Arizona republican., 1919-09-07


 which China could appeal for future justice.
 Mr Wilson also discussed Article X, | and the league covenant, Pan-G German ism and similar plans would be torn up by the roots.''
 Confidence of Acceptance
 Of the ultimate outcome regarding | the treaty, Mir. Wilson said he had no doubt
 "The only thing that can be accom- plished," ns said, lis delay. The ulti- mate outcome will be the triumphant acceptance of the treaty and the league"
 Only "a handful of men," the presi dent said, were opposing the treaty and they either hadn't read it or didn't understand the English language. The Monroe Doctrine provision, he said, had been objected to as vague because it referred to such regional under standings as the Monroe Doctrine"
 This language was written" the president said. "in perfect innocence and was 'rtended to give right of way to the Monroe Doctrine in the western hemisphere.
 The language was put in, he con tinued because the other delegates thought ir wise to make a specific reference to a policy of one country without leaving the way open for other nations to develop similar policies in their own localities.
 Defines Economic Boycott
 Turning to tAe economic boycott Mr. Wilsoa said no nation in Europe could stand such a boycott for six months.
 Yes. we are told this is covenant of war" he continued Tt is the most d astic covenant of peace ever con oeived. The processes of discussion are processes of peace.
 ''The world. is desperately in need of the settled conditions of peace said the president, "and it cannot wait much longer. It is waiting upon us. That is the thought-that is the burden some. thought upon my heart tonight that the world is waiting for the ver- dict of the nation to which it looked for leadership and which it thought would be the last that would ask the world to wait.
 eThe world is not at peace. I sup pose that it is difficult for one who has not had some touch of the hot passion of the other side of the sea to realize how all the passions that have been slumbering for ages have been uncovered and released by the tragedy of this war.
 And now all of this is released and uncovered, and men glare at one an- other and say, Now, we are free, and what shall we do without freedom?
 What happened in Russia was not a sudden and accidental thing. The people of Russia were maddened with the suppression of czarism. When at last the chance came to throw off those chains, they threw off, at first with hearts full of confidence and hope, and then they found out that 1 they had been again deceived. There was no assembly chosen to frame a constitution for them, or rather there was an assembly chosen to choose a constitution for them ana 1t was SUD- pressed and dispersed, and a little group of men just as selfish, just as ruthless, just as pitiless, as the ages of the czars himself assumed control and exercised their power by terror and not by right. And in other parts of Europe, the poison spread. The poison of disorder, the poison of re- volt, the poison of chaos. And do you honestly think, my fellow citizens, that none of that poison has got in the veins of this free people? Do you not know that the world is now one single whispering gallery? Those antennae of the wireless telegraph are the sym bols of our age.
 How Revolutions Breed
 "All the impulses of mankind are thrown out upon the air and reach to the ends of the earth and quietly, upon steamships, silently under the 1 cover of the postal service, with the tongue of the wireless and the tongue of the telegraph all the suggestions of disorder are spread through the world. And money coming from nobody knows where is deposited by the mill lions in capitals like Stockholm to be used for the propaganda of disorder and discontent, and dissolution throughout the world and men look you calmly in the face in America and say they are for that sort of revolution when that sort of revolution means government by terror, government by force and not government by vote.
 Tt is the negation of right that is ] American but it is spreading and so long as disorder continues, so long as the world is kept waiting for the an- swer to the question of the kind oi peace we are going to have and what kind of guarantees are there to be be- hind that peace, that poison will steadily spread more and more rapidly spread until it may be that even this beloved land of ours will be distracted and distorted by it.
 That is what is concerning many fellow countrymen. know the splendid steadiness of the American people, but my fellow citizens, the whole world needs that steadiness, and the Ameri- can people are the make e-right in the forts of mankind. How long are we going to debate into which scale we q will throw that magnificent equipoise that belongs to us; how long shall Vt ] be kept waiting for the answer whether the world may trust us or despise us! .l They have looked to us for leadership tThey have looked to us for examples They have built their peace upon the basis of our suggestions. That great volume that contains the treaty oi peace is drawn along the specifications l laid down by the American government Il and now the world stands at a maze because an authority in America hesi- I tates whether 1t will endorse an Amer Il ican document or not
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