THE PEACE TREATY.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1919, Page 2

THE PEACE TREATY.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

MR WILSON’S DEFENCE.

(Received This Day at 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. At Denver, Mr Wilson said that the heart of the discussion was now Article ten. The adopting by the Senate of any reservation in connection with this article would be equivalent to the rejection of the Treaty. The Shantung difficulty was now cleared away, as well' as the bitter objections to British voting power, which had been exploded. The only persons trying to effect reservations were those desirous of defeating American purposes in entering the war. “Hyphens are the knives being stuck into this document.” The labour section of the Treaty gave United States an opportunity of raising the labour standard throughout the world. If it forfeited the world’s confidence, United States would find itself industrially and morally' outside the world of society. The next world war would be more terrible than the last. If United States remained outside the League it would require the greatest army the world could raise and impose conscription and the heaviest taxation. The 'League constituted a wholesale moral clearing house for world disputes.