Arizona republican., 1919-01-27

enthusiasm and pleasure that we ac- cept that mandate And because this is the keynote of the whole fabric, we have pledged our every purpose to it, as we have to every item of the fabric. We would not dare abate q single item of the program which constitutes our instructions; we would not dare to compromise upon any matter as the champion of this thing-this peace of the world, this attitude of justice, this principle that we are the masters of no people, bu tare here to see that every people in the world shall choose it's own masters and govern it's own destinics, not as We wish but as they wish.
 We are here to see. in short. that the very foundations of this war arc swept away. These foundations were the aggression of great powers upon the small. Those foundations were the holding together Of empires of unwill- ing subjects by the duress of arms. Those foundations were the power of small bodies of men to Wield their will and use mankind as pawns Ii. a game.
 And nothing less than the emanci patton of the world from these things will accomplish peace.
 You can see that the representatives of the United States are, therefore never put tO the embarrassment of choosing a way of eXpediency, because they have had laid down before them the unalterable lines Ot principles. And thank God, these lines have been , accepted as the lines of settlements by all the high minded men who have had to do with the beginning of this great business.
 "I hope, Mr. chairman, when it is | known, as I feel confident it will be known. that we have adopted the prin- cipe of the league of nations and mean to work out that principle in effective action, ave shall by that single thlns have lifted a great part of the load 1 of anxiety from the hearts of men 1 everywhere.
 We stand in a peculiar cause. As 1 I go about the streets here I sec | eVerYW here the American uniform. ! These men came into the war after we had uttered our purpose. They came as crusaders, not merely to win q war but 10 win a cause. am re- | sponsiblc to them, for 1t falls to me to formu} 'e he purpose for which I asked hoa to fight and I, like them l ] whatever it costs and whatever it may he necessary to do. in honor to ac- complish the object for which they fought
 "G have been glad to find. from day to day. that there is no question of our standing alone in thism alter. for there are champions of this cause upon i every hand. I am merely avoWing l this in order that you may understand l why. perhaps, it fell to us. who are disenSaged from the politics of this
 great continent and of the orient, tC
 suggest that this was the keystone of the arch. and why it occurred to the ] generous mind of your president tc i call upon me to open this debate. II is not because we alone represent this | idea. but because it is our privilege to associate ourselves with you in rep ! resentinG it.
 T have only tried in what 1 have
 said to give you the foundations of the
 enthusiasm which is within us for this
 thing. for those foundations spring
 it seems to me, from all the ancient l wrongs and sympathies of mankind and the very pulse of the world seem. to beat to the fullest in this enter
 prise
 PARIS, Jan. 95-At the conclusion
 of the reading of a translation o1 | President Wilson's speech, Premier Lloyd George said:
 T should not have intervened at all but it was necessary for me to state
 how emphatcallv the people of tho
 British empire are behind this proposa
 and if the leaders of the British em- pire have not been able to devote a:
 much time, during the last five years