The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-10-10
LEAGUE CERTAIN
WILSON DECLARES
PRESIDENT IN OPENING SPEECH.
ES OF TOUR VOICES HIGH
HOPES.
WORLD WAITS FOR US
Future Free From War Ii America
Carries Out Her Pledges,
Says Executive.
"By Mt. Clemens News Bureau"


st. Louis Especially displaying high
confidence that his fellow-citizens in
the great majority agree with him in
his desire to end war forever, and that
they will see to it that the peace treaty
with it's League Of Nations inclusion
is ratified by the Senate, President
Wilson is making successful way
across the country on the long journey
he has undertaken for the purpose of
laying before the plain people re-
port Of his work in Paris and explain
ing to them just what the League
means.
Thus far in his travels he has every
where met with warm greetings, both
in the great halls where he has spoken
formally and in the little cross-road
hamlets where his train has halted at
times and he has exchanged words
with the villagers who pressed for
ward to greet him. He feels, and does
not hesitate to say so when chatting
with his travelling 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,
Ohio:
"This treaty was not intended mere
" to end this single war. 1t is meant
as q notice to every government who
in the future will attempt this thing
(what Germany attempted) that man
kind will unite to intiict the same pun
ishment. There is no national 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 sufferings 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, fell
low-countrymen let us never forget
the purpose, high and disinterested,
with which America lent it's strength,
not for it's own glory but for the de-
tense of mankind.
"As 1 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 opponents Of
the League of Nations have forgotten
the promises we made our people be-
fore we went to that peace table. We
had taken by process of law the flower
of our youth from every countryside,
from every household, and we told
those mothers and fathers and sisters
and wives and sweethearts that we
were taking those men to fight a war
which would end business Of that sort,
and If we do not end 1t, If we do not
do the best that human concert OF ac-
ton can do to end 1t, we are OF all
men the most unfaithful-the most I'M
faithful to the loving hearts who suf-
fered in this war, the most unfaithful
to those households bowed In grief and
vet lifted with the feeling that the lad
laid down his life for a great thing,
and, among other things, in order that
other lads might 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 could contemplate
the same thing Germany contemplated
that they will do so at their peril, but
also concerning the combination or
power which viii prove to them that
they will do 1t at their peril 1t is
ideal to say that the world VIII COM
bine against you; but is 1t persuave
to say the world SIS combined against
you. The League of Nations Is the
only thing that can prevent the recur-
renee Of this dreadful catastrophe and
redeem our promises"
A League of Nations would have
prevented the late conflict, the Presi-
dent asserted, explaining:
II did not meet a single public man
who did not admit these things; that
Germany would not have gone into