Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1919-09-17
World AHane Without Peace,
Saws President Wilson.

Couer D'AleneA Idaho, Sept. 12.-
A world again afame with war un-
less the peace treaty is accepted was
pictured by President Wilson here
to-day.
America was face to face, he de-
clared, with a decision as to whether
she "would prove to the world that
she meant what she said in pronis-
ing to aid in a peace conference"
Making his only address in the
home state of Senator Borah, one of
the bitterest opponents of the treaty,
the prsident spoke in a big tent. 1t
was not filled. D. w. Davis, governor
of Idaho, introduced MIR. Wilson
while the crowd stood and cheered.
While he could understand why
men might differ as to details of the
treaty, Mr.. Wilson said, he was
"amazed" that some men wanted to
reject it altogether. It was America
who saved the world, he declared,
and now it was proposed in some
quarters to "desert the world"
The Austrian Treaty.
The forthcoming with Austria,
said the president, would be drawn
"along exactly the same lines" as
that with Germany and would be an
other step in the effort to prevent
another attempt at conquest.
He asserted the field for future
conquest lay directly to the east Of
Germany and that Germany already
was negotiating with the bolshevist
movement of Russia in the hope OF
finding soil there for industrial and
political intrigue.
1t was the peace treaty with its
league of nations covenant ne as
serted which alone could prevent the
success of such a plan.
Germany wants US to stay out of
this treaty." said the president. "Not
under delusion that we would seek
to aid her but with the knowledge
that that guarantees would not be
sufficient without America. She
wants to see America alienated from
the great powers from which she
herself has been alienated.
"The pro-German propaganda has
started in this country confident
with the opposition to the adoption
of this treaty.
Are We Enemies?
care we going to prove the enc
my of the rest of the world just
when we have been it's savior? The
thing is intolerable- 1t is impossible"
Mr.. Wilson said if the west really
believed in progressivism and pufiTi-
cation of political affairs then it
must be in favor of the peace treaty
so it could be accomplished.
Referring again to the Postcn po-
lice strike, Mr.. Wilson said the strike
was an intolerable crime against civ
ilization." :"
'If that spirit is going to prevail,
where are your programs?" he ask
ed.
Glow can you carry a program
out where every man is looking out
for his own selfish INTEREST,""
He declared there would be no re-
form for a generation unless there
came a settled order such as could
be attained only by the treaty. Every
man who really loves justice and
purposes reform, he said, should
stand in favor of unqualified accep-
tance of the treaty.
Declaring there were a great
many things to be reformed in
America" the president said the
United States was IN danger of fall
ing under the control of the minori-
ty.
World of Chaos.
eff you want to live in a world of
chaos" he continued, "then speak a
word of encouragement to those who
are opposing this treaty"
If he did not do everything honor
able to secure unqualified acceptance
of the treaty, said Mr.. Wilson, he
could not look in the face of the
mothers who had given sons in this
war in order that there might be no
future wars. When the next great
war came, he said, as it surely would
come if the treaty failed, America
certainly would get in.