Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-07
PRESIDENT FEARS
RED PERIL GROWS
ASPACT DELAYED
Tells Des Moines Audience
It May Gain Threatening
Proportions in U. S.
SAYS TREATY PURELY
AMERICAN DOCTRINE
Declares This Nation Is Last
Power World Expected to
Have to Wait Upon.
By the Associated Press.


By the Associated Press.
DIES MONIES. Iowa, September g.
A possibility that bolshevism may spread
In threatening proportions to the United
States unless the peace treaty is rati-
fed promptly was suggested by Presi-
dent Wilson in an address here tonight.
The whole world was waiting uneasily,
b sajd. while the poison which had
wrecked Russia was spreading among
peoples who did not yet know what
guarantees there. were to be for liberty
IN the new world order. Labor and
espttsl In the United States. he assert
, ~. could not proceed intelligently with
kAee1 settlements, nor could great prob
lBmns IKE the railroad situation be solv-
"a while the suspense continued.
! M. Wilson defended the Shantung
sHRovesdon Of tho treaty and said the
hague covenant section referring to
Ne Monroe doctrine had been inserted
, - extve the Monroe doctrine right OF
&sy IN the western hemisphere" he
declared his conviction that it would
- "a
/, Wrote Phrase in Innocence.
T Thsy have been very much wor-
I'D 1t the phrase that nothing in the
aecumeut shall be taken as impairins
IN any way the validity Of such re-
Eienal understandings as the Monroe
doctrine. and they said. why put in
rsuoA regional understandings as,
what other understandings are they!
Have you got something up your
sleeve? Il there going to be Monroe
doctrine in Asia? Is there going to
b . Monroe doctrine in China?
why. my fellow citizens. the phrase
W1s written in perfect innocence. The
3Aa that. was associated with said
q - ust wise 70 nut . specific thins
that belongs only to one nation in a
Aeeumsnt lkA this We do not know
Of any other regional understanding
liks It; We never heard of any other.
ve never expect to hear Of any other;
but there might some day be some
ether. and 90 we will say Such re-
xional Understandings as the Monroe
doctrine and their phrase was in
tended to give right Of way to the
Monroe doctrine In the western hemis-
phere.
Explains Pact and League.
The Versailles treaty with its league
Of nations covenant was explained by
the President as a purely American
document extending democracy over
the world and shifting foreign rela-
lions from a basis Of forcesand war to
enc Of arbitration and peace.
Making his second address Of the
day. the President spoke in the Des
Moines Coliseum, said to seat $500.
Every chair was taken and many were
standing. Earlier in the day he had
spoken At Kansas City, Mo-, more than
SOC miles away.
Describing the world as desperately
in need of the settled condition OF
peace, the President said the United
states, the last nation which the
world expected to have to wait upon
was delaying the coming OF that
peace
Thu treaty. he said. not only would
establish peace. but 1t would end for
ever the rule Of few men over the
destinies Of the many.
i Says Bolshevism Spreading.
, Citing what happened in Europe
with the rise Of bolshevism. Mr.. Will
son said the move Of radicalism and
disorder was spreading.
DO you honestly think that none
of that poison has got into the veins
of this free people?" he asked.
Men look you calmly in the face In
America and tell you they are for tina,
sort Of revolution.
so long as the question Of what
kind Of peace tho world was to have
and what guarantees were to be be.
hind It remained open. the poison
would continue to spread.
How long shall we be kept wait.
ing for tne answer whether the worlG
will trust us or despise us?" he con
tinusd.
The world stands annoyed becaus.
an authority in America hesitate,
whether it will indorse an American
doctrine
The President said he had not beer
able to work out the solution of rail
way problems until he knew when g
peace basis came. The conference Of
labor and capital in Washington mex
month, he continued, also would have
Its deliberations affected by the
answer to the treaty question. Labor
Sall ever the world Is waiting" hi
ASSERTED, ITO SEQ whether the United
States accepted the treatys provision
Tor an international labor organiza,
zion"
Railroads Offer Problem.
II have been receiving delegation,
in Washington OF men engaged in tn,
service Of the government temporary
ly in the administration Of the rail-
roads and I have had to say to them
rMy friends. cannot tell what tn.
railways can earn until commerce i,
restored to its normal courses. Unit
can tell what the railroads can earn
] cannot tell what the wages that tn,
railroads can pay will be. I canno
suggest wat the increase Of freigh
and passenger rates win be to NEE
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