Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-19
BY the Associated Press

Oakland, Calf, Sept. 19.-The text
of President Wilson's address here last
night was in part as follows:
am not going to speak tonight
particularly of the covenant of the
league of nations, but l am going to
point out to you what the treaty as
a whole is.
In the first place, of course. that
treaty imposes upon Germany the
proper penalty for the crime she at
tempted to commit. 1t is n Just
treaty in spite of its severity, It is
n treaty made by men who had no
intention of crushing the German
people, but who did mean to have it
burnt into the consciousness of the
German people, and through their
consciousness into the apprehension
of the world, that no people could
afford to live under government
which was not controlled by their
purpose and will, but which was at
liberty to impose secret ambitions
upon civilization.
1t was intended as notice to all
mankind that Pny government that
attempted what Germany attempted
would meet with the same concerted
opposition of mankind and would
have meted out to it the same just
rctribution.
Warning for All Time
Notice is given in the very first
articles of the treaty that hereafter
it will be a matter of certainty that
nations contemplating what the gov
ernment of Germany contemplated
will know that mankind in serried
ranks will defend to the last the
rights of human beings wherever they
are.
This is the first peoples treaty,
This is treaty not merely for the
peoples who are represented at the
peace table, but for the people who
were the subjects of the governments
whose wrongs were forever ended by
the victory on the fields of France.
My fellow citizens, you know and
you hear it said every day; you
read it in the newspapers you hear
it in the conversation of your friends,
that there is unrest all over the world
and when you look into the history
not of cur own free and fortunate
continent, happily, but of the rest
of the world. you will find that the
hand Of pitiless power has been upon
the shoulders of mankind since time
began and that only with that little
glimmer of light which came at Cal =
vary, that first dawn which came with
the Christian era, did men begin to
awaken to the dignity and right of
the human soul.
Give Liberty TO the Weak
There is little for the great part
of humanity in the history of the
world except the hitter tears of duty
and the hot cars of wrath. and wher
you look. as we were permitted to
look, in Paris into some of the par
ticular wrongs which the peoples
upon whom the first foundations OF
the new German power were to be
built had suffered for generations
you wonder why they lay so long
quiet, you wonder why statesmen
men who pretended to have an outlook
upon the world, waited so long to de-
liver them.
The characteristic of this treaty is
that it gives liberty to peoples who
never could have won it for them
selves. BY giving them liberty il
limits the ambitions and defeats the
hopes of all imperialistic governments
in the world. 1t is astonishing that
this great document did not come as
shock upon the world.
if the world had not already been
rent by the great struggle which pre-
ceded this settlement men would
have stood in amazemcnt at such q
document as this.
Great Charter of Liberty
The makers of the treaty proceeded