Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-09-26
WILSON ADDRESSES
NEvADANS At RENO
PRESENTS ARGUMENTS FOR THE
ADOPTION OF THE WORLD
COVENANT OF NATIONS.
Declares That at Versailles the Cycle
OF Liberty Had Been Completed
by Application Of Monroe Doc
trine to the Whole World.

Keno, Nevada. - Contrasting the
peace conference at Versailles with the
congress of Vienna, President Wilson
declared, ON September %, that the
Vienna peace effort had failed because
all the governments represented there
were In the hands of "a small ooterie
of au.Ocrats."
AT Versailles, said the president, the
league of nations covenant was drawn
up by great dem0cEaeies 40 that au-
tocracies never again could enslave
the peoples OF the world.
One of the purposes of the Vienna
conference, Mr.. Wilson asserted. was
to form such IA union as would hold in
check the growing tide Of democracy.
The chief concern of the delegates
whG sat at Versailles, he added, was
to accomplish exactly the opposite.
Speaking in theatre here to a
crowd of about 1000, the president
frequently was interrupted by APP
plause. BY an electrical device his
words were carried to three other
theatres holding 1000 persons each.
In his reference to the congress of
Vienna, the president said that the eff
fort there made to stifle revolution
and democracy had been unsuccessful
in every nation but Germany.
1t was the invocation of the Mon
roe doctrine, he said, that broke the
backbone of autOcracy's effort to over
whelm South America, and added that
ot %
been completed by application of the
Monroe doctrine to the whole world.
Servants of the People.
Unlike the Vienna congress, cOntin-
ued the president, the conference at
Versailles was made up of men who
knew they were the servants and not
the masters of the people. AS the peo-
pies servants, he said. they had car
ried out their promise of n permanent
peace
"This treaty was not written, essen
TALLY speaking, in Paris" he said. at
was written at Chateau Thierry, in
Belleau Wood and in the ArgOnne
Our men did not fight with the
the same thing happen again. They
fought with the purpose of seeing the
thing through and we are going to see
it through"
Tribute to Frontier Spirit.
Pay ng a tribute to the frontier
spirit of the west, the president said
1t was at the frontier that was found
the forward-looking people. Too many
who oppose the treaty. he asserted,
were looking over their shoulders.
Referring to the "insubordinate rest
lessness'' prevailing in Europe and
Asia, Mr.. Wilson asserted that the
world not only desired peace, but must
have it. America only could guarac-
tee such peace. Asking his hearers
whether they had not heard Of organ
izations in America "the purpose of
which is nothing less than to over
throw the government ITSELF" he ad-
ded that it was important to America
also that unrest be quieted.
Repeating his previous declarations
in support of article X and other dis
puted points of the treaty, the presi-
dent said the people had been dill
gently misinformed about the contents
of the document.
He Landed the labor and mandatory
features of the treaty, saying 1t con-
stituted "a great guarantee of justice
and liberty"
The president also discussed the OBJ
jectien tlTat the British empire would
have an unequal representation in the
league assembly, saying that the fear
expressed on that score was 'buga-
boo" He also explained the Shan
tung provision of the treaty, and said
the league furnished China her best
hope of regaining control of the pro-
vince.
Discussing the withdrawal feature,
Mr. Wilson said he didn't want to get
into the league with a fear he might
not be able to get out, but wanted to
go in with the hope of staying In and
helping all he could.