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Show PUBLIC OPINION TO GIBBET OPPONENTS OF WORLD PEACE CtARTER, WILSON SAYS DECLARES DDCUNENT IS IB 111 CHARACTER, AIDING WORLD DEMOCRACY Kansas City Audience of 15,000 Applauds as President Makes Appeal Ap-peal for Agreement. Asks Objectors to Plan to Present Something Better or Drop Fight on Peace Covenant. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 5. President Wilson appealed to a Kansas City crowd today to support the peace treaty as a' charter for a new order of world affairs. Making his third speech for the treaty in Missouri to a capacity audience, audi-ence, President Wilson spoke in convention con-vention hall, said to accommodate 15,000. AVhen the president, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, appeared on the platform of the vast auditorium, the crowd, each of whom had a small American flag, arose and cheered for more than two minutes. President Wilson had been cheered as the presidential party paraded through four miles of the city's streets to the convention hall. Mr. Wilson was introduced intro-duced by B. A. Parsons, president of the Kansas City chamber of commerce. One section of the hall was reserved for a large number of Missouri 's war heroes, who applauded vigorously President Wilson's references to the prevention of future wars. SHOT THROUGH WITH AMERICAN PRINCIPLES. In his address the president covered many of the same points of the treaty he has discussed in previous addresses. He said he had come to report to the people direct about one of the greatest documents in human history. The treaty, he declared, was "shot through" with American principles, put there by the consent of the world. One of the things America had had inheart throughout her whole existence, exis-tence, said the president, was that arbitration ar-bitration and consultation should be substituted for force. This was accomplished, accom-plished, he declared, by the league of nations covenant. Nine months of discussion on any international in-ternational controversy would be assured as-sured under the covenant, he asserted, adding that this principle previously had been written into thirty arbitration arbitra-tion treaties, "all of which were confirmed con-firmed by tho United States renate. " The principle and the league, he declared, de-clared, already had been adopted by the United States. BOYCOTT FORMIDABLE WEAPON FOR PEACE. The boycott imposed on covenant-breakers covenant-breakers was emphasized by the prcsi- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) lowans Told That Delay in Ratifying Is Hindering Hinder-ing Settlement of Other Oth-er Pressing Problems. Christendom Watching to See Outcome of Struggle for Liberty Against Oppression. DES MOINES, la., Sept. 6. The treaty with its league of nations covenant cove-nant was explained here tonight by President Wilson as a purely American document extending democracy over the world and shifting foreign relations from a basis of force and war to one of arbitration and peace. Making his second address of the day. the president spoke in the Des Moines Coliseum, said to seat 7500. Every chair was taken and many were standing. stand-ing. Earlier in the day he had spoken at Kansas City, Mo., more than 300 miles away. j An escort of airplanes dropjed flowers flow-ers on the president's special train as it approached the city, and he was cheered during an automobile ride through crowds that packed tho downtown down-town streets far out bej'ond the curb. When he entered the Coliseum he was cheered again. Tho meeting was opened with an invocation, in-vocation, and Mr. Wilson was introduced intro-duced by J. B. Weaver, president of the Des Moines chamber of commerce, as the "outstanding figure in the life of the world today." WORLD IN NEED OF SETTLED CONDITIONS. Describing tho world aa desperately in need of the settled condition of peace, the president said the United States, the last nation which the world, expected to have to wait upon, was delaying de-laying the coming of that pence1. The treaty, he said, not only would establish peace, but it would end forever for-ever the rule of a few men over the destinies of the many. Citing what had happened in Kuropc with the rise of Bolshevism, Mr. Wilson Wil-son said the move of radicalism and disorder was spreading on a reaction. "Do you honestly think that none of that poison has got into the veins of this free people?'' he nsked. "Men look you calmly in the fno:1 in America and toll you they are for that sort of revolution. ' ' So long as the question is open of what kind of peace the world was to have and what guarantees were In bo behind it remained op'n the poison would continue to spread. "How long shall we be kept wnUiiia; for the answer whether the world will trust us or despise us"' he continued. "The world stands annoyed becnm1 an authority in America hesit;ites whether it will indorse an American doctrine." OTHER PRESSING PROBLEMS AWAITING. The president said he had not been able to work out the solu f ion of railway rail-way problems until h2 knew when a, peace basis came. rTh- eon ference of labor and capital in Washington next mon t h, he continued, also won hi have its deliberations a fleeted by the answer to their question. Labor "all ovt the wurld is waiting,"' he asserted, "to sec whether the Tinted .States accepted 1 )h; treaty's provision for :;n international labor organi.;tt ion. The 1'nited Sta'.-s, said the president', could not participate in the world labor conference to be held in Washington soon under tli'1 trerily unless the treaty was a crept ed by 1 hi s conn 1 r. v. Such a con d i f ion would be " i neon re i va h' , ' ' he added, and would lead to the greatest 4 ' m or I i hVa t ion. "The world is waiting.'' sa id ' h president, "to ee, not whether we will (Continued on page 8. column 2.) i Kansas City Audience of 15,000 Applauds as President Makes Appeal Ap-peal for Agreement. (Continued From Page One.) dent as constituting a measure more effective than military force. The "most conclusive" thinir that could hapjn to a nation, lie continued, -was "to tjfl read out of decent nociuty." Kffcutive disarmament would be accomplished ac-complished under the covenant, Mr. Wilson predicted, declaring it was ridiculous to Ifilk of tho league as tending tend-ing to war, wh.iu "its whole essence" is arbitration and pence. The league, he declared, would mean tho end of the "military clan" throughout tho world forever. "There is no other way to dispense Willi gncat armnmcnts without an agreement agree-ment by the great nations of the world," said Mr. Wilson, and here is tho agreement. " Autocracy would perish with militarism, militar-ism, added the president, and the in' trigue-which had terrorized Europe fof fenerations would bo ended. Ho declared de-clared that "democracies will sooner or later have to destroy that kind of government, gov-ernment, and if we don't do it now the job will still bo before us." This task, ho continued, must bo carried" to the extent that no minority anywhere could control the majority. REPRESENT NO ONE BUT THEMSELVES. "The men who now control tho affairs af-fairs of Hussia," said Mr. Wilson, "represent "rep-resent nobody but themselves. They have no kind of a mandate. There are only thirty-four of them, I am told. There is a cloi-r monopoly of power in Moscow than there ever was in Wil-lielnistrasse. Wil-lielnistrasse. And a man more cruel I than the czar is controlling tho destinies des-tinies of that people. "And if we don't want little groups of selfish men to plot tho future of Europe, then wo must see to it that littlo groups of selfish men do not plot tho future of the United States." Citing conditions in Armenia, Mr. Wilson said he "wondered that, men do not wak up to tho moral responsibility responsi-bility of what they are doing," when they wero "debating and debating," while tragic situations waited to be dealt with as soon as the debating was over. Hope for "every people in the world that haven't got what they think they ought to have," was seen by the president presi-dent in league provision which empowers empow-ers one nation to call friendly attention atten-tion to what it thinks is an injustice inside another nation. Every such people, peo-ple, said he, would have a "world forum" in which to present its case. Tho people, said the president, had Khui misled about the treaty by men who look at it "with the jaundiced eyes of those who have some private interests of their own." When these men wero "gibbeted" by public opinion, lue said, "they will regret that The gibbet, is so high." if anybody dare to defeat this great instrument," he continued, "then they will havo to gather together their counsellors coun-sellors for tho world and do something Vietter. I sny it is a case of put up or shut up. Negotiation will not save the world. ' ' The president said some men opposed the treaty conscientiously, and he would take off his hat in the presence of any man's conscience. But these men, he added, based their opposition on "ignorance" "ig-norance" of what was in the treaty. Germany, said the president, would be tho only great nation left out of the league, "unless we decide to stay out and como in later with German'. The Philippines. Alluding to the American promise to set the Philippine islands free. Mr. Wilson said the league would Solve the " very perplexing" problem of how they were to be kept free, after their inde-pomV'nee inde-pomV'nee had been granted. Mr. Wilson Wil-son said he could imagine the shades of the fathers looking on with astonishment astonish-ment "that tlie American spirit has made aV'onquost of the world." "I tell you, ' ' he added, ' ' the war was won by the American spirit. And America in this treaty has realized what those gallant boys fought for. The men-who make this impossible or difficult dif-ficult will have a lifelong reckoning 'with the men who won the wnr."- The president asked the audience not to think he had eoire out to "fight or.. antagonize ' ' anybody. X'T' have the greatest respect," he said, "for the senate of the United Slates. But I have come out to fight a auso that is greater than the senate, and I intend to fight that cause, in of-lico of-lico or out, as long as 1 live." Iowans Told That Delay in Ratifying Is Hindering Hinder-ing Settlement of Other Oth-er Pressing Problems. (Continued From Page One.) take part, but whether vc will take tho lead." PROGRAM OF DOING "NOTHING AT ALL." Mr. Wilson said he had been "annoyed "an-noyed to see that tho statesmanship of some gentlemen consists in the very interesting in-teresting proposition of doing nothing at all. J have heard of standing pat before, but I never have heard of standpattism going -to that length." The fathers of the republic, Mr. Wilson Wil-son said, intended to set up a standard to which the yvorld would come for liberty. From all nations, 13 continued, men had Come by millions. Opponents of the league, the president presi-dent assi-rtod. were saying "yes, we made a great promise to the world but it'll cost too much to redeem it. If by deliberate choice-the United States became a rival and antagonist of her neighbors, instead of their friend, said the president, ' then it would reap the same reward as a business man who proceeded pro-ceeded on that basis. If tho United "olntes tried to get all it could . seb fishlv, he continued, then the world would see that it got. nothing at all. IMERlCA TO RESTORE MORALE OF WORLD. Just as American soldiers restored the morale of the lighting .peoples of the allies, said .the president, so the United States now could restore the peace morale.of the world. It was the people themselves, he said; who in tho end would determine what courso the United States would take. ' "They are my bosses," he said. "I have come out on this journey not to fight anybody, but to report, to you." The peace, Mr. Wilson asserted, had been made on "American specifications." specifica-tions." Among these specifications, he said, was the establishment of Poland, and the other new mid-European nations na-tions which now separated Germany from the pathway of empire she expected ex-pected to establish to the southeast. "Are you going to institute a move against France and England and Japan to get Shantung back for China f" asked the president. On the contrary, he added, establishing establish-ing the league then would be a power to which China could appeal for future justice. Has No Doubt of Issue. Mr. Wilson also discussed article X and the. league covenant. Pan-German-" ism, and similar plans would be "torn up Ivy ti e roots. ' ' Of the ultimate outcomo regarding the treaty, Mr. Wilson said he had no doubt. "The only thing that can be accomplished,, accom-plished,, he said, "is delay. Tho ultimate ulti-mate outcome will be the triumphant acceptance ,of the treaty and the league. ' ' Only "a hnnddful of men," the president presi-dent said, "were opposing the treaty, and they either had not read it or did not understand the English language." Tho Monree doctrine provision, he said, had been objected to as vague because it referred to "such regional understandings as the Monroe doctrine." doc-trine." This language was written, the president said, in perfect innocence, "and was intended to give right of way to the Monroe doctrine in tho weslern hemisphere. ' ' The language was put in, he continued, con-tinued, because' the other delegates thought it wise to make a specific reference ref-erence to a policy of one country, without with-out leaving the way open for other nations na-tions to develop similar policies in their own localities. Turning to the economic, boycott provided pro-vided against covenant-breakers, Mr. Wilson said no nation in Europe could stand under such a boycott for six months. "Yet we are told this is a covenant of war," ho continued. "It is the most drastic covenant of peace ever conceived. ' ' "The processes of discussion are the processes of peace." HANDSHAKING AND GREETINGS FEATURE TRIP TO DES MOINES ON BOARD PRESIDKXT WILSON'S SPECIAL. TRAIN, Sept. 6. Several hundred hun-dred persons met the presidential special at St. Joseph, Mo., where the trr.in stopped for three minutes on Its way from Kansas City to Pes Moines. The crowd swarmed around the observation observa-tion end of the president's car and called for a speech, hut, ncttm; on the advice of Pr. Grayson, he refrained from making one. an. exchanged friendly greetings. A proup 6f women Red Cross workers grot the president and Mrs. Wilson to sitrn their roster, and Mrs. Wilson was presented pre-sented with n basket of rosos. After the train left the station it had to stop in the railroad yards to take on water for the engine, and the president shook hands with a number of railroad yardmen. With their grimy hnnds, they showed some hesitation, hut the president smilingly smil-ingly urg'-d them to come forward, and he gave each a hearty cbsp. Many children, chil-dren, white and negro, were on hand and j were lifted up to the rail so the president could shake them by the hand also. The president seemed to enjoy particularly particu-larly a tiny black pickaninny and its mammy, who. fighting a way through the crowd, got within reach of the rail. "Hello, little one." he said, taking hold of a chubby and very dirty hand, T am glad to see you." Another youngster struggled throuch and presented Mrs. Wilson with a bunch of sweet peas. Ht-r face wreathed in smiles, Mrs. Wilson expressed her appreciation.- One of the "movie" men accompanying the presidential party, got an unexpected chance for a "close up" of the presid.-nt when Secretary Tumulty helped boost him over the rail to the platform to take the surging crowd. At Jesse James' Home. ON BOARD PRESIOENT WILSON'S ftpKCIAL TRAIN. Sept. 6. The presidential presiden-tial train stopred for nearly a hnlf-honr hnlf-honr at Independftire, Mo., ten miles from Kansas Citv. s that breokfast could be had on hoard before reaching the city. Independence, noted as the birthplace of Je.se .lame. the outlaw, turiu-d out a throng of r-arly risers, mostly women In calico mother huhbards, to greet the president. He smilingly shook hands with as many as could rt-a'-h him. The trainmen, f'uniilar with the lore of Jfsse .Jam'n, pointed out to the pre;-ddiMi-tial party historic spots whefp the bandit had held" up trains of an earlier day. |