The Arvada enterprise., 1919-07-17
WILSON TALKS
TO U. 5. SENATE
DAYo WoRLD's hRART WOULD
81 BROKEN " LEAGUE
10 AUJ0cTEp.
U. S. TURNED the war
PAYS GLOWING TRIBUTE TO
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
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Washington, July 11.-President VII
son, In presenting the peace treaty
with Germany to the Senate, declared
that "a league Of free nations had be-
come a practical necessity" to which
the trainers of the treaty felt Obliged
to turn ''as IN Indispensable instru-
mentality for the maintenance Of the
new order 1t has been their purpose to
set up In the world"
The President declared that:
The treaty would be scrap of paper
without the League Of Nations.
The people demand the league and
Will brook no denial.
Americas material aid to Europe
will be Indispensable In days to come.
II the league should be rejected, the
worlds heart would be broken.
America IL the friend OF all nations.
America has just reached her ma
jority as world power.
Americas isolation ended twenty
years ago.
Moral Leadership Of the world is Of
fered America the question Is whether
we accept or reject 1t.
America shall In truth show the way
TO the world.
The treaty squares with the four
teen points as well as with the prac-
tical needs Of the situation.
1t is not exactly the sort of treaty
the United States would have written.
I'VE have sought no special repara-
tion for ourselves, but only the resto-
ration Of right and the assurance OF
liberty everywhere"
Americas fighting made victory
certain.
The President began his speech by
outlining how American troops, tO
whom he paid warm tribute as "men
terrible In battle, but gentle and help.
full out Of it," turned the tide Of the
war.
Coming to the making OF peace, Wi.
son reviewed In every detail the many
complex questions presented and the
difficulties growing out of dispOsl-
tiOn In some quarters to cling to the
old order.
"Old entanglements," he said, STOOD
In the way OF peace. 1t was not easy,
he added, ito graft the new order of
ideas on the old, aud some OF the fruits
OF the grating may, fear, for time
be bitter"
But on the whole, the President de-
clared, Europe welcomed American
participation In the pence-making NJ
eagerly ns II welcomed our armies and
accomplished American principles OF
peace.
He asserted emphatIcally that the
treaty IL thoroughly consistent with
the principles he laid down In the four.
teen points, aud ut the same time
meets the practical needs OF the sit
u9tiOn.
I'VE were welcomed NJ dislntereHtsd
friends" said the President. ut wal
recognized that our material. aid would
be indispensable In the days to come
when industry and credit must bt
brought back to their normal opera
tiOn, and 1t was taken for grant
ed, I am proud to say, that we would
play the helpful friend"
| In view OF all this, the President
said, the question IL put squarely W
to the United States whether II will
try to resume its old policy Of iSOla
tiOn or will continue. through thu
League Of Nations the task Of main
taining the new order vet up In the
world, the world. Of civilissd men,"
The United States, the President
said, has reached Its majority IN !
world power.
He limited, II was believed, ut nc
ceptance Of mandatory by the Unite,
States when he said that weak peO
pies everywhere stand ready to give
us any authority among them that vii
assure them friendly oversight ant
direction
The President announced that b,
later will present tho treaty Of de
fense, under which American aid !,
pledged to France against unpr0vOket
German sggrsssion.
The "iVost Skeptical' Of the peace
c0nferees a. Paris, the President said
hHd turned more and more to tii'
league Ms discussion progressed III
seeking solution of the problems thai
arose In framing the terms Of the
treaty Itself. The fact that tho cove
nant Of the league WAS the first sub
stantial part Of the treaty to bs
worked out and agreed upOn." IN,
President said. "while all slss WAN IL
solution. helped to make the fOrmu
latiOn OF the rest easier"
| MIR. Wilson said the ngreeinsnt OF
the covenant had given the cOnfsreeI
u feeling that their work was 10 bs
permanent and that the most practica
among them were at last the mos
ready to refer TO the League Of M
lions the superintendent Of all inter
ssts which did not admit Of immsdiMt,
determination. OF all administrative
problems which were to require u con
tinuing oversight"
"What had seemed counsel Of per
fectiOn,' snId the President. had com,