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Show PLEADS FDR ADOPTION DF PEAQL.PACT President's Appeal for Nonpartisan Consider-! Consider-! atiori of League Gains Ground for His Cause. i J Failure to Draw Line j Between Moderates and j j Extremists, However, j Is Militating Adversely. I By DAVID LAWRENCE. i (Cnpyrislit hy ilir Salt Lal.o Tribune.) ' i;.V laH'TK TO OMAHA. Neb., Srpi. rnnlont Wils'tn fliciti a friomliii-r j rnsfK.riso. n l:cjivti.-r pnrtin and a pro-j ?rc.i c'y onrncl t-nt husi;j.-n fur ihe I I'uii'Iaincn 01 errand as he moves I through Missouri. Iowa :md Nebraska, j in th.it Hcction o. America where go j hand iu hand a contempt for partv politic! &nd en impatience to remoe for nil time the obstacles to a permanent perma-nent peace. Nothing beems to strike the big audiences audi-ences as mora apropos or apt than a denunciation of tho party maneuvers that keep the American public perplexed per-plexed and bewildered about national : and international policy. One might have thought the roof was coming down i when the president dignesingly re- , I marked to a packed auditorium of fif-j teen thousand people ot St: Louis that ; he sometimes wishes "both parties1 might be smothered in their own gas." ! And again at Kansas City and again at Des Moines. Mr. WiJson took occasion ' w i':h excellent effect to say t hnt the i treaty and league of nations were by no means party matters. HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN-OLD FORGOTTEN-OLD CRITICISMS. But th? trouble is a statement hke that, while it proclaims a principle which the people like to hear, doesn't leave them any better informed as to why the treaty is being blocked than the were before Mr. Wilson came. They haven 't forgotten tho criticism 1 loveled at Mr. Wilson himself in his selection of peace commissioners to represent rep-resent America lit Paris nor are they unmindful of the fact that the Democratic Demo-cratic party in the senate supports the treat and league almost to a man Hnd apparently seeks no reservations or 'amendments whatsoever, while the Republican Re-publican party disagrees almost entirely with that viewpoint and wants either to tack on explanatory reservations or amendments or to kill the whole thing, treaty and all. The president has set out to "fight the extremists those who want neither the league nor jvaco treaty, those who say lhe peaee 1ejms are too cruel and that the world would be better oti if the whole pact failed. SOMETIMES UNFORTUNATE IN HIS REFERENCES. j Those ane the men whose argument Mr. "Wilson is seeking to tear to pieces, but he has failed thus far clearly to draw a lino between the extremists and mild reservationists of the opposition and has in thoughtless momenta dropped his reserve and spoken of the "amazing ignorance " of his opponents, a sequel to ' ' pygmy-minded and sm'all-visioned sm'all-visioned men," whieh epithets have not served hitherto in establishing friendly relations between tho executive and legislative branches of the government. Once, at Des Moines and Kansas City, the president spoke of those who were conscientiously opposed to provisions of the treaty and were exercising their legitimate right to scrutinize its contents, con-tents, but before he ceased his speech ho had characterized th?ir hesitation as based upon ignorance and not honest doubt. i ButMr. Wilson s friends ask whv j Mr. Wilson should be so tender of the' (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) I being .turned Inquiringly toward the senate. They prayed for the senate in Des Moines. gether from tho treaty, the president has won loud applause when illustrating illustrat-ing the value to the United States of that much-mooted article. Instances Belgium. First, he applies it to Belgium and shows how a pledge by all the world, including the United States, to protect the territorial integrity of Belgium I and its political independence would have been sufficient to prevent the last j war. Then he turns to central Europo and declares that unless article ten is in the treaty, the whole structure falls and that Rumania, Jugo-Slavia, Bohemia Bo-hemia and Poland are left helpless in the midst of strong fighting nations and can produce another world war. Or else Mr. Wilson refers to the Philippines. Philip-pines. He says, hi effect, but plainly enough for his audiences to catch, -the hint, that .America, has -been . worrying for the last decado how she could turn the Philippines loose without, seeming to toss' the. helpless islands, into , tho arms of Japan. lie implies that America Amer-ica would have to stand guard with a big navy in the far east to guarantee the independence of the Philippines. Article Ten a Safeguard. But now he exhibits the league of nations na-tions and article ten in particular ae a safeguard for the Philippines, saying the combined armies and navies of the world would be oblieed to defend the territorial integrity of the new republic repub-lic when once independence is granted. Last, but not least, Mr, Wilson applies ap-plies article ten to the case of unfortunate unfor-tunate China. Ho reminded his Des Moines audience that you never hear much about the other nations besides Japan which now hold economic as well I as territorial rights in China by virtue ' I of the lease system of indefinite pos- sessiqn and says that temporarily Japan has been substituted for Germany. He gives the impression that it was not possible to give China the German rights without logically asking Great Britain and Franco and" the other powers pow-ers to give up their holdings in China. But he hints that under a league of nations it would be possible to secure a revision of these leases and also that no more territory will ever be taken from China because article ten will apply ap-ply to an' land-bragging nation that seeks to practice, aggression upon China. So he exhorts the sincere friends of China to get inside tho league if they really want to help China. ' Please Audiences. Explanation of that kind seems to please tho big audiences, for Shantung is a question which has been widely discussed. Mr. Wilson is right when he says that only threo or four provisions provis-ions of the treaty have been discussed out here and, while it is wise for him to explain the heart and substance of the other articles, his crowds appreciate information on the controversial phaso of the document. It is difficult to estimate the effect of Mr. Wilson's journey thus far. These PLEADS FDR THE PEACE COVENANT (Continued From Page One.) fpplincrs nf th mpn whn nro nflKsivfllv or otherwise failing to assert their disagreement dis-agreement with that faction in the Republican Re-publican party which is. to his mind, misrepresenting the treaty as a breeder of wars and as too cruel to impose upon Germany. They add that only a few months ago tho Republican party won a congressional election largely on the program of "unconditional surrender" and an assiduously spread apprehension that the president favored a "soft peace." They have in large part, therefore, proved that their objections to the league aro derived from a sense of political opposition rather than conscientious con-scientious disagreement. EFFECTIVE INT APPEAL ON UNDERSTOOD GROUND. It is apparent that whenever the president stays on simple ground he makes a favorable impression. Many a man in his Des Moines audience liked his explanation of the Shantung controversy con-troversy and I believe Mr. Wilson gained friends when he frankly told the Des Moines people that he didn't like the Shantung settlement any more than they did and that Great Britain and France, in order to induce Japan to come into the war, had made a bargain which had to bo kept. Mr. Wilson pointed to article ten as the solvent of our own, as well as China's troubles with Japan. Although men in the senate have called it a breeder of wars and have wanted the article qualified, if not stricken alto- -aiddle western people tnrow tneir ants into the air and wave their arms in enthusiastic demonstrations. The streets in Des Moines were jammed with cheering thousands at eventide. It looked like a triumphnl procession as the president ' rode through the throng of Iowans. The ten thousand people who' crowded the colisum in Des Moines to its very rafters came from all parts of the state. Spontaneous Tribute. Many rode two hundred miles to hear M!r. Wilson. It was a spontaneous tribute. They respect Mr. Wilson out here, though they don't care much for the Democratic party. But the president presi-dent won his election in 1916 by tho drift of the western folks townrd his program of peace and his supporters west of the Mississippi river have not altogether deserted him. His strength is still based upon an intense desire for peace and an end to war that is stronger than any political party and stronper, too, at present than the mistakes mis-takes of the Democratic administration on domestic policy. The president is making a sentimental sentimen-tal appeal. He is describing the suffering suf-fering of Armenia, the plight of torn and disturbed France and central Europe Eu-rope and tho burdens of taxation, as well as the awful possibility of further fur-ther conflict which ho predicts will come if the United States decides to stand off and build up a big army and navy and refuses to do its part in ridding rid-ding the world of the militarism that made possible a world war. Eyes are |