Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-10-23
WILSON SPEAKS
IN CAPITAL CITY
Ratification Of Treatyis "Ques.
ton of War or Peace"
Says President.
DEsPAIRlNG MEN
h ARE DESTR0YERS
"complete Peace Basis 10 the Solution
Of international Economic Re.
habilitation," Says Nations
Chief Executive.

Chief Executive.
Bismarck, N. D., Sept. 1O.-Presi-
dent Wilson told Bismarck audience
today that the issue involved in his
speech-making tour for the treaty was
"a question of war or peace"
There was only one way in which
peace could be maintained, he said,
and that was by such concert of
nations as proposed in the League of
Nations. The president spoke to a
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 despair" which would result
In chaos.
"Men in despair don't construct
governments" he said, ''they destroy
governments. If we stay out or If
we qualify our acceptance in any way,
then the world will say, there can be
no peace.'"
If the world were in disorder, asked
the president, who would buy the
wheat of the United States?
All the processes of international
economic rehabilitation, he said, watt
ed on complete peace basis, because
the world was waiting; the great coal
fields of Europe were not being worked
to capacity and the whole industry of
the world was Chilled"
World RACES While We Debate.
"While we debate" he went on, "all
the world is raging today. Why does
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 upsetting affairs everywhere.
Referring to proposals to separate
the peace terms from the league cove
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 ut Paris, as
serted Mr.. Wilson, because the peace
conference realized that having set up
q peace settlement, there must be some
way to enforce it.
Replying to objections to article K
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,
tive can't be dragged into a war with
out our consent. That's an open and
shut proposition; it's the heart of the
treaty. You have either got to take
it or you have got to throw the world
back into the old contest over land
titles. There is no 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 fepudiating its promises to those
who fought the war and of saying 1t
did not like what had been accom-
plished by its armed force. The PEG.
pies Of Europe, said the president, "are
in a 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 autoc-
racy; 1t 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, The land always
has been yours; 1t is now yours, and
you can govern it as you please
To the disappointment Of a 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
MANDAN FOLKS HAVE
CHANCE TO HEAR WILSON
ON Board President Wilson'S Spe.