Arizona republican., 1919-09-16
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

PORTLAND, Ore. Sept. I5.-Quot- ing from an address made in 1915 by Senator Lodge, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, suggest ing that nations must unite as men unite to preserve peace, President Will son told a Portland audience tonight that the league of nations covenant carried out what Mir. Lodge had sug- gested. It was the first time during his speaking tour that MT. Wilson had mentioned by name any of the senators opposing the league.
 T entirely concur in Senator Lodges declaration the president said.
 The presidents words were greeted with laughter and cheers by an audi ence which packed the Municipal au- ditorium, said to accommodate more than 1000.
 Asserting he had found few men op- posed to league of nations, the pres ident said the great objection seemed to be to this particular league.
 T entirely concur in Senator Lodges declaration" said the president, and 1 hope l shall have his cooperation in carrying out the desired ends"
 He recalled his conference with the foreign relations committee on his first return from Paris and said every sug- gestion for improvement made by the committee members had been written into the covenant.
 One of these suggestions, he contin- ued, was that the Monroe doctrine be protected. He asserted that not only had the doctrine been specifically re- served to administration by the United States, but it had been extended to all the world.
 The text of President Wilson's lunch- ] con address, in part, follows:
 T think we are now all convinced that we have not reached the right and final organization of our indus trial society; that there are many fea- i lures of our social life that ought to undergo correction. There are antag onisms set up that breed hate because l they breed friction and the world must | have leisure and order in which to see | that these things are set right The world can not have leisure and order unless it has a guaranteed peace Whether you will or not our for tunes are tied in with the rest of the 1 world, and the choice that we have to make now is whether we will receive ! the influence of the rest of the world and be affected by them, or dominate 1 the influences of the world and lead it,
 What are you to be-boys, running around the circus tent and peeping un- | der the canyas2 Men declining to | pay the admission and sitting on the l roof and looking in on the game? Or are you going to play your responsible part in the game, knowing that you ! are trusted as a leader and umpire both?
 If you are going to put into the world this germ, shall call it, of | American enterprise and American faith and American vision. then you must be the principal partners in the new partnership which the world is forming. 1 take leave to say without intending the least disrespect at any body that consciously or unconsciously a man who opposes that proposition either has no imagination or no knowl- edge or as quitteT. America has put her hand to this great enterprise already in the men she sent overseas and their part was the negative part merely
 Every drop of blood I have in me gets up and shouts when I think oi the opportunity America has. I come of a certain stock that raised Cain in the northern part of the island Great | Britain under the name of 'covenanters | They met in churchyard and on the top of a flat tombstone they signed an immortal document called the Solemn League and Covenant, which meant that they were going to stand by their religious principles in spite o1 the crown of England and the force of England and every other influence whether of men or the devil, so long as any of them lived
 Now have seen men of all nations sit around a table in Paris and sign 8 solemn league and covenant. They have become covenanters and remain a covenanter.
 'We are going to see this jol through, no matter what influences O evil withstand it."