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Show President Making Deep Impression by Manner of Defining Meaning of Treaty - Covenant. Appeals - to Economic Interests of Nation Exerting Ex-erting Powerful Influence Influ-ence on Audiences. By DAVID LAWRENCE. (Copyright, 1919. by The Salt Lake Tribune.) EN ROUTE TO KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 6. President Wilson did much better at . Indianapolis and St. Louis than at Columbus. Not only did his speeches take better with the crowds, but the people seemed to be roused to higli pitches of enthusiasm, which were totally lacking at the outset. The president has evidently been advised ad-vised that tho people want speeches with a punch in them, for in both Indianapolis In-dianapolis and St. Louis he adopted-the Eooaeveltian tactics for the first time in his career and brought his audience to its feet again and again. That is a new thing with Woodrow Wilson. Usually he depends upon the quiet, deliberate de-liberate processes of oratorical persuasion. persua-sion. Today he is changed. Ho is belligerent. bel-ligerent. He is making the fight of his life, and if his speech at St. Louis, which seemed to make the best impression impres-sion thus far, is an index of what he plans to do, the public can expect Mr. Wilson to arouse the nation on the issue of the league to a degree of passion and fervor hitherto absent on either side of tho controversy. MAKES APPEAL TO BUSINESS INSTINCT. The president is reducing his argument argu-ment to simple statements. His .appeal to the St. Louis chamber of commerce was especially intended for business men. His plea to the farmers who gathered from all parts of Indiana was a vivid portrayal of the horrors of another an-other war. His challenge to critics was a defiant call for a substitute program if they intend to defeat the proposed league. His central effort is to show (Continued on Page 11, Column 2.) WILSON PUTS REAL PUB 10 PLEAS (Continued From Page One.) thnt the opponents of tho league have picked flaws here- and there, but have said nothing of the constructive possibilities possi-bilities of twenty-three out of the twenty-six particulars of the Covenant. Briefly, the main trend of Mr. Wilson's Wil-son's argument, as now revealed, is this: ' . 1. If the treaty is not ratified by the United States,-Europe will go ahead without us and tho United States will be left out in the cold, discredited and distrusted. -, 2. The reparations commission is really, a group of receivers sitting over the bankrupt assets of Germany. That commission will determine how Germany Ger-many shall pay her reparation, whore she will buy materials and how she will get credits. Mr. Wilson says that if only from a practical business point of view, America cannot afford to. stay out. America's trade and industrial life are interwoven in the economics of Europe. BELGIAN AND IRISH INTERESTS AT STAKE. 3. The president points to tho in-vastion in-vastion of Belgium as a violation of territorial integrity, and says that anyone any-one who is against article ,X would forget for-get Belgium and the weak nations. 4. To the Irish the president makes on open bid for support by hinting that America cannot intrude upon England's affairs now, but that under a leaguo of nations Ireland can get a hearing and the moral support of the United States. 5. With respect to foreign wars and sending troops across the seas, Mr. Wilson Wil-son emphasizes that American boys cannot can-not be compelled to fight unless the representative of the United States in the league's council so advises, and our representative would be under instructions instruc-tions to take no such step without the sanction of congress. 6. Faith In Japan 's intention to return re-turn Shantung to China is expressed without qualification by tho president, and of those who don't trust Japan and want to give tho territory back to China immediately Mr. 'Wilson asks this question: "How will you take Shantung away from Japan when Great Britnin and France are pledged already and have been pledged for two years to give Japan all the rights which Germany enjoyed? Does America want to fight Groat Britain and France and Japan, and is that the way to keep America. out of war?" No Apology for Japan. Mr. Wilson presents no apology for Japan, but saya1 Great Britain and Franco had promised her Shantung in order to get Japan to como into the war and help keep tho Pacific clear of German raiders. Mr. Wilson admits the bargain and denounces secret treaties, trea-ties, but says the remedy for the whole doplorable plight of China lies in the leaguo of nations and its processes for revision of all grants of territory to the other powers as well as Japan. 7. Finally, and this is where tho president always makes his biggest hit, he reminds his hearers that America went into the war to end war, that conscription con-scription wa.s put into operation and Liberty loans were floated and hard-earned hard-earned dollars were taken from American Ameri-can pocketbooks and tho flower of America manhood sent to foreign graves, not merely to beat Germany, but to prevent any other nation from trying the experiment which Germany tried. Nino days of discussion, he contends, con-tends, would havo prevn.nted the lust European war, as Germany wouldn't have gone in if she knew England would fight, and she would certainly have held her horses if she had dreamed America might come in. Would Have Averted War. Now, tho president pointed out, nine months would be provided for arbitration arbitra-tion or discussion before there could be war, and if there were war the economic eco-nomic boycott would be effective; stubborn stub-born nations would be starved into submission, sub-mission, they would be commercially isolated and financially bankrupted unless un-less they accepted tho verdict of mankind. man-kind. If the leaguo isn 't set up, and Europe Eu-rope goes on as it has been, he thinks thene will be more war and America will be drawn into it and our lossos will not bo a couple of hundred thousand, but millions of men, so it will be Been from the foregoing thnt the president is appealing to the peaceful instincts of the American people and the deeplv imbedded passion for peaco which elected him in 1910. on a platform of "Keen us out of war," and then supported sup-ported him wholeheartedly on a platform plat-form of freeing the world, from militarism mili-tarism and of safeguarding democracy. Mr. Wilson cynically recalls the enthusiasm en-thusiasm of certain of tho league 's opponents op-ponents when America entored the war, and says that when he led America to war, to put an end to the war business, he meant it. Dramatically he exclaims that he would not be able to look into the face of a widowed wife or a bereaved be-reaved parent if lie came back from PaTis without a program to end futuro wars. To those who would turn away from the weak and helpless in Europe, the new nations which hitherto have been the pawns of the strong because no power interceded in their behalf, Mr. I also say the president's tactics heretofore here-tofore made many enemies. Woodrow Wilson might be the last, to admit, but his profession of political polit-ical disinterestedness and his clear exposition ex-position of articles in the treaty on which he has heretofore been vague and ambiguous havo done him more good in this section of the middle west than all the studied statements and academic addresses to congress ho has made since getting back from Europe. Ho is at last lifting the treaty discussion dis-cussion out of the mire of party politics poli-tics and personal ambition to the broad issues of international cooperation which helped civilization triumph over barbarism. Wilson applies the epithet "contem-tible"; "contem-tible"; and it is mild language compared com-pared to that which he will probably use before he gets throneh in denouncing denounc-ing those in America who he thinks are selfishly refusing to see the job through. Slowly, but surely, the president is drawing a line between the peace at any price elements who wanted to warn Americans off the high eas and wanted to amend the conscription act bo our troops might not help the allies and those who supported the war with Germany, Ger-many, in the hope that out of it. would come soirwj kind of a concert of moral and physical power to preserve peace. Mr. Wilson admits flaws in the covenant, cove-nant, but says they can be corrected in time, and that unless the league is set up now, the who!? international combination which was set up to beat Germany will tall apart and will not easily lie brought together again. Business niien who heard the president at St. Louis and his appeal lo eschew party politics drew loud applause from the many Republicans present- said afterwards aft-erwards that Mr. Wilson made headway. Some said they had not understood before be-fore how deeply American business was involved in the controversy over the league. The St. Louis chamber of commerce com-merce is hardly Wilsonian. Men sat at the guest tables who had attacked him bitterly heretofore, but when he said that he was touring the country, not as a party man but as an American, they juni'd to their feet and joined in the applause and cheers. Unquestionably, Mr. Wilson wiil make a better impression as he removes from the public, mind the notion of party politics, which lie unfortunately built up when he took only men of his own personal predilection to Paris with him and ignored the Republican party. The present Itopnblicnn. leadership on the treaty is not popular among leading lead-ing Republicans. Here and there, as we travel, they whisper to us that thev think the course of Senator Lodge and Senator Knox is mistaken, but they |