Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-09-12

the discussion, and engage not to go
to war until three months after the
council has announced its opinion upon
the subject under dispute.
$50 that the heart of the covenant
of the league is that the nations
solemnly covenant not to go to war
for nine months after a controversy
becomes acute"
Defends Article X.
| Later, taking up article X, he said !:
you have heard a great deal about
article x of the covenant of the
League of Nations. Article X speaks
the conscience of the world. Article
X is the article which goes to the
| heart of this whole bad business, for
that article says that the members
of this league-and that is intended
| to be all the great nations OF the
World-engage to resist and preserve
against all external aggression the
| territorial integrity and political IN
| dependence of the nations concerned.
"That promise is necessary in order
| to prevent this sort of war recurring,
and we are absolutely discredited If
we fought this war and then neglect
| the essential safeguard against it.
| "We engage, in the first sentence OF
article x, to respect and preserve from
external aggression the territorial in
tegrity and the existing political indie
| pendence, not only of the other mem
Der states, but of all states, and if any
member of the league disregards that
| promise, then what happens?
"The council of the league advises
what should be done to enforce the
respect for that covenant, on the part
of the nation attempting to violate it.
| And there is no compulsion upon US
| to take that advice-eXcept the COM
| pulsion Of our good conscience and
| judgment.
$50 that it is perfectly evident that
If, in the judgment of the people of
| the United States. the council adj
| judged this was not an occasion for
the use of force, there would be no
necessity on the part of the congress
of the United States to vote the use
of force. But there could be no advice
of the council on any such subject,
without a unanimous vote, and the
unanimous vote would include our
own"
| Force of Economic Boycott.
The president called attention TO
the provisions in the treaty for an alb
solute economic boycott of recalci-
trant nations and predicted the COM
piete efficacy of such action, continu-
| ing:
II dare say that some of those ideas
are new to you, because it is true, as
said this forenoon, in Columbus, that
apparently nobody has taken the pains
| to say what is in the covenant of the
League of Nations.
"They have discussed three-chiefly
three-out of twenty-six articles. and
| the other articles contain the heart
of the matter; that instead of war
there shall be arbitration; instead Of
war there shall be discussion instead
of war there shall be the closure of
| intercourse; that instead of war there
| SiId1i DS lIc III SotSlliJiC ~ OEoUh VI thN
opinion of all mankind.
/ Il am arguing this thing with you,
my fellow citizens, as if | had any
doubt of what the verdict of the Amer
lean people would be. | haven't the
slightest doubt. just wanted to have
the pleasure of pointing out to you
how absolutely ignorant Of the treaty.
and Of the covenant, some of the men
are who have been opposing it.
IF they do read the English lam
guage they do not understand the Eng
lisf language as | understand it. If
they have really read this treaty and
this covenant they only amaze me by
their inability to understand what is
plainly expressed. SO that my errand
upon this journey is not to argue these
matters, but to recall you to the real
issues which are involved"
Touches on Irish Question.
Abiding evidently to the Irish ques-
ton, Mr. Wilson said:
"There were q good many delega-
tons that visited Paris waiting to be
heard by the peace conference VINO
had real causes to present and which
ought to be presented to the view of
the world.
But we had to point out to them
that they did not happen, unfortunate
ly, to come within the area of settle
ment; that their questions were not
questions which were necessarily
drawn into the things that~we were
deciding.
81 therefore want to call your atten-
ton, if you will turn it up when yor
go home, to article XI, following arti-
Gle X of the covenant of the League
| of Nations.
THAT article XI, let me say, is the
| favorite article in the treaty so far as
am concerned. 1t says that every
matter which is likely to affect the
peace of the world is everybody's bust
ness and that it shall be the friendly
right of any nation to call attention
in the league to anything that is likely
to affect the peace of the world.
There is not an oppressed people in
the world which cannot, henceforth