ARTICLE TEN.

Northern Advocate, 26 September 1919, Page 5

ARTICLE TEN.

VITAL ISSUE. (Received 8.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. At Denver, President Wilson said that the heart of the discussion \va 3 now Article Ten. Adoption by the Senate of any reservation in connection with this article would be equivalent to rejection of the Peace 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 thos e desirous of defeating America's purposes in entering the war. "Hyphens are the knives being stuck into ths document," said the President. The Labour section of the Peace Treaty," he continued, "gave the UnitedSStat s an opportunity of raising Labour standards throughout the world. If it forfeited th c world's confidence the United States would find itself industrially and morally outside world society. The next world war would be more terrible than the last, and if the United States remained outside the League it would require the greatest army the world could raise, and would have to impose conscription and the heaviest 'taxation. The League constituted a wholesale moral clearinghouse for world disputes.—A. and N.Z.