AMERICA'S BIG ISSUE

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 83, 5 October 1920, Page 7

AMERICA'S BIG ISSUE

PRESIDENT WILSON'S CAMPAIGN

LEAGUE'S OPPONENTS DENOUNCED.

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WASHINGTON', 3rd October.

President Wilson has issued his.first campaign appeal direct to the people, urging the endorsement of the League of Nations, declaring that the world will wait for the verdict in November as it would wait for an intimation what its future was to be. The assertions that Article X would make it possible for other nations to lead America into war he characterised as absolutely false. There was nothing in the Covenant which, in the least interfered with or impaired tlw> right of Congress to declare or not declare war, ;>ceording to its own. independent judgment, as the Constitution provides. President Wilson continued: "Do you want the country's honour vindicated and the Treaty ratified, and particularly to approve of the League as organised and empowered, and to see the United States play its responsible part in it? You have been grossly misled in regard to the Treaty and the character of the League. I am amazed at the gross ignorance and impudent audacity which have led opponents to attempt to invent an Americanism of their own, for which there is no foundation whatever in the authentic traditions of Government. Americanism, as they see it, reverses the whole process of the last few tragic years." President Wilson concludes that according to the arguments of its opponents the Treaty would substitute America for Prussia, with a policy of isolation •md defiant segregation. He makes the League the real and only issue in the bitterest campaign in history. He will take the lead in file fight, and direct the dosing days of the campaign.