Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-09-12
LEAGUE CERT AIN,
Wilson DECLARES
PRESIDENT IN OPENING SPEECH.
ES OF TOUR VOICES HIGH
A HOPES.
1.-THE WC:..LD WAITS FOR US"
Future Free from War II America
III Carries Out Her Pledges, Says
~. Executive.
BY Mt. Clemens News Bureau.

6ASCOIbVSs
BY Mt. Clemens News Bureau.
Aboard Presidents Special Train.
a high confidence that
his fellow citizens in the great
majority agree with him in his desire
b end war forever, and that they will
80 to it that the peace treaty with Its
league of nations Inclusion 10 ratified
BY the senate, Presidsnt Wilson is
making q successful way across the
country on the long journey he has
undertaken for the purpose OF laying
before the plain people q report OF his
work in Paris and explaining to them
Just what the league means.
Thus far in his travels he every
where met with warm greetings, both
u the great halls where he has spoken
formally and in the little cross road
hamlets where his train has halted ut
times and he has exchanged words
with the villagers who pressed forward
to greet him. He feels. and does not
hesitate to say so when chatting with
his travelling companions, that the
American people want NO more Of war
ana want to become part Of the league
90 that there may be no more war. He
struck his keynote when he said in his
first address, in Columbus:
Strikes Keynote.
'This treaty was not intended mere
II to end this single war. It 10 meant
~ q notice to every government who
In the future will attempt this thing
(What Germany attempted) that
mankind will unite to inhict the same
punishment. There 10 no national trt-
umph to be recorded in this treaty.
There is no glory sought for any par
ticular nation. The thought Of the
statesmen collected around that table
was Of their people, Of the su6erings
that they had gone through, Of the
losses they had incurred, of that great
tlxobbing heart which was 20 de.
pressed, SO forlorn, 30 sad in every
memory it had Of the i've tragical
years that have gone by. Let W never
forget those years, my fellow country
men; let US never forget the purpose
high and disinterested with which
america lent its strength, not for its
own glory but for the defense Of man.
kind. .... ...
- Treaty to Prevent Mars.
"As said, this treaty vas not in
tended merely to end this war. 1t was
intended to prevent any similar war.
/ wonder II some OF the opponents of
the league Of nations have forgotten
the promises we made our people be.
fore we went to that peace table. We
had taken by processes OF law the
flower Of our youth from every coun'
tryside, from every household, and we
told those mothers and fathers and
sisters and wives and sweethearts that
We were taking those men to fight a
war which would end business OF that
sort, and II we do not end it, If we do
not do the best that human concert OF
action can do to end it, we are OF all
men the most unfaithful-the most IN
faithful to the loving hearts who SUI
fered in this war, the most unfaithful
to those households bowed in grief and
yet lifted with the feeling that the lad
laid down his life for a great thing,
and among other things, in order that
other lads might never have to do the
same thing.
THAT is what the league of nations
ID for-to end this war justly and then
not merely to serve notice on govern.
ments which would contemplate the
same things Germany contemplated
that they will do so at their peril, but
f>lso concerning the combination of
y which will prove to them that
they will do it at their peril. 1t is idle
to say the world will combine against
you; but it is persuasive to say the
world is combined against you. The
league of nations is the only thing
that can prevent the recurrence Of this
dreadful catastrophe and redeem our
promises" 1885,,
League Would Have Prevented War.
A league of nations would have pre-
vented the late conflict, the president
asserted, explaining:
II did not meet a single public man
who did not admit these things; that
Germany would not have gone into this
war II she thought Great Britain was
going into II, and that she most Ger.
tainly would never have gone into it
had she dreamed America was going
into It. And they all admit that a no.
tice beforehand that the greatest pow
ers Of the world would combine to pre-
vent this sort Of thing would prevent
Il absolutely"
Applause and cheers greeted each
declaration Of the president that wars
might be avoided in future by the op-
erations Of the league.
Names Important Points-
He pointed out other important fea-
lures, Of the peace treaty, how it was
the redemption of weak nations, CIV
ing them freedom which otherwise
they never could have wen; how It
snys 'tAose people have . right to live
a.