Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-09-12
AMERICAS PLEDGE
SAcRED--WILsON
PRESIDENT SAYS OUR PROMISE
TO TRY TO PREVENT FUTURE
WARS SHOULD BE KEPT.
ONLY HOPE is IN WORLD LEAGUE
Says Germany Would Not Have Dared
to Strike If Nations Had Been
Banded Against Aggression. l.
(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau.)

st. Louis-Displaying a high con-
ddence that his fellow citizens in the
great majority agree with him in MS
desire to end war forever, and that
the peace treaty with its League OF
Nations inclusion is ratified by the
senate, President Wilson is making a
successful way across the country Oil
the long journey he has undertaken
for the purpose of laying before, the
plain people report OF his WORK IN
Paris and explaining to them just
what the League means.
Thus far in his travels he has every
where met with warm greetings, Doth
In the great halls where he has
spoken formally and in the little cross
road hanllets where his train has
halted at times and he has exchanged
words with the villagers who pressed
forward to greet him. He feels, ana
ioes not hesitate to say so Wnen
chatting with his travelling compan-
ians, that the American people want
no more of war and want to become
part OF the League so that there may
l., no more war. He struck his key.
note 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 notice to every government VINO
in the future will attempt this tnlng
what Germany attempted that man
KIND will unite to inf1ict the same pun
Ihment. There is no natlonal
triumph to be recorded in this treaty.
There is no glory sought for any par
| .icular nation. The thought OF the
statesmen COLLECTED around that table
Gas of their people, of the suferlngs
They had, gone through, OF the losses
they had incurred, of that great throD-
hing heart which was so depresSeo'
50 forlorn, so sad in every memory II
had of the five tragical years that
have gone by. Let us never forget
those years, my fellow countrymen'
At us never forget the purpose, hlgn
and disinterested, with which America
cnt its strength, not for its own glory
but for the defense Of mankind.
GAS I said, this treaty was not
meant merely to end this war. 1t is
intended to prevent any similar war
wonder if some Of the opponents OF
ne League of Nations have forgotten
lie promises we made our people De
.ore we went to that peace table! we
had taken by process OF law the
flower of our youth from every coun-
.rvside, from every household, and we
told those mothers and fathers ana
.;-tors and wives and sweethearts
hat we were taking those men 10
chit war which would end business
# that sort, and if we do not end IT,
f we do not do the best that human
concert of action can do TO emo II, we
ire of all men the most unraltn1ui-
he most unfaithful to the loVins
haarts who suffered in this war, the
most unfaithful to those Households
,owed in grief and yet lifted with the
;aeling that the lad laid down his lie
'or a great thing, and, among other
.bings. in order that other lads might
ever have to do the same thing.
"That is what the League OF Ma
ions is for-to end this war justly
md then not merely to serve notice
IN governments which coulq eonteln
slate that they will do SO at thelr peru
,nt also concerning the combination
~ mower which will prove TO tnem
hot thew will do it at their peril. II IS
do IN say the worlds will comome
cain at YOU: but it is persuasive 10
ssv the world is combined against
vou. The League OF Natiohs
is the only thing that can prevent tne
occurrence of this dreaa1ul ca'as'iopn'
and redeem our promises"
A League of Nations Woulo nav nav,
prevented the late CONFLICT, Inc .pfesf
lent asserted, explaining:
~ did not meet a single publlc man
who did not admit these things; that
%arnanv would not have gone INTO
nc war If she thought Great Britain
naS Going into 1t, and she most Ger
'o;nly would never have gone INTO Il
ID She dreamed America was going
10 II And they all admit that
,otice beforehand that the greatest
dowers Of the world would combine 10
prevent this sort OF thing "oulu pre-
vent it absolutely"
Anplause and cheers gleesea
oach declaration of the pfes,-
Iant that wars might be avolu.
:, the future by operations
~ tho League. He pointed out other
ortont features Of the Peace
NV npo how it was the redemption OF
w .ssg nations, giving them freedom
which otherwise they never couiu
ave won; how 1t says "!hese Psopie
low, Low, right to live their own nVes
,nder governments which they them
.aIyes choose, and how that Is the
American Principle and l was glad 10
7ebt for it,, and that was the very
neart of the Treaty, he said.
Ha drew attention to the SECTION OF
he Treaty which Is a magma chaEts
~ Labor" which shall dispose OF the
hours conditions and recommendations
Of labor.
which ought to kaye come long ago,
wben statesmen win realize that pe
nation is fortunate which Is not hap,
nv whose people are not contented,
eontented in their lives and fortunate
IN the circumstances of their lives.
In conclusion the president said he
pait certain the Treaty will be accept
ed and was only impatient Of the de-
law. He added: do you realize, my
fellow citizens, that the whole Worll
ia waiting on American The only
country in the world that is trusted
TODAY is the United States and the
world is awaiting to see If its trust is
justified"