Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-12

again what Germany had tried to do II
the great war. II was a clean cut Is
sue, Mf. wilson declared. between thi'
new order or the old German order
"Iaboring Mans Treaty"
Declaring the peace treaty provision
for an. international labor conference
would give labor new. bill of rights
the president declared the treaty was 6
'Taboring mans treaty in the sens.
that it was a treaty drawn up for the
benefit Of the common people.
The political settlements themselves
said the president. were made for the
peoples concerned. He asserted that
the document laid down forever the
principle that no territory ever should
be governed except as the people who
lived there wanted it governed.
"That is an absolute reversal OF
history" said the president. "and it's
all in the league Of nations"
High taxes. a large standNg army
and military government in spirit
would be required, he said, If the Unit
ed States were to follow the advice OF
some men and stand by herself"
' He Explains Situation.
Asking his hearers to suppose for q
moment that the land titles of South
Dakota we're to be upset and every
farm fine moved 10 feet Mr.. Wilson
said that was something ike what
happened in Europe, and a;eentral au-
thority was necessary. to stabilize con-
ditions and prevent STRIFE.
"Your choice" said Mr. Wilson, SIS
between the league Of nations and
Germa1ism 4 have told you what I
mean BY Gafmanism having b chip
on your shoulder"
When the president added that
sometimes he, had been called an
idealist" someone shouted Good"
and the crowd cheered.
The certain way" to have trouble
between capital and labor, said the
president was for them to refuse to
discuss their differences. ..t,
He said he could not understand how
a man could refuse to discuss his case
unless he was wrong. The same rule,
he declared applied to differences be-
tween nations. 80 o..
America could stay out of the league,
said the president but 1t would be at
the expense of the peace Of the world.
America is necessary he said, ITO
the peace of the world. And the peace
and confidence of the world are neces-
sary to America"
The text {, of President Wilson'S
speech to the people Of Sioux Falls,
S. D.; follows:
= Governor Norbeck and my fellow
citizens:
II must admit that every time |
face a great audience of my fellow
countrymen on this trip am filled
with a feeling of peculiar solemnity,
because, believe. my fellow country
men, that we have come to one Of the
turning points in the history Of the
world. And what l as an American
covet for this great country, Is that
on every great occasion when man.
kinds fortunes are hung in the bal
ance, that America may have the dis
tinction of leading the way. l want
to remind you, my fellow country
men, that that war was not accident.
That war didn't just happen. There
was not some sudden cause which
brought on the conflagration. On the
contrary, Germany had been prepar-
ing for that war for generations. Ger
many had been preparing every re-
source and perfecting every Skill de-
velopins every invention, which would
enable her to master. the European
world and to dominate the rest of the
world. Everybody had boon looking
on. Everybody had known. For ex-
ample, it was known in every war Of
flee in Europe and in the war de-
partment at Washington, that the
Germans not only had a vast supply
of great field guns. but that they had
ammunition enough for every one OF
those guns to exhaust the gun. And
yet We were living in a fools para
disc. We thought Germany meant
what she said that she was armed fol
defense and that she never would use
the great store of guns against hel
fellow men. Why. my friends, 1t was
fore-ordained the minute Germany
conceived these purposes, that she
should do the thing which she did ir
1914.
Treaty Means Wars End.
Now 1 have brought back from
Europe with me, my fellow citizens
treaty in which Germany is disarmeC
and in which all the other nations o
the world agree. never to go to war
(Applause).
"If Germany had dreamed that any
thing like the greater part of the worlc
would combine against her, she neve
would have begun the war, an,
she dfdn't dare to let the opinions O
mankind crystalline against her, by tn
discussion of the purposes she had i
mind.
$50 what I want to point out t
you is that we are making funda
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