Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-07-18
AYE WORLDS HEART WOULD
BE BROKEN If LEAGUE
rs REJECTED.
U. S. TURNED the WAR
PAYS GLOWING TRIBUTE TO
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
ABROAD.

VIII Nv lIfHFilinh lHt HNh'f iNn'f
with Germany to the Senate, declared
that IA League OF free nations had be
come II practical necessity" to which
The trainers Of the treaty felt obliged
to turn las an Indispensable lnstru.
mentality for the maintenance OF the
new order II hus been their purpose to
set up In the world"
The President declared that
The treaty would be u scrap of paper
without the League Of Nations.
The people demand the league and
will brook no denial.
Americas material aid Ia Europe
will be Indispensable In days to come.
II the league should be rejected, the
worlds heart would be broken.
America is the friend of all nations.
America has just reached her ma
jority as IL world power.
Americas isolation ended twenty
years ago.
Moral leadership Of the world Is Of
Tered America the question Is whether
We accept or reject II.
America shall In truth show the way
TO the world.
The treaty squares with the four
teen points as well as with the prac-
teal needs OF the situation.
II Is not exactly the sort Of treaty
the United States would have written.
I'VE have sought no special repara-
ton for ourselves, but only the resto-
ration of right and the assurance Of
liberty everywhere
Americas fighting made victory
certain.
The President began his speech by
outlining how American troops, To
whom he paid Il warm tribute us men
terrible In battle, but gentle and help
full out of IT," turned the tide Of the
war.
Coming Ia The making of peace, VIII
son reviewed In every detail the many
complex questions presented and the
difficulties growing out Of II DISPOSE
ton In some quarters to cling TO the
old order.
"Old entanglements,' he said, stood
In the way of peace. II was not easy,
he added, TO graft the new order OF
ideas on the old, and some Of the fruits
Of the grating may, | fear, for n time
be bitter"
But on the whole, the President de-
clarcd, Europe welcomed American
participation IN the peace. making as
eagerly ms II welcomed our armies anC
accomplished American principles OF
peace.
lie asserted emphatically that tn,
treaty Is thoroughly consistent viii
the principles he laid down In The four
teen points, aud ut the SAINT tim,
meets the practical needs OF the SIT
uatiOn.
ave were welcomed as dlsintercstet
friends said the President. ut wal
recognized that our material aid wOulC
be Indispensable in the days TO com
when Industry aud credit must b,
brought buck 10 ihcir normal opera
tion, and 1t was tnken for grant
ed, am proud TO say, that we woult
play the helpful friend"
In view OF all this, the preslden
said, the question is put squarely al
To the United States whether 1t vii
try 10 resume It's old policy OF isola
ton or will continue, through tn
League OF Nations the task Of main
tanning the new order set up In tn
world, the world OF civilized men,
The United States, the Preslden
said, has reached It's majority as
world power.
He limited, II VAS believed, at aC
ceptance Of a mandatory by the Unite'
States when he said that weak pee
pies everywhere stand ready TO CIV
Ms any authority among them that vii
assure them a friendly oversight an
direction"
The President announced that h
later Will present the treaty OF dc
Tense, under which American aid
pledged Ia France against u%nprovokel
German aggression.
The most skeptical' OF the peac
cOnferees at Paris, the President said
had turned more and more to tn
league MS discussion progressed II
seeking solution OF the problems tina
arose In framing the terms OF tn
treaty itself. The fact that the owe
nant of the league was the first sui
~stantial part OF the treaty TO b
worked out and agreed upon" tn
President said, while all else was !
solution, helped 10 mako the fOrmt
latiOn OF the rest easier"
MIR, Wilson said the agreement o
the covenant had given the cOnferee
a feeling that their work was to b
permanent and that the most practices
nmOng them "were at last the MOI
ready TO refer 20 the League Of M
lions the superintendent OF all lnteI
ests which did not admit OF immedlat
determination, OF all Administrative
problems which were TO require n col
tinulng oversight"
"Whnt had seemed q counsel OF PEE
fectIOu." snid the President. "hnd con