Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-09-12
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treaty with Germany and the
league Covenant and, with great
rsrnestness, eloquence and power,
ursing the speedy ratification of the
treaty including the peace coven-
ant. If we must Judge by the enor-
nous crowds which pack the great
halls wherever he appears and the
wonderful demonstrations of well
come he receives wherever he stops
we must conclude that the people
are in sympathy with him and the
.ycat cause for which he pleads.
We present here few excerpts
from some Of these addresses:
AT COLUMBUS, OHIO.
"lt is with very profound pleas
urc that | find myself face to face
with you. have for long time
cliafed at The confinement of Wash
ington. have for a long time
wished to fulfill the purpose with
which my heart was full when I re-
turned to our beloved country,
namely, to so out and report TO my
fellow cOuntrymcn concerning
those affairs of the world which
HOW need TO be settled.
''Thc only people OUe any re-
port 10 are yOu and the other cifi-
-cas Of The United States, and ii
hHS became increasingly ncceS-
Syry. apparently, that 1 Shouid
report TO you. After all the vari-
Gus angles at which you have heard
ihc treaty held up perhaps you
would like to know what is in the
treaty. find it very difficult in
reading some Of the speeches that
! have lead to form any conception
Of that great document.
I'll is a document unique in the
history Of the world for many rca-
sons and think | cannot do you
better service than by pointing
out to you just what this treaty
contains and what it seeks to do"
Speaking to capacity audience
the President said it was not his
purpose during the trip to ode
bate the treaty, but to eXpound it
10 the people. He declared there
was concert of feeling among the
allied representatives at Versailles.
liefcrring to the American delega-
lion. he said:
I'VE were under instructions
and we did not dare come home
without fulfilling those instruc-
lions.' If couldn't have brought
back the kind Of a treaty l did
bring back, never would have
come back" President Wilson ap-
pealcd TO his hearers if they would
not read the treaty themselves to
at least accept the account of its
contents as given by those who
made it.
i wonder if some of the oppon-
ehtS of the league of nations have
forgotten the promises we made Our
people before we went TO that peace
@3!c? We had taken by processes
H' law, the flower of our youth
rom every countryside, from every
household and we told these moth
U> and fathers and sisters and
",'cS and Swcelhcarts that we were
"AinS these men TO fight wal
"h.ch would end business of that
Mrt and if we do not end it, if we
10 not do The best that human con
vert OF action can do to end il, we
arc OF all men, the mosl unfaithful
-'hr most unfaithful to the loving
"'"r's WHO suffered i'm this war; the
most unfalhful to those households
9oWed in grief; yet lifted with the
i5y;t''in8 that the lad laid down his
i! m,r ior great thing, among other
".hSS in order that other lads
thing.
:. mat is what the league of ma
lo'iH IS for, to end this war Justly
"." IL is not merely to serve notice
y" governments which would con
CC'np'atc the same things which
w';, w~E';I,'''nny contemplated, that they
cn. "nn 90 it at their peril, but also
tnoon.c'rtlng the combination OF
u'Lv"cr 'L' which will prove TO them
""t .tr, r,,hcy will do it at their peril.
IL; me league Of nations is the only
rnm8 u8 mat can prevent the recur-
nI'c OF this dreadful catastrophe
ha h" redeem our promises. And
",r ,o character of the league is based
,r ro" inc experience Of this very
m,,, oo not meet a single public
n,, VINO did not admit these things
ir,, Germany would not have gone
Gr,, ",iS war if she had thought
,b1I' hr'iain was going into it and
l.,'., ''c most certainly would never
In r I,n l., ri
aaI I''ur" n," America was going into it,
r,,. nGE have all admitted that q
I,,..,, ~ beforehand that the greatest
bin. OF the world would com
' % prevent this sort Of thing