The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-12
WILSON LAYS HIS
 PLEA FOR TREATY
 BEFORE MONTANA PEOPLE YESTERDAY
Speaks at Helena in Evening Following Address at Bill ings Auditorium in the
 Forenoon = Greeted
 by Huge Crowds
By Associated Prsa


 Helena Mont, September l in two addresses in Montana
 today President Wilson asked that the peace treaty be rati- fled without delay so that the spreading from Russia may be quieted
 Saying he had been told the west had been pervaded by ''radicalsm,' the Pres ident declared the only way to keep men
 from agitating against grievances was to remove the grievances. As long as things are wrong he said, he did not intend to ask that men stop agitation, begging only that they use orderly methods.
 He said radicalism meant cutting up
 by the roots" a process that would be unnecessary if "noxious growths' were removed.
 Gov. Sam Stewart at his night address here the crowd stood up and cheered.
 MT. Wilson said that the issue after all was whether the sacrifices of the war would be in vain. If the task of those who fought was only half done, he declared, and if the treaty was not put into effect men like these will have to die again"
 The United States. said the President, did not go into this war willingly, and the nation had tried to convince itself that the European business was not our business. But presently, he con- tnued, it became apparent that civili- zation itself was at stake
 We fought Germany, he continued, that the world might be fit place to live in. And the world will not be a fit place to live in as long as any great power can do what that country did
 NO OPPORTUNITY FOR WAR
 Under the league. asserted MT Wilson, there would be no opportunity for peo- ple to be thrown into war without their consent. But if the league faned lie dee clared the United States would be de- liberately guilty of preparing a situa- ton which would bring on the final world war"
 Mr. Wilson also referred to controver- ses resulting from police strikes in the east and said the strike of policemen of great city, leaving that city at the mercy of thugs, is crime against civil lization.'
 Declaring that the ereaty could not be carried out without the league, the President cited the territorial adjust ments of middle Europe as an example of the sort of tasks which he asserted only concert of nations could accom- plish. The league was to be the instru- mentality, he said, "by which the goods are to be delivered to the people to whom they belong in territories of dis pGted sovereignty
 The league, too, would be Step to- ward world democracy, the President said. because for the first timeit would place the small and weak nations on footing of equality with the great and powerful.
 MT. Wilson said he wondered where the men had been living who now want ed America to stand alone and dis connect herself from the world.
 Her ambition has been to connect herself with the world commercially, he said. and they're bankrupt if she doesn't''
 He added that during the past few years great business enterprises anxious not to suffer from the excess profits law, had put large sums into enlarge ment of their facilities for after-the- war trade If foreign trade could not be secured, he said, the giant would "burst his jacket
 NO CHANGE NECESSARY
 Referring to objections to the league
 covenant, MT. Wilson repeated his pre- vious arguments that no reservations or change is needed to protect the nations right to withdrawal the Monroe doc trine, democratic questions or to shape it's own course under Article ten. MT. Wilson said while the Monroe doc- section was under discussion at Paris he tried in vain to think of any language which would be more sweeping and specific guarantee of the doctrine. The language chosen, he said. was decided upon as an absolute guarantee. Enumeration of domestic questions by name as proposed by some of the league opponents would be dangerous, MT. Will son said, because something might be left out.
 Referring again to radcalisnl, the President said the men who tried to get what they wanted by destroying govern 0ents would themselves be destroyed. He expressed his shame" at recent race riots and said that for policemen to strike was crime against cvilizati ion. Tho duty of a policeman to his gov (Csntinued on Page FeurteenD