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Show tUNION HEAD SUBJECTED TC RIGID QUESTIONING; FOES ASKED TO TOE MARK ON COJINT Upper Chamber Invited to Take Stand on Direct Di-rect Issue of Acceptance Accep-tance or Rejection. Hyphenated Opposition Scored by President in Emphatic Addresses at Pueblo and Denver. TOKIO, Sept. 25. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Japan Is planning officially to invite China to confer on the Shantung situation after Japan has ratified the peace treaty. This fact was communicated to the correspondent today by officials, who added that Japan naturally could not compel China to accept th InTrftj H nil PUEBLO, Colo., Sept. 23. Reducing his I fight for the peace treaty to a direct is- sue of acceptance or rejection. President! I Wilson today invited the senate to ta";e j r a dt finite and unmistakable, stand one i I way or the other. j : After de?larir:g it would be h:s duty j I as chief executive to judge whether the senate's action constituted acceptance or j rejection, should reservations be incorpo- rated in the ratification, the president J added a warning that he did not consider "qualified adoption" as adoption in fact. He said, however, that he saw no objection ob-jection to mere Interpretations. Ir two addresses !n Colorado during the J day, Mr. Wilson reiterated again and again that the whole controversy had resolved re-solved itself Into a clear-cut question, whether the United States uhould go Into the league of nations or stay out. It was time, he said, that the nation l:new where it was to stand. AGREED UPON BY REPUBLICAN LEADERS. j Meanwhile White House officials In the presidential party permitted it to become known the proposed reservation which the president quoted at Salt Lake City I and Cheyenne, and which he announced he would regard as a rejection of the treaty, was one he. had been informed was j agreed on by several Republican senate I leaders. I The president's first speech of the day was at a morning meeting in Denver, and later he addressed a crowd which filled the Municipal hall here. Cheers many times interrupted his declarations at the two meetings, and in both cities a constant con-stant din of cheering greeted him as he passed through the streets. At every station along the way the peo- pie had gathered to see his train, and at Colorado Springs, where a short stop was made, he was given a tumultuous welcome wel-come by a crowd which Jammed the station sta-tion plaza and overflowed into the adjoining ad-joining streets. Before his speech here he drove through the state fair grounds, where another crowd cheered him. ADAMS EULOGIZES PRESIDENT WILSON. The president was introduced at the meeting here by Alva Adams, former governor gov-ernor of Colorado, who eulogized Mr. Wilson Wil-son as a "twentieth century Paul,' and the greatest '"prophet of peace." In his Pueblo address, the president said the chief pleasure of his countrywide country-wide trip was that it had nothing to do with his personal fortunes. He repeated his charge that an "organized propaganda" propagan-da" was opposing the treaty and that it proceeded from "hyphens." "Any man who carries a hyphen about him," "he said, "carries a dagger which he is readv to plunge into the vitals of the ; republic. If I can catch a man with a hvDhen in this great contest, I will know that I have caught an enemy of the republic." re-public." Reviewing the treaty provisions, the president stressed the self-determination and labor features, asserting that If the treaty failed there would be no great international in-ternational tribunal before which labor could bring its requests for better conditions. con-ditions. "What we want to do with the great I lahor questions." he added, "is to lift them into the light." NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT PEACE CONDITIONS. I Going' on to the league of nations covenant, cove-nant, he declared it was necessary for carrying out ihe peace terms. For the same reason, he asserted, the covenant would be Incorporated In the treacles with j Aimtrla-Hunpary, Bulgaria and Turkey, now under negotiation at Vert:iiie.s. ! Referring to objections that the I'nlted j States mipht be Ht a disadvantage In the ( leapue. Mr. Wilson said that whoever said that "either was falsifying- or he - (Continued ou fr-ge 4, Column 3.) ASKS SENATE TO ICE ! MURK oi cr (Continued From Far.e One.) , i ha in't real the covcn.ni: .ie acio.c-d j t.-.at there v:ts iio vahd.ty in the arg".:- i merit th.it the Fr:t:.sh empire cou'd out- 1 vote the other nAt.ons. recvjse the j rire ? votes re m the sssemh.y, , w . i . o h : s "o r. : y the I a ".k : n -T bod y " of ire 1 it-.t;;:o. The res! p o t e. r of a c I : o 1 1 . h e I s.i'.ii. was m the council, whose decisions n-.-.s: he nr.animons, I Pavinc a trihnte to the British colonies. ' i the j'-resident asked whether Cari.ida ws 1 not re ore hkt'.y to -spree with the United Mates than with Great Britain. -e mad--- a p.ea that r.cttace of .lea'c-jsy' he swept aside and tna.: Americans shomd he "h:i; enonch" lo look at the Question n its true hchu T h e "pre 5 : d e r. t w e :i t into the Shan: .: r c sett;e:nc r.t r.t iencth, dvehirins. it was the loac.ie of nations whicn vomd .s:ve China her on po r i ; : n ; t y to free 1 : e r s e f fro n . i h e J inror.ds made upon her hy other nations. The disposition of ?V..ir.p,iri:. he said, was ' t p e h e s t that oou'.a o e obtained at t n e t-nie. These and other ohjeotions had hcen nnmistak.ihiv answered, he said, and the ease had been sett'.ed -upon the 'heart of the covenant" the e e 1 e h ra t e A a. r t c e X. under which the leasnie members agree io respect and preserve one another's territorial integrity as against externa! a cere ss i on. The re w as no t h i n c. w o rt h consider-: nc in t:ie other object ions, he said, fliih-ir: "But tr.ere is something in article X which you oushl to realise and ought to accept or reject. ' Under the wordinc of the article, said Mr. Wilson, the league could only advise what action should be taken in international interna-tional controversies and could give its advice only by u na n i m or. s vote- T h e re -fore, the Amerkan deheg.ite would have to vote "aye," he added, before congress even could be advised what to do. Article X. said the president, was based on the sentiVnents not only of the American Amer-ican people, but of the world. Referring I to his famous fourteen points of pe-aee, which, lie said, only spoke the sentimem of the American people. Mr. Wilson declared de-clared that pro gra m had been a cor p t e d everywhere and that he had crossed the ocean "under bond" and carried out the pe-ice plan which everyone had indorsed. The president also read a Quotation by Theodore Roosevelt, urging that the nations of the world unite for peace, and to protect territorial integrity. , Mr. Wilson was arrlauded when he . said the Unitei States was "too proud 1 to ask for reservations which would re- lieve i: of some of the responsibilities other nations assume under the league." j There was more applause when he lie- j clared he was f.ghtmg for the safety of : the children and would exert all his in- nhier.ee to see that another generation would not have to go overseas in arms-It arms-It was the "dearest wish" of Germany, he said, that the United States should stay out of the league, because that would mean the alienation of this country from the other recent enenv.es of German autocracy. |
