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Show SEE GAME liMUGfT WlifflfS PLEA CHALLENGES PACT CRITICS li SU0UI5 Asks Opponents of Covenant Cov-enant to Show That They Are Not "Contemptible "Con-temptible Quitters. " Shantung Provision and Article X Analyzed in Address at Coliseum Before Big Audience. COLISEUM, St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 5. -In tv.'o addresses here today, Presider. I Wilson discussed at length disputed points of the peace treaty, and invited those who oppose it to prove whether they "ae not absolute, contemptible quitters if they do not eee the game through." The Shantung provision the president defended as the only solution possible by which China can be assisted in her effort to regain control of Shantung province. Analyzing article ten of the league covenant, cov-enant, he said the league council couid only advise, and could not do that without with-out concurrence of the American meu. -bers. Tne right of revolution, he asserted, as-serted, was scrupulously preserved. The president'3 first address was a: tlie chamber of commerce luncheon aftc-he aftc-he had been cneered along the route of a seven-mile automobile ride through thu streets. At night he spoke in the Coliseum, Coli-seum, where in 1916 he was renominated, for the presidency. Following the midday address the president presi-dent and Mrs. Wilson went for an automobile auto-mobile ride and stopped at Washington university to visit several members of the faculty who were school chums of the executive. Returning, the executive was driven through the residential section of the cit;. He and Mrs. Wilson had supper privately. pri-vately. COLISEUM PACKED FOR NIGHT ADDRESS. The Coliseum was packed, and when the president arrived the crowd arose anu cheered for more than four minuted Thousands of small American flags had been distributed and the audience waved them wildly while they cheered. The president was introduced by Governor Gov-ernor Frederick D. Gardner, who said the , people of Missouri never had been more i sincere in extending a welcome to any j visitor. At that the crowd cheered again. ! When the governor introduced Mr. WII-! WII-! son as "the father of world democracy," j there was more cheering. A photographer in a lookout gallery called through a j megaphone for a moment's attention, to j take a flashlight, but the president did not wait, saying "this is much too seriouls j an occasion to care how we look, we ought to care how we think." Mr. Wilson declared that to amend the treaty would mean its failure and the Isolation ot' the fniLed States. Only thosu who are ignorant of world affairs, lie said, could believe that even a great nation like the I'nited States could stand by itr self and apart. SAYS NATION MUST GUARD ITS INTERESTS. If the I'nited States is to save its own economic interests, said the president, ft must save tlie economic interests of tlie world. That was one reason, he continued, con-tinued, why tiie United States should have a representative on the powerful i reparation commission. If there were no American voice in this commission, he 1 asserted, this country would have to pui into tlie haniis of foreign interests seeking seek-ing to control world ma rkets American money for tlie reliabllitatlon of the world. "That," said tiie president, "is what they call playing a tone hand. It is playing play-ing a lone hand; it is playing a hand , frozen out. Those who propose these things do not understand the Interests of the I'nited States.'' Should America fail to la Ice its just part in the world rehabilitation, the president presi-dent asserted, tlie whole attitude of the world toward America would be changed. Feeause the world trusted so much, lie said, tlie reaction would be accordingly great. SAYS AMERICA MUST NOT STAND APART. Emphasizing how economic features figure in war, Mr. Wilson rlescrihed how the Germans had dismantled Beluian factories. fac-tories. The war, he added, was not a political po-litical war, but a "commercial and industrial indus-trial war." Should the United States stand apart, economically and politically, the president continued, then it must be "physically ready for trouble." The nation must become, be-come, he said, "a nation In arms." "You can't afford to be un friendly to everybody," he continued, "unless yoi; (Continued on Page -i, Colurrm 5.) .trip began President Wilson rV notes, having a small typewrin- in his hand. WOULD APPLY THl " PRINCIPLE OF LEAl TO MEXICAN MIL. WASHINGTON, Sept. o.-App; the principles of the league o! covenant to the Mexican iSty been indorsed by the American F-. ja of Labor, through its executive which today issued, a statemti: forth a stand taken by the cou: m recent meeting here. "Having passed through a bi ' gle for the overthrow of au torn to-rn ill tarism, and for the devr:.. justice and democracy," the r said, "having made tremendous in the achievement of these the United States being a part;, j ing the principle of the leag'ie r' whereby international war ma? ' ed, the executive council exf" judgment that the principles ir ; the peace treaty should be ap; present situation between Jlexr:. United States. "We strongly urge that ther:; son, fairness and justice slml! V a the present negotiations, and ' friendly relations between the V the countries be maintained." CHALLENGES PACT CRITICS 1ST. LOUIS (Continued From Page One.) can afford to have everybody unfriendly to you." Germany was not the only nation which had a secret service, Mr. "Wilson said, but every other nation in Europe also was spying on its neighbors, because they all had to be ready for schemes of conquest to be sprung. The league of nations without the United Sta tes, the president said, would be "an alliance and not a league of nations." na-tions." "There can he no league of nations in a true sense," he continued, "without the partnership of this great people. And if we are a partner, let me predict we'll be the senior partner. The. other nations are looking to us for leadership and direction." direc-tion." "ARMED ISOLATION" OR PEACEFUL PARTNERSHIP. It was a clear choice, said the president, presi-dent, between "armed isolation" and "peaceful partnership." lift said he had heard It asserted with "annoying fgnor-: fgnor-: ance" that this league would be a league for war. "I wonder," ho continued, "if some of the gentlemen who are commenting on this treaty have read it. There is not a phrase of doubtful meaning in the whole document." When the president said if somebody would give him the name of "one of the gentlemen" he'd send him a copy, several sev-eral people in the crowd yelled, "Reed."' The president laughed. The league opponents, eald the president, presi-dent, seemed to be "figuring out how soon we could get out of it." Then he added: "I, for one, am not a quitter," and got another cheer from .the crowd. All the arguments of the opposition, Mr. Wilson said, were based on an assumption assump-tion that every one was going to break the covenant and that bad faith was to be the universal rule. He described the commerce boycott provisions of the covenant cove-nant and said that if any nation went to war after these means had been exhausted ex-hausted it meant that the nation was de- : termined to run amuck anyway. NO PARTY POLITICS IN PROPOSED TREATY. The president declared there was no party politics in the treaty and asserted that" both the Republican and Democratic national platforms in li'lfi advocated such an arrangement as the league of nations. So at Paris, he sale;, he had been obeying obey-ing both parties. He said he was glad to get away from Washington, where he heard politics "until sometimes I wish both parties were smothered in their own gas." The American people, said Mr. Wilson, are to "see it through to the end. and the end has not come yet." If the United States keeps out of the league, he declared, de-clared, another war like the last "will come soon." but if it went in "it will never come." It was a square-cut issue, he said, whether the United States will "redeem Its pledges." For the first time since his speaking |