The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-09-10
Mr. Wilson Fears Bolshevism
May Result if Treaty is
Not Signed Soon
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SPEAKS IN DES MOINES
ON THE GREAT DANGER
Says World Waits UneasiIy
While Bolshevism Spreads
Through the World

sbility that Bolshevisn may spread in
threatening proportions to the Unit
sed States, unless the peace treaty is
ratified promptly was suggested by
+ President Wilson in an address here
tonight.
The whole world is waiting uneasi-
Is, he said, while the poison which
had wrecked Russia was spreading
among peoples who did not yet know
what guarantees there were to be for
liberty IN the new world order. La
Dor and capital in the United States,
he asserted, could not proceed intelli-
gently with their settlements nor
could great problems like the railroad
situation be solved while the sus-
pense continued.
Mr.. Wilson defended the Shantung
provision of the treaty and said the
league covenant section referring 10
the Monroe Doctrine had been insert
ed to "give the Monroe Doctrine right
of way in the western hemisphere. ?.
de declared his conviction that it
would do so.
The Versailles treaty with its league
#of nations covenant was explained
here tonight by President Wilson as
"a purely American document extend
ing Democracy over the world and
shifting foreign relations from bus
! inesssof force and war to one of ar
bitration and peace.
Making his second address Of the
day, the president spoket in the Des
nlnes Coliseum, said to seat 7,50o.
Fersc chah was taken and many were
standing. Earlier in the day he had
SPOKEN at Kansas City more than 500
nasIes away.
On the way to Des Moines several
Isandfgd yersons met the presidents
xtraf:a at st Joseph, Mo, where the
stupped for three. minutes,
The crowd swarmed around the OBJ
sisrvasion END of the presidents car
and called for speech, but acting on
the advice of DR.. .Grayson, he refrain
ed dsftem making one and exchanged
friendly greetings.
An escort of aeroplanes dropped
flowers On the train as it approached
inc city and he was cheered during
an automobile ride through crowds
that packed the downtown streets
When he entered the Coliseum, he was
eheered again.
The meeting was opened with an
Invocation and Mr.. Wilson was intro
diced by J. 3. Weaver president of
& the Des Moines Chamber Of Com
nrsrce, who spoke on the "Outstand-
ing Figure in the Life Of the World
To-Day
Mrs. Wilson occupied seat on the
platform when the president began
speaking.
Describing the world as desperate
IL in: need of the settled condition Of
peace, the president saie the United
States, the last nation which the
world expected to have to wait upon.
was delaying the coming of that
peace.
The treaty, he said, not only would
establish peace but it would end for
ever the rule of a few men over the
destinies of the many.
Citing what happned in Europe
with the rise of Eolshevisn1. Mr.. Will
son said the move. of radicalism and
disorder was spreading.
...s."Do you honestly think that none
Of the poison has got into the veins Of
this free people? he asked.
Men look you calmly in the face in
America and tell you they are for
that sort Of revolution.
ESQ long as the question of what
kind OF peace the world was to have
and what guarantees were to be be
hind it remained open, the poison
would continue to spread.
= How long shall we be kept waiting
for the answer whether the world
will trust OR despise u.s." he contin-
ued
'"The world stands annoyed because
an authority in America hesitates
whether it will endorse an American
doctrine"
The president said he would not be
able to work out the solution of rail-
way problems until he. knew when a
peace basis came. The conference of
labor and capital in Washington mex.
month. he continued, also wuold have
it's deliberations affected by the an
swer to the treaty question. Labor
Ill over IliC WOIiSt 40 ,"stIliir, AiE 90
serted. "to see whether the United
States accept the treaty's provisions
for an international labor organiza-
tion."
The United States, said the presi-
dent. could not participate in the
world labor conference to be held in
Washington soon under the treaty un-
less the treaty was accepted by this
country. Such condition would be
inconceivable, he added, 'and would
lead to the greatest modification.
1.-The world is waiting" said the
president. ''to see not whether we viii
take part. but whether will take
tho lead
Mr.. Wilson said he had been IAN
1aved to see that the. statesmanshil
nf some gentlemen consists in thu