The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-09-10
4QUI1TER" SAYS
WILSON OF FOES
PRESIDENT FIGHTING HARD FOR
LEAGUE-REVEALS A NEW
SELF-PAcE OR A
SELF,
PACT OF A WORSE WAR
Thousands Acclaim Mr.. Wilson In Mid.
die West On Most Important
Trip Of His Public
Career.

Kansas City, Mott is a new kind |
of Woodrow Wilson that this middle |
western country is observing as he
proceeds on what he frankly calls the
greatest journey Of his life. No longer
Is he simply an eloquent orator or a
profound thinker with high ideals. The
president has become real fighter,
and in his crusade for the adoption
OF the peace treaty with the league
OF nations included, the only pre-
ventive, he asserts, Of an early and
more terrible war that the world has
ever known, he has been delivering
the strongest speeches of his career,
putting into them his most powerful
words and gestures, and, indeed,
throwing into them personality more
virile than even his friends believed
he possessed And this has won more
friends for him and the league, even
among his political opponents.
A Republican crowd of 1900 in St.
Louis Friday rose and cheered for
more than minute when Mr.. Will
son designated as cutters" these enc
mics of the league who have been
holding up it's adoption.
A mixed assemblage Of more than
10000 in Indianapolis on the preced-
Ing night roareG approval when the
president, referring to these same
obstructionists Of the league, defied
them to put up or shut up"
The president challenged them to
produce something as good or better,
II they did not want to accept this
plan Of preventing future wars. Be-
fore the st. Louis chambers Of COM
MERGE, the president, explaining the
purposes of the league, described it
as chart and constitution for new
system for the world"-a system de-
signed to prevent wars by protecting
the weak, who have always been the
cause Of 'yars, system entirely con.
Trajectory to the old political system
Of the world. It was for the purpose
Of ending war that America entered
the world conflict Mr.. Wilson remind.
ed his hearers he demanded to know
of his opponents how they would keep
out Of war II they failed to take part
in the great pact to protect the weak.
He recalled the pledges that all Amer.
lea made, that we should have share
in this great pact Then, referring to
those who now oppose the league, he
said: They are absolute, contempt.
BILE cutters II they don't see the game
through" America will be despised,
suspected and distrusted unless she
goes forward with her bargain, the pres
dent added in the st. Louis speech.
To all of the objections to the league
Mr.. Wilson offered explanations that
satisfied his audience. The much-dis
cussed article ten, did not mean, he
said, that Americans would ever have
to send troops across the seas to fight
other nations battles. Indeed, with
league, there would be no more bat
ties, he explained, at least the pos
sibility was very remote.
Each nation agrees, first, he ex
planned, either to submit differences
to arbitration and accept the decision
Of the arbitrator, or submit the diff
ferences to discussion by the council
of the league. In this latter case, the
nations agree to allow six months fol
the discussion. II settlement failed
after that time, they agree to wal
three months longer before going t
war, and no nations after that periot
Of cooling OFF, would fight he asserted
In case nation refused to agree
either to arbitration or discussion /
outlawed itself, the president explain
ed. 1t would be economically and so
, cially boycotted by the rest of thu
, world, and this punishment, he said
would be more terrible than war.
AS to Japan's holding Of Shantun,
peninsula, the president said he agree,
to that only because England an,
, France, by secret treaty, had givel
the territory to Japan, but he wa
sure, he said, that Japan would, as sh
has promised, return it. OF thos
league opponents who pose as China
, friends in this matter, he inquired
{ How do they expect to get Shan
{ tung back for China if not through tn
league? Would they go to war for it
Accusing them of fearing the re
sponsibilities Of the league, he dc
! manded; IF you are China's friends
should you scuttle and run? That
: not the kind of American am" Agai
the crowd rose and cheered.
The president explained America
4 need for being part of the league bt
cause of business reasons, but sal
they came last in his mind. He sale
in conclusion, at st. Louis IF ther
. is no league, there will be, in tn
l. vengeful providence of God, anothe
struggle in which not merely a FEY
hundreds of thousands of American
will have to die, but as many million
as may be necessary to accomplish tn
I final freedom of the world"
NJ More than 100000 persons lined tn
streets of the Missouri metropolis a
the president and his party passe
\ through, and wave of cheers marke
his progress. At the luncheon {
which he spoke, he was hailed as tn
"Benefactor of the World" and agai
as the Greatest Citizen of the World
In the evening he spoke to 5000