Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-06
.CONTEMPTIBLE CUTTERS,
FOES ARE CHARACTERIZED
IN ST. LOUIS ADDRESSES

/ dresses here yesterday President
Wilson discussed at length disputed
points of the Peace Treaty and in
vited those who oppose it to prove
whether they ARE not absolute, con-
temptible cutters II they do not see
the game through"
The American people, said Mr..
Wilson are to see it through to the
end, and the end has not come yet"
If the United States keeps out of
the League, he declared, another
war like the last will come soon,"
but if it went in, lit will never
come" 1t was square cut issue,
he said, whether the United States
will redeem its pledge"
The President defended the Shan
tung provision as the only solution
| possible by which China can be as
i'sisted in her effort to regain control
| of Shantung province. Analyzing
Article 10 of the League Covenant,
he said the League Council could
only advise and could not do that
without concurrence of the Ameri-
can members. The right of revolu-
| ton. he asserted, was scrupulously
/ preserved.
The Presidents first address was
at Chamber of Commerce luncheon
after he had been cheered along the
route of seven-mile automobile
ride through the streets. He spoke
last night in the Coliseum where
in 1916 he was renomirated for the
Presidency.
The Presidential party arrived
shortly after o'clock at the Coli
scum, where many national conven-
tions have been held. When the
President arrived the crowd cheered
more than four minutes.
The President was introduced by
Governor Frederick d. Gardner, who
said the people of Missouri never
had been more sincere in extend
ing q welcome to any visitor.
When the Governor introduced Mr..
Wilson as 1.-The father of world
democracy" there was another out
burst of applause. A photographer
in u lookout gallery called through
megaphone for a moments atten-
ton to take a flashlight, but the
President did not wait, saying this
is much too serious an occasion
to care how we look, we ought to
care how we think"
Amendment Means Failure
Mr.. Wilson declared that to
amend the Treaty would mean its
failure and the isolation of the
/
ignorant OF world affairs, he said'
could believe that even a great ma
| ton like the United States could
stand by itself and apart.
If the United States is to save its
own economic interests, said the
President, it must save the econ
omic interests of the world. That
was one reason, he continued, why
the United States should have rep
n~ft l.
rations commission. If there were
no American voice on this commits
sion, he asserted, this country would
| have to put into the hands of foreign
interests seeking to control world
markets American money for the re-
habilitation of the world.
That" said the President, sis
what they call playing a lone hand
It is playing lone hand; it is play
ing a hand frozen out. Those who
propose these things do not under
stand t%c interests of the United
States"
Should America fail to take its
Just part in the world rehabilitation
he President said, the whole atti'
tude of the world toward America
would be changed. Because the
world trusted so much, he said, the
reaction would be accordingly great
Emphasizing how economic fea.
lures figure in war, Mr.. Wilson de-
scribed how the Germans had dis
mantled Belgian factories. The war
he added, was not q political war
but a commercial and industrial
war"
Should the United States stand
apart, economically and politically
the President continued, then it must
be physically ready" for trouble,
The nation must become, he said, "a
nation in arms"
You can't afford to be un-
friendly to everybody" he continued,
unless you can afford to have
everybody unfriendly to you"
| Germany was not the only nation
which had a secret service, Mr.. Will
son said, but every nation in Eu-
rope also was spying on it's neigh
| bors, because they all had to be
ready for schemes of conquest to be
| sprung.
Alliance, Not n League
The League of Nations, without
the United States, would be IAN
alliance and not a league of ma
/ tions," he said.
There can be no League of Ma
| tons, in a true sense, without the
partnership of this great people.
And if we are n partner. let me pre-
| dict we'll be the senior partner. The
other nations are looking to us for
leadership and direction"
1t was a clear choice, said the
President, between armed isola-
ton" and peaceful partnership"
He said he had heard it asserted
with "annoying Ignorance" that this