The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-09-18
Ratification Of Treaty is "Ques.
ton of War or Peace"
Says President.
DESPAER!NG MEN
ARE DESTR0YERS
"compiete Peace Basis Is the Solution
Of International Economic Re-
habiIitation," Says Nations
Chief Executive.

Bismarck. N. D.. Sept. 1O.-Presi-
dent Wilson told Il Bismarck audience
today that the issue involved in his
Speech-making tour for the treaty was
81 question OF war or peace"
There WAS only one way in which
peace could be maintained, lie said,
and that was by such Il concert of
nations as proposed in the League Of
Nations. The president spoke to il
capacity audience in the Bismarck
auditorium.
Should the movement for world
concert fail, the president said, the
heart Of mankind would be Overwhelm-
ed by a "deSpair' which would result
in chaos.
Men in despair don't construct
governments" lie said, they destroy
governments. Ii we stay out or if
we qualify Ii acceptance in any way,
then the world will say, there can be
no peace"
II the world We're in disorder. asked
the president, who would buy the
wheat Of the United States?
AL the processes of International
economic rehabilitation, he said, wait
ed on Il complete peace basis. because
the world was waiting; the great coal
fields OF Europe We're not being worked
to capacity and the whole industry of
the world was '%'chillel.'
World RACES While We Debate.
while We debate" he went on, 'all
the world is raging today. Why t!ues
America hesitate:"
He declared there was no more
danger Of America staying out of the
League eventually. than of reversing
all the other processes Of her history.
But it was. the. delay, he added. that
was upsettins affairs everywhere:
Referring to proposals to separate
the peace terms from the league V
nant, Mr.. Wilson said the covenant
had been put first in the treaty be-
cause without it the rest Of the treaty
would be worthless. That conclusion
was reached unanimously at Paris, as
serted Mr.. Wilson. because the peace
conference realized that having set uD
Il peace settlement, there must be some
way to enforce it.
t,-ISeplying to objections to article X.
of the covenant, Mr.. Wilson reiterated
that the article had no binding force
without the assent Of the United
States, under the unanimous vote re-
quired for action.
UNLESS it's our war;" he continued,
I'VE can't be dragged into Il war with
out our consent. That's an open and
shut proposition; it's the heart of the
treaty. You have either got 10 take
it or you have got to throw the world
back into the old contest over land
titles. There is NJ other way to quiet
the world and if the world isn't quiet
ed, then America sooner or later will
be drawn into the melee"
The president asked whether any,
one thought the United States could
stay out Of the league without being
hated and intrigued against by the
other nations. Should the American
nation refuse TO accept the treaty, he
asserted, it would be in the position
OF regulating its promises to those
who fought the war and OF saying it
did not like what had bce. accom-
plished by its armed force. The peo-
pies of Europe, said the president, care
in Il revolutionary state of mind' and
in danger Of Substituting one kind Of
autocracy for another"
Territorial Settlements.
Discussing the territorial settle
ments proposed by the treaty the chief
executive declared that the peace con
ference had tried to fix the land titles
for the nations Of the world.
"For the first time in history" he
said, the peace conference did not
listen to the pleas of governments. 1t
did not listen to the demands Of :.uto:-
racy; it did not read over the whole
story OF rival territorial ambitions. but
said that the door was closed on that.
These lands belong to the stocks Of
ancient peoples, the stocks OF people
that live on them. We are going to
give them to these peoples. The peace
conference, he said. 'Yhe land always
has been yours: it Is now yours, and
you ckn govern it us you please"
10 the disappointment of IL large
part Of the audience. Mr.. Wilson made
no mention Of the Shantung provision
Of the treaty.
The president was accompanied by a
score Of newspaper correspondents and
MAN0AN FOLKS HAVE
CHANCE TO HEAR WILSON