Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-24
WOULD NOT ASK
u. S. TO SEND
AID TOBALKANS
Troops Would Come From
Most Available Source,
President Says
By Associated Press.

Salt Lake City, Utah. Sept. "a
Replying directly to Senate pro-
posals to write reservations into
ratification of the Peace Treaty,
President Wilson declared in an ad-
dress in the Mormon Tabernacle
here last night that the proposal
would ''cut the heart" out of the
League of Nations.
The President spoke to a crowd
which the police estimated at H.
900. He discussed at length the
question of reservations, declaring
that to all intents and purposes res
ervations were the same as amend
ments. To reopen the meaning of
any part of the Treaty, he said, was
to reopen negotiations with Ger
many.
Mr.. Wilson read a proposed reser-
vation under which the United
States would assume no response
bility" to protect the integrity of
foreign governments under article
ten. Such Il reservation, he assert
ed, would relieve the United States
of part of its just responsibility.
Does the United States want to
be in on that special footing" asked
the President and there was a great
shout of no.
Answering objections that under
article ten the United States might
be called on to settle Balkan con-
troversies, the President said:
IF you want to put out a fire in
Utah, you don't go to oklahoma for
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put out a fire in the Balkans you
don't send to the United States for
troops"
The choice would be made. he
said, from "the most suitable and
most available forces and the de-
cision would be made with the con-
sent of all the nations concerned.
Should the controversy spread so
that the aid of the United States
would be necessary, he said, then
1t would be so serious situation
that this nation would got in any
way, league or no league.
To adopt such a reservation, con-
tinued Mr.. Wilson, was not to in
terpret the Covenant. but would
constitute an absolute withdrawal
from the responsibilities of article
ten and consequently u rejection OF
the Treaty.
Instead of wanting to get what il
could without assuming any re-
sponsibility, it was the nations duty,
he said, to accept the leadership
which the world now offered. That
could be done, he continued, with
out in any way impairing national
sovereignty, because no great de-
cision could be taken without the
vote of the United States.
The President said that he had
mo- notion of rejecting upon the
public men who We're aiding the
opposition, but he declared they
were pleasing Germany by their at
titude. Through certain channels
open to the government, he said, he
knew Germany was praying" that
the United States would stay out
of the League.
Every previous treaty, said the
President, had been division of
spoils, while the present document
was IAN absolute remuneration of
spoils." Everywhere through the
world, he asserted, settlements had
been made on the theory that the
people themselves should determine
what form of government they
should have.
Through the people, the Presi-
dent said, he was appealing to sena-
tors to take a second thought if
they intended to write into the
Treaty any such reservations as he
had quoted.