Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-06-20
WILSON TELLS
OF Good FROM
WORLD WAR
Discuss League of Nations Be-
fore Belgian Chamber of
Deputies.
AGAIN DENOUNCES
GERMAN OUTRAGES
After Viewing Damage Inflicted by
Huns on Charleroi and Other
Places, Express Hope that
Bad Days are Gone.

BRUSSELS, June 19-President Will
! son today visited the mines at Charlie
rol, being accom- panied by King Albert
and others. Mrs. Wilson was too
fatigued to accompany the party
The president returned this after
noon, and was the guest at luncheon
OF Minister Brand Whitlock at the
American legion. President Wilson
addressed the chamber of deputies
saying in part:
Arraigns The Germans.
The enemy committed many out
RACES IN this war, gentlemen, but the
initial outrage was the fundamental
outrage of all. They, with that in
solent indifference, violated the sac
redness of treaties. They showed that
they did not care for the honor of
any pledge. They showed that thew
did not care for the independence of
any nation, whether it had raised it's
hand against them or not. There
fore, it was the violation of Belgium
that awakened the world to the reali-
zatlon OF the character of the strug-
gle.
'Not only has Belgium, so to say.
once more to come in her own through
this deep valley of suffering through
which she has gone, but her cause
has linked the governments of the
civilized world together They have
realized their common DUTY. Thew
have drawn together as if instinc-
lively into league of right They
have unit the whole power of organized
manhood behind this conception of
justice which is common to mankind.
Significance of League.
"That is the significance gentle
men, Of the League of Nations. The
League of Nations was an inevitable
consequence of this war. 1t was a
league of rights and no thoughtful
statesman who let his thought run in
to the future could wish for a moment
to slackcn those bonds.
'The League of Nations is the child
of this great war, for it is the ex
preston Of those permanent resolu-
tions which grew out of the tempor-
airy necessities of this great struggle,
and any nation which declines to adj
here to this covenant deliberately
turns away from the most telling
appeal that has ever been made to it's
conscience and to it's manhood.
"The nation that wishes to use the
League of Nations for it's convenience
and not for the service of the rest
of the world deliberately chooses to
turn back to those bad days of sell
fish contest, when every nation
thought first and always of itself.
and not of it's neighbors: thought of
it's rights and forgot it's duties.
thought of its power and overlooked
its responsibility.
'Those bad days, I hope, are gone
and The great moral power backed,
if need be, by the great physical power
of the civilized nations of the world.
will now stand firm for the main
tenance of the fine partnership which
we have thus inaugurated.
Huns Awaken ChtncellOries.
ut cannot be otherwise. Perhaps
the conscience of some chancellories
was asleep and the outrage of Ger
many awakened it. You cannot see
one great nation violate every prin-
ciple of right without BEGINNING to
know what the principles of right are
and to love them, to despise those
who violate them and to form the
firm resolve that such a violation
shall now be punished and in the
future be prevented.
"These are feeling with which l
have come to Belgium, and it has
been my thought to propose to the
congress of the United States, as a
recognition and as welcome of
Belgium into her new status of COM
plete independence, to raise the mis-
sion of the United States of America
to Relgiuhm to the rank of embassy
and send it an ambassador.
"This is the rank which Belgium
joins in our esteem: why should she
not enjoy it in form and in fact?"
Great Demand for Speech.
Stepping out of the palace this
morning the president found several
thousand persons assembled there
who clamored for a speech. He re-
sponded with his first public talk,
which was confined to few words.
"My friends" said the president,
I'm coming here personally I have
merely followed my own heart and
the heart Of the American people to-
wards Belgium
First hand evidence of German van
dalism was given the president at
Charleroi. He was taken to. the mines
at Marchienne, near Charleroi, where
circumstancial evidence was supplied
by records showing that machinery
had been removed wholesale.