Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1919-09-11
LEAGUE CERTAIN
WILSON DECLARES
PRESIDENT IN OPENING. SPEECH.
Es OF TOUR VOICES.
HIGH HOPE.
WORLD WAITS FOR US
Future Free From War n America
Carries Out Her Pledges,
Says Executive.
10y Mount cIcmono News Bureau.)

10y Mount clcmono News Bureau.)
Aboard Presidents Special Train, st
Louis, Sept. displaying a high con
fldence that his fellow citizens in the
great majority agree with him In his
desire to end war forever, and thai
they will see to 1t the peace treaty
with its League of Nations inclusion
is ratified by the Senate, Presiden,
Wilson is making a successful way
across the country on the long jour.
rey he has undertaken for the purpose
of laying before the plnn people a re.
port of his work In Paris and explain
Ing to them just what the league
means.
Thus far in his travels he has every.
where met with warm greetings, both
In the great halls where he has spoken
formally and in the little cross road
banletS where his train has halted at
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
and want to become part of the league
SO that there may be no more war. He
struck the keynote when he said In. his
first address, in Columbus Ohio:
"This treaty was not intended mere
ly to end this single war, it is meant
as n notice to every government who
in the future will attempt this thing
(what Germany attempted) that man.
kind will unite to inflict the same pun
ishment. There is no national triumph
to he recorded in this treaty. There is
no glory sought for any particular M
ti0n. The thought of the statesmen
collected around that table was of
their people, Of the suffcrings they had
gone through. of the losses they had
incurred, Of that great throbbng heart
which was so depressed, so forlorn, so
sud in every memory it had of the five
tragical years that have gone by. Let
us never forget those years, my fellow
countrymen; let us never forget the
purpose, high and dislnterested, with
which America lent its strength, not
for its own glory but for the defense
Of mankind.
"As | said, this treaty was not in
Tended merely to end this war, 1t was
Intended to prevent any similar war.
wonder If 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 sis
ters and wives and sweethearts that
we were taking those men to fight
war which would end business of that
sort, and If we do not end 1t, If we do
not do the best that human concert of
action can do to end 1t, we are Of all
men the most unfathful-the most un-
faithful to the loving hearts who suf-
fered in this war, the most unfaithful
TO those households bowed in grief and
yet lifted wi3i the feeling that the lad
laid down his life for 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
is fOr-tO end this war Justly and then
not merely to serve notice on gov
ernment which would contemplate the
same things Germany contemplated
that they will do so at their peril, but
also concerning the combination Of
power 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"
A League of Nations would have pre-
vented the late conflict, the President
asserted, explaining:
Il did hot meet a single public man
who did not admit these things: That
Germany would not have gone into this
war If she thought Great Britain was
going into it. and that she most GER
tainly would never have gone into 1t
bad she dreamed America was going
into It, And they all admit that no.
tice beforehand that the greatest pow
ars Of the world would combine to pre-
vent tHlS SOIi VI lHiliS NOuiu plcNCht
II absolutely"
He pointed out other important fea-
cures of the peace treaty, how it was
the redemption of wenk nations, giving
Them freedom which otherwise they
never could have won; how 1t says,
"ThOse people have right to live
their own lives under governments
which they themselves choose" and
how "that is the American principle
and was glad to fight for 1t. That
was the very heart Of the treaty" he
said.
He drew attention to the section Of
The treaty which 1t Magma Charta OF
labor. "It forecasts the day." he said,
hours, conditions and remunerations Of
labor. ut forecases the day." he said,
(which ought to have come long ago,
when statesmen will realize that no
nation is fortunate which is not hap
py, whose people are not contented,
cOntented in their lives and fortunate
In the circumstances of their lives"
In conclusion, the President said he
felt certain the treaty will be accepted,
and was only impatient Of the delay.
He added: "Do you realize my fellow
citizens, that the whole world Is watt
Ing on America? The only country In
the world that is trusted today is the
United States, and the world Is waiting
TO see Il its trust is justified"
Mr. Wilson's Indianapolis speech was