Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-06
In Addresses at St. Louis He
filings Gutter" Challenge
To Foes.
SH ANTttNG PLAN MEANS
TO ASSIST CHINESE
United States Must Become Nation
i'll Arms if Ii Decides to
Stand Apart From
World.

, st. LOUIS, Sept. Din two address,
es here today, President Wilson dis
cussed at length disputed points Of
the peace treaty and invited those
who oppose it to prove whether they
are mot absolute, contemplate
cutters if they do not see the game
through
The Shantung provision the presi-
dent defended as the only solution
possible by which China can be
assisted in her effort to regain con-
troll of Shantung province. Analyz-
ing article ten of the league cove
nant. he said, the league council
could only advise and could not do
that without concurrence of the
American member. The right of
revolution, he asserted, was scrupu-
lousy preserved.
The presidents first address was
at the chamber of commerce luncheon
after he had been cheered along the
route of seven mile automobile ride
through the streets. At night he
spoke in the Coliseum, where in
1916, he was renomined for the
presidency.
When the president arrived the
crowd arose and cheered for more
than four minutes.
The president was introduced by
Governor Frederick D. Gardner, who
said the people Of Missouri never had
welcome to any visitor. At that the
crowd cheered again.
When the governor introduced Mr..
Wilson as "the father of world
democracy" there was more cheering.
A photographer in a lookout pallery
called through megaphone for
moments attention to take a flash
light, but the president did not wait,
saying "this is much too serious an
occasion to care how we look, We
ought to care how we think"
Mr.. Wilson declared that to amend
the treaty would mean it's failure
and isolation of the United States
Only those who are ignorant of world
affairs, he said could believe that
even a great nation like the United
States could stand by itself, and
apart.
Economic Danger.
If the United States is to save it's
own economic interests. said the
president, it must save the economic
interests of the world. That was
one reason, he continued, why the
United States should have represent
tative on the powerful reparations
committee. There was no American
voice in this committee, he said, and
this country would be to put into
the hands Of foreign interests. seek
ing to control world markets, Ameri-
can money for the rehabilitation Of
the world
"That" said the president, at what
they call playing lone hand. 1t is
playing a lone hand: it is playing a
hand frozen out. Those who bro
pose these things do not understand
the selfish interests of the United
States"
Should America fail to take it's
Just part in the world rehabilitation
the president asserted, the whole at
titude of the world toward America
would be changed. Because the
world trusted so much, he said. the
reaction would be accordingly
great.
Emphasizing how economic fea-
lures figure in war, Mr.. Wilson des-
cribed how the Germans had disman-
tied Belgian factories. The war. he
! added, was not political war, but a
commercial and industrial war"
Should the United States stand
apart, economically and politically,
the president continued. then it must
be physically ready" for trouble.
The nation must become, he said "a
N tiop in arms ~
"You can't afford to be unfriendly
to everybody" he continued. unless
YOU can afford to have everybody un-
friendly to you."
Germany was not the only nation
which had a secret service, Mr.. Will
son said, but every other nation in
Europe also was spving on its neigh
hors because they all had to be ready
for schemes of conquest to be sprung.
u. S. Senior Partner.
The league of nations without the
United States, the president said,
would be. IAN alliance and not a
LEAGUE Of nations" ss
There can be no league of nations
in true sense, he continued, with
out the partnership Of this great
people. And if we are a partner. let
me predict vel be the senior partnsr
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