UNITED STATES.
THE PEACE TREATY*
INVOLVING FUTURE OF THE STATES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received Sept. 20, 3 p.m. '
Washington, Sept. 19. Senator Wadsworth, in the Senate debate, said that the question of ratifying the treaty involved no less than the future of the United States. For 130 years the Americans had lived isolated from European intrigues. Under Article 10 the United States would be obliged for all time to send its children to fight to defend foreign territory in order to maintain the status of 1919. Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Senator Wadsworth added that if Article 10 had existed during the revolutionary war, when France came to the aid of America, every nation in Europe would have combined against her, and there would never have been a free America. LEAGUE A MOCKERY. UNLESS UNITED STATES ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY. Received Sept. 21, 11.5 p.m. Washington, Sept. 19. Speaking at San Diego, President Wilson said that unless the United States accepted the same obligations as other nations it would be a mockery for her to enter the League. The United States had supported the claims of Panama and Cuba to vote on the League Council ui.br the protection of the United States. The votes of Britain and her colonies would be no more effective than the single vote of the United States. It was a delusion to think otherwise. President Wilson stated the Council was largely a debating body, and it would have been unjust to give votes to small independent nations therein and exclude such a great Dominion as Canada. Received Sept. 21, 11.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 20.
In a speech at St. Paul, Minnesota, Senator Johnston said the League of Nations was merely a gigantic war trust. It meant that American boys would be obliged to police the world, hold up tottering nations by American blood and bone, and allow European and Japanese nations to drag Americans into their quarrels. The League of Nations meant the end of American idealism and the triumph of the cynical Old World diplomacy.
Senator Johnston stated the public sentiment against the League was assuming the proportions of a revolution, and if ratification of the Treaty was delayed for sixty days in order to permit the people to express opinions in positive terms the League would be defeated. At Watertown, New York, Mr, Lansing, in a speech, advocated ratification of the Treaty without delay and without any change. There was nothing in the Treaty invading American sovereignty, and nothing which limited the exercise of such sovereignty.—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LORD NORTHCS|FF2 - 3 VIEWS. * . TRADE REPRESENTATION IN GERMANY. , Received Sept. 21, 5.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 19. An American correspondent in London interviewed Lord Northcliffe, who declared that the reservations advocated by the United States senators in the Covenant would exclude the United States from the League of Nations, which would thus be destroyed. Lord Northcliffe says the treaty does not entirely satisfy Britain, but it sets humanity on the path of reconstruction, which is the most important thing now. War will come again unless the League exists. No country surrenders its sovereignty under the league. The Berlin correspondent of the Chicago News states that American business men are suffering from lack of proper diplomatic and commercial representation in Germany. The Tlnited States has only an army captain without real power, while the British and French missions aTe giving their countrymen much aid.
The United States' assistant Post-master-General has gone to Havana to arrange the details of the 'United StatesWest India aerial mail service.
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