The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1919-09-19
PRESIDENT IN HIS OPENING
SPEECHES OF TOUR VOICES
HIGH HOPES.
"woRLD WAITS FOR us"
Future Sure To BE Free From War
~ America Carries Out Her
Pledges, Says CHIEF
Executive.
BY Mount Clemens News Bureau,

| OonAoeAcc tnat MS Tellew-citi.
zens in the great majority agree with
nim In his desire to end war forever
and that they will see to 1t that the
peace treaty with it's League of Ma.
sions, inclusion is ratified by the Sen.
ate, President Wilson is making q
successful way across the country on
| the long journey he has undertaKea
for the purpose OF laying before the
plain people report of his work In
Paris and explaining to them just
what the League means.
Thus far in his travels he has ev.
erywhere met with warm greetings.
both in the great halls where he has
spoken formally and in the little
cross-road hannlets where his train
has halted at times and he has ex-
changed words with the villagers who
pressed forward to greet him. He
feels, and does not hesitate to say so
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 IN,
meant as a notice to every govern.
ment who in the future will attempt
this thing (what Germany attempted)
that mankind will unite to infiict the
same punishment There Is no na.
tional triumph to be recorded In this
treaty. There is no glory sought for
any particular nation. The thought of
the statesmen collected around tnat
table was Of their people, Of the suf-
ferisgs they had gone through, of the
losses they had incurred. of that great
throbbing heart, which was SO forlorn.
20 sad in every memory it had OF the
FIVE tragical years that have gone by.
Let us never forget those years, any
fellow-countrymen; let us never for
get the purpose, high and .distinter
ested. with which America Tent fts
strength, not for its own glory BY
the defense OF mankind.
AS I said, tafs treaty was not in
tended merely TO end this war. 1t
" as intended to prevent any similar,
war. II wonder II some of the opp
nents OF the League of Nations have
forgotten the promises we made our
people before we went to that peace
table. We had taken by process OF
law the flower OF our youth from ey
cry countryside, from every house
hold. and We told those mothers and
fathers and sisters and wives ani
eweethearts that we were taking
those men to fight a war which would
end business OF t,r1t sort, and II ws
do not end It, II we do not do the
best that human concert of action can
do to end 1t, we are Of all men the
most unfaithful-th most unfaithful
10 tho loving hearts who suffered In
shis war, the most unfaithful to those
households bowed in grief and yet
lifted with the feeling that the Lad
laid down his life for great thing
and, among other things, IN order
that other lads might never have to
do the same thing.
THAT is what the League Of Ma.
ton is for-to end this war Justly
and then not merely to serve noticc
on governments which could contem
plate the same things Germany con.
tsmplated that they will do so al
their peril But also concern;0g the
combination Of power which viii
prove to them that they will do II ut
their peril. 1t is idle to say tho
worlds VIII combine against you; b,n
II is persuasive to say the wWld's Is
combined against you. The League
Of Nations is the only thing that can
prsven. the recurrence of this dreai
ful catastrophe and redeem our prosa
ises.~
A League Of Nations would have
prevented the late conflict, the PresL
dent asserted, explaining:
Il did not meet a single public
man who did not admit three things:
That Germany would not have gone
into this war If she thought Great
Britain was going into it. and that
rhe most certainly would never hare
gone into it had she dreamed America
was going into It, and they all admit
that h nation beforehand knowing
that TIE greatest powers of the world
would combine TO prevent this sort ssf
thing would prevent it absolutely
Applause ana cheers greeted eacn
declaration Of the President that wars
r1ignt be avoided in future w the ope-
ratIons Of the League.
He pointed out oiher fmporeant
features OF the peace treaty how i.
was the redemption 81 weak nations.
giving them freedom which otherwise
they never could have Won. How IL
Rays These people have right 10
i've their own lives under govern.
ments which they themselves eboose'
ana how That ii tae American pfSa-
kipae and / vas glad 4fsht for 4. :
7nak waa tie very ak'ssrt % the trea1y,