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Show WEST LIED OP FOfl PACT, WHITER SAYS i j David Lawrence Asserts j That People Are Stand-1 Stand-1 ing Behind Wilson in i Fight for Covenant. I 'President Warns of Con- i j sequences of Failure ; to Accept Agreement I Without Reservations. I By DAVID LAWRENCE. uCopyrijjht, HMi, by Tho Salt Lake Tribune. 1 EX KOUTK TO DKNVL'K, COLO., Sept. 2. Prrsidoru Wiisoa has at last told the country what ho would do if the senate :uisle.l v:pou chrjiginj the nieanirg oi the treaty by means of j " reservations. ' lie did not in his Upeeoh at Cheyenne say lv would re-'gard'all re-'gard'all reservation? as n disapproval ! of the treaty of peace, but e went definitely on record in paying ha would tic. obliged to rfard th T-ode reservation reserva-tion on article X ns a rep'oion of the treaty. That means, he added, the necessity of negotiating a separate p-'aeo with Germany, as tto other powers. pow-ers. Mr. Wilson declared, will poon have ratified the present treaty and put it into operation. For several days the president has been approaching th? cli-l cli-l ntajt. lie has been rending the newspapers' news-papers' accounts of the senate nativities nativi-ties and has insisted to liis audiences that mauy of the men who aro favoring favor-ing ; reservations are hi; "a minded !i!Pii, but that they do r.ot realise or j fully understand what would be th? consequences of their action. PRESIDENT UNSPARING IX HIS DENUNCIATION. The president's denunciation of the proposed reservation to article X was unsparing. After reading its text, whereby it is BUggestod that the United i States would assume no obligation to preserve the territorial integrity of any nations and would bo exempt from all action except in those cases wherein the congress might direct, the president declared that such a reservation meant that America made no general promise but left it to other nations to guess always al-ways what she would do. ''We won't join it. now. but occasionally," occa-sionally," is what the president said I America would mean by such a reservation. reserva-tion. "We won't cooperate now, but j i rum time to time wo may co-operate," The president made it very clear that such a course would involve uncertainty uncertain-ty and would take from Ivneath the structure of peace its props and foundations. foun-dations. :;Tt means the rejection of Tn& trea-( trea-( Continued on Page S, Column 4.) 1ST LIID IIP FOR PACT. WRITER SAYS (Conlhmort From raf,n One.) i y , ' ' Ha id Mr. W i ham, and I he erowd at ( hey en no lisl ein'd in solemn awe. And Mr. Wilson s Ihreal to regard reservation on nvtiele X" as a re I jeelioii of the treaty is not an einjdy I one. j ir as Ft:i,LY wkk;iikd j CONSKQtlliNC'K OK WORDS. 11m hilH fully considered the rouse j (jtienees of his statement. He was ! inclined to .;o as far as I hat in his t-mlt I. tike speech, but abseneo of definite advices cuneern i n the sen a I e 's intentions inten-tions may have swerved him I'mui his original purpose. At any rate, he made the issue clear wl.i'ti he reached Cheyenne, Chey-enne, where he dee la red a Inn t hat t lie oian i.ed forces of op pus it inn out side the congressional halls, were tin) hy- phenn tat Amerieans and pro (!einian forces which tended toward disloyally I during the war. ! ''The issue is final,'' he said. "We cannot avoid it, we hae ;:ot to make it now and once made w e en n not t urn baek. We must either pi in to or.av-anti or.av-anti the peace of the world or stay out until some dark and disastrous day a nd seek ad m issiou will) l ' enna ny. The pre-ideal has east the die and i he. whole burden of his speeches here after u ill 1 toward a deli neat ion of the force which ho is convinced are trying to brin about a separate penee with tlermany and a rejection of the treaty by means of destructive ro-rva-'.ious. The president realises that many of the proposed reservations hae no sneh purpose, thai they mean only !o clarify lanuae of th.- covenant. BATTLE CENTERED ON RESERVATIONS. i So the d!-"e::-s!ou v, id now t-m.-r on uat kilai of r w,.r alioas il in- posi- l.e .,: tlie pi.s'd.-nt to ilea nd as ;.e ap-pr.'.e: ap-pr.'.e: es oih.-r pal. on, ami asks their ae.j lie-ivlirr in Ml.ii n j mj) i..'t ioaa 'o' e r.-s- e!'atioris as tii- seaate may fiuakv put ii.t" tae ratlfyini; r.-so! i . i;.y pm: .-vi-n th.o-r.-li a n-a.'.oritv vote n-av in--rt in t'O' ral.iv-l ::;e reoh;t'oii a men i m- ); s or r- rv.. ; io, .s s'aii as nr.. proposed v.dih Tepl..-t ;.. ar-l ti'ie X, a leu-tnird vo'e is i.ei'd. d 'il;!-' matflv to pass Up- laiifvia;; r.-si,it'oa. end rat.-r ika-i pat t. f:iit- d Stat.- in ike pos:tan of tcif-tinir lru.;:y (,. put ' i inz ianr.a.i;-- into it whieh ,u:M UK a n i esu 1 eui - si oa of rent-'Vt-d in 'oi ia -tarns wit'a Jernmpy, n s a f1i-.r .-n t i s 1 1 t i : i-of i-of venaLors, a little it.oiv i!;a:i o: i---t !. . id. "..Uai pre ent ihe i i ;f;. h:u -sol a t a n from eomint; to a ote in ol.ket:onat.:... form. I'lX RESPONSIHIL1TY TOR ELRTIIER DELAY. This would trans;Vr the farkt io t.u-; t.u-; .pustion of responsittilh y for ueiayinc pt-a -e. Tho.-o who w.re holding up thv tr-at wu'ud contend that in it an:ciHied form it was a rejoetmu of the treaty and a vote way futile, wl'.ile those wlio )-ati passed a ra'ifyiai; r.. sohir.on i scralion.- i in'-:ht arae tliat enui";'i votes Werr j avaikihle to iao e t' e l aty oat of t:.-' , :;ale into neoL.at!.e:s with oilier pow- j ers. j i-iul Mr. Wh.-on aaparint-y intends from now on to O'-mousi ale 'n-r: respon- j s.'a lily for delay lies. M.- says aaia and I aeaiu ia his spe.-io s ihat. as la.- o.as now ero'st-d i iO eoi.lnii-ul. he is fpralifir-J to say ilv. t an uv-j; c : i : n -r.i timent favors fa-vors I ne. iai mediate ratifieat kui of tm treaty. Cei-tatnly in California. 1'tali and W'vn-mliu,'. W'vn-mliu,'. as well as in Oregon, Wfisainirton and .Montana, the Plates whir. praetmHlly eh-. ted Mr. U'iNoa in i;lk th;s is true. The people1 in those stat. p do noi ouje 1 to resfcf;it;ons, but as si.f. as one asl;s the ipiest'on as to the ehar:-o-K-r of reservations reser-vations def :ned wis--, it is im.noiia ti-ly declared I'ir-il only r.-serva ioas whieh do nol mean new negotiations with Oermany or the associated i oiVef.s will be approved hy the people. Sentiment in West. Senator Shuoot of t'ts.1: is eor'fronted ! now with the faet tnat president Grant of t::e Mormon eliureh has come out in favor of tin; covenant without qualifications. Senator Warrin of Wyoming faces aj watehful eonstitneney whieii wants him i to see that a k-airue of nations s estah-lishM estah-lishM a.Pd wb.ieh i 1 1 not approve of destructive de-structive resorva lions. This information was eriven to mo by a wel! - informed man disinterested in politics, pol-itics, who has just made a canvass of j leaem of nations sentiment in alt parts of Wyoming. I obtained virtually the same impression In t'tali. Too western states have analyzed the treaty and covenant more than have the eastern states and have been won to the central fdea of it. They think its imperfections imper-fections can bo. cured when once the league begins to function and they are afraid of the consequences of a rejection of the treaty at this time, especially when no substitute is offered to guarantee the peace of the world. |