The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1919-08-27
n ANSWERS
SENATE QUERIES
Says He Sees No Reasonable Objec-
tisa 70 Reservations Concerning
Wy 500,
League Of Nations.
CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE
President Asserts That United states
surrenders No Powers and May
& Withdraw at viii.

Washington. President Wilson and
the members Of the foreign relations
committee Of the senate, met at the
White House Tuesday to discuss the
peace treaty.
The president opened the discussion
by impressing on the senators the ur-
gency OF prompt ratification Of the
treaty without amendments ana with
our reservations that would require
resubmission OF the treaty to the other
signatories, especially Germany.
The president said that the interest
If every class of people, the farmers,
Industrial workers and employers de-
manded prompt ratification to the end
that stable conditions Of industry. ag-
rlculture and employment be reestub-
lished. The presidents address which
was In effect IN address to the country
follows:
II hope that this conference will
serve to expedite your consideration
~ the treaty of peace. l beg that
SOU will pardon and indulge me II l
again urge that practically the whole
task Of bringing the country back to
normal conditions Of life and industry
waits upon the decision of the senate
with regard to the terms of the peace.
! venture thus again to urge my advice
that the action Of the senate with re-
gard to the treaty be taken at the
earliest practicable moment because
the problems with which we are face
10 face In the reimbursement of our ma
tiOnal life are of the most pressing
and critical character. Will require
for their proper solution the most in
Innate and disintcrested cooperation
Of all parties and all interests, and
cannot be postponed without manifest
peril to our people and to all the ma
ti0naI advantages we hold most dear.
The copper mines OF Montana. Ari-
xona, and Alaska, for example, are be-
ing kept open and in operation only
at y great cost and loss, in part upon
borrowed money, the zinc mines of Mis-
souri,. Tennessee and Wisconsin are
being operated. at about 0ne-half Of
their capacity, the lead of Idaho, III
inOls and Missouri reaches only p0r-
ti0n Of Its former market. There is
I'm Immediate need for cotton betting,
and also for lubrIcating oil which can
not be met. All because the channels
Uf trade are barred by war when there
Is no war. The same Is true of raw
cotton. Of which the central empires
alone formerly purchased nearly four
million bales. and these are only ex-
amples. There Is hardly single raw
material II single important foodstuff,
or single class of manufactured
goods which Is not In the same case.
Our full, normal, profitable produc-
tion waits on peace.
upon II. We cannot lntelligently or
wisely decide how large naval or
military force we shall maintain or
what our policy with regard to military
training is to be until we have peace
not only, but also until we know how
peace Is to be sustained whether by
the arms Of single nations or by the
concert Of all the great people, and
there Is more than that difficulty In
v0lved. The vast surplus properties of
the army include. not food and cloth
ing merely. whose sale will affect nor
NAL production, but great manufactur-
ing establishments also, which should
be restored to their former uses great
stores Of machine tools. and all sorts
Of merchandise which must lie Idle
until peace and military policy are def
initely determined.
The nations that ratify the treaty,
such as Great Britain, Belgium and
France, will be In a position to lay
their plans for controlling the markets
of central Europe. without COMPETE
tlon from us. ii we do not presently
act. We have no consular agents, no
trade representatives there to look
after Our interests.
'srhere are large areas OF Europe
whose future will lie uncertain and
questionable until their people know
the final settlements of peace and the
forces which are to administer and
sustain It. Without determinate mar
kets our production cannot proceed
with intelligence or confidence. There
can be no easy or normal industrial
credits because there can be no conf
dent or permanent revival Of business.
There can be nc, sterilization of wages
because, there can be 10 settled con-
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