Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-06
MISINFORMED or PACT
BY THOSE WITH JAUNDICED
EYES OF PRIVATE INTEREST
Not Fighting Senate but
for Principle He Tells
Kansas City.

Kansas City, Mo, Sept. 6.-Presi-
dent Wilson appealed to Kansas
City audience today to support the
peace treaty as a charter for a
| new order of world affairs.
! Making his third speech for the
| treaty in Missouri to a capacity
audience, President Wilson spoke
in Convention hall, said to accom-
modate $4,000.
When the president, accompan-
/ led by Mrs. Wilson, appeared on
the platform of the vast auditor
ium the crowd, each person having
a small American flag, arose and
cheered for more than two min
utes.
President Wilson had been
cheered as the presidential party
paraded through four miles of the
city's streets to Convention hall.
Mr.. Wilson was introduced by
B. A Parsons, president Of the
Kansas City chamber of com
merce.
Arbitration for Force.
The president covered many of
the same points of the treaty he
had discussed in previous ad-
dresses. He said he had come to
report directly to the people about
one of the greatest documents in
human history. The treaty, he
declared. was "shot through" with
American principles, put there by
the common consent OF the world
One of the things America had
had in heart throughout her whole
existence, said the president, was
that arbitration and consultation
should be substituted for force.
This was accomplished, he de-
clared, by the League OF Nations
covenant.
Principle Already Adopted.
Nine months of discussion OF
any international controversy
would be assured under the COW
enant, he asserted, adding that this
principle previously had been
written into 80 arbitration treaties
"all of which were confirmed by
the United States senate. The
principle of the league. he de-
clared, already had been adopted
by the United States.
The boycott imposed on cove
nant breakers was emphasized by
the president as constituting a
measure more effective than mill
tary force. The most conclusive"
thing that could happen to a ma
ton, he continued, was ito be read
out of decent society"
League DOOmS War.
Effective disarmament would be
accomplished under the covenant,
Mr.. Wilson predicted, declaring it
was ridiculous to talk of the
league as tending to war when "its
whole essence" is arbitration and
peace. The league, he declared.
would mean the end Of the mill
tary clan" throughout the world
forever.
There is no other way to dis
pense with great ornaments with
ont an agreement by the great ma
lions Of the world. said Mr. Wilson,
"and here is the agreement"
hutocracy would perish with
plilitarism. added the president,
and the intrigue which had terror
lied Europe for generations would
be ended He declared that de
mocracies will sooner or later
have to destroy that kind of gov
ernmcnt, and if we don't do it now
the job will still be before US"
This task. he concluded must be
carried TO the extent that no mi
nority anywhere could control the
majority.
Raps Russian Reds.
The men who now control the
affairs of Russia" said Mr.. Wilson.
represent nobody but themselves.
They have no kind of a mandate
There are only "a Of them. l am
told. There is a closer monopoly
of power IN Moscow than there
ever was in Wilhelmstrasse And,
a man more cruel than the car is
controlling the destinies Of that
people.
And, if we don't want little
groups of selfish men to plot the
future of Europe. then we must see
10 il that little groups OF selfish
men do not plot the future OF the
United States"
Why Don't They @Wake Up"
Citing conditions in Armenia,
Mr.. Wilson said he wondered that
men DO not wake up 10 the lnol "a
responsibility Of what they are
doing" when they are debating
and debating" while tragic situa-
tions wait 10 be dealt with.
Hope for every people In the
world who haven't got what they
think they ought to have" was seen
by the president in the league pro-
vision which empowers one nation
TO call friendly attention to what
IT thinks is an injustice inside an
other nation. Every such people,
said he, would have world TO
rum" in which to present its case.
Says People Are Misled.
The people, said the president,
had been misled about the treaty
by men who look at it with the
Jaundiced eyes of those who have