The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-05
WILSON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS
New York Last Night

are overwhelmed. Now the heart of the |
world is awake, anG the heart of the world !
must be satisfied.
DO not let yourselves suppose for |
moment that the uneasiness in the popula- |
tions of Europe is due entirely to economic |
causes or economic motives; something very |
much. deeper pnderiies it.
been able to defend them against intrigue |
or aggression. and that there is no force |
say: There must be some fundamental
they are beginning to perceive to be that
nations have stood singly or in little
jealous groups against each other, fostering
prejudice, increasing the danger of war, |
rather than concerning measures to prevent |
it; and that if there is right in the world,
If there is justice n the world, there is no |
reason why nations should be divided in
the support of Justice
believe there is right, if you really believe
wars ought to be stopped, stop thinking
about the rival interests of nations and
think about men and women and children
turnout the world.
Make People Happy.
Nations are not made TO afford dis
t1nct1on to their rulers by way OF success
| in the maneuvers of politics; nations are
meant If they are meant for anything, to
make the men and women and children in
/ them secure and happy and prosperous
| and no nation has the right to set up
| special interests against the interests and
benefits of mankind, least of all this great
nation we love.
1T was set up for the benefit of man
/ kind; it was set up to illustrate the highest
| ideals and to achieve the highest aspira-
| lions of men who wanted to be free; and
! the world-the world of today believes
| that and counts on us, and would be
| if we deserted it.
| Il have tried once and again, my fellow
citizens, to say to little circles of friends,
or to larger bodies, what seems to be the
| real hope of the peoples of Europe, and l
tell you frankly l have not been able -, to
| to crowd itself into speech the profound
I emotion of the thing is too much; speech
will not carry. L have felt the tragedy of
the hope of those suffering peoples.
1T is tragedy because it is hope which
have Re e s its s
| pulsion upon every living man to exercise
influence that he has to It the utmost
| is disappointed, because if men cannot
now. after this agency of bloody sweat.
| to regulate tire affairs of the world, we will
sink back into a period of struggle in
| which there will be no hope and therefore,
no mercy There can be no mercy where
| there is no hope, for why should you spare
M6g Should YOU YOU be if 10
! no pity? why should you be just, if upon
every hand you are put upon:
| What the Boys Think.
There is another thing which I think
the critics of this covenant have not OBJ
served. They not only have not observed
the temper of the world. but they have not
even observed the temper of those splendid
seas 1 have had the proud consciousness
of the reflected glory of those boys because
the constitution made me their commander
in-ehief. and they have taught me some
| lessons
into it the basis of declarations which
it was my privilege to utter, because l be-
lieved them to be an Interpretation of the
purpose and thought of the people of the
United States.
And those boys went over there with
the feeling that they were. sacredly bound
to no izaf of lnaIS tlot how
were not only going over there to beat
Germany; they were not going over there
against n particular outlaw nation, but
that they were crossing those 5000 miles
United States, when it became necessary.
would go anywhere where the rights of
mankind S were threatened,
They would not sit still in the trenches.
. They would not be restrained by the
prudence of experienced continental. com
, manders; they thought they had come over
| there to do particular thing, and they
were going to do it. and do it at once.
| And Just as soon as that rush of spirit as
! | well rush of body came in contact with
the lines OF the enemy they began to break.
/, my fellow citizens, not merely because of
| the physical force of those lusty young
sters, but because of the irresistible spirit
ual force of the armies of the United
+ that awed them. 1t was that that made
. them feel if these youngsters ever got a
foothold they could never be dfslodged
and, therefore. every foot of ground that
trey won was permanently won for the
. | liberty of mankind.
Crusading Spirit.
"And do you suppose that, having felt
that crusading spirit of these youngsters,
I / v he went over there not to glorify Amer
t lea, but to serve their fellow men, 1 am
going to permit myself for one moment
, TO slacken in my effort to be worthy of
them and their cause? What said at the
Y opening I said with n deeper meaning than
perhaps you have caught; 1 do not mean
! not to come back until it's over over there
; and it must not be over until the nations
| world o q
r OF PEACE I.ant1ornon ~ .,,, std .. 49,
: into communication with some gentlemen
t on the other side of the water. We some.
3, times think my fellow citizens, that the
experienced statesmen of the European ma
tions are unusually hard headed set OF
men, by which we usually mean, tho We
do not admit 1t, that they are bit cynical
world, by which you always mean that ii
is not an ideal world; that they do moi
believe that things can be settled upon an
ideal basis. Well, l never came into init.
mate contact with them before but if they
) used to be that way, they are not that way
$ now. They have been subdued. If that was
f once their temper by the awful signifi.
portance of what is to ensue; and there is
not one of them with whom 1 have come
= In contact who does not feel that he can
NOT N conscience return to his people
p to do something more than attach his name
( to a treaty of peace.
Needs League Support.
Every man in that conference knows
t that the treaty of peace in itself will be
imperative Mr.. Taft has said, without
e this constant support and energy of
t great organization such is supplied by
: the league of nations. And men, who
e when l first went over there were skep.
Y teal of the possibility of forming a league
F.; of nations, admitted that If We could but
form it it would be an invaluable instru
t mentality thru which to secure the opera
ton of the various parts of the treaty; and
= when that treaty comes back. gentlemen
covenant
. only in it but so many threads of the
e treaty tied to the covenant that you can
; not dissect the covenant from the treaty
= without destroying the whole vital struc
ture. The structure of peace will not BIZ
vital without the league of nations and ne
man is going to bring back a cadaver witt
him. -
Il must say that I have been puzzled
by some of the critics, not by the crit