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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL", PORTLAND, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1919.
; PRESIDENT WILL
i REOPEN SESSIONS
AT PARIS, HE
I If Senate Insists on .Qualifying
' Peace Treaty He Announces He
Will Summon Peace Delegates.
APPROVES INTERPRETATIONS
David Lawrence Finds Idaho and
Washington Favor Wilson's
View as Against Senators'.
! By David Iawrcncc
f En Route With President Wilson
to Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 13. Presl-t-
dent Wilson has come to the climax
t. of his speech-making tour. lie has
V- stated with a tone bordering on fin-
allty that he shall deem it his duty
; to reopen the peace conference if the
senate insists on qualifying the
teims of the peace treaty with con-
ditions or reservations.
IT He told his Idaho audience that res-
ervatlons put Into the ratifying reno
IC'Jutlon would alter the treaty to such
an extent that the consent of all the
powers who signed the ract at Paris.
including OerRiany. would have to be
12 secured before the conditions put Into
the document by the United States sen-
ate could be considered as a -part of
the treaty Itself.
AFPKOVE.S ITEItPltETATIOI?
f The president put himself on record
as not objecting to anyi reservations or
' interpretations which miht be embodied
in a separate resolution by congress and
which he said would constitute a notice
to all powers of the way America's vote
in the council or the League of Na
tions would be exercised hereafter. '
In view of the fact that without the
' vote of the United States no decision
on the part of the league's connclt can
be effective, am a unanimous vote is re
quired unions America is party to the
dispute, the president believes a separ
ate resolution could be adopted by con
gress amounting to permanent Instruc
tion to America's delegates at the peace
conference." This is a new way of
, looking at the effectiveness of reserva
tions that are not made a part of the
ratifying resolution itself.
TERM 8 SUFFICIENTLY CLEAR
The president argues against reserva
tions that alter the body of the treaty
on the ground that the substance of all
the suggested reservations, except those
that mean to reject the whole treaty,
are covered in language of the pact.
Perhaps the speech at Helena, Mont.,
wan the best summary Mr. Wilson has
yet given of his reason for opposing
reservations. In effect, he says this :
First It is unnecessary to say that
the United States shall be the sole Judge
of whether or not she has fulfilled. her
international obligations before with
drawing from the. league on two years'
notice because the covenant of the
league does not give the council of the
league or any- other nation the right to
way when any nation has fulfilled its
obligations. It leaves that to the con
science of the nation and the opinion
of the world.
BIND AMERICAN MEMBER
Second The congress of the United
States is Just as free undeu article 10
to refuse to declare war as It always
lias been. In any emergency, he says,
the most the council can do is to advise
what steps shall be taken to yiake other
nations behave and no steps can be
taken without a unanimous agreement,
and America's representative, under
strict instructions from the Ame-ican
people, could not vote to advise war
unless the congress of the United States
had so resolved.
In other words. America's representa
tive could be prevented by law of con
gress from voting to advise war until
the will of congress had been manifested
by Joint resolution or otherwise. If
the United States is party to the dispute,
say Mr. Wilson, it is no better off than
under the old system, for, being ex
cluded from voting in the council, it
can, after a nine months' "period of
discussion," decide to declare war or
not to secure respect for invaded righta
Already the United States is bound by
the Bryan treaties to wait 12 months
in . disputes it may have with any 30
principal nations of the globe.
PROTECTS DOMESTIC FREEDOM
' Third As for the Monroe doctrine, the
president says the whole world now rec
ognizes the doctrine and that the cove
nant specifically says nothing in the
treaty or league shall be consid
ered as invalidating "such understand-
Ing regarding the Monroe doctrine." In
f asmuch as America alone knows what
the Monroe doctrine Is, he thinks the
Z'- United States alone can interpret It
He thinks it sufficiently covered in the
m" treaty already.
SAYS
J",! Fourth with respect to mentioning
domestic questions like the tariff and
, immigration, the president points out
. that the covenant expressly prohibits
the council from interfering in domestic
- questions or making reports on domestic
disputes. To enumerate the tariff and
C Immigration is in his opinion making a
, - list of special questions, and that is
" X". dangerous because some domestic ques-
tions mlgt be omitted and America
v would not want to give the impression
that all domestic questions except the
I tariff and immigration might possibly
be considered within the Jurisdiction of
i, the council.
- . SENATORS WANT WAR
"JL, "The mention of one thing," remarks
the president, "is often the exclusion of
mt -other things."
- Fifth The president's explanation of
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the Shantung proposition Is that to .lake
Shantung from Japan, which now Is in
possession of it, means war with Ja
pan and France- and Great Britain. The
latter two countries are bound by sol
emn treaty entered into before the Paris
conference took place, whereby they are
pledged to give Japan the right enjoyed
by Germany.
Mr. Wilson says the remedy lies In
Article 10, which safeguards the terri
torial Integrity of China and makes it
possible to examine some of the other
righta and possessions enjoyed by Eu
ropean powers In China and give them
back to China some day.
CHINA HAS NEW FORUM
He thinks the league gives China a
pew forum before which she can bring
any case of threatened oppression or
danger.
While the president contends for an
unqualified adoption' of the treaty on
the above grounds, because, as he says,
the treaty already covers many of the
objections to It suggested rn the sen
ate, it is apparent that his real fear
Is not that the other countries would
not accept America's reservations, even
If embodied In the ratifying resolution
Itself, but that he believes that once
changes are made by America, other
nations will want changes, too, and that
opposition parties in parliaments the
world over will seek amendment and
the whole peace treaty will be delayed
in ratification or operation.
NORTHWEST WANTS LEAGUE
In the meantime Bolshevism may
sweep the nations of Europe and pos
sibly America, while statesmen spend
time in debate. Mr. Wilson utters that
warning and hopes that "such a trag
edy" will not be necessary to confirm
his present judgment. Both at Coeur
d'Alene and Spokane the president was
given a demonstrative. reception.
These are the states of Senators Borah
and Poindexter, who belong to the group
that wish to see the League of Nations
eliminated altogether.
Sentiment here, as given by leading
Republicans, does not sustain either
senator. Even Governor Davis of Idaho,
Republican, friend of Borah, is not al
together sure the senator correctly rep
resents Idaho opinion in seeking the de
feat of the treaty. Much the same view
is given by conservative observers In the
state of Washington. President Wilson
carried the Northwest in 1916 and they
unquestionably gave him the heartiest
greetings he has met thus far. Spokane
was especially enthusiastic.
INTEREST KEEN IN
WILSON'S VISIT
(Continued From P One)
will be a notable and representative
group of Oregon citizens. Mrs. Wil
son's acceptance of an invitation to
the luncheon was received late Friday
by former Governor OsWa.ld West.
chairman of the reception committee.
To receive Mrs. Wilson at the sta
tion a u nr 1 c rut wit nf -rm n ri n m
prising Mrs. Ben W. Olcott, Mrs. George
Li. tfaner ana Mrs. u. S. Jackson has
been selected by the reception com
mittee. The same friends will ac
company Mrs. Wilson on her tour over
the Columbia river highway and will
be entertained with her at the luncheon.
Mrs. Wilson will be presented upon
her arrival with a. vprlta.hl ehnwpr
of Oregon roses, with the Portland
itose Bocieiy ana me women ieuenic
society as donors.
SECRET SERVICE ACTIVE
Secret service men and state - guard
troops will be on duty throughout the
time of the president's stay in Portland,
augmenting the protective work of Ms
personal bodyguard of secret service
men.
Tickets admitting holders to seats or
standing room at The Auditorium for
President Wilson's address on Monday
evening have been mailed to their win
ners in the state-wide lottery. The tick
ets received through the mail are the
only ones necessary to gain admission
and need not be exchanged. Careful
heck on the tickets and the names of
their winners will be kept by a special
staff of clerks, however, and those not
entitled to seate will not be admitted.
Neither will tickets be honored for ad
mittance after 7 :io p. m. Monday.
The personnel of President Wilson's
party, aside from the president and Mrs.
Wilson, Includes Joseph P. Tumulty, sec-i
retary to the president; Admiral Carey
T. Grayson, personal physician to the
president : Thomas W. M IfinOV n cola
ant secretary, and the following mem
bers or the White House staff: Charles
Swem, Gilbert F. Close, Warren F. John
son, Edward F. Johnston and Edward
W. Smithers.
AT HOTEL PORTLAND
Secret service men accompanying the
presidential party, which will be quar
tered at the Hotel Portland during its
stay In the city, include J. E. Murphy
G. W, Starling, J. A- Stye, . A. Sand
velght J. J. Fitzgerald, W! Ferguson
and M. McCahill.
In addition to the official
the party there will be with the president
28 news writers, photographers and film
service representatives. These include-
Mr. Barrios, Underwood Ne
C. E. Turnage, Kinogram Publishing
company; Pell Mitchell. Gaumont com
pany : it t,. Donahue, Pathe News ; U.
K. Whipple. International TTi
-. v m T i V ,
official photographer.
Hugh Baillee, United Press ; John
Nevin, International News Service;
David Lawrence, New York Evening
Post and Oregon Daily Journal, and J.
J. Williams, Universal service, all rep
resenting The Journal in the president's
tour. '
Byron Price, Associated Press; Louis
Seibold, New York World ; Rodney Bean,
New York Times; Ben Allen. Cleveland
Plain Dealer; Stanley M. Revnolds,
Baltimore Sun ; Robert Small, Philadel
phia Public Ledger ; Frank Lamb, Wash
lngtdh Ti.. -a ; Morton M. Milford, Louis
ville Courier Journal ; Charles White,
New York Tribune; Phillip Kinsley!
Chicago Tribune: J. A. Helleroan. At
lantic Constitution : Robert Norton, Bos
ton Post : Michael Hpnnaaov 'Rno.r.n
Globe; E. C. Hill, New York Sun.
RAILROAD MEN WITH PARTY
Charles H. Grasty, New York Times;
A. E. Goldhoff, Newspaper Enterprise
association; J. J. O'Neill, Mount Clem
ens News Bureau; Pierce Miller, As
sociated Press.
Arthur Brooks, colored, is with the
party as the president's personal valet
and Mrs. Wilson is bringing her per
sonal maid.
The president's special train com
prises one baggage car, a diner, three
standard Pullman sleepers and the
president's private car, the "May
flower." Preceding the train through
out its cross continental tour is a
guard train of one car and engine in
which members of the United States
secret service and railroad employes
are passengers. It runs approximately
five minutes in advance of the presi
dent's special.
With - the special train coming to
Portland are F. L. Lipsett, district
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
lines at Washington, D. C., and E. E.
Nelson, assistant general passenger
agent of the Northern Pacific roads,
who joined the party at St. Paul, Minn.
VETERAN AGAIN IN SERVICE
From Pbrtland, bound for California,
tbe presidential special will be drawn
by a Southern Pacific engine in charge
of "William O'Malley, veteran 8. P.
pilot, who has driven the engine on
practically every nationally important
train out of Portland in the past
decade. The conductor, equally Versed
in guldlnr distinguished parties through
the stater Vs Sam Yeatch. John M.
Scott, general passenger agent of the
Southern Pacific, will accompany the
train south. With it also will go A.
T. Mercler, S. P. superintendent; D.
S. Weir, assistant superintendent;
Heinle Wild, fireman : W. E. Qriffls
and W, T. Fish, brakemen.
News writers accompanying President
Wllaon will be given a venison dinner
at the Portland Press club rooms on
Monday evening before the president's
address at The Auditorium.
A large, fat, buck deer, contributed
by Carl D. Shoemaker, state game war
den, has been delivered to Henry Thiele,
chef of the Benson hotel, to prepare for
the dinner.
GUESTS ARE LIMITED
The dinner, arranged by the general
reception committee, will be given under
the auspices of the city editors of the
Portland newspapers and a special com
mittee of Press club members. Owing
to the limited facilities for taking care
of local newspapermen at the dinner, the
reception committee haa limited local
guests to fire men from each Portland
daily and the managers of the three
press associations.
Every Item on the menu will be an
Oregon products. The Associated In
dustries of Oregon, through A. O. Clark,
arranged for all the food, and Henry
Thiele volunteered his services to pre
pare the dinner.
Firms and Individuals who contributed
items of the menu are:
Newport Chamber of Commerce. Ya
quina bay oysters ; Carl D. Shoemaker,
state game warden, venison and trout ;
the Phez Company, Salem, Phez logan
berry juice ; Independence creamery,
cheese and butter ; Closset & Devers,
coffc-; U. S. Bakery, bread.
WANTED TO BUY TICKET
"Can you tell me where I can get a
ticket to hear Wilson?" asked a prosper
ous looking American citizen of Joe
Herman, who was presiding behind the
desk at the Portland hotel this morning.
"It can't be done," said Herman, in a
tone of finality.
"Yesterday a man was In here with a
ticket and he got ?10 for it," he added
But most of the lucky Individuals v. ho
StZtift! butTre ! to -Vkea spch tere? aough hs
K ontfth? preioTs ' StUtSf j " t0 his
pasteboard tightly and not talk from tho rear Plat"
Portland hotel, which will be Wilson's Iorm
headquarters, has quite suddenly be-1 Wilson said he could not refrain from
come a most popular hostelry. To stay telling the people how much cheered
in the same hostelry and if possible on
the same floor, has become the ambition
of hundreds of visitors. Several days
ago the hotel withheld all reservations
over Sunday and Monday.
WANT THE SAME ROOM
No one Is to be allowed to occupy the
south wing of the second floor of the
hotel except the president's party. A
suite of three rooms has been set aside
for the president's use and is being ar
ranged. Other rooms in the same end
of the corridor will be occupied by other
members of the president's party, while
the rooms at the opposite end of the
ball have been reserved for the use of
the secretaries, reporters and secret
service men. Secret service men will be
stationed in the halls to prevent any
outsider intruding In this portion of the
hotel.
Sqores of requests have been received
by the hotel for the president's room
immediately upon his departure. None
of these reservation requests have been
complied with.
Other hotels in the city are receiving
an Increased number of reservations for
the week-end, denoting a large influx
of visitors on the day of President Wil
son's arrival.
CHILDREN TO SEE WILSON -
But the biggest turnout of all will be
from Portland's own, who will Jam the
streets and obstruct traffic to see the
President go by. If they can't get into
The Auditorium. More than 35,000
school children alone will get a glimpse
of the president in ' Portland or at
Gresham, where it will be Children's
day at the county fair, which President
Wilson is to open.
The following persons have been se
lected among Oregon citizens to act as
committee to the president :
W. G. McPherson, Robert H. Strong,
F. B. Woodruff. Gilbert L. Hedges,
Charles V. Galloway, Charles Hall, Will
Peterson, E. E. Bragg. Til Taylor, J. H.
Ackerman, B. Lee Paget, T. J. Craw
ford. C. H. McColloch, E. B. Aldrich,
John M. Wall, C. L. McKenna.
Mrs. B. W. Olcott, Mrs. G. L. Baker,
Mrs. C. S. Jackson, Miss Ruth Catlin,
Mrs. G. J. Frankel, Miss Leon a Larrabee,
Mrs. Jennie Richardson, Miss Lillian
Hackleman.
Dr. Charles Chamberlain, Honorable
C. N. McArthur, Roger Sinnott, Warren
E. Thomas, Lieutenant Commander El
der, General Charles F. Beebe, H. N.
Esterly. John Manning, Rufus Holman,
George W. Hoyt, A. A- Muck, Thomas
M. Hurlburt, A. C. Newell, E. A. Som
mers, O. M. Plummer, George M. Orton,
George B. Thomas, Frank Lonergan,
Miss Mary Isom, Major Casslus R. Peck,
Merle Campbell. Dr. G. H. Douglas,
M. N. Dana, Ira Riggs. Dr. A. M. Web
ster, L. P. Hewitt, Frank E. Smith, W.
R. Bilyeu, Adjutant General Stafrin,
Colonel W. C. North, Major J. Francis
Drake, W. B. Roberson, Mayor Perclval,
Vancouver.
NOT PARTY FIGHT,
SAYSPRESIDENT
(Continued From Pag One)
his serious remarks with humorous
stories. As he spoke in the" armory
he stood as if In a spotlight, a sun
beam from the skylight falling upon
him.
The president reached Tacoma at
8 :55 a. m. A large crowd was at
the station to greet him. Driving to
the stadium of the high school he ad
dressed nearly 30,000 children. His
appearance here was the signal for
shrill cheering, while his car pro
gressed slowly arouriu the amphitheatre,
POLES EXPRESS THANKS
Wilson stood while the national an
them was sung by the children. He then
walked to the bandstand, and standing
hat in hard, declared he was profoundly
touched.
One of the thoughts uppermost in his
mind, he said, was that the decision the
tiatton must now make will mean more
to tho coming generation than it means
to the present generation.
A little Polish girl handed the presi
dent a memorandum from the Poles of
Tacoma, thanking him for what he had
done for Poland. Wilson left the
stadium to the din of renewed cheering
of childish voices.
At the armory, tho president found the
side door locked and was obliged to
stand on the sidewalk several minutes.
He joked about it
WILI, MEET WORKERS
The president was due to leave Ta
coma for Seattle at noon. Upon his ar
rival at the latter city at 1:30 p. m. he
was to go for a drive, take a short refit
at a hotel, and then board the old battle
ship Oregon for the review.
Wilson --! one apoplntment for Sun-
day at Seattle, a conference with rep
resentative of the state federation- of
labor, at 2 p. m. I
Wilson's plans called for a speech at
Tacoma this morning, leaving Tacoma at
noon for Seattle, where he was to re
view the Pacific fleet at I p. m. After
a public dinner at the Hippodrome in
Seattle at 7 p. m., the president intended
to speak at the arena. He will spend
Sunday in Seattle, departing at night
for Portland, where he is due earlj;
Monday.
Wilson is looking forward to meetmg
Secretary Daniels at Seattle, the first :
opportunity they' have had to confer
since the navy sectary left Wash
ington to review the Pacific fleet upon
Its arrival on the west coast.
STARTS CHEERING EARLY
The vigor with which the president
plunged into his subject at Spokane late
Friday made it appear as If he had
been "fighting under wraps," so to
speak. In some of his earlier addresses.
He had the people up on their chairs
cheering when he made his appeal that
the League of Nations issue be placed
on a non-partizan basis. He said Re
publicans first suggested the league;
that Republicans snould be for It be
cause they belong to that party, and
flatly asked that the 1920 presidential
campaign be put out of mind when the
league is under consideration.
That the president deeply appreciated
the rousing welcome he received In
Spokane was shown in his smile, which
was more in evidence than it had been
during the two or three preceding days,
and in his manner, which became more
buoyant and . enthusiastic. He appears
to respond more quickly to a hearty
greeting.
There was no speech scheduled Friday
night, but many saw ' the president at
small stations Where he most -always
came out for a wave, as if anxious not
to disappoint any gathering, however
small. During the night the president's
special crossed the Cascade range of
mountains and when the clouds broke
there was moonlit scenery which was
keenly appreciated by members of the
party.
Mrs. Wilson is receiving so many
gifts that the perishables are distributed
through the train with her compliments.
A huge box of candy was thus disposed
of last evening.
The size and enthusiasm of the crowd
which met the president's train at Pasco
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i ana ueugnieu ne was to Bee mem ana
ne saia ne took tne lioerty of Interpre
ting their welcome not only as a tribute
to the president, "but as an expression
of your interest in the great cause for
which I came out to fight."
The war, he said, will not be ended
until America's pledges have been ful
filled. The text of President Wilson's ad
dress at the armory here in part was
follows:
"My fellow countrymen : I have long
wanted to get away from Washington
in order to get into touch with the
great body of my fellow citizens, be
cause I feel, as I am sure you feel, that
we have reached one of the most critical
periods in the history of the United
States. The shadow of the war is not
yet lifted from us and we have just
come out of the depths of the Valley of
Death.
WHY WE WENT TO WAR
"1 thought It would not be Imperti
nent on my part if I asked permission
to read you the concluding passage of
th address In which I requested the
government of the United States to ac
cept Germany's challenge of war: 'We
shall fight,' I said, 'for the things we
have always carried nearest our hearts,
for democracy, for the right of those
who submit to authority to have a voice
in their own government, for the rights
and liberties of small nations, for a
universal dominion of right of such a
concert of free peoples as will bring
peace and safety to all nations, and
make the world itself at last free. To
such a pass we can dedicate our lives
and our fortunes, everything that we
are, everything that we have, with the
pride of those who know that the time
has come when America is privileged to
spend her blood and her might for the
principles that gave her birth, of happi
ness and of peace which she has en
joyed. God helping her, she can do no
other.'
BELGIUM STOOD FIRM
"That is the program we started out
on. (Applause.) That is the program
which all America adopted, without re
spect to party, and shall we now hesitate
to carry it out? Shall we now falter at
the very criticxl moment when we are
finally to write our name tc the standing
pledge which we then took? (Cries of
"No, no.") I want to remind you, my
fellow citizens, that many other nations
were pui under a deeper temptation than
we. It would have been possible for
little, helpless Belgium at any tin.e to
make terms with the enemy. At
tbe cost of everything that she had, Bel
gium did nothing else than underwrite
civilization. (Prolonged applause.)
This was a commercial
war. In part, on Germany's part, as she
feared the competition of the skillful
Belgians. She took all her machinery
away. Where it was too bulky to take
away it was all destroyed under the di
rection of experts, not blown to pieces,
but, the very part that made It Impos
sible to use it; without, absolutely de
stroyed. I bave been through great
plants there thax seemed to the eye to
have much substantial machinery left,
but experts showed me that it could
never work again. And .Belgium lies
prostrate, because she fulfilled her
pledge to civilization.
ITALY WITHSTOOD TEMPTATION
"Italy could have had her terms at
the hands of Austria at almost any
period of the war, particularly Just
before she made her final stand at the
Piave river, but she would not com
pound with the enemy. She, too, had
underwritten civilization. And, my
friends, this passage which I have read
to you, which the whole country ac
cepted as its pledge, is but an under
writing of civilization. (Applause.)
"But In order to let you remember
what the thing cost. Just let me read
you a few figures. If I did not have
them on official authority I would
deem them incredible. Here is what
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tho war cost those who were engaged
against Germany: r ' "
"It cost Great Britain and her do
minions 188,000,000.000. These figures
do not include what the different mem
bers loaned each other. They are di
rect war 'costs. Great Britain and
her dominions, thirty-eight billion dol
lars; France, twenty-six billion dol
lars; the United States, twenty-two
billion dollars; Russia, eighteen billion;
ntaly, thirteen billion, and the total, in
cluding Belgium, Japan and otner
smaller countries one hundred and
twenty-three billion dollars. It cost
the central powers: Germany, thirty-"
nine billion; Austria-Hungary, twenty
one billion ; Turkey and Bulgaria, three
billion, a total of sixty-three bilHon
dollars ; a grand total of direct war
cost of one hundred and eighty-six bil
lion dollars, an incredible sum to save
civilization.
BATTLE DEATHS HIGH
. "Now the question is are we going to
keep safe? The expenditures of the
United States were at the rate of one
million dollars an hour for two years,
one million dollars an hour including
the night-time, for two years. Battle
deaths and this is the cost that touches
our hearts the battle deaths were:
Russia, one million seven hundred thous
and ; Germany, one million six hundred
thousand ; France, one million three
hundred and eight-five thousand ; Great
Britain, nine hundred thousand ; Aus
tria, eight hundred thousand ; Italy,
three hundred and sixty-four thousand ;
the United States, fifty thousand three
hundred dead, a total of all belligerents
of seven million four hundred and fifty
thousand two hundred men dead on the
field of battle seven and a half mil
lion.
"The totals for the wounded are not
obtainable at present, but the total
wounded for the United States army
was two hundred and thirty thousand,
excluding those, of course, who were
killed. The total of all battle deaths
in all of the wars of the world from
1793 to 1914 were something under six
million. So that In all of the wars of
the world for more than one hundred
years fewer men died than have been
killed upon the field of battle In the
last five years. These are terrible facts.
my fellow citizens, and we ought never
to forget them.
NATION'S DUTY CLEAR
"The country has not forgotten this
war, and will never permit any man
who stands in the way of the fulfill
ment of great pledges ever to forget the
sorrowful day when he made that at
tempt (applause). I read you these
figures in order to emphasize and set In
a higher light, if I may, a substitute
which is offered, a substitute for war.
a substitute for turmoil, a substitute for
sorrow and despair. That substitute is
offered In the covenants of the League
of Nations (applause). America alone
cannot underwrite civilization. All the
great free peoples of the world must
underwrite It, and only the free
peoples of the world can join the League
of Nations. The membership is open
only to self-governing nations. Germany
Is for the present excluded because she
must prove that she is self-governing.
"This was a war against autocracy,
and if you have disordered, if you have
disquieted populations, if you have in
surgent elements in your populations,
you are going to have autocracy, be
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cause the stronger is going to 'seize the
powr as it nas seised it In Russia. I
want to declare I am the enemy of the
ruler ship of any. minority, however con
stituted. (Applause.) Minorities have
often beeen tight, majorities wrong; but
minorities cease to be right when they
use the wrong means to make their
wants known.
"We have tbe pledsre "of all the na
tions of the w6rld that they will sit
down and talk everything over that is
apt to make trouble among them and
that they will talk it over in public so
that the whole' illuminating process of
public knowledge and public discussion
may penetrate every part of the country.
And I believe for my part that that is a
s per cent insurance against war. (Ap
plause.;
LABOR GETS HEARING
"Now In Immediate connection with
the League of Nations there is what I
venture to call the magna charta of
liberty. There is a provision for the
constant, regular international discus
sion of labor problems, no matter where
they arise In the world, for the purpose
or lirting the whole level of -labor con
ditions. For the purpose of safeguard
ing the help of women and of children.
for the sake of bringing about those In
ternationad comities with regard to
labor, upon which the happiness of
mankind so much depends. So that
there is a heart in the midst of the
treaty, not only made by prudent men,
but it is made by men with hearts
under their jackets. (Applause).
"I have seen men over there whose
emotions are not often touched, with
suffused eyes when they spoke of the
purposes of this conference. Because
they realized that for the first time In
the history of mankind, statesmen had
got together not to lay plans for the
aggrandizement of government, but in
order to lay plans for the liberation of
people.
FAVORED BY REPUBLICANS
"What I want everybody fn every
American audience to understand is this:
The firet effective Impulse towards this
sort of thing came from America. And
I want to call your attention to the fact
that it came from some of the very men
who are now'opposing its consummation.
They dreamed the dream that is now
being realized ; they saw the vision 20.
25, 30 years ago, which all mankind are
now permitted to see, and it Is of par
ticular importance to remember, my fel
low citizens, at this moment when some
men have dared to Introduce party pas
sion into this question that some Of the
leading spirits, perhaps I might say the
leading spirit in the conception of this
great idea, were the leading figures of
the great Republican party.
"I do not like to mention parties In
this matter. I hope there Is not a real
thoughtful, conscientious person in the
United States who will determine his or
her opinion about this matter with any
thought that there is an election In the
year 1920 (applause), and I want you to
forget. Just because I want you to realize
how absolutely nonpartisan this thing is.
1 1 want to forget, if you please, that I
had anythine to do with it. I had the
great privilege of being the spokesman
of this splendid nation at this critical
period in her history, but I , was her
spokesman, not my own.
TOOK ADVICE OF OPPONENTS
"When I advocated the things in this
League of Nations I had the full and
proud consciousness I was only express
ing the best thought and the best eon-
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sclence of my beloved fellow country
men great applause). Thet only things
that I have any special personal con
nection with in the League of Nations
covenant are things that I waa careful
to have put in there because of the very
considerations which are now being
urged. I brought the first draft of the
League of Nations covenant over to this
country In March last. I then held a
conference of the frankest sort with the
foreign relations committee of the sen
ate. They made a number of sugges
tions as to alterations and additions. I
took all of these suggestions back to
Paris and every one ot them, without
exception, was embodied in the covenant
(applause). I had one or two hard
fights to get them in.
"You are told, my fellow citizens. It
is amazing that anybody should say it,
but you are told that it does not satis
factorily recognize the Monroe doctrine.
Why, it says in so many words that
nothing in that covenant shall be con
sidered as Impairing the validity of the
Monroe doctrine, and the point is that
up to tnat conference there wasn t a
nation in the world that could, have
been induced to give official recognition
to the Monroe doctrine : and bere in
this great turn of the tide of the world
all the great nations of the world
united, in recognizing the Monroe doc
trine (applause).
TOOK REPUBLICAN ADVICE
It not only Is not impaired, but it hae
the backing of the world (applause).
Every point where suggestions were
made, they were accepted, and the. sug
gestions came, for the most part,' from
the Republican side of the committee. I
say that because I am particularly In
terested, my fellow citizens, to hae you
realize that there is no politics in this
thing, except that profoundly important
politics, the politics of civilization.
"I have the honor today of speaking
under a chairman who, I understand. Is i
a member of the Republican party ; and j
every meeting that I have spoken to on
this trip has been presided over by n
Republican (applause). I am saying
these things merely because I want to
read the riot act to anybody who tries
to inject politics Into this matter.
AMERICA FIRST
"Some very interesting things hap
pened while we were on the other side
of the water. One of the most distin
guished lawyers of the United States.
Mr. Wlckersham of New Yprk, who was
the attorney general in Mr. Taft's cabi
net, came over to Europe. I am told I
did not see him while he was over there
but I am told that he came over there
to fight the thing, to oppose the things
that he understood the American peace
mission was trying to accomplish and
what happened to Mr. Wickersham? He
was absolutely converted, above all
things else, to the necessity of having a
league of nations, not only, but this
League of Nations.
"He came back to the United States
and has ever since, in season and out of
season, been preaching in pubit': hd
vecacy of the adoption of this covenant.
I need not tell you the conspicuously
fine work which his chief Mr. Taft, l'as
been doing in the same ciua'.. I am viy
proud, my fellow citizens, to be ncto
clated with these gentlemen ; I am very
proud to forget party lines, because
there Is one thing that Is so much great
er than being a Republican or a Demo
crat that these things ought never to
be mentioned or connoted with this.
The strike is settled
and we're a I I as
happy as a bunch of
Huns in a pr is o n
camp. So,
LET'S GO!
and that is being an American. (Ap
plause.) ,
DUTY MUST BE MET V J
, There la only one way to be an Amer
ican, and that is to fulfill the "pledges
that we gave the world at our birth.
We have given the world, at every turn
In our history that we have Just now
sealed with the blood of some of our
best young men. Ah. my fellow citizens,
do not forget the aching hearts that ar
behind discussions like this ; do not for
get the forlorn homes from which those
boys went and never came back. 1 hay
it In my heart that if we do not do thla
great thing now, every woman ought to
weep because of the child at her arms.
She has a boy at her breast and she may
be sure that when he comes to manhood
this terrible task will not have to bo
done once more. Everywhere I look at
the little children with tears In my eyes,
because I feel It my business to save
them. Those glad youngsters with flags
In their hands! I pray to God they
niay never have to carry the flag upon
the battlefield.
I wish that some of the men who are
opp g this treaty could get the vision
In their hearts of what It has done. It
has liberated great populations ; It has
set up the standards of riuht and liberty
for the first time where they were never
unfurled before, and then has placed
back of It this splendid power of nations
combined. For without the League of
Nations the whole thing Is a house ot
cards ; Just a breath of power to blow it
down, whereas with the Lenpue of Na
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