Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-10
Peace Treaty Will End
Balance of Power Regime,
President Tells Hearers
Farmers Catch a Glimpse.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept ember 10.-De-
claring that the peace treaty would
power, President Wilson told a crowd
in the Minneapolis Armory this after
noon that the new world order set up
would be to the advantage OF 4all ma
tions rather than few OF the
stronger. q. .5 M - -
The Presidents party motored over
from st. Paul, where he had spoken
earlier in the day. He was escorted
through Minneapolis streets between
crowds that lined both sidewalks and
kept up a wave of cheering.
The people of the world" said Mr..
Wilson, ARE tired of every other kind
of experiment except the kind we're
going to try. The world has turned q
corner thar it's not going to turn
again"
Mr. Wilson covered in his address
many OF the points previously dis
cussed during his trip. He said:
Text of Speech.
I'VE must realize in this broad coun-
try of ours the fact that the world is
in revolution. l do not mean in ac-
tive revolution. l mean that it is in
the dissolution of government if we
do not bring about a world settle
ment.
Il am not speaking revolution.
DelleNe tn2t the most Q1SdSlFOuS
thing that can happen to the under
man, to the man who is suffering. to
the man who has not had his rights,
is to destroy public order. for that
makes it certain he never can get his
rights. ] am far from intimating
that. but l am intimating this. that
the people of the world are tired OF
every other kind of experiment ex-
cept the one we are going to try.
/ have called it an experiment.; L
frankly admit that it is, but it 10 a
very promising experiment, because
there is not statesman in the worIa
who does not know that his people
demand it"
The great peoples of the world
have been asleep, but God knows the
other nations have not been asleep.
There was no place in the whole
world where they dared to speak out,
and now the catastrophe has come
Blood has been spilled in rivers and
nations have been destroyed, and they
made up their minds that rather than
ernments cannot get together. they
will destroy the governments.
Government by Minorities.
But in the meantime look at the
things that are happening. There
isn't a day goes by that my heart
isn't heavy to think of the things
the people in Russia are doing. They
are without form and without order,
and the danger is to the world. We
must absolutely look to it that in
this country that form of govern
ment of a minority of men shall not
be set up here and elsewhere.
I'VE have either got to be provin-
cials or statesmen. We have either
got to be ostriches or eagles The
ostrich is being overdone all around.
something and think that nobody sees
that they have submerged their think
ing apparatus. That is what mean
by being an ostrich: Now. what
mean by being an eagle-I needn't de-
scribe it. l mean leaving the mists
up on strong winds, into those spaces
where you can see all the affairs of
mankind, all the affairs of America,
seeing how the world appears"
This is an effective covenant 1t is
carried out by the attitude of the
Irishman, who went into one of those
antique institutions known as the sa-
loon, and saw two men fighting In the
corner. He went to the bartender and
said: is this private fight, or can
anybody get in?'
I'm the true Irish spirit we are
abolishing private fighting and max
ing a law of mankind that it is every
body's business and everybody can get
IN ana consequently tneTe Will be no
attempts at private lighting"
Discusses Secret Treaties.
Discussing secret treaties the Presi,
dent said:
""The treaty provides that every se-
cret treaty shall be invalid. One Of
the difficulties in framing this treaty
was the fact that after we got over
there private secret treaties were
upon all sides like a noxious
growth. You had to guard your
apparatus against the
MAS that arose from it.
"But they were treaties and the war
had been fought on the principle OF
the sacredness of treaties. We could
not propose that solemn obligations,
however unwisely undertaken. should
be disregarded, but we could do the
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