Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-07
f1<:H.2ENT SAYS
B0L5GSls$y IS
BEING SPhtAJ BY
DELAY Of TREATY.
Speaks to Great Throng in 0es
Moines, Urging Ratification
of League of Nations As
Vital to Country.
LABOR OF WORLD HAS
EYES ON AMERICA
People Do Not Know What to
Do in Absence Of Leader
ship Of United StateS1 Un-
certainty Due to One Body.

!
Des Moines. la. Sept. 6.-The trea-
| ty with its league OF nations covenant
was explained here tonight by Presi-
| dent Wilson as purely American
! document extending democracy over
the world and shifting fyreign rela-
| tions from a becis of force and war to
one of arbitqa Ion and peace.
! Making mis- second address OF the
! day, the president spoke IN the Des
Moines Coliseum, said to seat 1900.
! Every chair was taken and many we're
| standing. Earlier in the day he had
| spoken at Kansas City, Mo, moro than
! 500 miles away.
An escort of airplanes dropped
| flowers on the pdesdent's special
| train as it approached the city and he
was cheered during an automobile ride
| through crowds that packed the
| downtown streets far out beyond the
curb. When he entered the Coliseum
he was cheered again,
| The meeting was opened with an in
vocation and Mr.. Wilson was intro
dueed by J. b. Weaver, president of
the Des Moines Chamber Of Com
| merce, who spoke on the "outstanding
! figure in the life of the world today"
/ Mrs. Wilson was not on the plat
| form.
Needs Settled Condition.
| Describing the world as desperately
| In need OF the settled condition OF
/ peace. the president said 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 few men oyer the
destiny of the many,
Citing what had happened in Eu-
rope with the rise of Bolshevsm, Mr..
Wilson said the move of radicalism
and disorder was spl leading ON a re-
action.
DO you honestly think that none
of that poison has gone into the veins
of this free people?" he asked Men
look you calmly in the face in Amer
lea and tell you they are for that sort
of revolution"
SO long as the question is open of
what kind Of peace the world was TO
have and what guarantees We're to be
behind 1t remained open. the latent
poison would continue to spread.
How long shall we be kept waiting
for the answer whether the world will
trust us or despise us?" he continued.
The world stands annoyed because
an authority in America hesitates
whether it will endorse an American
doctrine"
Labor Waits on Treaty.
The president said he had not been
able to work out the solution of rail-
way problems until he knew when q
peace basis came The conference OF
labor and capital in Washington next
month. he continued. also would have
its deliberations affected by the an
swer to this question, Labor "all over
the world Is waiting" he asserted. to
see whether the United States accepted
the treaty's provision for an interna-
tional labor organization.
The United States. said the presi-
dent, could not participate in the
world labor conference to be held in
Washington soon under tho treaty.
unless the treaty was accepted by this
country. Such a condition would be
Uncomfortable" he added. and would
lead to the greatest modification"
''The world is waiting" said the
president, ito see. not whether we
will take part. but whether we will
take the lead"
Deprecates Standpatism.
Mr.. Wilson said he had been "an-
noyed' to see that the craftsmanship
of some gentlemen consists in the
very interesting proposition Of doing
nothing at all. have heard Of stand
ing pat before, but never have heard
of standpatism going to that length"
The fathers of the republic. Mr..
Wilson said intended to set up a
standard to which the world would
come for liberty. From all nations, he
continued. men had come by millions.
Opponents Of the league, the presi-
dent asserted. were saying. Yes we
made a great promise to the world but
it'll cost too much TO redeem it." If We
deliberately choose that the United
States become rival and antagonist
of her neighbors instead Of their
friend said the president. then 1t
would reap the same reward as a
business man who proceeded on that
basis. If tho United States tried to
get all it could selfshly, he continued,
then the world would see that it got
nothing at all,
Just as American soldiers restored
the morale OF the fighting peoples of
the allies, said the president so the
United States now could restore the
peace morale Of the world. 1t was tho
people themselves. he said. who in
tne enu Woulu ueteflnlne WIldt course
the United States would take.
People Are the ctDsses.
"They are my bosses,'' he said. 81
have come out on this journey not to
fight anybody. but to renort 70 you"
The peace. Mr., Wilson asserted,
had been made on American specf-
fications." Among these snecifica-
tions, he said. was TIE establishment
of Poland and the other new mid
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