The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1919-11-01
PRESIDENT IN HIS opFN,No
SPEECHES OF TOUR VOICES
HIGH HOPES.
"woRLo WAITS FOR US"
future Sure To Be Free From War
" America Carries Out Her
Pledges, Says Chief
Executive.
BY Mount Clemens New. eur.,,

u.
81 Louis. = Displaying a higl
confidence that his fellow-cit
.sens IN the great majority agree viii
I'M In his desire to end war forever
end that they will see to it that tn,
peace treaty with its League of Ma
lions, inclusion is ratified by the Sea
ate, President Wilson is making
succsssful way across the country n,
the long journey he has undertake,
Tor the purpose of laying before tn,
pain people a report of his work il
Paris and explaining to them tus
what the League means.
Thus far in his travels he has ev
erywhere met with warm greetings
beth In the great halls where he has
spoken formally and in the Iitt,e
cross-road hamlets where his train
has halted at times and he has ex
changed words with the villagers who
pressed forward to greet him. H
feels, and does not hesitate to saw &C
when chatting with his travelling com
panions, that the American people
want no more of war and want to be
come part of the League so that there
may be no more war. He struck his
keynote when he said in his first ad
dress, in Columbus, o.:
This treaty was not intended
merely to end this single war. II If
meant as notice to every govern
ment who in the future will attemp:
this thing what Germany attempted,
that mankind will unite to inflict tn,
same punishment. There is no M
tional triumph to be recorded in this
treaty. There is no glory sought 10.
any particular nation. The thought O.
the statesmen collected around tina,
table was Of their people, of the suf
ferings they had gone through. of tn,
losses they had incurred, Of that grea.
throbhing heart. which was SO forloro
80 sad in every memory 1t had of tbs
FIVE tragical years that have gone by
Let US never forget those years. m,
fellow-countrymen; let us never for
get the purpose, high and distinter
ested, with which America lent II:
strength, not for its own glory b,
the defense of mankind.
"As I said, THIS treaty was not in
tended merely to end this war. II
Was intended to prevent any simila,
war. l wonder II some OF the ODD,
nents Of the League of Nations have
forgotten the promises we made our
people before we went to that peac,
table. We had taken by process O,
law the flower of our youth from ev
cry countryside. from every house
hold, and we told those mothers and
fathers and sisters and wives an
that we were takins |
hose meh to fight a war which wouIo |
end business of that sort, and II W.
10 not end II, IL we do not do the |
pest that human concert of action can
DO to end 1t. we are of all men the |
most unfaithful-the most unfaithfu'
10 the loving hearts who suffered Ii
his war, the most unfaithful to those
households bowed in grief and YET
lifted with the feeling that the lac
aid down his life for q great thing
md, among other things, in. order
hat other lads might never have to
10 the same thing.
That Is what the League Of Ma.
ion is for-to end this war Justly
ind then not merely to serve notice
N governments which could contem
late the same things Germany con
emplated that they will do so all
hefr peril. But also concerning the
Of power which will
rove to them that they will do It al
heir peril. 1t is idle to say the
worlds will combine against you; bnt
is persuasive to say the worlds Is
ombined against you. The League
Nations is the only thing that can
reven: the recurrence of this dreai.
III catastrophe and redeem our prom
,es."
A League OF Nations would have
reverted the late conflict, the Prest
emit asserted, explaining:
ri did not meet q single public
ian who did not admit three things:
hat Germany would not have gone
Ito this war II she thought Creal
rftafn was going into It. and that s
,e most certainly would never have J
,ne into 1t had she dreamed America I
as going into 1t. and they all admit I
lat a nation beforehand knowing {
at the greatest powers of the world :
ould combine to prevent this sort VI
ing would prevent It absolutely"