Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-05-13
WILSON URGES PARTY
TO STAND BY TREATY

caH 10 the DemocraCic party 20
go into the campaign standing four
square in favor Of the Treaty of
Versailles. and against the senate's
reservations was issued Sunday night
by President Wilson in telegram to
Oregon Democratic leaders as follows:
II think it imperative that the party
should at once proclaim itself the un-
compromising champion Of the ms
tion's honor and the advocate of every,
thing that the United States can do in
the service of humanity, that it should
therefore indorse and support the Yer
sailles treaty and condemn the Lodge
reservations as utterly inconsistent
with the nations honor and destructive
of the world leadership which it had
established and which all the free
peoples of tine world. including the
great powers themselves, had shown
themselves ready to welcome.
ut is time that the party should
proudly avow that it means to try,
without flinching or turning at any
time away from the path for reasons
of expediencyr to apply moral and
Christian principles to the problems
of the world. 1t is trying to accom-
plish social, political and international
reforms and is not daunted by any of
the difficulties it has to contend with.
Let us prove to our late associates
in the war that at any rate the great
majority party Of the nation--the party
which expresses the true hopes and
purposes of the people of the country
intends to keep faith with them in
peace as well as in war. They gave
their treasure. their best blood and
everything that they valued In order,
not merely to beat Germany, but to
effect q settlement and bring about ar
rangements of peace which they have
now tried to formulate in the Treaty
of Versailles. They are entitled to
our support in this settlement and in
the arrangements for which they have
striyen.
"The League OF Nations is the hope
of the world. As u basis for the
armistiae, was authorized by all the
great fighting nations to say to the
enemy that it was our object in propos-
ing peace to establish general asso-
citation of nations under specific coven-
ants for the purpose of affording
mutual guarantees of political independ-
ence and territorial integrity to great
and small states alike, and the coven-
ant is ratified and acted upon with
vigor. We can not in honor whittle
it down or weaken it as the Repub-
lican leaders Of the senate have pro-
posed to do. If we are to exercise the
kind of leadership to which the
founders of the republic looked for
ward and which they depended upon
their successors to establish, we must
do this thing withcourage and unalter-
able determination. They expected the
United States to be always the leader
in the defense of liberty and ordered
peace throughout the world, and we
are unworthy to call ourselves their
successors unless we fulfill the great
purpose they entertained and pro-
claimed.
"The true Americanism, the only
true Americanism, is that which puts
America at the front of free nations
and redeems the great promises which
we made the world when we entered
the war which was fought. not for the
advantage of any single nation or group
of nations, but for the salvation of all.
1t is in this way we shall redeem the
sacred blood that was shed and make
America the force she should be in the
counsels of mankind. She can not af-
rord to sink into the place that ma
tons have usually occupied and become
merely one of those who scramble and
look aboat for selfish advantage.
1.-THE Democratic party has now a
great opportunity to which it must
measure up. The honor of the nation
is in its hands"
Washington, May l0.-President Will
sons call to the democratic party to
carry ratification issue into the cam
paign drew expressions today from two
members of his own party, William j.
Bryan and Senator Reed, of Missuri.
and also from Senator johnson, of
California, leader of the republican ir.
reconciiable group in the senate treaty
hattie.
Senator Reed, in a statement, de-
"lared such platform would mean for
the democrats the loss of every state