South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-23
ENDS SOUGHT
WE'RE unlike
President Cites Reasons for
Failure of Vienna
Conference.

RENO. Ne. SeptA 2S.-Contrast-
ing the peace conference at Yer
sailles with the congress of Vienna,
Pres't Wilson declared in an ad-
dress here Monday night that the
Vienna peace effort had failed be
cause all the governments repre-
scented there were in the hands Of "a
small coterie of autocrats."
At Versailles. said the president,
the League of Nations covenant was
drawn up by great democracies so
that autocracies never again could
enslave the peoples of the world.
Purpose OF Vienna Pact.
One of the purposes of the Vienna
conference, Mr.. Wilson asserted,
was TO form such a union as would
hold in check the growing tide OF
democracy. The chief concern of
the delegates who sat at Versailles.
he added, was 10 accomplish exact
" the opposite
Speaking in a theater here 10 a
crowd of about 1000. the president
frequently was interrupted by ap-
plause. BY an electrical device his
words were carried TO three other
theaters holding 1000 persons each.
The president was welcomed TO
Reno by crowds which cheered him
at the railway station and along the
line OF short automobile ride
through the principal streets Gov.
Boyle presided at the meeting. ana
Q ~
Charles Chandler a republican law
yer who said he denied the right Of
"a few prominent senators" 10 COM
NIT the republican party 10 opposi-
ton OF the peace treaty. The treaty,
he declared, contained good repub-
lican doctrines"
Cheer President.
The crowd rose and cheered when
the president was introduced and
there was a demonstration for Mrs.
Wilson also when Mr. Chandler
mentioned her name.
In his reference TO the congress of
Vienna, the president said that the
effort there TO stifle revolution and
democracy had been unsuccessful in
every nation but Germany.
1t was the invocation Of the Mon
roe doctrine. he said. that broke the
backbone of autocracy's effort TO
overwhelm South America. and add
ed that at Versailles the cycle Of
liberty had been completed by ap-
plication of the Monroe doctrine 10
the whole world.
Unlike the Vienna congress. con-
tinued the president. the conference
at Versailles was made up of men
who knew they were the servants
and not the masters OF the peoples.
AS the peoples servants. he said.
they had carried out their promise
of a permanent peace.
Written i'm ArgOnne.
This treaty was not written. es-
sentially speaking in Paris" he
said 1T was written at Chateau
! Thierry. in Bellevue wood and in
the Argonne.
Our men did not fight with the
purpose Of coming back and having
the same thing happen again. They
fought with the purpose OF seeing
the thing through. and we are going
TO see it through"
/ Paying a tribute 20 the frontier
spirit OF the west. the president said
/ il was at the frontier that was found
| the forward-looking people. Too
many who oppose the treaty. he as
serted. We're looking over their
| shoulders.
Referring 20 the ''insubordinate
! restlessness" prevailing in Europe
and Asia. Mr.. Wilson asserted that
I the world not only desired peace.
! but must have IL.
! America only. he said. could
guarantee such a peace Asking his
hearers whether they had not heard
/ OF organiza atoms in America the
/ purpose OF which is nothing less
than 70 overturn the government it.
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