Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-05
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Columbus o., Sept. Am the first
speech of his transcontinental toul
President Wilson here today urged
the American people to exert their
influence for acceptance by the United
States senate of the peace treaty
signed with Germany and predicted
that the senate would ratify the
treaty.
When this treaty is accepted" he
said, "the men In khaki will never
have to cross the seas again and say
when it is accepted, because 1t viii
be accepted"
Speaking to a capacity audience
which filled every nook in Memoria
hall, the president said it was not his
purpose during the trip to debate
the treaty, but to expound it to the
people. He declared there was a
concert of feeling among the allied
representatives at Versailles, Refer
ring to the American delegation, he
said:
I'VE were under instructions and
we did not dare come home without
fulfilling those instructions. If
couldn't have brought back the kind
of treaty / did bring back, l never
would have come back
Text of the Speech.
Mr.. Chairman, Governor Campbel
and my fellow citizens: (Applause.)
1T is with very profound pleasure
that / find myself face to face with
you. have for a long time chafed
at the confinement of Washington.
have for a long time wished TO fui-
fill the purpose with which my heart
was full when l returned to our be-
loved country, to go out and report
to my fellow countrymen concerning
those affairs of the world which now
need to be settled.
1.-THE only people I owe any report
to are you and the other citizens OF
the United States and 1t has become
increasingly necessary, apparently that
] should report to you. After all the
various angles at which you have
heard the treaty held up perhaps you
would like to know what is in the
treaty find it very difficult in read
ing some of the speeches that / have
read to form any conception OF that
great document
ut is document unique in the his
tory of the world for many reasons
and think / cannot do you a better
service or the peace of the world a
better service than by pointing out
to you just what this treaty contains
and what it seeks to do.
Would Punish Wrong.
''In the first place, my fellow coun-
trymen, it seeks to punish one of the
greatest wrongs ever done in history,
the wrong which Germany sought to
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there ought to be no weak purpose
with regard to the application of the
punishment. She attempted an intol-
cradle thing, and she must be made to
pay for the attempt.
1.-THE terms of the treaty are Sc
verse but they are not unjust, can
testify that the men associated with
me at the peace conference in Paris
had 1t in their hearts to do justice and
not wrong but they knew perhaps with
n more vivid sense of what had hap
pened than would possibly know on
this side of the water, the many sol
emn covenants which Germany had
disregarded, the long preparation she
had made to oyerwhelm her neigh
bors, the utter disregard which she
had shown for human rights, for the
rights Of women and children and
those who were helpless. They had
seen their lands devastated by an enc
my that devoted itself not only to the
effort of victory, but to the effort OF
terror. seeking to terrify the people
whom they fought, and I wish to tes-
tify that they exercised restraint in
the terms of this treaty. They did not
wish to overwhelm any great nation
and they they had no purpose in over
whelming the German people, but
they did think that it ought to be
burned into the consciousness of men
forever that no people ought to per-