Show p 1 1 1 r. r 1 r t rr fral 1 r- r rr fiSl 1 r. r 1 ll DATTIL DEAN Hf SA This Cause Is Greater Than Senate and Government Government Government Gov Gov- Pr President sideri Declares in K C. C ANSAS CITY CiTI Sent Sept 6 KANSAS I. I President Wilson Vilson appealed appe lcd to a Kansas City crowd to today ay to support the puce p peace treaty isa is 3 a charter for a pew new cw order ohler of of f world affairs When the president accompanied d db b by Mrs Mrs Wilson appeared on the pi platform at form of the vast a auditorium the tho crowd of ot whom had a small American flag ar arose se and cheered for more tha than two minutes LENGTHY PARADE President Wilson lIson l' l had d' d been cheered as the presidential party part t dc d r through through four our mlles o of the l si tr e to convention convention hall Mr r. r Wilson was Introduced by B. B A. A Parsons president of the Kansas City chamber of The The route of parado was lined with people and a as as the president ap approached approached ap- ap p- p there were frequent outbursts outbursts outbursts out out- bursts of cheering The parade passed up Grand avenue and through the central part of the business section to Convention hall where it was wao said this morning morninE ar arrangements arrangements arrangements ar- ar had been made for seating people Two Immense flags had been arranged Into a false ceiling and balconies were draped with buntIng bunting bunting bunt bunt- ing and flags lags Fifteen thousand small flags lags were distributed as the crowd poured into the hall LARGE CROWD WAITS The doors of the hall were opened at 9 o'clock but for several sc hours a crowd had been waiting for entrance Half an hour after the doors were opened ever every seat was filled and the was still pouring in In seeking available standing room COVERS MANY POINTS In his address the pre president president covered covered man many of the same points of ot the treaty he has discussed in previous pre addresses lie tie said he had come to report to th the people direct about one of the greatest documents In human history The Tho treat treaty he declared was shot through with American principles put there by bythe bythe the consent of the world One of the things America had had hadin hadin in heart throughout her whole holo existence existence exist exist- ence said the he president was that arbitration arbitration arbi arbi- and consultation should be bo substituted for force This was ac accomplIshed accomplished accomplished ac- ac he declared by the league of nations covenant Nine months of discussion on any any- International controversy would bo assured under the covenant co he as asserted asserted as- as adding this principle previously hart had been written into thirty arbitration arbitration tion treaties all of which were confirmed confirmed confirmed con con- firmed by bv the United States senate The principle of the league he de declared de de- Glared alread already already- had been adopted b by bythe bythe the United States The boy boycott ott imposed on covenant breakers was emphasized by Y the president president president dent as constituting a measure more effective than military force The most conclusive thing that could happen to a nation he continued was to to be pe read put of decent society RIDICULOUS TALK Effective disarmament would be ac accomplIshed accomplished accomplished ac- ac under th the covenant nant Mr r. r Wilson predicted declaring it was ridiculous to talk of the league as tendIng tendIng tending tend tend- ing to war when its whole essence Is arbitration and peace The league he declared would mean the end of the military clan throughout the world forever R There Is no other way to dispense with great armaments without an nn agreement by the great nations of the world said Mr Wilson and here is the agreement Autocracy would perish with mIll mili t. ridded lidded the president and the In Intrigue intrigue in in- which had terrorized Europe for tor generations would be ended He lie de declared declared declared de- de that democracies will sooner or ur later ha e to destroy that kind hind of government government gov gov- and if we dont don't do It now the now the lob fob will still be before us us This task lie continued must bo ho carried to the extent that no minority anywhere could Coull control the majority The Th men who now control the af affairs at at- fairs of Russia said Mr Wilson rep represent resent nobody but out themselves They have e n nd no kind of a mandate There are only thirty four of them T am told There Is a closer monopoly of power In n Moscow than there ever er was In Irl Wll- Wll i And a n. man more cruel crull 4 Continued d on pare page 2 Z i. i 4 t I Ill I'll Iii l Fight 1 That hat Battle As Long as I Live Wilson Tells Kansas ansas City Throng Continued from pa page page 1 than the czar Is controlling the destinies destinies des des- of ot that people PLOTS BY SELFISH ELFISH And if it we dont don't want little groups of ot selfish men to plot the future of ot Europe Europ then we must see to it that little groups of ot selfish men do not plot the future of ot the United States Citing conditions in Armenia Mr Wilson said he wondered that men mendo do not wake up to the moral responsibility responsibility of what they are are doing when they were debating and debating while tragic situations waited to be dealt with as soon as the debating was over o Hope for every people in the world that haven't got what they think they ought to have was seen by the presIdent president president dent in league provisions which empowers empowers em- em powers powers one nation to call friendly at att attention at- at t to what it thinks Is an injustice tice e inside another nation Every very such S people he said would have a world fo forum um in which to present its case MISLED ABOUT TREATY The people said the president had been misled about the treaty by men who look at it with the jaundiced ey eyes eys s of those who have some private interests of their own When these men were by public opinion opinion ion he said they will regret that the gibbet is so high If It anybody dare to defeat this great instrument he continued then thea they will have to gather together their counsellors for tor the world and do something something some some- thing better I say it is a cass case of put up or shut up Negotiation will not save the world The president said some men op opposed opposed op op- posed hosed the treaty conscientiously and h he would take off oft his hat in the presence presence pres pres- I. I ence of any mans man's conscience But these men he added based their opposition opposition opposition on ignorance of what was Inthe Inthe in inthe the treaty Germany German said the president would be bs the only great nation left out of the league unless we decide to stay out and come in later with Ger Ger- many PHILIPPINE QUESTION Alluding to the American promise to to- set the Philippine Ph islands free Mr Wilson said the league would solve the very perplexing problem of howth how th they y were to be kept free after their independence had been granted Mr Wilson said he could imagine the shades of the fathers looking on with astonishment that the American spirit has made a conquest of thew the w world I I tell you he added the war was wan won by the American spirit And America in this treaty has realized what those gallant boys fought for The men who make malte this impossible or difficult will have a lifelong reckon reckoning reckoning reck reck- recka on ng with the men who won the war The president asked asked the audience not to think he had come out to fight or antagonize anybody I have the greatest respect respect- he said for the senate of the United States But I have come out to fight a Cause cause that is greater than the sent sen- sen t t and I intend to fight that cause f l in or out as long as I live ADDRESS TEXT Iii lii n his address President Wilson said S I I came carne back from Paris bringing one oneo o of the greatest documents o of human his his- tory One o of the things that made It great eat was that it w was s penetrated throughout with the principles to which I America has devoted her life Let me I hasten to say that one o of the most de de- de- de u circumstances rc n of the work on theother the theother other fe feu side aide of r the water t was aes that h I d dis- dis I co ered that what we called American I principles had penetrated to the heart and to the understanding not only of the gr great grat at peoples of Europe but to the hearts an and l understandings of the grat great men u were representing the peoples o of Europe I INSTRUMENT OF PEACE il r 1 think that I can say that one of ot the the- things that America has had most at heart throughout her existence has heEn been that there should be substituted for the brutal processes of war the friendly o of consultation and arbitration and that is done In the covenant o of the le league leue ue o of nations I am very anxious th thai that 1 my fellow citizens should realize that th t is the chief topic o of the covenant o of I th the league o of nations the greater part of ot It Its Its' provisions The whole intent and nd purpose of the document are expressed In provisions by which all the member states agree that they will never go to war without without with with- out first having done one or the other of two things either submitted the mattern mat mat- ter tern in in controversy to arbitration in which ca case e they agree to abide by the verdict or submitting it to discussion In the council of or the league o of nations and for that purpose they consent consents to allow six months for the discussion and whether they like the opinion expressed or not that they will not go to war for three threeS months after that opinion has been S ex expressed ex- ex pressed so that you have whether you get arbitration or not nine months' months discussion dis and I w want nt to remind you OU that that Is the central principle of some thirty thir thir- ty treaties ty-treaties treaties entered into between the United States Slates o of America and some thirty other sovereign nations all of which are confirmed by the senate o of the United States GERMANY REFUSED F France We h. h have we eha have such such u an an agreement agreement t with with U I Great Britain we have such an agreement agree agree- ment with practically every great nation except Germany which refused to enter into such an arrangement because agree I m my fellow citizens Germany knew that she i intended something that didn't bear beat discussion discussion dis dis- dis- dis c and that I if she submitted the I p purpose which led to this war to so much muchas a as s one months month's discussion she never would have dared go Into the enterprise a against mankind which she finally did didgo didgo dido g go o into applause and therefore I say I gt t that hat this principle of ot discussion is the p principle already adopted by America A And nd what is the compulsion to do this tul Ct Ts ul d nto T The he compulsion o is s this any member memer mem mem- f h ber er state violates that promise to submit ai ir ft e et either ither to arbitration tI or discussion s it is t thereby hereby ipso facto deemed to have committed com corn an act o of war against all the r rest st st. T Then hen you will ask do we at once take talce up a arms and fight them No We do something something some some- t thing hing very much more terrible than that We Ve absolutely boycott them P POWER OWER OF BOYCOTT Let any merchant put up to himself t that hat I If he enters Into a covenant and t then hen breaks it and the people all around a absolutely desert his establishment and will have nothing to do with him ask askI askim h him im after that if It will ylli III be necessary to I s send end the police The most terrible thing t that hat can happen to any individual and the t he most conclusive thing that can happen happen hap hap- I p pen en to a nation is to be read out of de decent decent de- de c cent ent society Applause There was another thing that we n needed to accomplish that is accomplished accomplished pushed in this document We Ve wanted d disarmament and this document provides i in n the only possible way for disarmament disarmament disarmament ment by common agreement Observe my fellow citizens that just now every g great reat fighting nation in the world is o of t this his partnership except Germany and I i inasmuch as Germany has accepted a l limitation imitation O of her army to men I d dont don't ont think for or the time being she may maybe maybe maye b be e regarded as a great fighting nation MILITARY CLASS And you know my fellow ellow citizens t that hat armaments mean great standing a armies and great stores of ot war mate mate- r rial ial They do not mean burdensome taxation merely they do not mean merely compulsory military service which saps the economic strength of t the he nation but they mean the buildIng building build- build I Ing ng up of a military class Again and again my mv fellow citizens In the conference con con- f ference at Paris we were face to face with this situation OJ Ox Os dealing with a particular civil government we found t that hat they would not dare to promise what their general staff stat was not willing willog willIng will- will l Ing og that they should promise and that t they hey were dominated by the military machine which they had created nominally nominally nominally nomi nomi- nally for their own defense but really whether they willed it or not for forthe the provocation o of war And so as long as y you ou have a military class It does not notI make any difference what your form I of government is J If we we- weare are determined determined determined deter deter- mined to be armed to the teeth you OU must obey the orders and directions of t the he only men who can control the great machinery o of war It is not merely the cost of ot it armament although that thatIs i Is s overwhelming but it is the spirit of ofU i It U- U t. t and America has never had and I h hope ope pe in the providence of ot God never never will have that spirit Great applause HERE IS WAY V OUT And there is no other way to dispense dispense dispense dis dis- dis- dis pense with great armaments except bythe by bythe t the he common agreement of ot the fighting nations o of the world And here is the a agreement The They promise disarmament and promise to agree upon a plan But there was something else we wanted that Is accomplished b by this treaty We Ve wanted to destroy autocratic authority everywhere in the world We wanted to see to it that there e was no place in inthe inthe t the he world where a small group of men could use their fellow citizens as pawns in a game that there was no place in the world where a small group of men without consulting their fellow citizens citizens cit cit- cit dl- could send their fellow citizens to the battlefield and to death in accomplishing accomplishing ac ac- accomplishing ac- ac something dynastic some political plan that had been conceived in private some object ct that had been prepared for by universal worldwide in in- in That is what we wanted to accomplish accomplish ac ac- ac- ac The most startling thing that developed itself at the opening of ot our participation in this war was not the military preparation of ot Germany Germany we we were familiar with that though we had been dreaming that she would not use it but it-but but her political preparation to find that every community In the civilized world was penetrated by her Intrigue The German people did not know that but it was known In where the central offices o of the German government were and was the master o of the German people and this war my fellow citizens has emancipated the German people as well as the rest o of the world JOB STILL TO BE DONE We Ve dont don't want to see anything |