The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-10
HEART OF PEACE
PACT 50 STATES
It United States Qualities Its
Acceptance Of Treaty
Despair Will Follow.
EXPORT TRADE AT STAKE
Confident of Final Ratifica
tion, but President Regrets
Dangerous DELAY,

Bismarck, N. d., Sept. TO-
"a. P.)-President 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 main
tained, he said, and that was by
such a concert of nations as was
proposed in the league of ma
tons.
Completing the first week of
his tour, the president spoke in
the Bismarck auditorium. 1t was
the smallest hall in which he had
yet spoken, seating about 500.
1t was filled. No other address
was on Mr.. Wilson's schedule
for today.
When the presidents train ar
rived a display of pyrotechnics
was set off, carrying small para
chutes with American flags high
in the air. On the ride to the
hall through crowded streets an
airplane flying low turned flip
flop over the presidential party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson were
cheered as they entered the au-
ditorium. He was introduced by
Gov. Frazier.
Should the movement for
world concert fail, the president
said, the heart of mankind
would be overwhelmed by a
despair" which would result in
chaos.
Men in despair don't con-
struct governments" said he.
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 disor-
der" asked the president, "who
would buy the wheat of the
. United States?"
Wait on Complete Peace.
oF ;rfn ,oI
economic rehabilitation, he said,
waited on complete peace basis be-
cause the world was waiting. He con-
tinued, 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?"
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 COW
cnant, Mr.. Wilson said the covenant
had been been put first in the treaty
because without it the rest of the
treaty would be worthless. That con-
clusion was reached unanimously at
Paris, asserted Mr.. Wilson, because
the peace conference realized that
as progress set up a peace settle
ment there must be some way to en-
force it.
Replying to objections to Article X
of the covenant, Mr.. Wilson reiter-
ated that the article had no binding
force without the assent of the
United States, under the unanimous
vote required for action.
Unless it's our war;" he continued,
1--WE can't be dragged into a war with
out our consent.
That's an open and shut PROPOSE
ton; 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 can't be quieted, then
America sooner or later will be drawn
INTO the melee"
Hated if We Stay Out.
The president asked whether any
one thought the United States could
stay out of the league without being
hated" and intrigued against by the
ether nations. Should the American
nation refuse to accept the treaty, he
asserted, it would be in the position
of repudiating its promises to those
who fought the war and of saying it
did not like what has been accom-
plished by its armed forces. THE
peoples of Europe" said the presi-
dent, "are in revolutionary state
of mind, and in danger of substitut-
ing one kind Of autocracy for an
other"
President Wilson was cheered when
he concluded his address. The pres
idential party was escorted to the
Northern Pacific station and the Will
son special left for Billings, Mont,
shortly after / o'clock.
One Nation Can't Make Peece.
The presidents audience, which in
cluded a number of Indians in native
costume, cheered the president as he
was introduced by Gov. Frazier.
At the outset the president declared
that the treaty was the business of
every citizen of the United States. 'it
seems very strange that have to dis
cuss the problem of peace now" he
h"gnn. IAN other countries have
stopped debating peace except the