The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-09-27
L NMITY TO TREATY
IS PRO-GERMAN

lAhu0pSnu0nL NEWS
Mt. Clemens News Bureau
Aboard President Wilson's Special
Train.-More and more as he moves
eastward on his journey about the
country in behalf Of the league of
nations, the president is talking plain
talk" to those senators who are Op-
posing the acceptance by the United
States Of the great plan for the end
ing Of all war. He knows he has the
great body of the citizenry with him,
and he 10 becoming unsparing In his
criticism OF the handful OF Legislators
who threaten to hold up the restO-
ration of peace and normal conditions
to the whole world.
Wilson Uses Vigorous Language
Particularly vigorous were his re-
marks when, stopilpg at Cheyenne,
Wyo, On his way toward Colorado,
from the coast, he took up that par
ticular reservation which certain of
his opponents in the senate want at
taehed to the ratification Of the treaty.
That Republican measure reads as fol-
lows:
1.-THE United States assumes no OBJ
legation und the provisions Of Arti-
Gle x to preserve the territorial in
tegrity or political independence of
any other country, or to interfere in
controversies between other nations,
whether members of the league or not,
or to employ the military OF naval
forces Of the United States under any
article of the treaty for any purposes,
rIor a m
Rress which under the Constitution
has the sole power to declare war or
| authorize the employment OF the mill
tary and naval forces Of the United
States, shall by act or joint resolu-
ton so declare"
Unworthy And Ridiculous
The president declared:
such a thing is unworthy and RI
diculous and I want to say distinctly
| as I read this, that l would change
i the entire meaning of the treaty and |
exsmut the United States from all re-
snonsibilities for the preservation OF
| peace. It means the rejection OF the
| treaty, nothing less. 1t means that the
United States would take from under
the structure its very foundations and
| support. /
81 wish to call the attention Of
| those who favor this reservation to
the fact that IL any such reservation
as that should be adopted, l would be
Obliged as the executive Of the Unit
| ed States to regard it as rejection
| of the treaty"
| The president pointed out that the
Notwithstanding the treaty's re-
1ection-would exclude US from all the
peoples-those Of Germany and those
of the United States. He said that
| Germany's dearest desire, leeling her
present isolation, is to see US also cut
off from the gallant people with whom
side by side we fought the war.
| The rejection Of the treaty would
| mean he reiterated, CuaI we would
have to make a separate peace with
Germany. He added:
cit would mean simply the govern
ment of the United States going, hat
in hand, to the assembly at Weimar
and saying: May 1t please you, we
have ASSOCIATED ourselves from those
who were your enemies; we have
come to you asking IL you will con-
sent to terms OF am1ty and peace
which will dissociate US, both OF US,
from the comradeship OF arms and OF
liberty" There is no other interpTe-
tation. That is the issue, and every
American must face 1t.
/ Refers To Chateau ThIerry
The president told eloquently OF
| the victories at arms gained by the
American soldiers at Chateau Thier-
nv, Belleau Wood and the Argonne,
when, advised by the allies to turn
back. they asked the typical Amer
lean question:
What did we come over here for?
| Not to turn back, but to go forward!
and, he said, they never went in any
direction but forward.
"Tbose men never thought Of any
reservations. They never thought or
saying:
I've will do this much of our job
and then scuttle and leave you to do
the rest
/ ct am here on this journey to help
this nation, IL I can, by my counsel
IN fulfill and complete the task which
the men who died upon the battlefield5
of France began; and l am not going
to turn my back any more than they
did. I am going to keep my race
lust as they kept their taces-tor"ard'
toward the enemy!
The only organized opposition to the
league. outside Of congressional halls,
the president asserted, were the forces
of Observation-Disclosures, the same
forcas that during the war were for
aermany's triumph
Though it was late at night when
the president reached Denver, great
cbeering throng lined the streets TO
hid him welcome and escort him to
his hotel.
The brisk frontier city Of Cheyenne,
vhere he made his single speech of
the day, gave him heartening vel
come. and so, too, did Laramie, where
he did net talk, but took BRIEF r1de
/ around the city and received the
cheers and greeting OF the populace-