Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-11
LEAGUE AGAINST
 WAR DEMANDED
 BY ALL PEOPLES President Gives Accounting to Country for His Part in
 Work. WORLD LOOKS TO U. $.
 FOR ITS LEADERSHIP Covenant Sacrifices No American Principle, President Tells Con- gress in Speech Frequent
 ly Cheered.

w NdSHiHSloll, July lO.- ne peace treaty, with it's League of Nations covenant, was laid before the senate by President Wilson today in an ad- dress accounting to the country for his part in the negotiations at Yer sailles.
 The League, declared the president, was born of the conviction of practi- cal statesmen that an international concert had become a world necessity to Europe, is now on his way to Rio civilization. He asserted that in such concert, the world looked confidently to America for leadership, and added that while the treaty might not be exactly as the American delegation would have written it, no vital prin- ciple had been sacrificed by the neces- sary compromises.
 The senate, already divided in bitter fight over the League proposal, received the president with cheers .ilense When he had concluded, there was another burst of cheering until he had passed out of the cham 1 Der and had gone to his capitol office, where he talked for an hour with sen- ators who wished to ask about speci fife feature of the treaty or of the negotiations. In these conference, the president discussed freely such sub- jects as the disposition of Shantung, the German indemnities and Irish freedom.
 Avoids Debated Questions. | In his address, however, there was no direct, reference to many of the questions around which senate de- bate has centered, the president de claring he could not construe details of the treaty in short address. He did not directly mention the Monroe doctrine, Shantung, or the obligations assumed under article 10, of the Lea que covenant, nor did he allude to the proposal to write reservations into ! the ratification. He asserted a hope that he would be given opportunity to { discuss details later either with the whole senate or the foreign relations committee.
 "My services and all the informa- tion 1 possess" said MT. Wilson, twill be at your disposal and at the disposal of your committee on for eign relations at any time, either in ! formally or in session, as you prefer, and I hope that you will not hesitate to make use of them."
 American isolation, the president asserted, was ended twenty years ago, when the war with Spain put the nation in partial control of Cuba and the Philippines.
 Shall U. S. Fail World.
 "But we have not exploited them" i" he continued. "We have been their friends and have sought the serve them. There can be no question of our ceasing to be world power. The only question is whether we can re- fuse the moral leadership that is of fered us, whether we shall accept or reject the confidence of the dorld
 "The stage is set, the destiny dis closed. It has come about by no plan i of for conceiving, but by the hand of God, who has led us into this way. We cannot turn back. We can only go forward, with lifted eyes and freshened spirit, to follow the wis ion."
 Alluding to the skepticism with which plan for league of nations, first was received, the president said that as the peace negotiations pro ceeded, it became apparent to all the delegates that such a concert was "a practical necessity" demanded by ''all the peoples of the world" for the United States to reject 1t, he as- serted, would ''break the heart of the world" Pointing out that many minor compromises were necessary to secure the support of all the in terested nations, he continued:
 "The treaty, as result, IS not exactly what we would have writ ten. It is probably not what any one of the national delegations would have written. But results were work ed out which on the whole, bear test. I think that it will be found that the compromises which were accepted as inevitable nowhere cut to the heart of any principle" i"
 Order Treaty Printed.
 In disregard of precedent the sen ate received the address m open
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