The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-09-26
COAST TO COAST
U. S. FOR LEAGUE
MILLIONS ACCLAIM WILSON AS
he SPEEDS ACRosa
THE LAND.
FEW ASK FOR CHANGES
Majority Feel That Presidents Guild
ance Should Be HeId-He Regards
Pact Asssure to Come Soon.

(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau)
Aboard President Wilson's Special
Train-From the Capital at Washing
ton to the Tar Pacific coast the Presi-
dent OF the United States has jour.
neyed on the most unusual expedition
ever undertaken by chief, executive
OF the nation.
To discuss national questions, many
presidents have toured the land; but
MT, Wilson is laying before America
question which affects the whole
world-the question OF whether or not
we are to join in the League of Ma
aions; whether we are to forget our
former isolation and share with the
other peoples of the earth the respon-
sibilities OF maintaining civilization
and preventing, as he says we can do,
future warfare.
Between the capital and the coast
the president made fifteen speeches
and half dozen brief talks. All OF
zoe. 900 fellow citizens listened to him.
Several millions had the chance to see
hln, and apparently everyone wanted
to see him, from those who thronged
the streets Of the cities and towns
where he stopped, to those WIN came
to the railside or stood at little flag
stations I'M remote places, knowing
their only reward could be a feeti4g,
glimpse and q wave Of the hand
He has met and talked to all types,
of citizens-sto men big in the bust.
ness, financial and professional worlds.
to farmers and mechanical workers,
to Indians and cowboys and foreign
born herders and rangers, to soldiers
and to mothers who lost soldier-sons
In the late wer
What do they all tell him2 unani-
mously they say they want peace
definitely settled, they want no more
wars, they went the League OF Ma
tions, and most of the American peo-
pie, 1t may be fairly said, tell the
President they want the League just
as 1t rs, without the reservations or
amendments which certain senators
have insisted upon. The majority Of
citizens say to those who interview
them on this tour;
woodrow Wilson guided US rightly
before and during the war with Ger
many. We entered that war, every
one agrees, to end all wars. He says
the league can do that, We want to
do that. so let us keep on trusting him
and get the league into operation as
soon as possible. Forget politics"
Most Americans encountered on the
tour have forgotten politics. Repub-
ltcan Governors and Mayors have in
troduced the President to his audi
ence; the Major part of the local COM
mittees which have met him have
been Republicans. They have all said:
I'VE are Hothing but Anerie%ne, M
President"
Mr., WIIson's erGumsnts Tor ths
league, bS4say summarized, are those:
There can be no peace, either now
or in the future, without 1t. There
can only be q Hegrouping OF nations
and q new Balance OF Power" which
ia certain 10 lead to war There can
be no war in the future, With ne
league In existence, because no single
nation would defy the united rest Of
mankind, and If It did. II ccWd be
brought to terms by an economic
. boycott. end without the use OF sfHpss
There can be no reduction " Ens
cost OF living until the league y o.
tablished, for nations VIII not 80
ahead with peace time production IN
til they know that peace y dsnpalsfg
assured and that prodgnsion q "a
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