Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-14 | Page 2 | Touches on the Labor Agreement

TOUCHES ON THE LABOR AGREEMENT. The labor section of the treaty also was praised by the president, who said it had been "made by men with hearts under their jackets" and in the interests inter-ests of humane and just labor conditions. condi-tions. "Party passion," the president said, had been arotiBed by the treaty discussion, dis-cussion, although tho "fundamental principles prin-ciples of the document had come years ago from liepublican statesmen. He asked his audience to forget that he had anything to do with the consummation consum-mation of those principles and to overlook over-look that there would be an election in 1920. On his return from Paris, Mr. Wilson went on, he had received certain suggestions sug-gestions from the senate foreign relations rela-tions committee which came for the most part from the Republican side of the committee. Eeturnmg to the peace conference, he said he had secured the acceptance of every one of these suggestions. sug-gestions. "I say these things," he continued, "because I want to read the riot act to anybody who tries to introduce politics pol-itics into this thing. There is something some-thing so much greater than being a Republican Re-publican or a Democrat that those names ought never to be mentioned in connection with it. That is being an American, and the way to be an American Amer-ican is to fulfill the pledges we have made. ' ' The crowd cheered this declaration and there was more applause when Mr. Wilson went on to tell of the work of former President Taft and former Attorney At-torney General Wickersham for the league. Mr. Wilson said he was deeply touched by the interest of mothers anil of children chil-dren in the hope of world peace. Saying Say-ing many of the children had hailed him along the way as "Woody," the president pres-ident digressed to remark that he had no objection to that if it were applied "as a name and not as a description." Every woman with a child, declared the president, would live in fear if this plan for world peace failed. "And those children who caried flags on the street today I pray God they never will have to carry that flag on the fiold of battle." Without the league, said Mr. Wilson, the treaty would be a "house of j cards," which any "breath of power could overturn." With the league, he added, "it was as strong as Gibraltar." Regretting' delay in acceptance of the treatv, Mr. Wilson declared American" industry would be "chilled and ruined" unless there is action. Every Teal American, the president said, should be willing "to make the sacrifice to underwrite civilization" because be-cause it was the true American spirit to "give until it hurts." Reasserting his hope that no attempt would be made to qualify, the treaty, the president predicted that some day men would look back with surprise that anyone should have opposed it.