Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-03-07
WILSON SAYS
PEOPLE FAVOR
PEACE LEAGUE
Speaks to Audience Of 5000 Per-
sons in the Metropolitan
Opera House.
HITS CRITICS OF COVENANT
Declares They Evidently Have Not OBJ
served the Temper Of the World or
Of the Boys in K';aki,-Fre-
quently Interruptsd by
Applause.

Applause
New York, March 5.--On the eve of
his return to Paris President Wilson
told an audience of 5000 persons in
the Metropolitan opera house that he
was convinced that the majority of the
people were in favor of the league Of
nations.
His opening assertion, 4 won't come
back till It's over. over there" won
the approval of his hearers.
There was deafening applause at the
conclusion of the speech when the
president, speaking of the aims of the
conference, said:
God give us the strength and vision
to do it wisely. God give us the priv
ilege of knowing that we did II with
out counting the cost and mecause we
were true Americans, lovers of liberty
and of the right"
Mr. Taft, in his speech, indorsed the
presidents plans for league of ma
tons The practicability of the pro-
posed covenant was explained by Mr..
Taft. The boycott, he asserted, would
be an effective weapon against any
nation refusing to abide by decisions
of the league
The Monroe doctrine, Mr.. Taft said,
had been subjected to many varying
interpretations.
What the President Said.
The band struck up cover There"
rs the president stepped forward to
speak.
MY fellow citizens, accept the in
timation of the air just played; l will
not come back TIL It's over, over
there (Applause) And yet / pray
God In the isterests of peace and of
the world that that may be soon. Cap
plause) The first thing l am going
10 tell the people on the other side Of
the water is that an overwhelming
majority of the American people is in
favor Of the league of nations. Gap
plause.) / know that that is true.
have had unrlistakable intimations of
1t from all parts of the country and
the voice rings true in every case.
account myself fortunate to speak here
under the unnsual circumstances Of
this evening. l am happy to associate
myself with Mr. Taft in this great
cause. (Applause) He has displayed
an elevation of view aud devotiol to
public duty which is beyond praise
(Applause,) And | am the more happy
because this means that this is not
party issue. (Applause) No party
has the right to appropriate this issue
and no party will In the long run dare
oppose it. tApplause)
I'VE have listened to so clear and
admirable an exposition of many of
the main features of the proposed COW
enant Of the League of nations that
1t is perhaps not necessary for me to
discuss in any particular way the con
tents of the document l will seek
rather to give you its setting. | do
not know when l have been more I'm
pressed than by the conferences of the
commission set up by the conference
of peace to draw up covenant for
the league of nations The represent
atives of fourteen nations sat around
that board-n0t young men, not men
inexperienced in the affairs of their
own countries, not men inexperienced
I'm the politics Of the world-and the in
spring influence of every meeting was
the concurrence of purpose on the part
of all those men to come to an agree
ment and an effective working agree
ment with regard to this league of the
civilized world. There was a convic-
tion in the whole impulse. There was
conviction of more than one sort.
There was the conviction that this
thing ought to be done, and there was
also the conviction that not a man
there would venture to go home and
say that he had not tried to do II.
I'VE have been hearing for all these
weary months that this agony Of war
has tasted of the siniste. purpose of
the central empires, The Austro-Hu
garian empire has gone to pieces and
the Turkish empire has disappeared
(Applause) and the nations that eff
fected that great reSuIt-for it was n
result Of liheration-are now response
bic as the trustees of the assets OF
those great nations. (Applause).
"one of the things that the league of
nations is intended to watch is tn,
course Of intrigue Intrigue cannot
stand publicity and If the league OF
nations We're nothing but great de.
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