The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-07-04

made these statements:
I'VE are signing without mental
reservation. What We are signing will
be carried out. The German people
win use every means to meet the
terms.
1--WE believe the Entente will In
its own interest find IL necessary 10
change some of the terms, or they
will see the treaty is impossible Of
execution.
1--WE believe the Entente will not
insist on delivery Of the Kaiser and
otner high officers.
"The Central Government will not
assist in any attack on Poland.
Germany will make every effort
to prove herself worthy to enter the
League of Nations
That sounds good enough like real
surrender of will power, but people
who have noted German treachery,
will understand the value Of such ex-
pressions.
With all that the allied powers
can hold the Hun to his agreement
by constant vigilance and fair treat
ment and only that.
The terms have been made easier
for Germany through constant insist
ance of President Wilson, who pur-
posed from the start 10 establish
lust honorable and fair conditions
and to bring to all nations a just
and righteous system of fying. HIS
ideal has always been Il settlement
of social, political and economical
conditions in the world as will com
mort with the teachings of the man OF
Galilee.
After the treaty had been signed
President Wilson cabled to Washing
ton the following message to the
American people.
MY fellow countrymen: The treaty
of peace has been signed. II II is ratl-
fled ad acted upon in full and SIN
cere execution of its terms, 1t VIII
furnish the charter for new order
of affairs in the world. II is severe
treaty in the duties and penalties
imposed upon Germany, but it is Sc
we're only because great wrongs done
bv Germany are to be righted and re-
paired; il imposes nothing that Ger
many cannot do; and she can regain
her rightful standing in the world by
nromnt and honorable fulfillment OF
its terms.
And II is much more than a treaty
of peace with Germany. 1t liberates
great peoples who have never before
been able to find the way to hpery'
II ends. once for all, an old ana IN
tolerable order under which small
groups of selfish men could use the
peoples Of great empires to servo
their ambition for power ana 40
minion. II associates the free govern
ments of the world in a permanent :
league in which they are pledged TO |
use their united power to maintain
peace by maintaining santion' II
dcoes away with the right of conquest
and rejects the policy of annexation
and substitutes new order uhdei
which backward nations-populatlohs
which have not yet come to pollu-
cal consciousness and peoples who are
ready for independence, but not yet
1uite prepared to dispense with pro-
lection and guidance-shall no more
De subjected to the domination ana
,xploitation OF 4 stronger nation, but
,hall he nat under the friendly di-
-ection and afforded the helpful as
,istance OF governments which under
axe 10 be responsible TO the opinion
" mankind in the execution OF their
ask by accepting the direction OF the
eague of nations. II recognizes the
rights of nationality the
lights OF minorities and the sanctty
I religious belief and practice. II lays :
he base for conventions which shall y
rec the commercial intercoures oil
he world from unjust and veXatious
and for every sort OF IN
erna;ional cooperation that VIII
erye to cleanse the life OF the woria
md facilitate its cohmon action IN ,
,eneficent service of every kind IL
FINISHES guarantees such as were
,eyer given or even contemplated for
he fair treatment of all who labor ,
I the daily tasks of the world :
1t is for this reason that have I
poken of II as great charter for
new order OF affairs. There is
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