THE REJECTION OF THE TREATY.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 September 1919, Page 5

THE REJECTION OF THE TREATY.

VVHAT IT‘ MEANS TO AMERICA:

THE GREATEST ARMY ON RECORD.

Received 9.0 a.m\

XVASHINGTON, Sept. 25.

At Denver Mr Wilson said that the heart of the discussion was now Article 10. The adoption by the Senate of any reservation in connection with this article would be equivalent to a rejection of the Treaty_ The Shaniung 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 desirou° of defeating the American purposes in Cllt(.‘l'illg‘ the "war. “Hyphcns are the knives being stuck into this document,” he declared. The Labour sec tion of the Treaty gave the United States an opportunity of raising labour standards throughout the world. If it forfeited the world’?s confidence the United States would find itself in<Tli's—trially and morally outside world. society. The next world war would be more tel‘l'ible than the last. If the United States remained outside the League it would require the greatest army the world could. raise, and impose conscription and the heaviest taxation. The Tioiiigiie constituted :1 wholesale moral clearing-house for world disputes_

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PARIS, ‘Sept. 25.

In the Cliziniber, in the course of a discussion on the Peace Treiatw, M. Pichon‘ upheld the right of the B'ri'.*.ish Dominions to membership in the League of Nations. He 6961211-ed that France had no colony comparable to" the British Doniinioiis, which had raised nearly three million men for the w:l.i'_

AMERICA'S VIRTUAL REJECTION, PRESIDENT WILSON’S SOLEMN WARNING. NEW YORK, Sept. 25. ' In a speech at Cheyenne, President Wilson stated that the Senate’s reservation regarding Article X. was tantamount to rejection of the Covenant. for it meant refusal to carry the same responsibility as other members of th? League. “Article X.” said the President, “cuts the hearts of all wars. It is our choice, under the League, to define whether we should meddle in any European squabbles, and we would only be drawn in when we so wished. I will be obliged, as the chief execu» tive of the United States, to I'egal-cl the Senates’ resel't7ation regarcling Article X. -as rejection of the Treat-,v. This would mean the isolation of Germany and the United States. R 0390tion of the Treaty means that it will be necessary to negotiate a separatrr treaty with Germany. It will simp‘-y mean the United States going hat 1': hand asking acceptance of a separate

peace.”

In a speech at Salt Lake City, President Wilson stafed that the Foreign Relations Committee's 1-eservatioiis would force the Treaty back to the Pc-nce Conference. ‘The ainondment of ;.,-Xrticle 10 would nullify American participation in the League and destroy the Treaty. Any'l-e—9pening of the Treaty would ro—open —tlle entire question. Americans (lid/not desire this.