Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-18
PEACE TREATY IS
BOON To CHINESE
WILSON SAYS IN
FRISCO ADDRESS
President Declares China's In
terests Are Protected and
That Pact VIII Be of Great
Benefit to the Nation,
PRO- GERMAN PROPAGANDA
is SPREADING IN U. S.
Says Our One Vote in the
League Assembly Is Just as
Powerful as Britain'S SKI
HyphenateS Are Denounced,

tsY MoRN,nS JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiREl
San Francisco. Calf, Sept IL
Discussing at length the Shantung
provision of the peace treaty. Presi-
dent Wilson said in an address here
today that he had been assured by
the great powers that under the league
of nations there would be new in
ternational policy for the protection
of Chinese integrity.
Text of Presidents Speech.
President Wilson's speech at the AS
sociated Women's club luncheon, in
part follows:
quite apart from the merits of any
particular question which may arise
absut the treaty itself, / think we are
under a certain moral compulsion to
accept this treaty.
In the first place, 1t was laid down
according to American specifications.
The initial suggestion upon which this
treaty is based emanated from Amer
lea. | would not have you understand
me as meaning that they were ideas
confined to America, because the
promptness with which they were ac-
cepted, the Joy with which they were
acc aimed in some parts of the world,
the readiness of the leaders of nations
that were supposed to be seeking
chiefly their own interests in adopting
these principles as the principles of
the treaty, show that they were listen
ing to the counsels of their own peo-
pie, they were listening to them, and
knew the critical character of the new
age, and the necessity we were under
to take any measures for the peace of
the world.
Because the thing that has hap
pened was intolerable, the thing that
Germany attempted, If 1t had succeed,
ed, would have set the civilization of
the world back 100 years, we have
prevented it. But prevention is not
enopgh
As la ....d agaIii go ! have scross-
ed the continent generous women did
not know, have taken me by the hand
and said
"'God bless you, Mr.. President
Some of them, like many of you,
had lost sons and husbands and broth
ers in the war. Why should they
bless nc? / advised congress to de-
clare war. l advised congress to send
their sons TO their death. AS COM
m9nder-in- chief "a the army ! sent
them over the seas and they were
killed. Why should they bless me?
Because in the generosity of their
hearts they want the sons of other
women saved henceforth. They be-
lieve that the methods proposed at
any rate merit very hopeful expec-
tation that similar wars will be pre-
vented, and that other armies will not
have to go from the United States to
die upon distant fields of battle.
And so the moral compulsion
among us, among us who at the crit
ical stage of the war saved the
world-the moral compulsion upon us
to stand by and see it through is over
whelming We cannot now turn back.
We made the choice in April, 1917
"And not only is there the compul-
sion of honor, but there is the COM
pulsion of interest. 1 never like to
speak of that, because, notwithstand-
ing the reputation that we had
throughout the world we made the
great sacrifice of this war, this ma
tion does love Its honor better than ii
loves its interest.
mo protest was made fy the gov
ernment of the United States againsl
tung territory to Germany. One OF
the highest minded men of our his
tory was president at that time-l
mean Mr. Mckinley. One of the ablest
men we ever had as secretary of state
Mr.. John Hay, occupied that great of
flee And in the message of Mr.. Nc
Kinley about this transaction he says
that iriasmuch as the powers that had
taken these territories had agreed 10
keep the doors open for our COM
merce, there was no reason why we
should object. Just so we could trade
with these stolen territories we were
willing to let them be stolen.
Late i'm Doing Justice.
(which of these gentlemen who arc
now objecting to the cession of the
German rights in Shantung in China
were prominently protesting against
the original cession, or any one OF
those original cessions? 1t makes
my heart burn when some men are sc
late in doing justice.
Now, in the meantime, before we
got into this war, but after the wal
had begun, because they deemed tne
assistance of Japan in the Pacific alb
solutely indispensable, Great Britain
and France both agreed that if Japar
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