The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-28
WILSON URGES A CLOSE
UNION or ALL AMERICANS
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we were not ourselves united. but di'
yided that while we were asking them
10 unite, we ourselves did not set the
example.
MY moral from that recollertioh
is this: We. among other friends OF ND
erty. arc asking the world to unite III
the interest of brotherhood and mutual
service and the genuine advancement
Of individual and corporate liberty
throughout dhe world therefore we
must set the example,
81 will recall here to some Of you
an effort that myself made some years
ago, soon after | assumed the presi
dency OF the United States to do that
very thing. | was urging that other
states of Amerca to unite with IN"
United States in doing something when
very closely resembled the formation
of the present league of nations !
was ambitious to have the Americans
do the thing first ana set the example
to the world OF what We are now about
10 realize. | had Il double object IN
it, not only my pride that the Amerl'
cans should set the example and show
the genuneness Of their principles, but
that the United States should have u
new relation to the other Americans.
Tho United States upon famous
occasion warned the governments OF
Europe that It would regard ii as an
unfriendly act if they tried to over
run free institutions in the Western
hemisphere and to substitute their own
systems of government which at that
tims were inimical 10 those free insu-
tutions; but while the United states
thus undertook Of its own motion to be
the champion of America against such
aggresslons, from Europe, 1t did not
give any conclusive assurance that II
would never itself be the aggressor
What | wanted To do in the proposals
to which | have just referred was 10
offer TO the other American states our
own bond that they We're safe against
us and any Illicit ambitions We might
entertain, as well as safe 50 far as the
power of the United States could make
them safe, against foreign nations.
No Greater Thing
"Of course, ! am sorry that happy
consummation did not come. but at
ter all no doubt the impulse was con
tributed not by us which has now led
to a sort of mutual pledge on the part
of the selfgovernng nations of the
world that they viii be friends To each
other, not only. but that they will take
pains to secure each others safety and
independence and territorial integrity.
No greater thing has ever happened
in the political world than that. and
| am particularly gratlficd tonight TO
think of the hours | hav" had the pleas !
ure of spending with Mr.. PeSsoe as a
member, along with him. of the com
mission ON the league of nations which |
prepared the covenant which was sub /
mitted to the conference. have felt /
as | looked down the table and caught |
his eye that we had the same American |
mind in regard TO the business, and !
when | made suggestions or used ar
guments that l felt We're characteristic
cally American, | would always catch
sympathy in his eyes. When others,
perhaps, did not catch the point at
once, he always caught 1t, because
though we We're not bred to the same
language literally, we were bred to
the same political language and the
same political thought, and our IDEAS
We're the same.
1T is therefore, with a real sense
of communication and of fellowship and
Of someth hing more than neighborly IA
that ! find myself in this con
genial company and that l take my
part with you in paying my tribute
and extending my warmest best wishes ,
10 the great country of Brazil ana to ,
he gentleman who will worthily repre-
sent her in her presidential chair.
Il ask you TO join me in drinking the
health of the president-eleCt of Brazil
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