The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-08
'QUITTERS'- SAYS WILSON OF FOES
PRESIDENT, FIGHTING HARD FOR LEAGUE, REVEALS A NEW
 SELF.
PACT OR A WORSE WAR.
Thousands Acclaim Mir. Wilson in Middle West on Meet Important Trip cf His Public
 Career.
CBy Mt. Clemens News BureauD

Aboard President Wilson's Special
 Train, Kansas City, Mo, Sept. Cit
 is a new kind Of Woodrow Wilson that
 this middle western country is Observ-
 ing as he proceeds on what he frankly
 calls the greatest journey of his life.
 No longer is he simply an eloquent
 orator or n profound thinker with high
 ideals The President has become
 real fighter, and in his crusade for the
 adoption of the peace treaty with the
 League of Nations included, the only preventive, he asserts, of an early and
 more terrible war than the world has ever known, he has been delivering the
 strongest speeches of his career, put ting into them his most powerful words and gestures and, indeed, throwing into them a personality more virile than even his friends believed he pos
 sesGed.
 And this has won more friends for him and the league even among his political opponents.
 4 Republican crowd of l 300 in St 1 Louis Friday rose and cheered for more than a minute when MT. Wilson designated as "quitters" those enemies of the league who have been holding up its adoption A mixed assemblage l of more than 12,OOO in Indianapolis on ! the preceding night roared approval when the President, referring to these same obstructionists of the league, de fed them to put up or shut up = ' challenged them to produce something 1 as good or better if they did not want to accept this plan Of preventing flu
 ture wars
 Before the St Louis Chamber of | Commerce the President, explaining the purposes of the league. described it as a "chart and constitution for a new system for the world" a system designed to prevent wars by protecting the weak, who have always been the cause of wars, a system entirely con | tradictOry to the old political system l of the world. II was for the purpose of ending the war that America en- tered the world conflict, Mir Wilson reminded his hearers. He demanded i TO know of his opponents how they would keep out of war if they failed i to take part in the great pact to pro ] tect the weak. He recalled the pledges ] that all America made, that we should l have Q share in this great pact Then, ! referring to those who now oppose the ! league, he said:
 l They are absolute, contemptible ] quitters if they don't see the game , through" America will be despised, 1 suspected and distrusted unless she ! goes forward with her bargain the 1 President added, in the St. Louis speech.
 l To all of the objections to the league, Mir Wilson offered explanations that ] satisfied his audience. The much-dis- i cussed Article 10 did not mean, he said, l that Americans would have to send i troops across the seas to fight other nations battles Indeed, with a league, i there would be no more battIes, he ] explained. At least the possibility was very remote.
 Each nation agrees first, he ex- plained, either 10 submit differences to arbitration and accept the decision of ! the arbitrator. or submit the differ enCes to discussion by the council of
 the league. In this latter case the na- i tiOns agree to allow six months for 1 the discussion. If settl tlement failed after that time, they agree to wait ' three months longer before going to
 war. And no nations after that period l of cooling off would fight, he as ] serted
 i In case a nation refused to agree either to arbitration or discussion, it i outlawed itself, the President eX- i plained It would be economically and socially boycotted by the rest of the
 world, and this punishment, he said, ! ln 1a As to JEp ms holding of Shantung | Peninsula, the President said he ! agreed to that only because England f and France, by secret treaty, had given ' the territory to Japan. But he was sure, he said, that Japan would, as she | has promised, return it. Of those | league opponents who pass as China's l friends in this matter, he inquired: How do they expect to get Shantung | back for China if not through the | league? Would they go to war for it7' Accusing them of fearing the re- 1 spOnsibllities of the league, he de- handed: If you are China's friends, should you scuttle and run? That's not the kind of American I am" Again the crowd rose and cheered.
 | The President explained America's | need for being part of the league be- cause of business reasons, but said they came last in his mind. He said in con- clusion, at St. Louis: If there Is no ! league there will be, in the vengeful ! providence of God. another struggle in | which not merely a few hundred of ] thousands of Americans will have to die but as many millions g may be necessary | to accomplish the final freedom of the world
 i More than 100000 persons lined the . rTs l President and his party passed through and a wave of cheers marked his prog ] ress At the luncheon, at which he spoke. 1 he was hailed as the ''benefactor of the world" and again as the greatest clti- i zen of the -wors1.'' In the evening he i spoke to 600o the Coliseum, and l the previous night to twice that many | in the Indianapolis Coliseum, to which 6, ,-p. .ka