The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-02-27
Peace Treaty Would Be Anoth-
er "Scrap of Paper" Without
League of Nations Backing,
He Tells BostonianS.
BY United Press.

| Wilson came to Mechanics Hall this
afternoon to take up the battle for a
league Of nations.
His speech, the first answer to op-
ponents Of the league in the Senate,
was planned to lay the background for
American support Of his program. Its
preparation followed a. long conference
On the George Washington last night
and today with Secretary 1umulty.
Pending his audience with congress
sional leaders the president Is not at
tempting to go into details of thel league
merely showing why he regards 1t
necessary, and what he believes will be
its ultimate effect.
Before the president started talking
Mayor Peters made a brief speech OF
welcome. ,.
John Mccormack sang THE Star
Spangled Banner" president applaud
ed vigorously.
Presidents Speech.
at warns my heart" the president
said in opening, ."to see my fellow citi-
zens again, because / have at times felt
very lonely in recent weeks without
your counsel.
1.-THE extraordinarily generous recep-
ton given me on the other side seemed
to be a call Of greeting to you rather
than to me. I had the GROWING pride
of being your representative. Men
everywhere felt that your hearts beat
with theirs in the cause of liberty"
United States Trusted. .
The plaudits of the European crowds,
he said, were calls to America for a
union across the seas In a peace OF JUS
tice and right. ... .
1.-THE proudest thing I have to report
to you" he said, "is that our great
country is trusted throughout the
world"
He said ne was not prepared to re-
port details of the conferences on q
peace not. yet completed. There is
common agreement, he said, that a new
order must be set up in the world.
THE settlement Of this war affects
every nation and sometimes I think
every small nation in the world. No
one decision can be made without 1t
being reckoned in. with, others"
All Appeal to America.
The president spoke Of the appeals Of
down trodden nations. that America
first of all seems to be appealed to by
these. % - t''s..
There is no nation in Europe that
suspects the motives of the United
States" he said.
81 have not come to report the pro-
J ceedings or the results Of the proceed
ings OF the peace conference; that
would be premature. I can say hat I
have received very happy impressions
from his conference. the impression
| that while there are many differences
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vergencies of object, there Is, never
theless, a common spirit and a COM
mon realization of the necessity of set
ting up new standards Of right in the
world. Because the men who are in
conference realize as keenly as any
American can realize that they are not
the masters of their people; that they
are the ~rvant of their people and
that the spirit Of their people has
awakened to a new purpose and a new
conception of their power to realize
that purpose and that no man dare go
home from that conference and re-
port anything less noble than was ex-
pected of 1t.
The conference seems to you to 60
slowly; from day to day in Paris II
seems TO go slowly; but l wonder IL
you realize the complexity Of the task
which it has undertaken? 1t seems as
If the settlements of this war affect
and affect directly, every great and
I sometimes think, every small nation
in the world. and no one decision can
be made which Is not properly linked
In with the great series Of other de-
cisions which must accompany 1t, and
It must be reckoned on with the final
result, If the real quality and character
Of that result Is to be properly judged
What we are doing Is to. hear the
whole case; heal 1t from the mouths OF
the men most interested; hear it from
those who are officially commissioned
to state 1t; heal the rival claims; hear
the claims that affect new n~ationalities,
that affect new areas of the world, that
affect new commercial and economic
connections that have been established
by the great world war through which
we have gone. And I have been struck
by the moderateness Of those h have
represented national claims. I tes-
tify that I believe I have nowhere seen
the CLEAN Of passion.
The president was cheered when be
said:
THE confidence we have established
throughout the world imposes a burden
upon is. ANY man who opposes the
tide. will find himself thrown upon bar
rem ground. ....,
IF America were now to fail the
world, what would become of it? Amer
lea is the hope of the world and IL she
does not justify that hope the results
will bo unthinkable.
Suppose we sign the treaty Of
peace" he said, land do no more, we
will have nothing but a modern scraI
of paper.
mo assurances would be given to
downtrodden people that they would
be safe. E~
1--WE set this nation up to make mer
free and now we will make men free
The president said ne was ready tc
fight for this. 100
The president finished his speech a.
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