Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-26
President of United States De-
Iivers Eloquent Address to
Delegates in Peace Confer
ence Before Vote Is Taken.
AMERICA CRUSADER
IN GREAT WORLD WAR
Peoples Demand They Shall
Be Made Secure Against the
Terrors Which Call Them to
Arms From Peaceful Lives.
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Paris, Jan. 25.-When the second
session of the fun peace conference met
this afternoon it was addressed by
President Wilson on the subject of a
league Of nations The president de-
clared the conference had solemn OBJ
legations 10 make permanent settle
ment
The present conference the pgesi-
aon.. .aed. nela nas rl4 4. ...lss. s
work until some machinery of Settle
ment should be set up. The president
spoke earnestly.
We are not here alone he said,
las representatives of governments
but as representatives of people and
in the settlements we make we need
to satisfy, not the opinions of govern
ments, but the opinion of mankind
President Wilson contended that a
league of nations must be vital thing
and not casual or occasional. II must
have continuity.
1T should be the eye of nations,
an eye which never slumbers,' he de-
clared.
ON his travels, the president said,
people everywhere had greeted the
league as the first thing in their in
terest
Select classes of men no longer di-
rect the affairs of the world" said the
president, but the fortunes of the
world are now in the hands of the
plain people"
The wish of the people, therefore,
must be heard. The war had swept
away those old foundations by which
small coteries had used mankind as
pawns in game" Nothing but eman-
cipation from the old system, he con-
tended, would accomplish real peace.
The president saw American SOL
ders in the stockholders who had
come, not alone for war but as cru
saders in great cause and he ad-
ded, and J. like them, must be a
crusader, whatever it costs to accom-
plish that end
After declaring that the confer
ence was for the purpose of a settle
ment arising out of the war and to
make peace for the world President
Wilson said
"A league of nations seems neces-
sary for both purposes There are
many questions which we feel cannot
ultimately be worked out here, that
may require subsequent consideration;
subsequent alterations even to some
degree"
He described how the war burden
was borne by the people as we'll as by
the armies, and said:
I'VE are bidden by these sufferers
to make secure for them and see 10
ii that the strain never need be borne
again"
Text of Presidents Address.
Following is President Wilson's ad-
dress before the peace conference to-
day,
Mr. Chairman | consider it a dis
tinguished privilege to be permitted to
open the discussion in this conference
on the league of nations. We have
assembled for two purposes--to make
the present settlements which have
been rendered necessary by this war,
and also to secure the peace of the
world, not only by the present settle
ments, but by the arrangements we
shall make at this conference for its
maintenance.
The league of nations seems to me
to be necessary for both of these pur-
poses. There are many complicated
questions connected with the present
settlements, which perhaps cannot be
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