The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-05

"Nou have heard rro7t deal
 Indianapolis. Iuda scpt 5--Tho text uf President WHe0.'r speech follows:
 '-Ty Fellow U...H.rss Sp great @ company as .nt- laru.s wo So make a gNCrcn and N.. ' T,H-t rr s1v Co sou lu .U -..Hu-r.sa and =oAar0S ss Chat rnv. mot como hero Co make g speech. .u tus ordinary s.ueH of tEaJ term.
 "I Nuve como upon a very sober Vru1rt. Indeed, ' have com. Go report g. gu4 upon lhn work which .Na rcp- g.a.u.at.vra of -ro United States at- tempted Co do at tNa conference of peace. u0 fro other side .r tho sea. because 7 ryaH-. my follow siarors th1t uEy ,1.Iaaem.- rrt ]. .u Inc task vyo attempted u..r racrn wa.e Enu- servants We wont there with a dis tiuet grr1rt which ft WIS our fug- 60 Io~sr.u 2. -.. spirit which Eou have displayed .n tUn uro4.culou u- the war auf iu Cuuca.Efng tua purp1s1 and objects ur that war.
 "r v1s Ig ruu city os Columbus 1a.s af.aEa..E. where I was eule1v- ,riaE to oNn.aiu Go a body cs our ccl- l.w ,I..r.ns tn.ra. Just vla, it was Tnar tho treaty nf peace contained. t.r ] must frankly admit that in most s- j1n speeches tHat 7 have heard In Eeuatg upon tne treaty ut peace. it would be Impossible tu form a dcf- site conception OF what th.- lus.ru- guour means
 "I want 70 recall to you for the J sruose oc thls evening, the circum- s.arces of tho war and tle pur- "#e for which our men spent their lives on tEe other side of the sea.
 "Nol will remembar that a prince ,r the House of Austria was slain in 'aa uL tlc cities ot Serbia Serbia was ono of the small Kingdoms of l.urope,
 she had no strength which any Of the great powers needed to fear. As we see the war now. Germany and those who conspired with her made a preteNt of the assa assin atiOn -1 order to make unconsciouabIe de- l.auds for tho weak and helpless Kingdom of Serbil. not with a view ,t bringing about an acquiescence in those demands. but with a view to bringing about a conflict in which t-atr purposes quite separate from ala purposes connected with these de- hands could be achieved.
 ''Just rs soon as these demands 1.rrr wa1o. other nations of Europe s.l- lpfegra 9AiC Lsassugus to their 1eprestailrIyes at Vienna and Der 1l urging them to ask the govern -Hcuts of Vienna and Berlin 10 en- r.s into discussion of these matters N1G tNe significant circumstance of gMr beginning of this war is that the Austrian and German governments cid not dare to discuss the demands .Du Serbia or the purpose which they I.E iu view.
 "fl is universally admitted on the ....ar side of the water that if they ... some Into international confer t..r 0u the Austrian demands, the -r never would have been begun .arr was an insistent demand from . .H5ua for example. by the British E .-..a-n rluisler that the cabinets of ".arupo should be gwen time to con E- with inc governments at Vienna and Berlin The governments at vienna and Berlin did not dare to admit sine for discussion
 "I am recalling these Crrcrrvu.- .staaces. my fellow citizens. because y want to point out tO you what apparently has escaped the attention of some of the critics of the League ..E Nations that the heart of the I.aaEue of Nations does not lie s1 any Of the portions which have l-.u discussed il public debare- The great bulk or tla provisions of that .,u~rrauL contained these engage 4aru-e and promises on The part o' 1la states which undertook fo be- come rncrrhers of it, that -u no cir. .,-r-us.rucre will they go % war with .our first having either submitted the question co ar1i.~attou-iu which cast -l.- agree -a abide by the result, or .I.-.-- sanl-fete6 the question Co dis .ru@lor 1g the council of the League CT Nations ia which case they will aL How siE months for inc d,scuss.or and engage not Co go to war unu thrCc months after the council ha. saruouuc-E its opinion upon the sub fleet under aispute.
 asso that the heart of the covenau .or the League & that she nations sol .oranIy covenant not to go Co war fot yTine months after a controversy be comes acute,
 s'If there had been nine days o discussion Germany would not hay, .sone to war. IT there had been min, Eqvs within which to bring to bea -rs opinion of tho world. "le judg .suenG of mankind upon tHe purpose of these governments they neve would have dared to execute thos ypurposos.
 eco that what it is important fo ms to remember is that when we sen those boys in khaki across the sea we promised them. we promised in world that we would not coneiud 4his conflict with a mere treaty O peace. We entered into solemn en .Eagemeuts with all the nations witt whom we associated ourselves. tha svo would bring about such kind O eettlemeut and such a cons0Ft of tn purpose of asions that wars like thi -couId not again occur.
 "If this war has to ba fought ove again then all our high ideals an, purpose have been disappointed. fo we did not go into this waF merely t beat Germany. We went into thi war to beat aii purposes such as Ger many entertained.
 ''We are presently, my fellow eoun tryrncu Co have e very great pisasur Ce welcoming on this side of tn sea the queen and king of tn