The Republican journal., 1919-09-18
LEAGUE CERTAIN
WILSON DECLARES
PRESIDENT IN OPENING SPEECH.
ES OF TOUR VOICES
HIGH HOPE
WORLD WAITS FOR US
Future Free From War if America
Carries Out Her Pledges,
Says Executive
BY Mount Clemens News p,,ro

Ash confidence that his fellow citi-
.en9 III Tue great majority agree with
hiiii III his desire to end war forever.
anu tilat they will see to it, the peace
Treaty with its League of Nations in
Iiuolon is ratified by the Senate
rreSldent Wilson is making a suc-
ceSSlui way across the country on the
iohs journey be has undertaken fo,-
me purpose of laying before the plain
people report of his work in Paris
ana explaining to them just what the
league means
Thus far in his travels. he has
everywhere met with warm greetings
9th in the great halls where he has
spoken formally and in the little
CROSS road hamlets where his train
mas halted at times and he has ex-
changed words with the villagers
VINO pressed forward to greet him.
he feels, and does not hesitate to
say SO when chatting with his trav-
ellng 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 O.
This treaty was not intended
merely to end this single war it is
meant as notice to every govern
ment who in the future will attempt
this thing (what Germany attempted)
that mankind will unite to innict the
same punishment. There is no ma
tonal triumph to be recorded in this
treaty, There is no glory sought for
any particular nation. The thought
OF the statesmen collected around
that table was of their people, of the
suf1erings they had gone through, of
the losses they had incurred, of that
great throbbing heart which was so
depressed, SO forlorn, SO sad in every
memory it had OF the five tragical
years that have gone by. Let US
never forget those years, my fellow
countrymen; let US never forget III
purpose, high and disinterested, with
which America lent it's strength, not
for its own glory but for the defense
Of mankind.
"As | said, this treaty was not in
tended merely to end this war 1t
was intended to prevent any similar
war | wonder if some of the oppon-
ents Of the League of Nations have
forgotten the promises we made our
people before we went to that peace
table. We had taken by processes of
law the flower CT our youth from
every countryside, from every house
hold. And We told those mothers
and fathers and sisters and wives
and sveethearts that we were takine
those men to fight a war which would
end business Of that sort. and if we
do net end it if we do not dc the best
that human concert of action can dc
10 end It, We are * all men the mosi
unfalthful-the most unfaithful to
the loving hearts who suffered in this
war, the most unfaithful to those
households bowed in grief and yet
lifted with the feeling that the LAD
laid down his life for great thing
and, among other things, in order
that other lads N ght never have to
do the same thing.
That is what the League of Ma
lions is for-to end this war Justly
and then not merely to serve notice
on governments which would con
template the same .hings Germany
contemplated that they will do so at
their peril. but also concerning the
combination of power which will
prove to them that they will do it at
their peril. 1t is idle to say the
world will combine against you; but
it is persuasive to say the world
is combined against you. The
League Of Nations is the only thing
that can prevent the recurrence OF
this dreadful catastrophe and redeem
our promises
A League of Nations would have
prevented the late conflict, the Presi-
dent asserted. explaining Il did not
meet a single public man who did not
admit these things: that Germany
would not have gone into this war if
she thought Great Britain was going
into it. and that she most certainly
would never have gone into il had
she dreamed America was going into
it, And they all admit that a notice
beforehand that the greatest powers
Of the world would combine to pre-
vent this sort of thing would prevent
it absolutely"
Applause and cheers greeted each
declaration of the President that
wars might be avoided in future by
the operations of the league.
He pointed out other important
features of the peace treaty, how it
was the redemption of weak nations,
giving them freedom which otherwise
thev never could have won; how It
saws those people have right to
live their evn lives under govern
ments which they themselves
choose" and how that is the Amer1-
can principle and I was glad to hght
for It" That wac the very heart OF
the treaty, he said, =,
He drew attention to the section OF
the treaty which is Magma Charta OF
Labor" which shall dispose of the
hours, conditions and remuner@tlonS
of labor. 1T forecasts the DAY, ne
said which ought r lave come long
APO when statesmen will realize that
no nation is fortunate which IS nol
happv. whose people are not con
tented contented in their lives ana
fortunate in the circumstances Oh
their lives"
In conclusion the President said he
felt certain the treaty VIII he &C
cepted, and was only impatient OF the
delav. He added:
DO YOU realize, my fellow citizens
that the whole world is waltlng ~
America The only country in the
world that is trusted TODAY is the
United States, and the world is wait
ing to see if its trust is justified
Mr. Wilson's indiana ,lls speech
was like the one at Columbus an ex-
planaticn of the league, an appeal Tor
its ratification and . 0ra "a N
I was sure to con- into being.