Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-20
PRESIDENT WILSON
TALKS TO PEOPLE
Crowds Greet President as He
Makes His Way on West
ward Trip.

private car Wednesday at Mandan, N.
D., President Wilson declared a week
Of travel in the heart of the country
had convinced him that the nation
stands together for an international
guarantee of peace.
81 am glad to get out to see the real
folks" he said; ito feel the touch Of
their hands and know, as have come
to know, how the nation stands to-
gether in the common purpose to COM
plete what the boys did who carried
their guns with them over the sea.
1--WE may think that they finished
the job, but they will tell you they
did not; that unless we see to it that
peace is made secure they will have
the job to do all over again, and we
in the meantime will rest under a
constant apprehension that we may
have to sacrifice the flower of our
youth again.
1.-THE whole country has made up its
mind that that shall not happen"
Ten points in the peace treaty were
defined by President Wilson as the
fundamental principles on which he is
asking its acceptance by the United
States.
The ten points in which he epitO-
mics the treaty provision are as fol-
lows:
/. The destruction of autocratic
power as an instrument of interna-
tional control, admitting only self
governing nations to the league.
2. The substitution of publicity, dis
cussiOn and arbitration for war, using
the boycott rather than arms.
3. Placing the peace of the world
under constant international oversight
in recognition of the principle that the
peace of the world is the legitimate
Immediate interest of every state.
4. Disarmament
pies.
6. The discontinuance of annexa-
ton and the substitution of trustee
ship with responsibility to the opinion
Of mankind
Z. The invalidation of all secret
treaties.
8. The protection of dependent
peoples.
9. High standards flabor under
international sanction.
10. The international coordination
of humane reforms and regulation.
st. Paul, MISUNDERSTANDING of
the cost of living, President Wilson
declared Tuesday, must await the re-
establishment of a complete peace
basis which will put labor and capital
on their feet.
In two addresses the president as
serted that the connection between
acceptance of the peace treaty and
amelioration of living conditions was
a direct one, and that the world was
looking to America to take the lead
in restoring the world to a sound
economic basis.
Mr.. Wilson spoke in the morning at
a special session of the Minnesota
legislature and in the evening at a
public meeting at the st. Paul audi
forum. During the afternoon he also
addressed a meeting in Minneapolis.
'Des Moines, Ia.-After a days rest
in Des Moines Sunday, President Will
son went into the Northwest this week
for a week of speechmal1ing there in
the interest of the peace treaty.
His schedule for the six days viii
take him through every state that Dor
ders Canada west of the lakes and will
end at the Pacific Coast, where on
Saturday he will review the Pacific
fleet
The president and Mrs. Wilson rest.
ed most of the day in their suite at a
Des Moines hotel, where they had
spent their first night off their spe.
cial train since leaving Washington
Wednesday. In the morning they at
tended services, however, at Central
Presbyterian Church, and i'll the after.
noon went for an automobile ride
which took them cut through the coun
try about the Iowa capital.
DR.. Grayson, the presidents physi
clan. said Mr.. Wilson had been much
refreshed by his Sunday stop and was
in good trim for the strenuous week
before him. He said he would urge
however, that the president make few
rear platform speeches along the way
saving his voice for the eleven SEIZED
uled addresses that are 20 be made
before next Sunday.
In making his address in Dos Moinet
Saturday the president spoke in tbs
Des Moines Coliseum, said to sea-
1900. Every chair was taken and
many were standing. Earlier In th'
day he had spoken at Kansas City
NO. moro than three hundred milei
away.
An escort of airplanes dropped flow
ers OF. the presidents special train a
It approached the city, and he wa
cheered during an automobile rid
that hacked the downtown streets "a