Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-09-18
WOODROW WILSON IN OPENING
SPEECHES OF TOUR VOICES
HIGH HOPES.
THE WORLD WAITS FOR US
Will Make Future Free from Wars II
America Carries Out Her Pledges,
Says Executive.
(By Mount Clemens News Bureau.)
Aboard Presidents Special Train.

Aboard Presidents Special Train.
st. Louis, Sept. 5.-Displaying a
high confidence that his fellow-citi-
zens in the great majority agree with
him in his desire to end war forever,
and that they will see to 1t that the
peace treaty with its League of Ma
tons inclosed is ratified by the SEN
ate, President Wilson is making a sue.
.cessful 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 has every
where met with warm greetings, both
in the great halls where he has spoE-
en- formally and in the little cross
road hamlets where his train has halt
ed 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 chat
ting 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 his keynote
when he said in his first address, in
Columbus, Ohio:
''This treaty was not intended mere
ly to end this single war. 1t is meant
as a notice to every government who
in the future will attempt this thing
(what Germany attempted) that a
kind will unite to infict the same pun
ishment. There is no national tri-
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 suffertngs
they had gone through, of the losses
they had incurred, of that great throb-
bling heart which was so depressed, so
forlorn, so sad in every memory 1t
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 disinterested, with which America
lent its strength, not for its own glory
but for the defense Of mankind.
"As l said, this treaty was not In
tended merely to end this war. 1t
was intended to prevent any similar
war. I wonder If some of the OPP
ponents Of the League of Nations have
forgotten the promises we made our
people before we went to that peace
table. We had taken by process OF
law the flower Of our youth from
every countryside, from every house
bold, and we told those mothers n
fathers and sisters and wives and
sweethearts, that We were taking
those men to fight a wal which would
end business of that sor'. and If 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 unfaithful
to the loving hearts who suffered in
this war, the most unfaithful to those
households bowed in grief and yet lift
ed 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
is for-to end this war justly and then
not merely to serve notice on govern
ments which could contemplate the same
things Germany contemplated that they
will do SO at their peril, but also concern
ing the combination Of power which VIII
prove to them that they will do 1t at
their peril. 1t is idle to say the world
WILL combine against you; but it is per-
suasive to say the world is combined
against you. The League of Nations Is
the only thing that can prevent the re-
currence Of this dreadful catastrophe and
redeem our promises"
A League of Nations would have pre-
vented the late conflict, the president,
asserted, explaining:
II did not meet a single public mar
who did not admit these things; that Ger
Il fa Sic thou thought ht' Great Britain was going
into ii and that she most certainly would
never have gone into 1t had she dreamed
America was going into 1t. And they
all admit tina a nation, knowing before
hand that the greatest powers Of thu
world would combine to prevent this sor'
of thing, would prevent 1t absolutely"
Applause and cheers greeted each dec
~laratien Of the president that wars nigh
be avoided In the future by the operation
OF the league.
He pointed out other important features
of the peace treaty-how 1t was the re
demption of weak nations, giving then
freedom which otherwise they never coul'
have won; how 1t says: These peopl
nave a right to live their own lives ,nde
choose" and how that Ii the American
principle, and / was glad to fight for it..
That was the very heart Of the treaty
he said.
He drew attention to the section Of tn
treaty which 10 q Magma Charta Of La
bor," which shall dispose of the hours
conditions and remunerations OF labor
ut forecasts the day." he said. "wlicl
ought to have come long ago, whel
statesmen Will realize that no nation l
fortunate which is not happy, whose peo
pies are not contented, contented In thei
lives and fortunate in the circumstance
of their lives"
felt certain the treaty viii be accepted
and was only impatient Of the delay. II
added; DO you realise. my fellow-citi
gems, that the whole world 10 waiting O
American The only country In the worl
that Il trusted today is the United Btatei
and The woTlS .d y waiting 70 see 4 Il
Mr.. Wilson'S Indianapolis speech wal
like the one at Columbus, an explanatio
lot the league, an appeal for its ratihcatio
end 9 prediction that 1t was sure 70 com
into being,