The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-28
LLUSEPEOPLE
TO FORCE SOLONS
TO ACCEPT PEACE
President About Makes Up
Mind to Cease Trying to
Convince SOIonS Separately
and Appeal to Voters.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
The News Seimltar's Special Corr


The News seimItar's Special corrs.
sponoent.
WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Presdent
Wilson has about made up his mind TO
appeal TO the American people 10 ask
the senate 10 ratify the treaty of~peace
without prolonged delay.
For a time II seemed as II the exec
uttye n legislative branches OF the
government would set together and
that the trip, II taken, would resolve
itself chiefly into a rans-eontinental
journey to welcome the new Pacific
fleet at Golden Gate,
Mr.. Wilson has carefully followed out
the plans OF several advisers who told
him he must unbosom himself 10 in
dividual senators, tell them all about
the atmosphere Of the peace conference
and the various viewpoints that had TO
be h~armonized In the final agreement,
n Of the difficulties Of changing the
document by reopening negotiations, He
has now seen Is senators. He has
planned TO go to the capitol to see
more, IL is rather monotonous going
over the amt ground again and again
with each senator but Mr.. Wilson has
gone through Is separate conferences
thus far and expects to talk with sew
eral more before he leaves Washing
ton. .
But the effect Of Mr.. Wilson's argu-
ments has been only to remove some
Of the arguments critics have been
using that the president didn't keep In
close personal touch with congress. Mr..
Wilson has done so but to little avail.
Opponents OF the league are as deter
mined as ever that the league cove
Tan shall he vitality changed. Most
Of them insist they are in favor of the
principle Of a league OF nations but
wan reservations,
Sees Big Dangers.
Before MIR. Wilson returned the ma
jority OF Republicans wanted amend
ments,' but even Senator Lodge ad-
nitted that such a procedure might be
long drawn out and involve further ne
gotiatiops with the other powers. But
now the president believes hat the
reservations" OF which some Repub-
licans are talking. including a few pro-
posed by MIR. Taft, will be ~tantamount
TO amendments and that IL will be
necessary for him to submit these res
eryations to the other $50 countries
signing the treaty. This, in Mr.. Wilson'S
opinion. will be a signal for every
country which failed TO get lie maxi
mum or its special interests protected
at the Paris conference TO put In res
eryRtions with the consequent result
that the compromise made at Versailles
will be opened up anew and the work
Of the peace conference begun again
through the roundabout process Of Dip
lomatlc c~ablegrams and foreign offices.
The president Is not represented as
objecting to interpretations such as a
clause here and there telling exactly
what a paragraph or article means. Ar
ticle ~, for instance. which would re-
| quire the United States and the other
powers jointly to agree to resist ex-
terral aggression when directed against
the signatories OF the treaty might be
supplemented with a paragraph saying
the American congress would have to
1 aanrfIOp thu uaa nj militia rv mr. M yal
force. This would leave the executive
department OF tho government free to
sever diplomatic relations, withdraw
%consuls, apply an economic boycott or
any other restrictive, measures calcu-
lated to cause any obstteperous mem
Der Of the family OF nations to think
twice about pr~ecipitating a world war.
Really the whole fight in the senate
| centers on article 10. And the admin
,Stration viewpoint Is that nothing now
eli is proposed under that article. For
example, the Monroe doctrine pledged
the United States to resist external ag-
gression against any country on this
| continent. America has defended the
| Monroe doctrine and asserted 1t with
/ out help from any other power. The
| United States Is now asked TO assist
In defending the territorial integrity
Of European countries and by the
same token, European force could be in
| Voked to protect American countries
| from aggression. SO Senator Hitchcock,
arguing for President Wilson. makes the
| point that article 10 and the Monroe
doctrine declaration are not dtssirnilar
in principle.
Internationally the president will find
II necessary to devote many of his
| speeches TO article 10. the advantages
10 America and the world under that
article and its supposed preventive or
c%autionAry influence. The Shantung
settlement which is in the peace treaty
itself has caused a Juror but viii be
cleared up in a few days. Japan win
make a statement or give America her
consent TO make public documents
pledging her to return Kiachou to CHI
ma within a fixed period.
Language clarifying the Monroe doc
trine clause is not objected TO by the
league supporters. any more h q
statement putting immigration and
tariff clearly within the domestic juris-
dietion Of each country. L is the obli-
cation arising out OF article 10 which
Is causing debate. And President VIII
son is confident the American people
win not shirk these obligations when
they know how much is meant to the
peace OF the world,
Concession Ready.
Mr.. Wilson win tell the people about
conditions in Europe and nat chaos
leS Anchu II tue american senate snOdIu
unduly delay the ratification OF the
peace treaty by causing a reopening Of
the negotiations at Versailles.
Mr.. Wilson Is said by close friends Il
he willing to make every concession Il
his opponents which does not destro,
the fundamentals OF the league ant
peace treaty, that he does not object Il
clarifying phrases or the statement o
things which have seemed to him and thu
other plenipotentiaries TO be fully COW
cred by the treaty and league but OF
which an explicit statement may h'
Thought desirable. But as for reserva
tons like the five or l0-year limitation
! on article ten, the president consider
them proposals which would strip tn
: league OF its main influence for perma
| nent peace aSNthe guarantee would b
but temporary and after 10 years Eu
; ropean nations would similarly be fre
to renew the rivalry over territorial
acquisitions that has led TO so man
vars.
Mr.. Taft has sought TO c%ompromis
tho iaane htt Mr. Wilaon ia ada ma