The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-09-13
&c Means Rule By the People,
Declares President Wilson
in Speech
SPEAKS IN MINNEAPOLIS
ON WORLD CONDITIONS
Says if Governments Can't Get
Together the People VIII De-
stroy Them

Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 9.-De-
clarang that the peace treaty would
end The regime of the balance Of pow
er, President Wilson told a crowd in
the MINNEAPOLIS armory today that
the new world order Sc. up would be
to the advantage of all nations rath-
er than a few of the stronger.
- The presidents party motored from
{ St.Paul, where he had spoken earlier
in the day He was escorted through
the Minneapolis streets between
crowds that lined both sidewalks and
kept up wave Of cheering.
Under the old balance Of power,
SAID the president, the people never
dared speak OUT against autocracy
or against the burden Of ornaments.
But now, he continued, the people
were awake and had determined that
If the governments can't get togeth-
ee they will destroy the govern
ments.
The people of the world" said Mr..
Wilson. ARE tired Of every other kind
of experiment except the kind we are
going to. try. The world has turned
a, corner that it's not going to turn
again"
TO destroy autocratic power, Mr
Wilson continued, was the object Of
the war, yet. he said, an autocratic
government as cruel as that Of the
Gar had been set up in Russia. and
the United States must see to it that
there was no similar movement in the
/ Enjfed States.
sssgFe will brook the control OF no
xnirf9T9fy lin the United States" he
added. ST would as leave serve one
kind of autocracy as another
When Mr.. Wilson said another
great war would come If there were
no concerted movement to preserve
peace under American leadership
sofaeofie In the gallery shouted
s. lAstlen.',
The president sad the league sof
nations provided for the destruction
OF autocratic power by admitting only
aase1f governing nations to the league.
Had you ever been told that be-
fofe9 asked the president, and there
was chorus of noes" and cheers.
For another thing, continued the
president, the treaty provided to sub
stttute arbitration and discussion for
force and an absolute boycott"
against covenant breakers. The peace
OF the world, he said. would thus be
placed under constant international
supervision.
.The peace Of the world Is every
body's business" said Mr.. Wilson.
this this is the first international
document that has recognized that
fact
That there should be disarmament
and that no nation ever should again
attempt annexation were further
: points in the treaty, continued the
President. There were more cheers
when he said it was provided furth-
er ttat no secret treaty shout be
valid
Secret treaties, said the president.
were constant source Of embarrass-
ment. at Versailles. Yet, he continued
the var had been fought on The pfin-
cipie of the s. nctity Of treaties. and
it was impossible to disregard the
secret agreements.
Finally. said Mr.. Wilson, there was
in the treaty a great bill Of rights
for labor. establishing an international
labor organization to keep up labor
standards.
OF course, the president said, the
United states was "at liberty" to stay
out Of the league. but asked whether
it would be better to "go in as trust
ed partners or stay out and act as
We've got to be either provinc!als
or statesmen: we've got to be ostrich
es or eagles" said the president, add
ing that he meant by ostriches those
who submerged their thinking appa-
ratus in the sand
Mr.. Wilson covered in his address
many of the, points previously dis
cussed during his trip.
1--WE must realize lin this broad
country of ours" said the president.
1.-The fact that the world is in rev.
olution do not mean IL active rev.
olution. I mean that it is in state
of mind that may bring about
the dissolution Of government If we
do not bring about a world settle
ulent.
"The great peoples Of the world
have been asleep but Coo knows the
other nations have not been asleep
There was no place in the world where
they dared to speak OCT, and now
the catastrophe has come. Blood has
been spilled in rivers and nations
haye been destroyed and they MADE
up their minds that rather than have
this happen again il the governments
can not get together they will destroy
the governments.
.But in the meantime look at the
things that are happening. There is
not a day goes by that my heart isn't
heavy to think of the things the peo-
D1a in Russia are doing. They are
without form. and without order and
tho danger is to the world We must