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Show BIT TO JO BEST V.?:'sident Refers to So-J So-J and Economic oblems in Plea for, ct in Montana City. y. Is Campaign in State ith Address Before ! irge Audience, Which! L: plauds Arguments.! jEXA. Mo::.., Sep:. 11. In two ad- - j in Mcn:.a. today President V"il- ied the peace tre-ity he rati- J.:hou: ue'.ay so that the spirit of 5a' -r.rest spreading from Russia e Quieted. ---" og he had been to'.d the west was cd by "what is cal'.ed radicalism," j esiien: declare i ;':e only way to ten from agitating against griev- - was to remove the grievances. As ? :- S "things are wrong," he said, he " . . : in:e"d to ask that men stop agt- "regir.g on'.y that they use orderly ;- - - is. . rid:ca".-m meant "cutting up i-. reo:." a process that would be J """ ?c jr.ne--:ssary U" 'r.ox:ous growths" " - Jmoved. . l the president was introduced by or S.: Stexart at his nigh; ad-. ad-. : - u.-e the crowd stood up and: , i L I , , a" its complexities, Mr. 'i',son ie iss'je after all was whether the : -65 of the war would be in va'.n, i sk of tr.ose who fou?ht was only ---- ce. he declared, and If the treaty i 3- r"t into offer; "men like these 'e to die again." ' NOT ENGAGE I .IXGLY IN WAR. I'-ited b"tate, sai,t the p-esiuent. e m'Q this war v.-iiiingly and - - l ::or. "ad tried to convince itself . . European business v.'as not our vr " B-" '"- presently, he continued, ... .oe apparent that civilization itself stake. :: fough. Germany," :;e continued, - he worit might be a fit place to Ard the world will not be a fit 7 :ve in as long a any great an do what Germany did." ' i-gue. asserted Mr. Wilton, no opportunity for a peo-)e peo-)e thrown into war without their But if the leasae failed, he de-- y ' tf;e Pnited States would he de-I" de-I" P'"-!ty "of preparing a situation - - . .-ouid brir.sr on the final war." : re Vniteu States should he .' " ' 'or the poace oi tht world," the ... : it'Jic'.ar-n, was Inevitable. !e-r !e-r ' rr: &: -mrtci-'.n power had been ' T' - - fhsm;y, he said, t:ntii it was "r '.. i--e f-::,-il'.ed her ph.-de to Cuba. .: e orid knew, he nddel, that it - ' pose its co. Hide nee in the United : :cnf:den?e, sr.A M- Wilson, has V a'-' .;0Wn the full-t.--; mr-a.ure at C ;-' " !S and. in conscience, thi p-ace ) . ,; i drawn upon .American sn...-lfi?a-" t : ; - . LEAGUE IS ! ' 1 Vi sTIAL TO PEACE. j le ;h treaiv co:U not be' '-Ay- , r'l':"Ja' t:. ;.ue, the prfl- ! 01 ''''or tirr'tor':' .-.rtlustmenis of . . .? j';.: " on aitj o: the sort of ; ' ". :,-'crtciJ, only a concert ' .;?'-'. I "c'.?': '' :,f n;i?'n. The I'-UKV.e I -."l :- - '-ne !'trn!prri;u:!tv. he na!d, !"' '' ' ' V" K00,i arc to be .lciiver'i I " ".. ' ! thc-v b.i'.onu'." !n I . s of difputed overc!ynty. wo'ilil t.e a slop to- ,. '.o o.-rnw:ra"y. the presMon . t m'1" the !lrs- tlm?. 't woa'.d :. f ma,l ilnj we.lk alions on a ' : c'1Ja"t' "ith the great and ' '''S?n W ne wondered where the Ze" 'ivln" w:, " wantrd ? :'. , , nd alone ami disconnect - . 'Jm te world. 'V' :' !"'"Von has neen to connect - .l ' nl'"r"e. wor,d on.merclally." he ' f oankrupt If she docs Sk-1 th?'" darina the past few ; us:noss enterprlces. anxious f-,'S'v;.'r"m Ihe exc-PS protlts law, 1 vsh.m,"'"? ln, thp n!ar:em..nt n tri es for. aftei-the-war trade. tT7'Sv;' e-. COilM not l" cured. he e would 'burst his Jacket." "Nervations ,S ;D HE SAYS. r-.;. " urnim. -Son rt''ca his prevl-'"8 prevl-'"8 rZ.i Sl'Al 110 reservation or h-, to I,ro,p''t the r.ntioH's .,';,;fi,W511. the Monroe doctrine, : - -Lj t.hat whi the Monroe , ' m on Tage 4, Column APPEALS FOR PACT TO END UNREST (Continued From Page One.) doctrine section was under discussion at Paris he tried In Vain to think of any language which would be a more sweeping and specific guarantee of the doctrine. The language chosen, he said, was decided upon as an absolute guarantee. Enumeration or domestic questions by name as proposed by Some Of the league opponents would be dangerous. Mr. Wilson Wil-son said, because something might be left ""n'oferrlng again to "radicalism," the president said Iho men who tried to got what thev wanted by destroying governments govern-ments would themselves be destroyed. He expressed his "shame" at recent race riots and said that for policemen to strike was a crime against civilization. The duty of a policeman to his government govern-ment he' asserted, was a direct One, which should be borne with responsibility. The president asserted that no one could kill government by killing those who conduct" con-duct" government. TEXT OF WILSON'S HELENA APPEAL. The text of president Wilson's address, In part, follows: "I have not come from Washington so I much to advise you as to get in touch with you ns to get the feeling of the purposes which are moving you. because, my'fellow citizens, I may tell you as a secret lhat some people in Washington lot that touch. If one stays In Washington Wash-ington too long, one is apt to catch that same removed numbness which seems to characterize others who are there. (Laughter and applause.) "I like to come out and feel once more the thing that Is the only real thing in public affairs, that is, the great movement move-ment of public opinion in the Lniled States (npplausel, and I want to put the case very simply to you tonight, for. wih all its complexities, with ail its mnnv aspects, it Is a very simple ones-tion'when ones-tion'when vou g.-t to the heart of it. Tiiat question is nothing more nor less than thl- shall the great sacrifice that we made in this war be in vain, or shall it nof I want to say to you very solemnly that notwithstanding the splendid achievement achieve-ment of our soldiers on the other side of the sea. whom I don't hesitate to say saved the world (applause); notwith-r.tandlng notwith-r.tandlng the noble things that they did. their task Is only l-.aif done, and it remains re-mains for us to complete it. "If we left the thing where It ia and did not carry out the program of the treaty of pence in all its fulness (applause)," (ap-plause)," men like these would have to die to do the work over again and convince provincial statesmen that the world is one, nnd that only by an organization of the world can you save tho young men of tiie worid. (Applause.) "As I think upon this theme there is a picture very distinctly in my mind. On last Memorial day I stood in an American cemelerv in France, just outside Paris, on the slopes of the Suresncs. The hill siopes o a utile plain. When I went out thvre all tho slope of the hlil was covered with men in the American uniform, standing; but rising tier on tier as if on a great witness stand. Then below them over a lit tie level si ace were simple crosses That marked the renting place oi the American dead and just by the stand where I spoke was a group of Frenchwoman French-woman who had lost their own sons, but just because they had lot their sons and because thir hear:. went out In thought and sympathy to the mothers on this side of the s?a, tiuy had made thrn-soIvcp, thrn-soIvcp, so to Fay, mother- of those graves and every day had gone to take care of l hem : every day had .strewn them with flowers and stood there, their cheeks wrtted with tears, while I spoke, not of the French dead, but of the American hoys who h:id died in the common cause. Recall With Regret. "Thev seemed to want to be thrown togeihf-V on that day and in that little spoi with the heart3 of the world, and I took occasion to say that day that those who stood in the way of completing the task tho.e men had died for would some day look back upon It ih those others have looked ba'k upon the dnys when they tried to divide this union and pr.-vent it from being a single nation, united in a sinc'.e form of liberty. For the compleiion of the work of those men is this, that the thing that they fought to stop shall never b attempted again. I call to your minds that, we did not no tnto this war willingly. I was in a position posi-tion to know. In the providence of God, the leadership of this nation v. as in- I trusted to me during those early years of the war vhen we were not in it. "I was aware through many subtle channels of the movement of opinion in this country and I know that tho. thing tha,t this country chiefly desired, that you out here in tho west chiefly desired; the thing that, of course, every living woman had at her heart, was that we should keep out of tho war. Was Vain Persuasion. "We tried to persuade ourselves that Kuropcan business was not our business. 1 We tried to convince ourselves that no matter what happened on the other side of the sea, no obligation of duty rested upon us, and finally we found ihe currents cur-rents of humanity too strong for us, we found tiiat a great consciousness was 1 , welting up in us because this was not a local cause; that this was not a struggle strug-gle which was to be confined to Europe or confined to Asia to which it had already al-ready spread, but it was something that involved the very fate of civilization and there was one great nation in the world that could not afford to stay out. (Applause. (Ap-plause. ) A nd now there are gentlemen opposing the ratification of this treaty, who. al that time, taunted the administration adminis-tration of the Unte;l States tiiat it had lost touch with Its International conscience; con-science; the German nation had no choice whatever as to whether It was to go into that war or not did not know that it was going into it until its men were summoned to the colors. I remember, not once, but often, sitting at the cabinet cabi-net table in Washington and I asked my colleagues what their impression was of the opinion of the country before we went Into the war. and I remember one1 day one of my colleagues said to me: : 'Mr. President, I think tho people of the country would take your advice and do what you suggested.' Cites His Solicitude. "But I sntd: "That Is not wh.-vt I am waltiiiR for; if they can't ko In with a whoop, there is no use gotui? in. T don't wur.t them to wait on mo; I am waiting on them. I want to ' , science of tins u n.7 .. ,K w.ir.t to know ';,- ;' .. the minds of the -j ' !l with regard to this .,., I thousht I heard th I proposed to u:e n; ,. States llmtjvej!'i-: (Continued on astonishment, until a very interesting and strong thin happened. Wlu-n we fougiu Cuba's battle for hi-r, then they said: 'Ah, it is the bt-ginnlng of what we predicted; she will seize Cuba, ami after Cuba, what she pleases to the south of her; if is the beginning of the, history we have pone through ourselves.' Thev ought to have known; they set us the example; ami when we actually fulfilled to the letter our promise that we would set helpless Cuba up as nn independent govern nient and guarantee her independence; when wo carried out that gi i-at policy, we astounded and converted the world. Confidence in America. "Then began let me repeat the word 'began' the confidence of the worTd in America; and I want to say to you tonight to-night that nothing- was more overpowering overpower-ing to me and my colleagues in J 'aria than the evidence of the absolute, unquestioning unques-tioning confidence of the peoples of the world in the people of America., (Applause.) (Ap-plause.) We were touched by it, not only touched by it, but I must admit we were frightened bv it. because we knew they had the mnrnt of (,',. ' cation In the leinuo w . oral Smuls cli-i,.inl,., '..," against the charge n i. ... . ins his fourteen jmuiis . " dent Wilson lmJ Julu. ' restoring peace. Only Principle of Justin ; "So, as between nut,.,, s . of equality is the only tlce, and the weak n;i!i many rights, and just ti;, :, stronger nations, l ien i , the crown prlnee of Aus" ,' sinated in Serbia? He i . by some man who li.id . . memory of sometlilnu lui , ble to him; something tha1. , . to the people that ho le the Austrian government, n..: ly but by sUBgestlon Iran an ultimatum to Serbia : 1 mantling that she surrc:nl.T : rights, and gave her tinn:,. . to decide. "Poor Serbia, in her f practically yielded to twi. with regard to a little t"r i she would like to talk It but they (lid not ri.aiv ' of peace sets all of thesr :. independence af,'ain. "That road that we Kit! from Bremen to Kagda.i. v,'., The dirty center of tiie c 1 net was Constantinople; ramified all the threads t: , -web in the center of ft:, venomous spider. Undoing; Victory. . "If you leave that ro;ti e leave those nations to lar:e : selves, knowing that ,!. ' care of themselves, lii'-u ;e'. mitted the unpardonable I.- . the great victory wlilth o . (Applause.) i "There is no subject frv I sides to it, and the re.e'- r won't enter into disf-nf-ir. nists Is they are afraid fellow's side will he filror.o-' The onlv thing that ymw( fellow citizens, is the ir-t thing that Is formidable ;.' : . learned what I know which is not as much a I by hearing a large num -r ' ; me all about it. At first I w ' confused because the ti::r::' tallv, and then one day i- . lucid interval it occurr-d f ; was because what was m l -The truth always unto. that don't match, ho I !"' deal about Mexico by li?'1;'1'-ciently li?'1;'1'-ciently large number of .. Warning Is Uttered. "It behooves us to r-nt citizens, in these radi'a. c men who want to cure tn -ernment by destroyln? going to be destroyed in'-" chaos that they have crea a truth that is going to mi.-In mi.-In any other place tr.at unhappy example., "I hope vou won't tnir.K if I stop 'here to esprs " an American citizen at t' ' have occurred at f'f country, where men hi' , manity and justice ari ; v and have run amuck. l-a man not only the rnenac! his own enemy, and tne "America is the p I kill your government who conduct ft. Tiie ore ' kill government in Amcr..- j the men and womm how to govern, and Thev sometimes find in v-ficult v-ficult to drive, but tries whip it Into the harne- Reed Assails Treaty. buffalo, x. i- at a nonpartisan Ir"'-'-''",.. James A. Reed, e;'. denounced the league - present form of tie . .. President Wilson s an senate. . . "This is not a po,.-.-. Senator Reed. " tn.it a;J f . I venture to say liJv ,. velt broiigiit baek that President V,'i!f Roosevelt never wc.:.i a vote from the Vr-" . ".. a Democrat because o. which the party usto'.- . part company wi'. ar-'. " told me that we m-. '- as it stands." ... The senator a.:c--;'. of making use 01 tional committee to ., for immediate rauti-j. that they were expecting things of us that we could not accomplish; we knew that they were hoping for some miracle of Justice Jus-tice which would set them forward the same hundred years that we have traveled trav-eled on the progress toward free government; govern-ment; we knew that it was a slow road; we knew that you could not transform a people from a people of subjects into a people of self-governing units; I tried and I perhaps returned a little to my old profession of teacher to point out to them that some of the things they were expecting of us would not be done now. But they refused to bo disabused of their absolute confidence that America could and would do anything that was right for the other peoples of the world. An amazing amaz-ing thing, dud what was more Interesting still, my fellow citizens, was this: You know that it happened I will explain in a moment what I mean by the word 'happened' 'hap-pened' it happened that America laid down the specifications for peace; it happened hap-pened that America proposed the principles princi-ples upon which the peace with Germany should be built. Learned Their Lesson. "I used the word 'happened' because I have found, and everybody who has looked into the hearts of the people of this country coun-try and some of the people on the other side of the water, has found, that the people peo-ple on the other side of the water, whatever what-ever may be said about their government, have learned their lesson from America before; and they believed In those principles princi-ples before we promulgated them, and their statesmen, knowing that their people believed in them, accepted them before the American representatives crossed the sea; so that we found them ready to lay down the foundations of that peace along the lines that America suggested, and all of Europe was aware that what was being done was the building up of American principles. We were under a big compulsion compul-sion to carry the work to the point from which we had followed our convictions from the first. All people knew we were doing an American thing when we put the covenant of the league of nations at the beginning of the treaty. "One of the most interesting things that happened over there was that some of the most cynical men I had to deal with and there were some cynics over there men who believed in what has come to be known as the late Darwinian Idea of 'the survival of the fittest in nature the strong eats up the weak, and in. politics the strong overcomes and dominates the weak. It has always been so, 1 and it is always going to be so.' Talked Indulgently. "When I first got to Paris they talked about the league of nations indulgently in my presence and politely. I think some of them had the idea, 'Oh, well, we must humor Wilson along, so that he won't make a big fuss about it.' Some of these very men, before our conferences were over, suggested more often than anybody else that some of the most difficult and deiicate tasks in carrying out this peace should be left to the league of nations (Applause.) They all admitted that the league of nations, which they had deemed an ideal dream, was demonstrable and a practical necessity. (Applause.) "This treaty cannot be carried out without with-out the league of nations. "Suppose that the land titles of Montana Mon-tana were clearly enough stated and somewhere recorded, but yet there was no way of enforcing them; do you know what would happen? Every one of you would enforce his own land titles. You used to go around armed out here long ago. (Applause.l; If this is a poor speech, I hope none of you do tonight. (Applause.) You would resume the habit if there was nobody to guarantee your legal titles; you would have to resort to the habit if society so-ciety should not guarantee them. Others Must Respect. "You have got to see to it that others respect them for your own protection and that is the condition of Europe and will be the condition of Europe again if the settled land titles which we have laid out are not guaranteed by organized society; so-ciety; and the only organized society that can guarantee them is a society of nations; but it was not easy to draw the line. It was not a surveyor's task. In some places there was an almost Inextricable Inex-tricable mixture of two or more populations. popu-lations. We said: This is a difficult business. Sitting in Paris we cannot tell by count how many Poles there are in High Silesia, or how many Germans, and If we could count them, we cannot tell from Paris what they want. High Silesia does not belong to us; it does not heiong to anybody but the people who live in It. We'll do this: We'll put that territory terri-tory under the care of the league of nations na-tions for a limited period. We will establish estab-lish a small armed force there, made up of contingents from the different allied nations, so that none of them will be in control; and then we will hold a referendum referen-dum and upper Silesia shall belong either to Germany or Poland, as the people in upper Silesia desire. (Applause.) And that is noly one case of half a dozen. The league of nations is to see to it, in regions re-gions where the make-up of the populations popula-tions is doubtful and the desre of the population is as yet uncertain; the league of nations is to be the instrumentality bv which the territories of those various countries are to be deliverer to the people peo-ple to whom they belong. (Applause. 1 The American principle was not rejected. The American principle is that the justice of the weak man is the same as that of the strong. So, as between nations, the principle of equality is the only principle princi-ple of justice." South Africans Ratify. CAPETOWN', Union of South Africa, Sept. 11. The house of assembly of the Union of South Africa has ratified the peace treaty. Premier J. C. Smuts said he dlrl net ask tiie house to approve but merely to ratify the peace treaty. The Germans had been told that If there were parts of the treaty which could not be carried out APPEALS FOR PACT TO ED UNREST (Continued on Page Four.) in the challenge that Germany was giving giv-ing to mankind. And we felt that Germany Ger-many knew that there should be a world fit to live in, but the world is not fit to live in, my fellow citizens, if one great government is in a position to do what the German government did; secretly plot a war and begin it with the whole strength of its people, without so much as consulting its own people. A great war can begin only by private plotting, because the peoples of this world are not asleep as they used to be. The German Ger-man people is a great, educated people. So far as I have been able to learn, the people who are following peaceful pursuits, the bankers and the merchants and the manufacturers did not want to go into that war. They have said that they were not consulted; but the masters of Germany were the general military staff. Not even the members of tVie reichstag were consulted by the general military staff, and it was these men who nearly brought a complete cataclysm upon civilization itself. - . Would Be "Recreant." j "Very well, then, it stands to reason If I we would permit anything of that sort j to happen again, we are recreant to the : men we sent across the seas to fight this war; we are deliberately guilty then of i preparing a situation which will inevi- tably lead to what what shall I call it? The final war? Alas, my fellow citizens, it might be the final arrest, though I pray only the temporary arrest, of civilization civili-zation itself. "America has, if I may take the liberty of saying so, a greater interest in the prevention of that war than any other nation. America is less exhausted by war she is not exhausted at all America Amer-ica has paid for the war that has gone by less heavily in proportion to her wealth than other nations. America still has capital capital enough for its own industries and for the industries of the other countries that have to build their industries anew; and the next war would have to be paid for in American blood and American money. The nation, of all nations, na-tions, that is most interested to prevent the recurrence of what already has happened hap-pened is the nation which would assuredly as-suredly have to bear the brunt of that great catastrophe, (applause) either have to bear it or stop where you are. Who Is going to take care of the growth of this nation? Who is going to shape the accumulation of physical power of this nation, if you choose to put it in that form? Who is going to reduce the natural nat-ural resources of this country? Who is going to change the circumstance that v.e largely feed tiie rest of the world? Who is going to change the circumstance that many of our resources are unique and indispensable; America is going to grow more and more powerful and the more powerful she is. the more inevitable inevita-ble it is that she should be entrusted with the peace of the world. (Applause.) ! Miracle Has Happened. j "And now at last a miracle has hap- 1 period. I dare say many of you have in mind the very short course of American : history. You remember now, when this ! nat ton wn s born, we were just a little group; how the nat:ons on the other s de j of the wati'-r, tiie statesmen of that day, regarded us with a certain condescension ! looked upon us as a sort of group of i howe; ul n!;iMrMi, pleased, for the time i h--imr with the concept ion of absolute : freedom and political liberty. But we i were far in advance of the other peoples i of tiie world, bf-'-ause if-ss experienced.1 than they, lesn aware of the difficulties' f:" the great task that confronted us and , it y i h-- Y'-ri hav'- gone by, t hey have i the growth of this nation with |