Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-11
WILSON SPEEDS ACROSS
PRAIRlES PLEADING THE
LEAGUE CAUSE TO PEOPLE
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ice with the presidents party. and the
chairman of the local committee on.
arrangement were among those absent
from the meeting
Bismarck Speech.
President Wilson told a 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 ma
tons as was proposed in the league
of nations.
Should the movement for world con.
cert fall the president said the heart
| of mankind would be overwhelmed
by despair" which would result in
| chaos.
Men in despair don't construct
governments said he, they destroy
governments. If we stay or IL we
qualify our acceptance in any way,
then the world win say There can be
no peace"
If the world were in disorder, asked
the president, who would buy the
wheat of the United States?
1900 Hear Him.
Completing the first week OF his
tour, the president spoke in the Bis
marck auditorium. 1t was the small
est hall in which he had yet spoken
seating about 1900. 1t was filled. No
other address was on Mr.. Wilson's
schedule for today.
Mr.. and Mrs Wilon We're cheered
as they entered the auditorium. He
was introduced by Governor Lynn j.
Frazier. N
All the processes of international
economic rehabilitation, the president
said, waited on complete peace
basis, because the world was waitins,
he continued; the great coal fields of
Europe were not being worked to
capacity and the whole industry of
the world was chilled"
"While we debate" he went on,
"all the world is raging today. Why
does America hesitate?"
Certain OF League.
He declared there was no moro
danger of America staying out of the
league eventually than of reversing
al the other processes of her history
Tut it was the delay, he added that
was upsetting affair everywehre.
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 at Paris, |
asserted Mr.. Wilon, because the peace
conference realized that having Sc:
up peace settlement, there must be
some way to enforce it.
Replying to objections to article 10 |
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.
Heart of the Treaty.
UNLESS its our war; he continued, |
1--WE can't be dragged into war with
out our consent. That's ap open-and- 1
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 that old contest over land |
titles. There is no other way to quiet |
the world, and If the world isn't |
quieted, then America sooner or later
will be drawn into the me,ee." |
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, ne
asserted, it would be in the position3
of repudiating its promises to those |
who fought the war and of saying Il
did not like what had been accom- |
plished by its armed forces. The
peoples of Europe, said the president. |
"are in revolutionary state OF mind,
and in danger of substituting one