UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16546, 22 September 1919, Page 3

UNITED STATES.

PRESIDENT’S CAMPAIGN.

CONTINUED AT LOS ANGELES.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Sept. 22, 8.6 a.m.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 21. At Los Angeles President Wilson, discussing the Shantung question, openly made a charge against Senators that their real purpose in opposing tho arrangement was to defeat the treaty, not to assist China. A meeting between Carranza and President Wilson, when _ the latter reaches Texas, is being discussed. It is believed it would clear up many misunderstandings between Mexico and the United States. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

TRADE COMMISSION.

TO VISIT EUROPE

(Received Sept. 22, 8.5 a.m.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 21. The Trade Commission to establish reciprocal financial and commercial _ relations between Europe and the United States has departed. The State Department and Department of Commerce have instructed all Consular officers in Europe to extend the fullest aid to the commission.

VICE-PRESIDENT NOT MOVED

BY SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN.

(Received Sept. 22, 8.5 a.ih.)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.

Mr. T. A. Marshall, Vice-President, interviewed, said; “1 don’t doubt that the Peace Treaty and League of Nations will ho ratified by the Senate. Any change will only be in the shape of mild reservations embracing President Wilson’s explanations.

CHILDISH CRITICISM.

OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. Senator Wadsworth, in Senate debate, said that the question of ratifying tho treaty involved no less tlian the future of the United States. For 130 years the Americans had lived isolated from European intrigues. Under Article 10 tho 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- , V ~ Senator Wadsworth added that if Article 10 had existed during the revolutionary war, when France came to tho aid of America, every nation in Europe would have combined against her, and there would never have been a free America.

In a speech at St. Paul, Minnesota] Senator Johnson 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 1 European and Japanese nations to drag Americans into their quarrels. Tho League of Nations meant the end of American idealism and the triumph of tho cynical Old World diplomacy. Senator Johnson stated the public sentiment against the League was assuming the proportions of a revolution, and it ratification of the Treaty was delayed for 60 days in order to permit the people to express opinions in positive terms tho League would bo defeated. . , Speaking at San Diego, President Wilson said that unless tho 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 under the protection of the United States. Hie votes of Britain and her colonies would be no more ebectivo 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 and exclude such a great Dominion as Canada. 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.—Aus.N.Z. Cablo Assn.

LORD NORTHCLIFFB INTER-

VIEWED

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 bo 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 off the Chicago News states that American business men are suffering from lack of propel' diplomatic and commercial representation in Germany. The United States has only an army captain without real power, while the British and French missions are giving their countrymen much aid. The United States’ assistant Post-master-General has gone to Havana to arrange the details of the United States-West India aerial mail service.