The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-06

mentioned in it.
would give him the name of"one of
these gentlemen" he'd send him copy,
several people in the crowd yelled:
Reed.
The President laughed.
The league opponents, said the Presi-
dent. seemed to be figuring out how
soon we could get out of it, Then ne
added: Il for one am not a gutter,
and got another cheer from the crowd.
All the arguments of the opposition
Mr.. Wilson said, were based on an as
sumption that every one was gong TO
break the covenant and that pad IaIth
was to be the Universal rule. He de-
scribed the arbitration and boycott
provisions of the covenant and said II
any nation went to war after these
means had been exhausted it meant
that that nation was determined to
run amuck anyway.
The President declared there was no
party politics in the treaty and assert
ed that both the republican and the
democratic national platforms in 1916
advocated such an arrangement as the
league of nations So at Paris, he said,
he had been obeying both parties. He
said he was glad to get away from
Washington, where he heard politics
until sometimes 1 wish both parties
were smothered in their own gas"
The American people, said Mr.. Wilson,
are to see it through to the end and the
the end has not come yet. If the United
states keeps out of the league, he de-
cIared, another war like the last will
come soon" but if it went in 1T Will
never come" Itw a square cut issue,
he said whether the United States will
redeem it's pledges"
For the first time since his speaking
trip began President Wilson referred
to notes, having a small typewriter
sheet in his hand
POLITICS BARRED
SCI am glad to hear the mayor say
said the President, in beginning his
address. "and / believe it is true, that
politics is adjourned. Politics has nc
place--I mean party politics has no
place. my fellow citizens-in the sub
jects that we are now obliged to dis
cuss and to decide.
"T have sometimes heard gentlemen
discussing the questions that are now
before US with a distinction drawn be-
tween nationalism and International
ism in these matters. It is very diff
cult for me to follow their distinction
The present nationalist is the man who
wants his nation to he the greatest
nation, and the greatest nation is the
nation which penetrates to the heart
of its duty and mission among the ma
lions of the world.
1T is in the light of ideas of this
sort that I conceive it a privilege t,
discuss the matters that 1 have come
away from Washington to discuss.
have come away from Washington te
discuss them because apparently it ii
difficult to discuss them in Washing
| ton The whole subject is surrounded
with mists which it is difficult t
penetrate.
zone of the most interesting things
! that 1 realized after l got to the other
/ side of the water was that the menta
attitude of the French people with re
gard TO the settlement of this war was
| largely determined by the fact tina
for nearly so years they had expected
/ it. We cannot, we will not, live an
other so years under the cloud of tina
terror.
THE terror had been there all the
| time and the war was it's flame an(
contamination. and it had been exc
cuteG because the politics of Europe
were based upon definite conception
That conception was that the strong
had all the rights and that all that thu
weak could enjoy was what the strong
permitted them to enjoy.
CONSTANTINOPLE is CENTER
| zone of the centers of all the bdt
| DuSiutSS was III tie LOW IL Ol Sta Il
tinople. And that was because Con.
stantinople was the key to the veal
! part of Europe. That was where tx
pawns were; not the kings and the
queens and castfAg and the bishops ans
! the rest of the chess game of politics
| but the little pawns And every in
| ternational conference that preceded
| the conference at Paris had been il.
| tended to consummate the arrange
| ments for that game.
The treaty of peace with Germany il
| a charter, and constitution of a new
system for the, world, and that new
| system is based upon an absolute re
versal of the principles Of the old sys
! tenn The essential object of that treat,
! is to establish the independence an,
/ protect the integrity of the weak PEG
pies of the world.
Il hear some gentlemen, who ar
| themselves incapable of altrusitic, pur
! poses, say:
"Oh, but that is altruistic 1t is no