Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-26
Wilson Reduces Fight for
Peace Pact to Direct Ac-
ceptance or Rejection by
Senate in Pueblo Speech.
"QUALIFIED ADOPTION"
WON'T BE ACCEPTABLE
Whole Question Resolves It.
self into Whether or Not
United States Should Go into
League of Nations, He Says.

Pueblo, Colo, Sept. 25.-Reducing
his fight for the peace treaty to a
direct acceptance or rejection, Presi-
dent Wilson today invited the sem
ate to take a definite and unmistak-
able stand one way or the other.
After declaring that it would be
his chief duty as chief executive to
Judge whether the senate's action
constituted acceptance or rejection,
should reservations be incorporated
in the ratification, the president
added a warning that he did not
consider qualified adoption" as
adoption in fact. He said, however,
that he saw no objection 10 mere in
terpretations.
In two addresses in Colorado dur
ing the day. Mr.. Wilson reiterated
again and again that the whole con-
troversy had resolved itself into a
clear-cut question of whether the
United States should go into the
League of Nations or stay out. 1t
was time, he said, that the nation
knew where it was to stand.
Meanwhile, White House officials
in the presidential party permitted
it to become known that proposed
reservations which the president
quoted at Salt Lake City and Chey-
enne, and which he announced he
would regard as rejection of the
treaty. was one he had been inform
ed was agreed on by several repub-
lican senate leaders. The presidents
speech of the day was at morning
meeting in Denver, and later he ad-
dressed a crowd which filled the
Municipal hall here. Cheers many
times interrupted his declarations at
the two meetings, and in both cities
constant din of cheering greeted
him as he passed through the
streets.
People Gathered Enroute.
u At every station along the way the
people had gathered to see his train,
and at Colorado Springs, where a
short stop was made, he was given
a tumultuous welcome by a crowd
which janmed the station platform
and overhowed into the adjoining
streets. Before his speech here he
drove through the State Fair
grounds, where another crowd
cheered him.
The president was introduced at
the meeting here by Alva Adams,
former governor of Colorado, who
eulogized Mr.. Wilson as a "twenti-
eth century Paul" and the great
est prophet of peace" =.
In his Pueblo address the presi-
dent said the chief pleasure of his
countrywide trip was that it had
nothing to do with his personal for
tunes. He repeated his charge that
an organized propaganda" was op-
posing the treaty and that it pro-
ceeded from hypheps."
ANY man who carries fyphen
about him." he said. carries a dag
ger which he is ready to plunge into
the vitals of the republic. If I can
catch a man with a hyphen in this
great contest |, will know that |
have caught an enemy of the repub-
| lic."
Labor Features Stressed.
Reviewing the treaty provisions,
the president stressed the self-deter-
mination and labor features, assert
ing that if the treaty failed there
would be no great international tri-
bunal before which labor could
bring its requests for better condi-
tons.
What we. want to do with the
great labor questions" he added, "is
| to lift them into the light"
Going on to the league of nations
covenant, he declared it was neces-
| sary for carrying out the peace
terms. For the same reason, he as
serted. the covenant would be incor-
porated in the treaties with Austria,
Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, now
under negotiations at Versailles.
| Referring to objections that the
limited States might be at a disad-
vantage in the league, Mr. Wilson
said that whoever said that "either
was falsifying or he hadn't read the
covenant. He added that there was
no validity in the argument that the
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