New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Assails Senators W ho
Drafted Reservations A:
Warns W OrldWill Scorn
U.S.ifLeagueIs Rejected
''MOnrOe Doctrine
Fully Protected''
Defends Shantung Pact
and Article. X i'm Two
Addresses i'm St. Louis

Staff Correspondence
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 5.-President
Wilson, continuing his defence of
the peace treaty in two addresses
here to-day, declared that to amend
the document would result in its
failure and the isolation of the
United States. He called on those
who oppose the treaty to prove that
they are not absolutely contempt
ible cutters"
The President made answer to the
action of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee in reporting the
treaty with thirty-nine amendments
and four reservations. He said:
ON AMENDMENTS
Il have sought to under
stand the point of view of the men
who have been opposing the treaty.
when you reflect upon their
position it is either that we ought
to reject this treaty altogether or
that we ought to change it in such
way as will make it necessary to
reopen negotiations with Germany
and reconsider the settlements Of
the peace in many essential particu-
lars. We cannot do the latter alone,
and other nations will not join US
IN doing it. The only alternative is
m
some Of our fellow countrymen have
been advising US to do, stand alone
in the world"
ON OPPOSITION
II hear some gentlemen, who are
themselves incapable of altruistic
purposes, say, oh, but that is al
trulstlc. 1t is not our business to
take care of the weak nations of the
world No, but it is our business
to prevent wars, and if we don't
take care of the weak nations of thu
world there will be war. Let them
show me how they will keep out Of
war by not protecting them Let
them show me how they will prove
that, having gone into an enterprise.
they are not absolutely contemplate
cutters if they don't see the game
through.
ON ARTICLE X
The first sentence IN Article K
says that we will respect and pre-
serve against external aggression
the territorial integrity and exist
ing political independence Of other
nations; and let me stop moment
on the words external aggression,
Why were they put in? Because
every man who sat at the board
held that the right of revolution was
sacred and must not be interfered
with"
ON SHANTUNG
"All very we'll to talk about
standing by China But how are
you standing by China when you
withdraw from the only arrange
ments bv which China can be as
sisted?
don't go into the council, where you
can act as Chinas friend-if YOU
are China's friend, then put her in
a position where these concessions
which have been made need not be
carried out; if you are Chinas
friend, scuttle and run. That is not
the kind of American ! am.
ON THE MONROE DOCTRINE
And then they talk about the
Monroe Doctrine, when it expressly
says that nothing in that instrument
(the covenant) shall be construed as
affecting in any way the validity of.
the Monroe Doctrine 1t says so in
80 many words. And all the other
things they talk about draw your
attention from the essentials"
ON THE LEAGUE
ut would be an alliance in which
the partnership would be between
the more powerful European nations
and Japan, and the other party to
the world arrangement, the anrag-
onists, the disassociative party, the
party to be standing off and to bs
watched by the alliance, would be the
United States of America"
The Presidents MONDAY speech
was at a luncAeo given by the
Chamber oF Tnn,fnorrn a. -. cx.&l