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THE SUMTES WATCHMAN, Eetab. Consolidated Aug. 2t 1 WARNING SO?ND EDBY PRESIDENT Mr. Wilson Fears Bolshevism May Result if Treaty is Not Signed Soon SPEAKS IN DES MOINES "I ON THE GREAT DANGER j Says World Waits Uneasily i While Bolshevism Spreads! Through the World Des Moines, la., Sept. 6.?A possi- J bility that Bolshevism may spread in j threatening proportions to the Unit- j ed States, unless the peace treaty is' ratified promptly was suggested by: President Wilson in an.address here, tonight; x v The whole world is waiting uneasi ly, he'said, while the "poison which had wrecked Russia was spreading ?meng peoples who did not yet know what guarantees there were to. be for liberty in the new world order. La bor and capital in the United States, he asserted, could not proceed intelli gently with their settlements nor could great problems like the'railroad situation be solved while ? the sus pense continued. Mr. Wilson defended the Shantung provision of the treaty and said the league covenant section referring to the Monroe-Doctrine had been insert ed to "give the Monroe Doctrine right of way in the western hemisphere." <He declared his conviction that it would do so. The Versailles treaty with its league 1 of nations covenant was explained here tonight by President Wilson ?as a purely American document extend ing Democracy over the world and shifting foreign relations from a bus iness of force and war to one of ar bitration and peace. Making jiis second address of the day, the president spoke Lin-the Des ^oines Coliseum, said to seat 7,500. 32yery>chaif was jfeken and many were staging. Earlier in the day he had spoken at Kansas City more tha^n 300 ?miles away. On the" way to Des Moines several h^rndr^^ffefrsons'met thc: president's j^fe^tn^at .St Joseph. Mo., where the tr^it^?topped for three minutes,' . |The crowd swarmed around the ob sterva^o&'end of the president's car and called for a speech, but acting on the advice of Dr. Grayson, he refrain ed ffcom making one and exchanged friendly greetings. An escort of aeroplanes dropped flowers on the train as it approached ifae 'City and he was cheered during an automobile ride through crowds that, packed the downtown streets. When he entered the Coliseum- he was! Cheered again. -^The meeting was opened with an j invocation and Mr. Wilson was intro- j d?ced by J. B. Weaver.' president of j the Des Moines Chamber of Com- | mercfe; who spoke on the "Outstand ing figure in the Life of the World I Today." Stfrs. WiPson occupied a seat on the | platform when the president began J speaking. Describing the world a? desperate- j 2y .in need of the settled condition of I peace, the president saiu the United ) States, the last nation which the j world expected to have to wait upon, was delaying the coming of that peace. The treaty, he said, not only would establish peace but it would end for ever the rule of a few men over the destinies of the many. Citing what happned in Europe with the rise of Bolshevism. Mr. Wil son said the move of radicalism and j disorder was spreading. ? "Do you honestly think that none j of the poison has got into the veins of j this free people? he asked. "Men look you calmly in the face in j America and tell you they are for i that sort of revolution. "So long as the question of what j kind of peace the world was to have j and what guarantees were to be be- j hind it remained open, the poison would continue to spread. "How long shall we be kept waiting for the answer whether the world i will trust or despise us," he contin- ! ued. "The world stands annoyed because an authority in America hesitates whether it will endorse an American j doctrine." The president said he would not be i able to work out the solution of rail- j way problems until he knew when a ; peace basis came. The conference of labor and capital in Washington next: month, he continued, also wuold have its deliberations affected by the an- , swer to the treaty question. T>abor j "all over the world is .waiting," he as- i serted. "to see whether the United I States accept the treaty's provisions for an internatonal labor organiza- j tlon." The United States, sali the presi dent, could not participate in the j world labor conference to be held in Washington soon under the treaty un- ! less the treaty was accepted by this ; country. Such a condition would be j inconceivable, he added, "and would lead to the greatest mortification." "The world is waiting." said the president, "to see not whether we will take part, but whether \ will take th*? lead." Mr. Wilson said he had been "an noyed to see that the. statesmanship of come gentlemen consists in the fcfeed April, 18*0. "Be Joss i 881. STJ] PERSH1NG LANDS AT NEW YORK j t ____ Welcomed By Mayor Hyland and Many Officials of Government LEVIATHAN GREETED BY CHORUS OF SIRENS Three Days' Program Arranged For Reception Ceremonies of Nation's Hero New York, Sept 8.?Gen. Pershing arrived on the Leviathan this morn ing amid the shieking of. sirens from thousands of factories and ships. Mes sages were dropped from a police hydroplane aboard the Leviathan wel coming Gen. Pershing on behalf of city, signed by Mayor Hylan. Rod man Wahnaihaker, chairman of the reception committee, Vice President Marshal, Secretary Baker, General March, members of congress, and other notables went down the river aboard the destroyer Blakely to greet the returning general. A reception luncheon and theatre party marked the firSt day of the ceremonies which will last three days. NO KNOWLEDGE OF GUARANTEE American Peace Delegation Not Party to Treaty With Belgium Faris, Sept. 8.?Members of the American peace delegation have. de nied any knowledge of an agreement, reported in the British press, by which America and England guarantee Bel gium against German aggression. FffiE DAMAGE AT ARCHANGEL Fire Rages Two Days Causing - Sixty Million Roubles : Damage Archangel, Sept. 8.?Sixty million rubles damage was caused by* a fire which raged two days at Maimasa Is land. S . i interesting proposition of doing noth ing at all. I have heard of standing pat before, but I never heard of stnridpatism going to that length." The fathers of the republic. Mr. Wilson said, intended to set up a standard to which the world could con.? for liberty. From all nations, he continued, men had come by mil lions. , Opponents of the treaty, the presi dent asserted, were saying: "Yes, we mad? a great premise to the world, but it'll cost too much to redeem it:" if by deliberate choice the United States became a rival and antagonist of h<>r neighbors instead of their friend, said the president, then it would reap the sr.mv reward as a busin?ss man who would proceed on that bards. If the United State:; tried to get all it could selfishly, he con tinued, then the world would see that it got nothing at all. Just as American soldiers restored the morale of the fighting peoples of the allies, said the president, so the United States could now restore the peace morale of the world. It was the people themselves, he said, who would in the end determine what course the United States would take. "They are my bosses," he said. * I have come out on this journey not to fight anybody, but to report to yon." The peace. Mr. Wilson asserted, had been made on "American specifica tions." Among these specifications, he said, "was the establishment of Poland and the other new mid-Euro pean nations which now separated Germany from the pathway of an em pire she expected to establish in the Southeast. *\Are you going to institute a move against France and England and Ja pan to get Shantung back for China? asked the president. "On the contrary." he added, "es tablishment of the Ieagne would be a power to which China could ap peal for futui-e justice."' Mr. Wilson also discussed article ten of the league covenant. Pan-Ger manism and similar plans would be "torn up by the roots." Of the ultimate outcome of the treaty he had no doubt. "The only thing that can be ac complished." he said, "is delay. The ultimate outcome will be the trium phant acceptance of the treaty and the league." The Monroe D<. ctrine provision, he said, had been objected to as vague because it referred to "such regional understandings as the Monroe Doc trine." "This language was written." the president said, "in perfect innocence, and was 'intended' to give right of way to the Monroe Doctrine in the Western hemisphere. The language was put in. he con tinued, because the other delegates thought it unwise to make specific reference to a policy of one country without leaving the way open for other nations to develop similar poli cies in their own localities. i und Fear not?Dec All the end* Thou At WIEB,, S. OL, WEDSESI i WAREHOUSES F THE COTTON CROP \ Pressing Need of South is Great , Chain of Warehouses Con trolled by Local Men WITHOUT THEM PRICE CANNOT BE FIXED; Gov. Harding of Federal Reserve j Bank, Says South Must Fi-1 nance and Market the Crop Columbia, Sept. 6.?J. S. Wanna maker, president of the American j Cotton Assoc.'aton, has issued the f?l ! lowing statement: "For many years intelligent and unselfish leaders in the cotton move ment to protect the interest of pro ducer, manufacturer and consumer have recognized the absolute neces sity of a great chain of cotton ware houses, locally owned and controlled and operating under State laws, [ throughout the South, where cotton | is produced and where it should be j marketed. By this means alone can j the great staple be properly protect ed against weather damage until it is sold direct to the manufacturer at a just price based on elemental eco- j nomic laws. Thus Gov. R. G. Pleas-] ant, of Louisiana, on July 1, tele graphed to President Wannamaker, of the American Cotton Association, when the executive committee of the association was in session as follows: "Be sure to push vigorously quesr tion of building commodious ware houes in every cotton county and parish. There should be enacted by general a?senibles of each State ade quate legislation to this end. Farm ers, merchants and bankers of the South must stick together to advance legitimate cotton interests. Other wise .we are hopelessly in the hands, of the East and Great Britain, as heretofore." "Again, only recently Gov. W. P. G. Harding, of the Federal Reserve Board.-who. by virtue of his.great position, has the opportunity" to view our financial and economic 'problems ?from an inrpartia! .standpoint.' wrotv his conviction as to the warehousing and financing of cotton in a^letter to President Wannamaker, as follows: " 'I am more, and more convinced that if the South desires to obtain a fair price for cotton it should put it self in position to finance the mar keting of it both at home and abroad. Our people have for years been ac customed to financing the growing crop, and of recent years they have learned how to hold their cotton af ter it has been ginned and baled, over a period of temporary distress. They ought to go one step further and finance it until it gets into the hands I of the spinner.' j "Heretofore, however, unselfish wise laborers for tin; common good in j strivihgV to bring about this epoch j making 'change in the handling and marketing of cotton have been un able to effect the establishment of this great unbroken chain of cotton j warehouses locally owned and con trolled because there -was lacking j necessary funds to build warehouses land to finance the cotton when stor j cd to await the mo^t favorable sell i ing time direct to the manufacturer. [ Hence, many farmers have been nn j able, to hold their cotton at all and I have been forced to dump it on the ! market at any price that might hap i pen to be offered on the "day of sale. I Many of those who could hold were I finally forced to sell their cotton of ten badly weather damaged and at depressed prices brought about through the sale of distress cotton. And the European spinner, because of our long-standing wasteful method of j handling cotton prior to its market ? ing, requires up to this day that all I his cotton shall be shipped subject to ! foreign acceptance and port reclama tion. In this way the American pro ducer has through long years lost enormous sums of money. That this deplorable condition should continue longer is unthinkable. "Fortunate!}', the heretofore miss- J ing link in the great plan' properly and adequately to warehouse and hold ! cotton for just prices has now been i supplied by patriotic Southern bank- I ers working in cooperation with the ; great federal reserve board. These: bankers, assisted by trade and bank ! acceptance corporations created, by | them to heli> in the financing of i warehouse cotton have now made it i possible for \the producer to store j his cotton In these warehouses local- J ly owned and operated and to secure' at a reasonable rate of interest ample , loans on the cotton so as to make no i longer necessary the disadvantageous sale of the cotton until the market price justifies the sale. . The full site-; nifieance of this step of the South ern bankers and their trade and bank acceptance corporations is rec- j npmized by the leaders in the cot- j Ion movement who are duly appro- j ciative of this friendly cooperative; spirit of bankers and business men ; of the South in the struggle for mu-! tually beneficial reform in the handl- j ing of cotton. j "Such warehousing as that in op- ; eration in South Carolina and other: States of the South have given addi- ; tional assistance in the long-fought-1 for reform. "It is, therefore now possible for j every cotton producing community to have its own warehouse in which ms't at be thy Country*. Tbj tiod't a )AY, SEPTEMBER 10, : COTTON CROP VERY SHORT Ginners, Report Shows Deficit1 of Nearly One Million Bales. cIrop IS REPORTED UNUSUALLY LATE I Up to Sepmteber 1st Onlyj 138,993 Bales Had Been Gin-! : ned I ?Washington, Sept. 8.?Cotton gin-, njed prior to Sept-ember 1st totalled' 188,993 running bales, including 1,129 I round bales and 30 bales ot Sea Is-1 lajnd, compared with l."03S,07S running! tales, including 53,178 round bales | ajid 296 bales of Sea Island to that date lait year, the first cotton re port of .the census bureau announced tqVlay. The lateness of the crop was the cause of the small ginning. OVATION GIVEN PRESIDENT WILSON Rousing Reception Given Presi dent at Omaha Omaha. Sept. 8.?President Wilson was given a rousing reception on his arival here. STRIKE IN JAPAN Troops Guarding Government i Arsenals \ Tokio. Sept. 8.?Troops are guard ing government arsena's throughout the country, after six thousand, five hundred employees struck. to hdld in security and under its own control all of its cotton properly financed at reasonable cost. The cre ation of the unbroken chain of the! warehouses throughout the belt, free from outside control and interference detrimental ftp the interests, of pro dtofeerv-^an?faefureT or consumer is now asurcd and is only a matter of time. A striking example' of what "an be done and will in all probabil ity be done throughout the South has already been furnished by Spar enburg county in South Carolina. This county has raised $500.000 to build its warehouses in which to shelter and hold its cotton until it be deliver ed undamaged condition direct to j the manufacturer. The rhanufactur-! -er. .likewise, will in this way be. pro-j tecred against great loss from weath er damaged cotton. ?? The local banks! and trade and bank acceptance cor poration will finance the warehouse J cotton. v "The Spartanburg bankers, mer-1 chants and farmers who are leading' in the -establishment of their ware- j houses are doing far more than they j 'magine. They are working not only; Cor themselves but for the whole j "outh. The success of their plan can- j not be doubted, and with its assured and great benefit to all concerned j their example will be followed by i thousands of other communities and i counties until the whole Tinbroken j ?hain is "established. "After all this! warehousing of cot- j ton in the way outlined above is a : sound business proposition. The sin- j ful waste of cotton when unprotected from weather, the resulting deterior ation in quality, the loss in weight: the decrease in price or the forced ! sale of cotton at an unfavorable time,) the crazy and ruinous fluctuations in prices of ootton from hour to hour j at the whim of pramblers on the cot- ! ton exchange will all be stopped by] the establishment of such a chain ofj warehouses locally owned and con trolled, operating under State lawsj and financially backed by Southern! backers. No better asi-^t on which I 'to lend money can be had than cot- { ton. Properly protected, it is prac- j tically indestructible. It is, further-! more, a liquid asset, and is as good as j gold in the form of security. And [ cotton thus warehoused, financed and j marketed, will, for the first time in j many years. Ire sold at a just and ; s:able price based on supply and de- j mand. for it will no longer be forced i on the market to be bought at the j lowest, possible price. The plan will then work out to the benefit of pro-! ducer. manufacturer and consumer. ' for the manufacturer will be perfect- j Iy willing to pay 10 the producer aj reasonable profitable price for his cot- j ton s'nee he will no longer need to : fear that his competitor may be able j tomorow. through criminally manip- < ula ted prices, to secure the same cot- \ ton ;it a much lower eost. "The American Cotton Association is! gratified to see Coming into realiza- I tion its avowed purpose to aid in the establishment of this chain of ware houses locally owned and controlled, j It is delighted to know that other; counties and cotton centers are al-1 i ready beginning plans for their, warehouses. Confident that untold good to the whole South will result from the plan it unhesitatingly, irsres farmers. business men and bankers everywhere to give their full support to the work of establishing good and ample warehouses in every community and through the creation j of trade and bank acceptance cor porations to aid the banks in tinanc-J ing " the warehoused cotton." ma. rrstli'B.0 IHK TKUH 1919. WILSON SPEAKS AT OMAHA, NEB. Ratification of Treaty Onlyj Triers of Settling World wide Labor Unrest ALL NATIONS ACCEPT THE MONROE DOCTRINE j Change in Shantung Provision Would Mean War With Eng land, France and Japan Omaha, Sept. 8.?The prompt ac-| ceptar.cc of the peace treaty as a means of settling labor conditions throughout the world was urged byi President Wilson who declared that the international labor organization set up under the treaty would give labor a new bill of rights. He de nounced the reservations ?s "a scut tle and run" policy.'and asserted that the Monroe Doctrine had been ac cepted in its entirety by all foreign nations for the first time. Under the terms of the. treaty he raid war with Japan, England and1. Prance would be necessary to Detter the Shantung provision. ALVARADO WARNS I PRES. CARRANZA Despot of Mexico Told Plainly That He Is Inviting In tervention Washington Sept. 5.?Warning Mexicans that intervention by the United States is imminent, Gen. Salva dor Alvarado, one of the leaders in the Carranza movement throughout its course, has addressed an open letter to Carranza himself and Generals Obregon and Gonzales, in which he arraigns, conditions in- Mexico in scathing fashion. Alvarado. who attracted attention of all the Pan-Americans for his ad ministration in Yucatan, estimates that the present daily death list in the scattered fighting between federal troops and rebels is 100 a day. In Mexico City alone, he says, 8,000 chil dren die each year for want of prop er food and clothing and shelter. Alvarado declares Mexico has pass et? from one extreme of an irrespon sible obstructionist congress to the other. The full text df Alvarado's remark able communication has just reached the state department where officials regard it as a sign that members of Carranza's inner circle realize the danger. Aharado urges Carranza, Obregon and Gonzales to drop persona! poli tics and unite with the rebels in a great effort to solve national prob lems. JOHN G. CAPERS PASSES AWAY Well Known South Carolinian Succumbs Suddenly . Washington. Sept. 5.?John G. 'Capers, former commissioner of in ternal revenue, died suddenly at his home here tcday following a stroke of paralysis, aged 53 years. Mr. Ca rers was district attorney tor South Carolina from 1901 to 1906, a dele gate to the Republican national con ventions of 190(1 and 190S and a mem ber of the Republican national com mittee from 1904 to 1912. He held the office of commissioner of internal revenue from 1907 to 1909. John O. Capers was born April 17, lSti6. son of the Rt. Rev. Ellison Capers, D. D.. the greatly beloved "soldier-bishop" of South Carolina. Fie was educated at the South Car olina Military Academy and for a number of years was a captain in the South Carolina militia. His wife was Miss Lilla Trenholm of South Caro lina. CELEBRATE LaFAY ETTE'S BIRTHDAY Patriotic Celebration Held in, New York i New York. Sept. fi.?The one hun-? clrcd and sixty-second anniversary of LaFayette's birthday and the fifth i anniversary of the battle of the: Marne was marked by speeches by j ambassador Jusserand and messages] "f felicitations from Gen. Pershing. j f'ecty. Lansing, President Poincare, General Wood and others. Uepresen- i mtives of nine nations were present and the impressive cermor.y was at-] tended by thousands. . j Similar exercises in honor of the ! memory of La Fayette and commem orating the Marne were held at New Orleans, Fayettev?le, X. C. Louisville, S'an Francisco. Philadelphia .and Mil-, waukee, where the same messages --ere read. The Prince *>? Wales tel ephoned a message acknowledging the; r-ehi of the allies to Franco for the j Marne victory, the first great action j of the war. London, Sept. 8.?The Pritish have begun the evacuation of Archangel. 1 ; SOCTKKON, Ettabilsbed Joae, t *a* Vol. XLIX. No. 8. LODGE TO REPORT TREATYTHISWEEE Final Steps Toward Ratification of Document to Be Taken Wednesday NO OTHER GREAT EVENT APPEARS ON PROGRAM House to Consider Requests for Appropriations By Varions Departments Washington, Sept. 7.?Transfer of j the peace treaty from the Foreign Re lations Committee to the senate as ; the final step toward ratification will be the principal event this week in congress. Chairman Lodge of the I foreign relations committee, is expect j ed to report the treaty with recom mended amendments and reservations ? j Wednesday and thereafter the treaty is expected to have exclusive right of ' I way on the senate floor. I Other than the treaty develop j ments little important work is expect-, ed this week in either senate or house [although the latter is to consider ?p-. propriations requested by various de partments to combat the high cost or living. ~Many committee hearings however, are in prospect on both sides of the capitol. Filing of majority and minority reports of -the feroeign relations commitNje on, the treaty % by Chairman Lodge and Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, of Nebraska, respectively, will be the opening for mality in the actual senate consider ation of the tretay. The reports will be brought in "open executive" ses sion. The treaty is to be considered and voted upon article by article. Initial controversies will come on amendments proposed by the Repute lican committee majority. ' While the amendments numbering nearly forty are under fire negotia . tions will proceed as to "mild" of,, "strong" reservations, which gen- - erally are regarded as the' crux: of the entire controversy. Indefinite de bate is, expected on the .treajy.^ Ojg^v. ponents" of - tfre~Leagtre ? ef^Natfonsv'aJ' drafted at Versailles plan to reply td-v addresses made by President'Wilsoft on his speaking tour both from, the senate floor and in other cities, j Definite arrangements are: to be ! made this week for the congressional welcome to General Pershing. Con gress probably will honor the expe ditionary commander at a joint re ception. The general investigation into Mexican affairs will be opened tomor row by the senate foreign relations subcommittee of which Senator Fall. Repuhfcican. New Mexico, is chairman. The inquiry is expected to continue several months. The Rev. Dr. In man, of New York, of the League of Free Nations, has been called as the ! iirst witness scheduled. Prohibition enforcement legislation J enters its final stage this week with I conferences between senate and house managers. Final enactment of i the bill is expected by next week. { The Cummins railroad bill, pro I posing private p^vnership and opera | tion under federal control with strikes I and lockouts penalized will be taken . j up Tuesday by the senate interstate I commerce committee. The , house 1 committee will continue its hearings ! on similar legislation, j Disposing of legislation designed to j reduce living costs is somewhat in j doubt. While the house^ is expected I to pass the departmental approria j tion measure, after pruning the $40. ! 000,000 requested, other legislation is ! delayed. The house bill to amend ] the food control law so as to give j the department of justice more power j to prevent profiteering is on the sen j ate calendar but because the peace j treaty, its prospect of immediate pas | sage is uncertain. The house agri ; culture committee plans to present j this week a bill to regulate cold storage. ! SENATE PASSES j PROHIBITION Bill, Virtually in Form Fixed By Committee Washington. Sept. 5.?The prohibi tion enforcement bill was passed by the senate today without a record ? vote and virtually in the form it came from the committee. The meas ure now goes tc conference for dis cussion of amendments inserted in th" house bill by the senate. The only material change made in the bill in the senate was the addition by amendment of the liquor and drug prohibition act for the Panama Canal Zone. This measure has not yet been acted on by the house. As it passed the senate and goes to conference, the bill defines as an intoxicant any beverage containing more than one-half, of 1 per cent, of alcohol. LODGE READY TO REPORT TREATY Washington. Sept. 8.?Chairman t odsre reported today that the peace treaty will be presented to the senate next Wednesday at noon.