The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-03
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
AT CHEYENNE, WY0.
Asks ~"ShoWdoWn" for League;
Lost if Amended.
MEANS PACT WITH GERMANS
Senate Amendment Would Be Reieo
ton OF the Treaty and Neeotia-
tons With Berlin for Separ-
ate Agreement.

cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 25.-Reading
again the proposed senate reservation
TO article X Of the league
president Wilson said In an address
nere that should any such reservation
DE adopted he would BE obliged as
chlef executive to regard it as a re-
lection of the treaty"
The president added that rejection
Dt the treaty would mean negotiation
Ok a separate peace with Germany and
asserted that such a negotiation could
not change d single item Of the a
settlement.
The reservation read by the presi-
lent was h same that he laid before
MS audience at the Salt Lake City
tabernacle. BY It's provisions the
United States would assume no obli-
Bation to preserve the territorial in.
fegrity of other nations unless con
gress should SO decide.
Unworthy and Ridiculous.
1T is as though you said we will
not join the league now" said he, "but
may join 1t from time to time. We
won't promise anything, but from time
10 time we may cooperate.
The thing is unworthy and ridicu-
u 1t means the rejection of the
treaty, nothing less. The issue is final.
we can't avoid 1t. We've got to make
me decision now and. once ' made,
there can be no turning back"
Unless the United States went into
the league now, he added, and as
sumed its full responsibility it would
have to come in later with Germany.
Opposed by Pro-Germans.
Asserting that the overwhelming
majority Of the people were for the
reaty, the president said that the only
organized elements opposing ratifica-
lion were the pro-German elements
md others who Showed their hyphen
Turing the war"
Opponents of the treaty, Mr.. Wilson
Iaid, made many insupportable objec-
ions, but had debated seriously" only
one of these objections, the Shantung
settlement.
he went into the history of the
Shantung concession, pointing out that
President Mckinley did not protest
when Germany acquired the Shantung
lights now given Japan. The settle
nent included in the Versailles treaty,
ne asserted, was unavoidable" while
he League Of Nations offered the best
aope for China's W. of her lost
province.
No Precedent for Protest.
The United States, asserted the
president, had no precedent I'm inter
national law for ever protesting
against Japan's acquisition OF the
Shantung rights. But he added that
1nder article IL Of the league owe
liant 1t would be the friendly right of
a nation to protest against any such
situation which endangered peace. For
the first time, he said, the United
States could, under the league, become
ihe effective friend of China"
Asks Showdown"
Recalling Japan's promise to return
to China all sovereign rights In Shan
tung, the president said the only thing
retained by the Tokyo government
would be economic rights. such as
other nations hold. He said the
United States had no right to doubt
that promise.
He characterized as "empty noise
the professions of friendship Of China
made by those who want the treaty
to fail.
Turning to the league covenant. the
president said the question of whether
the heart of the league covenant was
to be cut out Don must come to a
Showdown"
1t would mean the vitiation of the
whole plan, he asserted. If the nation
were to adopt reservations to article
10 as proposed In the senate.
Talks u Six Votes.
One by one, he said, the other oh.
jections to the covenant had been dis
posed of. To all candid minds" he
asserted. 1t now was apparent that the
Monroe doctrine was fully protected:
that there vas 10 supergOvernment
set up, and that no danger was to be
feared from the speaking parts" given
to the British dominions In the league
assembly.
The presidential party arrived here
at four o'clock and was greeted by an
escort from the Fifteenth cavalry.
stationed at Fort ID. A. Russell. ana
by a committee of citizens.
A line of march was formed prompt
ly and the visitors were escorted
through decorated streets. The presi.
dent was cheered continually.
President Wilson devoted part of tina
day TO reading newspapers picked M
Mt Rawlins and scanned with interest
news OF the steel strike. The presl-
dent still was without official informa-
ton concerning the strike and White
House officials accompanying the pres
ident said that no messages had beer
aboard the train during the
morning.
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