The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-08
5000 APPLAUD
REED AT AKRON
Missouri Senator Holly As
sails President in Ohio
Speech.
HE RIDICULES ASSERTIONS
Announces Determination to
Stand by Policies That
Made Nation Great.
Special Despatch TO The Sun.


AKRON, Ohio, Sept. THAT Presi-
dent Wilson had declared that "Sena-
tors who opposed the League of Ma
tions covenant should be hanged on q
gibbet as high as heaven but pointed
| In the direction OF hell" was the as
sertion OF Senator James A. Reed of
Missouri at great mass meeting
in Akron this afternoon, opening a
! series of speeches replying to the
President in his tour favoring the
| covenant.
Il assert that the President did
make this statement" said Reed, "and
/ can prove that he made it,
Five thousand people occupying every
seat in the State Armory filed the build
ing forty. Ave minutes before the speech
was scheduled to start and at least
10000 people were turned away. Senator
Reed was constantly interrupted by ap-
plause and was given a big ovation at
the end of his address.
Lee A. Merriweather. secretary of the
League for the Preservation Of American
Independence, who came here with Reed
side the armory almost as large as the
one inside One thousand people stood
up In the aisles up stairs and down and
on the stage during Reeds two hour
address.
United States VIII Keep Word.
"They tell us that America will not
be bound by the covenant unless the
Congress is willing" Reed continued.
The man who tells you that America
will regard a treaty obligation as a
scrap of paper, who dares tell you that
America has sunk 70 low that she will
not live up to her plighted word IL il
takes the last drop OF blood and the
last dollar OF treasure. this man has
the word scoundrel written across his
brow.
They try to tell us that the league
will be so formidable that no nation will
dare to go to war. Is there any one 30
weak of intellect as to believe this
Does President Wilson even believe II?
II he does, why does your distinguished
fellow Ohioan, the Secretary OF War, de-
mand peace time army of half mill
ion men. five times as great as any
peace time army in the history of the
republic? Why does the Secretary of
War demand universal training and say
that conscription must be continued in
America?
"Why does Josephus Daniels want an
other billion dollars worth Of ships with
enough sixteen and eighteen inch guns
to blow the top of of perdition?
yet If a citizen refuses to repudiate
the policies under which our country has
become great he is denounced as 'pygmy
minded
IF he refuses to surrender what
In orain uith ha H. K.
referred to as a contemplate gutter
ERidicuIes Wilson Assertions.
"If he cannot see his way clear to en-
broil America in the wars of every coun-
try and to plunge her in controversy of
every kind he sees with jaundiced eyes.
II he ventures to point out that Article
X. binds US to send our soldiers to de-
fend the frontiers of every land in every
quarter OF the globe he is afflicted with
amazing ignorance.
"If after studying the league cove
nant lawyers ana statesmen reach the
conclusion that 1t is inimical to the
public veal they are classified as men
whose heads are only fit to serve as
knots to prevent their bodies from un-
ravelling,'
''If Senators OF the United States,
sworn to defend the Constitution and to
protect the republic in strict accordance
with the terms of their oaths, study the
proposed treaty and honestly reach the
conclusion that II Is their duty not to
advise or consent to its ratification they
are denounced as dishonest opponents
of the treaty who will be gibbeted and
who will regret that the gibbet is so
high
'If could be so unkind as to reply
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