Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-12
PRESIDENT AT DES MONIES
Mr.. Wilson Heard by Vast Throngs al
Every Speaking Point Along Self
Imposed 10000 Mile Journey.

dent Wilson as purely American
document extending democracy over
the world and shifting foreign rela-
tons from basis Of force and war
to one of arbitration and peace.
Making his second address of the
day, the President spoke in Des
Moines coliseum, said to seat 1900.
Every chair was taken and many
were standing. Earlier in the day
he had spoken at Kansas City, Mo-,
more than 300 miles away.
Describing the world as desper-
ately in need Of the settled condition
of peace, the President said the
United States, the last nation which
the world expected to have to wait
upon, was delaying the coming Of
that peace.
The treaty, he said, not only
would establish peace but it would
end forever the rule Of few men
over the destinies of the many.
Citing what happened in Europe
with the rise Of bolshevism, Mr.. Will
son said the move of radicalism and
disorder was spreading.
"Do you honestly think that none
Of that poison has got into the veins
Of this free people," he asked.
Men look you calmly in the face
in America and tell you they are for
that sort Of revolution.
$50 long as the question Of what
kind of peace the world was to have
and what guarantees were to be be-
hind it remained open, the poison
would continue to spread
How long shall we be kept wait
ing for the answer whether the world
will trust us or despise u.s." he con-
tinued."
The President said he had not been
able to work out the solution Of rail-
way problems until he knew when a
peace basis came. The conference of
labor and capital in Washington next
month. he continued, also would have
its deliberations affected by the an
swer to the treaty question Labor
"all over the world is waiting he
asserted, ito see whether the United
States accepted the treaty's provision
for an international labor organiza-
ton"
The United States, said the Presi-
dent, could not participate in the
world labor conference to be held in
Washington soon under the treaty un-
less the treaty was accepted by this
country. Such condition would be
Uncomfortable" he added and would
lead to the greatest modification
"The world is waiting" said the
President, ito see not whether we
will take part, but whether we will
take the lead
The fathers Of the republic, Mr..
Wilson said, intended to set up a
standard to which the world could
come for liberty. From all nations, he
continued, men had come BY millions.
Opponents of the league, the Presi-
dent asserted, were saying, yes, we
made a great promise to the world,
but it'll cost too much to redeem it,
If by deliberate choice the United
States became rival and antagonist
Of her neighbors instead of their
friends, said the President, then 1t
would reap the same reward rs bust
ness man who proceeded on that ba-
sis. If the United States tried to get
all it could selfshly, he continued,
then the world would see that 1t got
nothing at all.
Just as American soldiers restored
the morale of the fighting peoples OF
the allies, said the President, so the
United States could now restore the
peace morale of the world.
"Are you going to institute a move
against France and England and ia
pan to get Shantung back for China"
asked the President.
On the contrary, he added, estab-
lishment of the league would be a
power to which China could appeal
for future justice.
Mr.. Wilson also discussed Article
10 of the league covenant. Pan-Ger-
manism and similar plans would be
"torn up by the roots"
OF the ultimate outcome of the
treaty he had no doubt.
"The only thing that can be accom-
plished,' he said, "is delay The ulti-
mate outcome will be the triumphant
acceptance of the treaty and the
league"
The Monroe doctrine provision, he
said, had been objected to as vague,
because it referred to "such regional
understandings as the Monroe doc
trine."
"This language was written" the
President said, lin perfect innocence,
and was intended to give right of
way to the Monroe doctrine in the
western hemisphere"
1.-THE language was put in, he con-
tinued, because the other delegates
thought it unwise to make specific
reference to a policy of one country
without leaving the way open for
other nations to develop similar poll
cies in their own localities"