The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-07

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Wilson said he wondered that men
do not wake up to the moral respon-
sibility of what they are doing" when
they were debating and debating
while tragic situation waited to be
dealt with as soon as the debating
was over.
Hope for every people in the world
that haven't got what they think they
ought to have" was seen by the
President in the League provision
which empowers one nation to call
friendly attention to What it thinks
is an injustice inside another nation.
Every such people said he would
have a world forum in which to pre-
sent its case.
The people said the President, had
been misled about the treaty by men
who look at it with the jaundiced
eyes of those who have some private
interests of their own When these
men We're ''gibbetted' by public opin-
ion, he said, they will regret that the
gibbet is so high
IF anybody dare to defeat this
great instrument" he continued, then
they will have TO gather together
their counsellors for the world and
do something better. / say it is a
case of put up or shut up. A negation
will not save the world"
The President said some men OPP
posed the treaty conscientiously and
he would take off his hat in the pres
ence of any mans conscience. But
these men, he added, based their OPP
position on Ignorance" of what was
in the treaty. Germany, said the
president, would be the only great
nation left out of the league, unless
we decide to stay out and come in
later with Germany"
Abiding to the American promise
to set the Philippine islands free, Mr..
Wilson said the League would solve
the very perplexing" problem of how
they were to be kept free after their
independence had been granted. Mr..
Wilson said he could imagine the
shades of the fathers looking on with
establishment, that the American
spirit has made a conquest of the
world
Il tell YOU" he added, athe war was
won by the American spirit, and
America in this treaty has realized
what those gallant boys fought for.
The men who make this impossible
or difficult will have a life long reck-
oning with the men who won the war;
The President asked the audience
not to think he had come out to flight
or antagonize," anybody.
Il have the greatest respect" he
said "for the senate of the United
States. But / have come out to fight
for a cause that is greater than the
senate and / intend to fight for that
cause, in office or out, as long as L
live"
I'VE have such agreement with
France; we have such an agreement
with Great Britain; we have such an
agreement with practically every
great nation except Germany which
refused to enter into an arrangement
because my fellow citizens, Germany
knew that she intended something
that didn't bear discussion and that
if she had submitted the purpose
which led to this war to so much as
one months discussion. she never
would have dared go into the enter
prise against mankind which she
firmly did go into (applause), and
therefore / say that this principle OF
discussion is the principle already
adopted by America. And what is thS.
compulsion TO do this2 The compuI-
sion is this. that if any member state
violates that promise to submit
either TO arbitration or discussion, it is
thereby ipso facto deemed to have
committed an act of war against all
the rest. Then you will ask. do we
at once take up arms and fight them
No We do something very much more
terrible than that We absolutely
boycott them