The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-28
PRESIDENT SAYS
PEACE LEAGUE
MUST BEBORN
Can Come Only With End of
Fighting. Not During
the Conflict.
CALLS IT "PEOPLE'S WAR"
Loan Campaign Opened at
Metropolitan Before Vast
Cheering Audience.
CALLS IT "PEOPLE'S WAR"

1t was an auulence t1ngllng with
the feel of martial victory in the
air which arrayed itself in solid
phalanxes at the Metropolitan Opera
House last night to wax enthusiastic
when the greatest loan of all time
tittingly was launched by the Execu-
tive destined to 20 down through his
tory as the War President in the
mightiest of conflicts.
It was peoples war. not II
statesmen's," President Wilson told
the great audience which spread from
the first orchestra chair in the vast
auditorium to the highest seat in the
far galleries, every man, woman and
child firm and enthusiastic in their
belief in the quick success Of the
Fourth Liberty Loan in the interest
Of which President Wilson was
speaking.
He was not there. the President
said in his opening sentence. ito pro-
mote the loan" in so many words.
But every word he uttered in the
masterful address which followed
went TO promote the loan, inasmuch
as he voiced the issues which can be
made reality only il all the people
all the time will, in the slogan of the
day, lend as they fight"
No Dickering Over Peace.
: There Is to he no peace dcke ring,
no bargaining over the terms, the
President told his attentive listeners.
! There can be no compromise with the
! Central Empires whose peoples have
: they are, as the President phrased It,
/ without honor and do not intend
( justice"
( Quite as firmly President Wilson made
II known that the United States will
countenance no special alliances, no self
ish economic combinations add no em-
I ployment of economic boycott in the
league of nations which this Government
with all its power will seek to bring into
! being when the wrongs of the world
shall have been righted by force Of arms.
! That is n league of nations which cannot
be formed while the world Ia still in con-
fict. President Wilson pointed out. nor
can it be brought INFO being after the
peace settlements shall have been made
IL is an International league which must
have its birth in the very light of the
dawn OF peace.
No Attempt to Sway Emotions.
| Not once did President Wilson attempt
, TO play upon the emotions OF an audi
encc which was. 1t IL safe TO say, In
most pliable mood to be swayed unthink-
inSly. Calmly. logically the President
showed how the great issues of the war
had been developed. not by any man or
group OF statesmen of any country. but
were the certain outgrowths OF intoler-
able conditions which must and will be
righted forever.
1t was an address delivered calmly
almost in the gentle fashion of man
reading aloud to his family circle a
letter from a friend who had worth
II while ideas to convey. 1t was mes
sage in which was evident in every line
the purpose to state and reiterate In
plainest. simple language the kind OF
thoughts which right minded men al.
ways cherish.
H Nevertheless, despite the calm way in
which the speaker brought his thoughts
into alignment there was always through
out the great throng a subcurrent OF
patriotic fervor-hair trigger enthusiasm
II which needed but a touch TO set II into
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