The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-07-18
Makes Assertion That League OF
Free Nations Has Become
practical Necessity"
MEANS RELIEF FROM WAR
Chief Executive Refers to II as an
indispensable lnstrumentality fer
the Maintenance OF the New
Order Set Up In World"

was called into session at L. O'Clock
and prayer offered by the chaplain,
Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, who asked
divine guidance for the senate and the
chief executive In the work II was
about 10 undertake.
President Wilson spoke from small
rostrum erected by the desk of the
reading clerk of the senate.
His address was as follows
Gentlemen Of the Senate
The treaty of peace with Germany
was signed nj Versailles on the 2Sth
D. June. | avail myself of the earliest
opportunity TO lay the treaty before
you for ratification and TO inform you
with regard TO the work Of the confer
ence by which that treaty was formu-
lated.
The treaty constitutes nothing less
than a world settlement. II would not
be possible for me even to summarize
or to construe its manifold provisions
In an address which must Of necessity
be something less than treatise. My
tervices and all the information | pos
tess will be ut your disposal and at
the disposal of your committee on
foreign relations AT any time, either
informally or In session, rs you may
prefer; and | hope that you will not
hesitate TO make use OF them.
] shall al this time. prior TO your
own study Of the document. attempt
only general characterization Of its
scope and purpose.
Problems Of Conference.
In one sense, no doubt there is no
need that | should report TO you what
was attempted and done at Paris. You
have been daily cogniZant of what was
going on thereof the problems with
which the peace conference had to deal
and of the difficulty of laying down
straight lines of settlement anywhere
on field on which the old lines of in
ternational relationship, and the new
alike, followed so intricate a pattern
and were for the most part cut so deep
by historical circumstances which
dominated action where Ii would have
been best to ignore or reverse them.
The cross currents Of politics and Of
Interest must have been evident to
you. 1t would be presuming in me to
attempt to explain the questions which
arose or the many diverse elements
that entered into them. l shall attempt
something less ambitious than that
and more clearly suggested by my duty
to report to the congress the part 1t
seemed necessary for my colleagues
and me to play as the representatives
Of the government of the United
States.
That part was dictated by the role
America has played in the war and by
the expectations that had been created
In the minds of the peoples with whom
We had associated ourselves in that
great struggle.
Saw Supremacy Of Right Periled.
The United States entered the war
upon different footing from every
other nation except our associates on
this side the sea. We entered it, not
because our material interests were
directly threatened or because any spe.
cial treaty obligations to which we
were parties had been violated, but
only because we saw the supremacy
and even the validity, of right every
where put in jeopardy and free gov
eminent likely to be everywhere i'm
periied by the intolerable aggression
of power which respected neither
night nor obligation and whose yer,
system OF government fiouted tn,
rights of the citizens as against IN,
autocratic authority Of his governors
And In the settlements of the peac,
We have sought no special PREPARATION
for ourselves, but only the restoration
OF right and the assurance of libert,
everywhere that the effects of the set
Element We're to be felt. We entere,
the war as the disln,erested champion
of right and we Interested ourselve
In the terms of the peace in no othe
capacity.
United States Timely Aid.
The hopes of the nations allie
against the central powers were nj
very low ebb when our soldiers heca
TO pour across the sea. There was 9,
erywhere amongst them. except
their stoutest spirits. somber for,
boding of disaster. The war ended
November eight months ago. but 70
have only 10 recall what was fears
In midsummer last, only four sho
months before the armistice, 10 rea
lie what II was that our timely a
accomplished alike for their mora
and their physical safety.
The first, neyer-to- be-forgotten a
ton at Chateau Thierry had alreat
taken place. Our redoubtable soldie
and marines had already closed Il
gap the enemy had succeeded In ope
Ing fer their advance upon Paris-hs
already turned the tide of battle bat
tsvssd the frontiers Of France n