Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-10-01
DECLARES LEAGUF
LOST If AMENDED
BY THE SENA
Wilson Says 1t Would Mean
lection Of the Treaty. If
Peace.
NEW PACT WITH BERLIN
WOULD BE NECESS,
Negotiations With Germany -.
arate Settlement Would Not cbs
a Single Item-DecIares pro
mans Back of Reservation pI.,J

DSCiafeS Pro.
mans Back of Reservation Plan.
cheyenne, WyO., Sept. 25-Rao
again the proposed senate rosorra
to article X of the league covon
President Wilson said in an add
here that should any such resarra
be adopted he would 'be Obliged
chief executive to regard it as .
lection of the treaty"
The president added that roioo
OF the treaty would mean negotia
Of a separate peace with Germany
asserted that such a negotiation g,
not change a single item of tbn n,
settlement.
The reservation read by the n,
dent was the same that he laid hol
his audience at the Salt Lake
tabernacle. BY its provisions
United States would assume no
cation to preserve the territorial
tegrity of other nations unless
gress should so decide.
Unworthy and Ridiculous.
1T is as though you said we
not join the league now" said he
may join it from time to time
won't promise anything, but from
to time we may cooperate.
'"The thing is unworthy and rid
lous. 1t means the rejection of
treaty, nothing less. The issue is fl
We can't avoid it. We've got to nd
the decision now and, once m.
there can be no turning back"
Unless the United States went
the league now, he added, and
sumed its full responsibility it wd
have to come in later with German
Opposed by Pro-Germans.
Asserting that the overwhelni
majority of the people were for
treaty, the president said that the d
organized elements opposing ratiA
ton were the prO-German eleme
and others who Showed their hypl
during the war"
Opponents of the treaty, Mr.. wiz
said, made many insupportable OBJ
lions, but had debated seriously" q
one of these objections, the ShantI
settlement.
He went into the history Of
Shantung concession, pointing out q
President Mckinley did not pro-
when Germany acquired the Shanl
rights now given Japan. The SCI
ment included in the Versailles trea
he asserted, was unavoidable" VI
the League Of Nations offered the /
hope for China's recovery Of her /
province.
No Precedent for Protest.
The United States, asserted
president, had no precedent in II
national law for even profess
against Japan's acquisition OF
Shantung rights. But he added
under article Il of the league q
nant it would be the friendly rlshH
a nation to protest against any Il
situation which endangered peace
the first time, he said, the M
States could, under the league, beg
the defective friend Of China
Asks "Showdown."
Recalling .Tapan's promise to rea
to China all sovereign rights in
tung. the president said the Only
retained by the Tokyo covering
would be economic rights such
other nations hold. He said
limited States had no right to y
that promise.
He characterized as empty ~ n
the professions of friendship Oh
made by those who want th7
to fail.
Turning to the league covenant
president said the question OF VIII
the heart of the league covenant
to be cut out soon must coln'
showdown" H.. Il
1t would mean the FiIIa'i ,J "A
whole plan, he asserted, if the ID
were TO adopt reservations to al
10 as proposed in the senate
Talks of Six Votes
One by one, he said, the he, G 5lsa
toctions to the covenant had been l
nosed of. To all candid nLl4 tbo4
, asserted, if now was apparent Ina .aa
R m@proe doctrine 10 was fully protec
that there was no supeFgo. COVE i
s sat m ian and that no danger was vas i
feared d from the speaking paris afa -
70 the British dominl rs il 'D
assembly. g. orrfvpd b
I me, p p,a1ooE and was greeted
escort from the Fifteen pnsseIl. I
stationed static at Fort D. A, RusssD
bv q committee of citizens
Remarkable Change ~