"
He described, too. with appropriate
and graceful gesture, the lump that
came into his throat as he noted the
files on files of beautiful children in
Capitol Square in Denver. and he re-
marked how the sight of the little ones
moved him. Done with this method he
turned to another. his savage picture Of
the war TO come unless he has his will
He spoke of the vast slaughter to be ex-
pected, OF the great new cannons to be
emp!oyed-"what the Germans used
were toys compared to what would be
used in the next war" And he asked
them IL they wanted their boys to go
through another such hell. Never, he
said. Be an insurance policy against
ia policy figured out as 90 per cent
strong.
Then came the accompaniment threat
and prediction of inci ca sed taxation, a
vast standing army and universal con-
scription. u military stan hike the Ger
man staff," and autocl attic authority in
the Government, These terrors were
only to be avoided by ratification. un-
aualihedly, OF the treaty covenant
Ohers Partnership to Labor.
He next appealed to labor, Offering It
a new place in the world, no less than a
partnership with capital. He told la Dor
1t had been stability treated that ''the
conscience of the world had never been
released" us regards the treatment OF
labor that I'VE have not done our full
duty in regard to the ameioration and
betterment. OF the conditions Of labor in
America" and that the heart OF the
world has never got into this business
yet"
Next came the method as applied to
cautious business. Did they want ex-
banded trade? Then there must be
League Of Nations unqualified. This dis
tasteful topic irked him, but he chung to
II until he had said: 'Tf you want to
come down to the hard and ugly basis
OF material interest, the United States
will everywhere trade at an overwhelm-
ing disadvantage Just so soon as We
have forfeited, and deserved to forfeit,
the confidence of the world"
And through the speeches ran the now
familiar though hazy thread OF a vision,
a vision too lovely and diaphanous to
put into harsh words; vision In which
beat the heart Of the world. II II meant
anything at all to Mr.. Wilson's hearers
1t meant that the people must now
eagerly become citizens of a supernation
and give up their foolish devotion to
America.
In Denver Mr. Wilson addressed Is, 900
persons. In Pueblo he spoke before 5000
more. Tomorrow the great cure-all will
be offered to the people OF Oklahoma
City In the afternoon and to the people
of Memphis at night.
PRESIDENT MODfETEC