Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-28
League of Nations Created
at Peace Conference Should
Enforce World Justice.
ISSUES OF WAR, NOW
CLEARER, ARE RESTATED
Germany Must Redeem Herself in
Years After the Conflict, Mr.. Will
son Tells Liberty Loan
Workers.

Workers.
b. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September 28.-The
price of peace will be impartial justice
pensable to secure it is league Of ma
tons formed not before or after, but at
the peace conference: and Germany. as
a member. will have to redeem her
character not by what happens at the
peace table. but by what follows"
This was President Wilson's answer
given last might before an audience OF
fourth liberty loan workers here, to the
recent peace talk from the central pow
ers. although he did not refer specifl-
cally to the utterance Of enemy leaders.
5000 Hear President.
Five thousand persons, who filed the
Metropolitan Opera House to capacity,
heard the President speak. Five min
utes before his arrival a guard Of SOL
rear of the platform were suddenly or
dered to attention. They arose with a
smart click of rifles, the colors were ad-
vanced and the great audience became
silent. This dramatic quiet was main
tanned without interruption until the
President, without other warning Of his
coming. walked on the stage. escorted
by Benjamin Strong, governor OF the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Then a tremendous burst of cheering
,,I, <hn DNno 60N
after taking his seat, to rise three times
il: Acknowledgement
A sailor band played America" the
President joining with the audience
in singing il.
Cheers for Boys in France.
Mr.. Strong read to the audience a
summary of late reports showing
American troops advances during the
day in France.
Our boys in France do not learn
readily when to stop fighting" he
added. That is the spirit in which
we must raise the liberty loan"
Cheers greeted the news of the
American successes. particularly when
Mr.. Strong said the Yankee troops in
their drive had reclaimed 100 square
miles of territory for France.
Patriotic fervor seemed to reach its
climax when the President arose to
begin his address. the audience rising
and again cheering for several
minutes. Mr.. Wilson read from
printed text.
To Come to Terms, Impossible.
Peace was not question. declared
. the President. of coming to terms
them" as they have made it i'm
possible" Peace must be guaranteed
for there will be parties to the
peace whose promises have proved
untruStworthy and means must be
found in connection with the peace
settlement to remove that source of
insecurity" 1T would be folly to
; leave the guarantee to the subsequent
voluntary action of the governments
, we have seen destroy Russia and de-
/ ceive Rumania." continued the Presi-
| dent.
The President emphasized that the
: justice to be obtained by the league
! must involve no discrimination to-
| ward any people. This he set forth
explicitly in set of five principles
! which he enumerated as "the prac-
teal program of Americas peace
terms. and for the maintenance of
which the United States is pre-
pared to assume it's full share of re-
sponsibility."
War News Strengthens Point.
Shortly before the President started
speaking news of the further successes
of American. British and French Of
/, fensives on the western front reached
the meeting at the Metropolitan Opera
House. and this gave dramatic point
to Mr.. Wilson's peroration-that
peace drives" can be effectively neu-
traliZed and silenced only by show
ing that every victory of the nations
/ associated against Germany brings
E! the nations nearer the sort Of peace
which will bring security and reas-
surance to all peoples and make the
recurrence of another such struggle
OF pitiless force and bloodshed for
ever impossible and that nothing else
can.