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Show II HYPHEN IS KNIFE BEING STUCK INTOTREATY I DENVER. Colo., Sepl 26. Presldenl ID Wilson in speaking of the opponents I of ih? treaty said : I "Out ot doors, thai Is to say, oul ol I the legislative halls, there ts no i gan I jlaed opposition to this treaty excepl n among the people who tried to defei i H the pi;rp"S' - f tin.- : ov. rumen! In the I war. Hyphen is the knife tfia Is lng stuck into this document The I ,sue i- clearly drawn bee. nisi . inasmuch .as we are masters of our own parth rpaiion in 'he aeiion of the league of nations, why do we need reservations'.' "If we do not have this treaty of peace lahor will continue to be nol what it ought i" .1 human funi l n and a purchasable commodity through out the world. There Is incorporated in the articles of this great treat) a Magna Chan a for lahor. There Is up r means of periodical examinat on of ihc conditions ol labor all over the world, protecting the labor of won.cn I and children thai have nol the phyni-I phyni-I eal endurance to hear Ihe burden p'Jl ; I on them, and ii Is the duty of the a I rtions of the world to study the me h I fdds of labor and raise the BCale of hu- man labor You know what thai meant 1 TVc have not done our hill dutj In n gard to the amelioration of the com'! j I tions of labor In America, but the d a-I a-I dltions here are better than an;- wh i I else and we now have an opportunl I -to exercise our full influence to rais I the standard everywhere to the levels J w h ve trl id to raise In this ountrj . and also as between those who einploj labor and those w ho iabor. The n of the world has never got into t. .-'business, .-'business, the conscience has never been released along these lines in re-I re-I gard to the improvement of labor .nd I more than 'hat unit a we find u method, such as I have been alludinj I to, we will not h.i v released the real I encrpr . of labor Men are not going to work and produce what they would M produce if lh" feel they arc not justly treated, and if you want 10 realize H the real wealth of this country, then bring about ih human relationship II between emplocrs and employes which wtll make them co-laborers and partners and fellow workers. All of that is open to us under and through i he instrumentality of the league of nations and under this great treaty and still we debate whether we should ratify it or not'" on |