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Show TREATY ISSUE REDUCED TO TAKE IT ORJEM IT PUEBLO, Colo, Sepl. 23 Redu:;ng his fight for the peace treaty to a direct issue of acceptance or rejection, President Wilson today invited the senate to take a definite and unmls-takeable unmls-takeable Ft and onp wav on he other liter declaring it would be his duty as chief executhe to judge whetner the senate's action constituted acceptance accept-ance or rejection, should reservatirns be incorporated in the ratification, the president added a warning that he did not consider "qualified adoption" as adoption in fact He said, however, that hp saw no objejetion to mere interpretations. in-terpretations. In two addresses in Colorado during the day .Mr Wilson reiterated again and again ihat the whole controversy n- A rcsmA' cA 1rrt i n t n n rloar- -lit question whether the United State should go into the league of nations or stay out. It was time, he said, that the nation knew where it was to stand Meanwhile. White House officials In the presidential party permitted it to become known that tho proposed reservation res-ervation which the president quo'ed at Salt Lake City and Cheyenne and which he announced he would regard as a rejection of the treaty was one he had been Informed was agreed m by several Republican senate leaders. The president's first speech of the day was at a morning meeting in Denver, Den-ver, and later he addressed a crod which filled the municipal hall here. "Men centered around that table in Paris knew the time had come when the people were no longer going to consent to lilng under masters tut were going to live their lives as they chose to live and under such governments govern-ments as they chose to erect," said the president. "That is the fundamental principle of this great settlement. We did not stop with that. We had a great international in-ternational charter for the rights of labor. "Reject this treaty and this is the consequence to laboring men of the world; there is no International tribunal tri-bunal which can bring the moral judgment judg-ment of the world to bear upon the great labor questions of the 'I J What we need to do with the labor questions of tho day is to life them (into tho light is to lift Americans out I of tho haze into the calm spaces where men look at thincs without tray.'h Th'1 more men you get into a great discussion the more ou rxelude practicalness prac-ticalness Men everywhere will r-.ay the problem of labor is not any m?re than the problem of humanity. "In tho covenant the moral forces of the world are mobilized. For what purpose? "My fellow citi?ens the membership of this .crreat league of nations includes in-cludes all the great, mighty nat! ns of the world. It Is not going to include in-clude Germany for tho time heirs; Germany is not one of the great nations na-tions of the world. "Cut all of the nations who have power are goinj; to be members of ihi-; League. No matter what differences differ-ences arise, they will not resort to war without first h.o log done one of two things, submitting the matter of controversy con-troversy to arbitration or having BUD-mitted BUD-mitted it to the consideration of the council of the league of nations, laying before that council all the truths of the facts, so that th' council may publ'sh the facts to the world "You understand that thoro'are'" six .months allowed for" the league's c ;i-,'sideration ;i-,'sideration of these iact; by the corn-cll corn-cll fnd at the expiration of these six months, If they are not ready to accept ac-cept the views of the council in the settlement of the dispute, they will still not go to war for another thiee months. After this they submit the differences between them to tho judgment judg-ment of the league and just as certain as they do this, they will not resort to war, for men will know that there will bo a deliberation council, and toe most dangerous thing for a bad though is to expose it to the opinion of the world. "Now you have heard of six votes belonging to Great Britain. Those six votes are not in the council, they are in the assembly and the interesting thing is that the assembly does not vote. I raujt modify that statement a little, but essentially it is absolutely true In every matter in which the as seniblj is given a vote, and there are only four or five, its vote does not count unless concurred la by the r p resentatlves of all the nations repre sented on the council, so there is no validity to the vote of the assemblj unless approved by Ihe United States, so the vote of the United States Is ns big as the six votes of the British em pire I think that Is a perfectly safe situation. "Do you think It unjust that therj hould be some opportunity of debate j - .given to that lit'le country in the south new Zealand? Do you think It unjus: IjJ ! t hat Australia should be allowed to IB tak pari in the debaie' "Do you think It unjust that that lit- h. tie nation in the south of Africa should I be represented? To judge such ou aro outside authorities. T,l: "Those two men who represented J H South Africa at Paris were two disLn- I guished generals of the Boer army, j ft They were two of the most intelligent men I have ever met, men who could talk with the best of statesmen. ' What about Canada? Is not Canada JR ; good neighbor' Is not Canada more liki ly to agree with the United States . than Great Britain? Canada has a speaking power, and then for the first time in ihe history of the world that great country, India, is given a voice j among the nattions of the world and I want to say that some of the wisest fig i ures at the conference come from In t dia, pl "When you hear an opinion you do if,, not count the number of people who Bf hold It. ou ask who said it. You weigh opinions, you do not count them, and the beauty of all democracy is 15 ' hat every -voice can be heard, every J voice can have the privilege of contrib-Uting contrib-Uting to the final judgment. That is 'he object of it." |