The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-26

xtJ O4 1llCSAAS1AS {. Following is President Wilson's address 'Sfore the peace conference today: EMr. Chairman: consider it distin- S!Aished privilege to be permitted to open Ye,e discussion in this conference on the Ague of nations We have assembled for kno purposes--to make the present settle- Tents which have been renderd necs- sary by this war, and also to secure the . beAce of the world, not only by the pres Int settlements, but by the arrangements live shall make at this conference for its kt0Entenance.
 } s'Tha league of nations seems to me to 7be necessary for both of these purposes. q sxare are many complicated questions ] Inected with the present settlements. I f1ich perhaps cannot be successfully / ' sNuked out to an ultimate issue by the N ycisons We shall arrive at here. I can Siasily conceive that many of these settle AS,xnts will need subsequent consideration; N at many of the decisions we make shall \ Iced subsequent alteration in some de- i See, for, if I may judge by my own E Endy of some of these questions, they |itre not susceptible for confident judge Events at present.
 Y Fit is therefore necessary that we Lnould set up some machinery by which ||She work of this conference should be N hdered complete.
 III REPRESENT PEOPLE |i kWe have assembled here for the pur- fose of doing very much more than mak- Ing the present settlements that are nec- Vssary. We are assembled under very pe- rSS{uliar conditions of world opinion. I may Hay, without straining the point that we Eyre not the representatives of govern l.fents, but representatives of peoples. "A Tt will not suffice to satisfy govern Ilaent circles anywhere. It is necessary Mat we should satisfy the opinion of Aaankind. y
 l ..The burdens of this war have fallen EN an unsual degree upon the whole pop lsllation of the countries involved. I do ot need to draw for you the picture of how the burden has been thrown back : rom the front upon the older men, upon .Ihe women, upon the children, upon the |'Nomes of the civilized world, and how Stiie real strain of the war has come there the eye of the government could lot reach. but where the heart of Humanity beats. .-..r.4. .,..... M We are bidden by these people to Flake peace which will make them se- IDure. We are bidden by these people to tlse to 1t that this strain does not come ssNon them again. And I venture to say yal it has been possible for them to lear this strain because they hoped that
 tose who represented them could get to-
 Eher after this war and make such an
 her sacrifice unnecessary.
 MUST BE PERMANENT
 NfIt is a solemn obligation on our part
 xrefore to make permanent arrange
 s4nts that justice shall be rendered and
 eace maintained.
 H-This is the central object of our meet
 4 Settlement may be temporary, but
 %tza . ;,,+o o-t
 Npeace and justice must be permanent
 k can set up permanent processes. We ( ,ay not be able to set up permanent IN Ncision.
 A Therefore it seems to me that we
 Just take as far as we can picture o1
 l., world into our minds. Is it not a
 l.rtling circumstance, for one thing, tha'
 .e great discoveries of science. that the
 uiet studies of men in in1aboratories, that
 A' thoughtful developments which have M zen place in quiet lecture rooms have
 sx been turned to the destruction ol
 tEizatlon3s The powers of destruction
 i've not so much multiplied. as they
 We gained facilities.
 Ehe enemy, whom we have just over
 fne, had at his seats of learning som'
 the principal centers of scientif.'
 judy and discovery, and he used then
 order to make destruction sudden an.
 cmplete. And only the watchful ant
 btindous cooperation of men can SCI
 lit that science, as we'll as armed men
 s.kept within the harness of civiliza
 < IT, s. LESS INTERESTED
 "In sense. the United States is les' ENArested in this subject than the othel Ns4tions here assembled With her grea
 err1tory and extenive sea corder. 1t |
 sA likely that the United States would
 lffer from the attack of enemies thai