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DEMOCRATS SEE HOPE
IN WILSON NOTE
Opposes All Efforts to Wcakei
Treaty?Declares America Cannot
Escape Moral Obligations Ex*
pressed in Covenant.
Washington, March 8.?Presiden
Wilson restated for Democratic sen
ators today his opposition to an:
peace treaty reservations whici
would weaken the full force of arti
cle ten or otherwise materially im
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covenant.
Without saying specifically wha
qualification he would or would no
accept, he wrote in a letter to Sen
ator Hitchcock, the administrate
leader, that almost all of the reserva
tions he had heard suggested wer<
"in effect virtual nullifications" of th<
treaty articles to which they applied
"I hear of reservationists and mih
reservationists," the letter added
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"DUt l cannot understand me uiutrr
ence between a nullifier and mile
nulifier." >
Would Cut "Very Heart" Out.
Discussing Article ten, particularly,
the president wrote that there
was "no escaping the moral obligations
which are expressed in positive
terms in this article" though there
could be no objection to explaining
in an interpretation the constitution'
a! methods by which such an obligation
would have to be fulfilled. The
4<very heart" of the covenant, he
reiterated, would be imperiled by
weakening Article ten?
The president* letter, written in response
to a request that he confer
with Senator Simmons, of North
Carolina, in charge of the Democratic
side of the senate in current negotiations
for a compromise, follows in
full:
President** Letter.
"My Dear Senator Hitchcock: I un
derstand that one or two of your
colleagues do me the honor of desiring
to knofcr what my views are with
reference to Article ten of the league
of nations and the effect upon the
league of the adoption of certain proposed
reservations to that article. I
welcome the opportunity to throw any
light I can upon a subject which has
become so singularly becloudcd by
misapprehensions and misinterpretations
of every kind.
, "There is no escaping the moral ob
llgat>lUlU V* 1IJIV.11 CUC Hi yutfi
tive terms in this article of the cove
nant. We won a moral victory ovei
Germany, far greater even than the
military victory won on the field oi
battle, because the opinion of the
whole world swung to our support arte
the support of the nations associatec
with us in the great struggle. It die
so because of the common professioi
and promise that we meant to estab
lish "an organization of peace whicl
should make it certain that the combined
power of free nations woulc
check every invasion of right anc
serve to make peace and justice the
more secure by affording a definite
tribunal of opinion to which all mus1
submit and by which every international
readjustment that cannot be
amicably agreed upon by the peoples
directly concerned shall be sanctioned."
This promise and assurance
were written into the preliminaries
of the armistice and into the
preliminaries of the peace itself and
constitute one of the most sacred
obligations ever assumed by any nation
or body of nations. It is unthinkable
that America should set the
example of ignoring such a solemn
moral engagement.
Could Not Face Soldiers.
"For myself, I feel that I could not
look the soldiers of our gallant armies
, in the face again if I did not do everything
in my power to remove every
obstacle that lies in the way of the
adoption of this particular article ol
the covenant, because we made these
pledges to them as well as to the rest
of the world and it was to this causc
they deemed themselves devoted in a
spirit of crusaders. I should be forever
unfaithful-to them if I did no1
do my utmost to fulfill the high purpose
for which they fought.
"I think, my dear Senator, we car
dismiss from our minds the idea thai
it is necessary to stipulate in connec
tion with article ten the constitution
al methods we should use in fulfilling
our obligations under it. We gaii
nothing by such stipulations and se
cure nothing which is not already se
cured. It was understood a3 a mat
ter of course at the conference i:
Paris that whatever obligations an
government assumed or whateve
duties it undertook under the treatj
would, of course, have to be fulfille
by its usual and established const:
tutional methods of action.
gium and Germany, which the Gei
mans violated in 1914. Article 10 a
written into the treaty of Versatile
represents the renunciation by Gre<i
Britian and Japan, which before th
war had begun to find so many intei
t?.* ' in common the Pacific, b
France, by Ttalv?_y all +he grea
fighting- powers of the world?th
old pretei.sions of pol'tica* cmqi.v
an-! territorial r^gr.ir.c'Tcmoi . I*
a new doctrine in the world'; :si?a i
!and must be recognized, or there is
' ! no secure basis for the peace which
; the scrap of paper, as ineffective in
i operation as the agreement between
Bel- guarantee as a matter of in;
contestable right the political indejpendence
and integrity of each of its
j members might be hardly more than
t a futile whole world so longingly.
. desires and so desperately needs,
i; j Be Guilty of Bad Faith,
rj j "If Article 10 is not adopted and
_ j acted upon the governments wnicn
.; reject it will, I think, be guilty of
e : bad faith to their people, whom they
j induced to make the sacrifices of the
j.. war by pledge that they would be
I fighting to redeem the world from
_ the old order of force and aggression!
. They will be acting also in bad faith
to the opinion of the world at large
a to which they appealed for support
I in a concerted stand against the ag-j
gressions and pretensions of Ger-'
j many. If we were to reject Article j
10, or so to weaken it as to take its
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j as desiring to return to the old world
of jealous rivalry and misunderstand- :
' ing. If America has awakened, as '
^the rest of the world has, to the j
vision of a new day in which the mis- i
takes of the past are to be corrected, <
it will welcome the opportunity to :
share the responsibility of Article 10.1 <
j "Once or twice in meetings of the 1
conference, when the treaty was under
consideration, "reservations"
were mad^to that effect by the repre- ]
sentatives of individual rowers, ana \
f those "reservations" were invariably j
received in the way in which men ,
who have met for business and not j
for talk, always receive acts of 1
scrupulous supererogation?listened ;
to with indifferent silence, as such \
men listen to what is a matter of (
course and was not necessary to say. j
Congress Controls Army. 1
' There can be no objection to ex- <
plaining again /hat our constitution- i
al method is and that our Congress <
aione can oeciare war ui ueicxunuc .
the causes or occasions for war, and |
that it alone can authorize the use of.
the armed forces of . the United
States on land or on the sea. But to !
make suc,h a declaration would cer- j
tainly be a work of supererogation.
"I am sorry to say that the reser-1
1 v~l:ons that have come under my notice
are, almost without exception,
not interpretations of the articles to
which it is proposed to attach them,
but in effect virtual nullifications of
those articles.
"Any reservation which seeks to de
prive the league of nations of the
; force of Article 10 cuts at the very
heart and life of the covenant'itself. '
* Any league of nations which does not
"It must not be forgotten, Sena1
tor, that this article constitutes a re- !
* , nunication of wrong ambition on the
1 part of powerful nations with whom
we were associated in the war. It is :
1 by no means certain that without this 1
' article any such renunciation will)
\ take place. Militaristic ambitions |;
1 and imperialistic policies are by no ;
means dead even in the councils of *
the nations whom we most trust and <
with whom we most desire to be as- ;
sociated in the tasks of peace.
Throughout the sessions of the con- :
ference in Paris it was evident that a "
militaristic party, under the most ;
influential leadership was seeking to 1
gain ascendency in the counsels of ]
France. They were defeated then, <
but are in control now. The chief :
arguments advanced in Paris in sup- 1
port of the Italian claims, on the ]
Adriatic were strategic arguments, '
'that is to say, military arguments ;
which had at their backs the thought- i
i of naval supremacy in that sea. For ;
my own part, I am as intolerant of 1
imperialistic designs on the part of i
1 other nations as I was of such de-;!
sijprns on the part of Germany. -1
Right of Free People. :
'Tho choice is between the ideals;'
? on the one hand, the ideal of democracy,
which represents the rights of
> free peoples everywhere to govern
themselves, and on the other hand, J!
the ideal of imperialism which seeks j'
. to dominate by force and unjust pow- j (
er, an ideal which is by no means j
dead and which is earnestly held in .
n vf ftvo cfiH
JUUIIV until Hfijj ,
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"Every imperialistic influence iri 1
. Europe was hostile to the embodi
ment of article ten in the covenant of
r the league of nations, and its defeat
i now would mark the complete con-.
- summation of their efforts to nullify
the treaty. I hold the doctrine of!
article ten to be the essence of!
ii Americanism. We cannot repudiate j
y it or weaken it without at the same
r time repudiating our own principles.,
r, "The imperialist wants no league
d of nations, but if in resDonse to the j
[- universal cry or tne masses everyI
where, the e is to be one. hs is ;r.ter
ested to secure one suited to his ovn
is purposes, one that will pe^nv1- him to
:s continue tne historic game of pawns
it and peoples, the jugHincr of provo
inces. the old balances of nower and
the inevitable wars attendant upon
y if- ~ : \ Droit
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of a league of nations have by every ti
true instinct centered their efforts ti
agaist article ten, for it is undoubtedly
the foundation of the whole ri
structure. It is the bulwark, and the c;
only bulwark of the rising; democ- n
racy of the world against the forces n
of imperialism and reaction. tl
Should Enter Fearlessly.
"Either we should enter the league P
fearlessly, accepting the responsibility
and not fearing the role of leadership
which we now enjoy, contributing our S
efforts towards establishing a just ^
and permanent peace, or we should 3'
retire as gracefully as possible from
the great concert of powers by f]
which the world was saved. For my ir
own part, I am not willing to trust to
the counsel of diplomats the working ,
? ? j i i _? n<
out of any salvation 01 xne wona p
from the things which it has suffered.
"I believe that when the full significance
of this great question has been r
generally apprehended, obstacles will ?seem
insignificant before the opportunity,
a great and glorious opportu
nity to contribute our overwhelming
moral and material force to the es- ^
tablishment of an international regime
in which our owti ideals of justice
and right may be made to prevail
and the nations of the world be
allowed a peaceful development un- M
der conditions of order and safety
hitherto impossible.
- Sweeping Nullification.
"I need not say, Senator, that I
lave given a great deal of thought to e,
;he whole matter of reservations pro- e)
posed in connection with the ratifi- m
:ation of the treaty and particularly
that portion of the treaty which con- q
tains the covenant of the league of ?c
nations, and I have been struck by m
the fact that practically every socalled
reservation was in effect a
rather sweeping "lllification of the j
terms of the treaty itself. I hear fc
Df reservationists and mild reservationists,
but I cannot understand the j
difference between a nullifies and a ^
nild nullifier. Our responsibility as
a nation in this turning point in his- ^
tory is an overwhelming one, and
if I had the opportunity I would beg
everyone concerned to consider the ^
matter in the light of special national oc
interests. ^
"If I have been truly informed con- ^
cerning the desire of some of your ^
colleagues to know my views in this jj
matter, I would be very glad if you aj
should show this letter to them.
"Cordially and sincerely yours,
"Woodrow Wilson. ^
"Wn"' riilKorf M Hitchcock.
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"United States Senator."
A BRIDGE AT SHELTON ^
IS UNTHINKABLE Dear
Editor: I
I note in last issue of your paper
mention of a bridge across Broad
river and that Shalton seemed to be
the favored place. I would love to
meet the genius or self-constituted
personality, who could even think of
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it. Shelton is located in Fairfield
county at the foot of a mountain,
above the line between Union and
Newberry. Tiger river being the line
runs into Broad just below Shelton
where the low lands or bottoms is
a half mile wide. What purpose
would a bridge at Shelton serve the
nnKiip? hpino* in the extreme north
fVAlSAAW .
:*mer of the county. What we want
is a bridge put in some location about
the miudle of the county, so that the
people can get across the river. And
when across they car go where they
please in cach county. There should
iot be any personalities or favored ;
place considered. The bridge should |
be built for the convenience of the j
majority of the people and not at !
Shelton because there is a bank ;
there, or at Blairs because there are i
stroes there, or at Strother or Daw
kins because there are Railroad staTHE
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obody wants a bridge at Shelton and
obody will vote for bonds to put one
lore if they know it. .
J. S. J. Suber. j
omaria, S. C.f R. o. March 6, 1920. :
The annual tobacco crop of Jugo- ,
lavia approximates 15,000.000 kilos. !
if this, some 6,000,000 kilos are re-1
aired for domestic consumption, 1
saving 9,000,000 kilos for export,*
ither in the leaf, or prepared for
nmediate use.
Kadzu, a native forage of Japan, "
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lorida, and it is hoped to grow sev-!
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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT j
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We will make a final settlement of ?
the estate of Jacob Shealy in the
Probate Court for Newberry County, i
S. C.. on Saturday the 20th dav of
March, 1920, at 10 o'clock in the j i
forenoon and will immediately there-1 ]
after ask for our discharge asj 1
Executors of said estate. j]
JNO. A. SHEALY, <
L. D. SHEALY, !
L. W. SHEALY, ;J
Executors. -.
Newberry, S. C. Feb. 20, 1920.
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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
I will make a final settlement of the
estate of Elizabeth F. George in the 2
Probate Court for Newberry County, i
S. C., on Saturday the 27th day of ?
March, 1920, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon and will immediately there- J
after'ask for my discharge as Execu^fl
:rix of said estate.
BESSIE M. GEORGE/ * i
Executrix.
Newberry, S. C., Feb. 21st, 1920.
FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Take notice that on the 24th dajr I
of March I will rerfder a final accottntJj
of my acts and doings as Executor omM
the estate of Thomas Floyd deceas?H
in the office of the Judge pf
of Newberry County, at 11
a. m. and on the same day will appljHj
tor a final discharge from my trust^H
as such Executor.
Anv norwin ir?dphfpd<?d tn s?iH
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bate is notified and required to niflHH
payment on that date, and all person^H
having claims against said estate willH
present them on or before said date^S
duly proven or be forever barred. ^
A. B. BLAKELY, 1
Executor of the Estate of Thoma* m
Floyd, deceased. M
February 21, 1920. Jfl
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