Arizona republican., 1919-09-05
AT INDIANAPOLIS
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 INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Sept. 4.-The text of President Wilson's speech fol- lows:
 My fellow citizens: So great company as this tempts me to make (, speech daughter and applause). and yet I want to say to you in all seri- ousness and soberness, that I have not come here to make a speech in the or dinary sense of the term.
 Were Public Servants
 T have come upon very sober er- rand indeed; I have come to report to you upon the work which the repre- sentatives of the United States at tempted to do at the conference of peace, on the other side of the sea, be- cause I realize my fellow citizens, that my colleagues and I, in the task We attempted over there, were your servants. We went there with a dis tinct errand which it was our duty to perform in the spirit which you have displayed in the prosecution of the war and in conceiving the purposes and objects of that war.
 T was in the city of Columbus this afternoon. where I was endeavoring to explain to body of our fellow citizens there just what it was that the treaty of peace contained, for. 1 must frankly admit. that in most of the speeches that I have heard in debate upon the treaty of peace, it would be impossi- ble to form a definite conception of what that instrument means.
 Recalls War Causes
 T want to recall to you for the pur- poses of this evening, the circum stances of the var and the purposes for which our men spent their lives on the other side of the sea.
 'You will remember that a prince of the house of Austria was slain in one of the cities of Serbia Serbia was one of the small kingdoms of Europe She had no strength which any of the great powers needed to fear. As we see the war now. Germaiy and those who conspired with her made a pretext of that accusation in order to make un- considerable demands upon the weak and helpless kingdom of Serbia, not with view of bringing about an &C., quiescence in those demands. but with a view to bringing about conflict in which their purposes, quite separate from the purposes connected with these demands, could be achieved.
 Just as soon as these demands were made, other nations of Europe sent telegraphic messages to their represen- tatives at Vienna, and Berlin urging them to ask the government of Vienna and Berlin to enter into discussion of these matters.
 T was recalling, my fellow citizens the circumstances which began the ter rible conflict that has just been con l cluded.
 ! So soon as the unconscionabIe de- mands of Austria were made on Serbia, the other governments of Europe sent | telegraphic messages to Berlin and l vienna asking that the matter be brought into a conference. And the | significant circumstances of the begin ! ming of this war is that the Austrian and German governments did not dare 1 to discuss the demands on Serbia or | the purpose which they had in view. 1 Tt is universally admitted on the other side of the water that if they had gone into international conference on the Austrian demands, the war never would have been begun. There was an insistent demand from London. for example by the British foreign minister | that the cabinets of Europe should be 1 given time to confer with the govern ments at Vienna and Berlin. The gov ernments at Vienna and Berlin did not dare to admit time for discussion
 am recalling these circumstances my fellow citizens, because I want tc point out to you what apparently has escaped the attention of some Of the critics of the league of nations that l the heart of the league of nations does not lie in any of the portions which have been discussed in public debate The great bulk of the provisions of thaa covenant contained these engagement, and promises on the part of the state. Which undertook to become members Of 1t: That in no circumstances wil they go to war without first havine either submitted the question to ar. oltrarion in which case they agree to abide by the result, or havine sub. m1tted the question to discussion by the council of the league of nations in which case they will allow si, months for the discussion and engage nor 10 go to war until three months aIter the council has announced its oplnion upon the subject in dispute.
 so that the heart of the covena nj of the league is that the nations sol emnly covenant not to 20 to war foi nine months after controversy he' comes acute
 If there had been nine days of dis cIssion, Germany would not have oon, te war. If there had been nine dav, within which to bring to bear th, opinion of the world, the judgment O mankind upon the purposes of thes, governments, they never would hay, dared to execute these purposes.
 Would Shatter Ideals
 So that what it is important for ii to remember is that when we sen those boys in khaki across the sea. W, promised them, we promised the worl, that we would not conclude this con fliet with mere treaty of peace. w entered into solemn engagements witt all the nations whom we associate. ourselves that we would bring abou such kind of settlements, and such i corsort of the purpose of nations tha wars like this could not again occur
 If this war has to be fought ove again then all our high ideals and pur poses have been disappointed, for w 4 dio not go into this war merely to bea ,I Germany. We went into this war t, E beat all purposes such as Germany en tertained.
 We are presently, my fellow citi zens, to have the very great pIeasur