The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1919-09-26
WILSON SPEAKS
To NEvADANS

I
the Vienna peace effort had failed be-
cause all the governments represented
there were in the hands of small
eoterie of autocratse
| AT Versailles, said the President.
the League of Nations eoyanent was
drawn up by great democracies so
that autocracies never again could en-
slave the peoples of the world
One of the purposes of the Vienna
conference, Wilson asserted, was to
form such a union as would hold in
check the growing tide of democracy.
The chief concern of the delegates
who sat at Versailles. he added, was
to accomplish exactly the opposite.
Speaking in a theatre to a crowd
of about 2000. the President frequently
was interrupted by applause BY an
electrical device his wrds were car
ried to three other theatres holding
| 1000 persons each.
| The President was welcomed to
Reno by crowds which cheered him at
the railway station and along the line
of short automobile ride through the
principle streets.
Governor Boyle presided at the
meet and Wilson was introduced by
| Charles Chandler, Republican law
yer
The crowd rose and cheered when
| the President was introduced and
| there was demonstration for Mrs.
Wilson also.
In his reference to the congress of
Vienna the President said that the
effort there made to stifie revolution
and democracy had been unseccussful
in ever nation but Germany.
IL was the invocation of the Monroe
Doctrine. he said. that broke the
backbone of autocraey's effort to
oyerwhelm South America. and added
that at Versailles the cycle of liberty
had been completed by application
of the Monroe Doctrine to the whole
world
Unlike the Vienna congress. said the
President, the conference at Versail-
les was made up of men who knew
they were servants and not the mast
ers of the people. As the peoples
servants. he said. they had carried ont
their promise of a permanent peace.
"This treaty was not written, essen
TALLY speaking, in Paris, he said. 1T
was written at Chateau Thierry, in
Belleau Woods and in the Argonne,
Our men did not fight with the
purpose of coming back and having
the same thing happen again. They
fought with the purpose of seeing the
thing through. and we are going to
see il through
Paying tribute to the frontier
spirit of the West. the President said
/ IL 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
restlessness" prevailing in Europe and
Asia. Wilson asserted that the world
not only desired peace, but must have
/ H.
America only, he said, could guar
antee such peace.
Asking his hearers whether they
/ had not heard of organizations in
/ America ''the purpose OF which Is
nothing less than to overtnrn the gov
ernment itself" he added 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 ben "diligent-
ly misinformed about the contents OF
the document" He lauded the labor
and mandatory features of the treaty
saving il constituted "a great guara-
ntee of justice and liberty
The President also discussed the OBJ
lection that the British Empire would
have an unequal representation in the
league assembly, saying that the rear
xnressed on that score was buga-
boo"
He also explained the Shantung pro-
vision Of the treaty, and said the
League furnished China her best hope
of regaining control of the province
II was at the instance of the United
Estates. said Wilson, that Japan prom
ised to return the Shantung rights to
China and international law was SO
"reyolutionized' by article eleven OF
the covenant that the great powers
/ would be in a position to secure ful-
1fllment of that promise.
Discussing the withdrawal feature
Wilson said he didn't want to get IN
tn the league with a fear he might
not be able TO get ont, wanted to &c
in with the hope of staying in and
helping all he could. the crowo
cheered when he added:
81 want to get into any kind oil
tronbla that will help liberate man
kind. don't want to always be
thinking about my skin or my pocket
hook or my friendships"