The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-11-03
Digest of President Wilson Speeches.

the council of the league of nations shall advise with regard to meas ures which may be necessary to carry out those promises on the part of the members.
 And, as 1 have said several times in my speeches, l have in vain searched the dictionary to find any other meaning for the word ad- vise,' than advise
 Those gentlemen would nave you believe that our armies can be ordered abroad by some other powers or by combination of pow CTS. They are thinking in an air tight compartment. America is not an air tight compartment. Ameri- ca is not the only proud nation in the world. 1 can testify from my part in the councils on the other side of the sea, that the other na- tiOns are just as jealous of theil sovereignty as we are of ours. They would no more agree to give us the right to order out their armies than we would agree to give them the right to order out our army. And the advice that can come from the council only if the United States representatives votes in the affirmative. We have an absolute veto on the thing, unless we are parties to the dispute. And l want again, for l have done it several times, to call your attention to what that means. That means un- less we want to seize somebody's territory or invade somebody's poli- tical independents. Or, unless somebody else wants to seize our territory and invade our political independence. Now, l regard either of those contingencies as so remote that they are not troubling me in the least. 1 want the people of this country to know that we will not be the aggressors in trying to exc
 
 me, cant see anybody else that would think it wise to try it on us ***
 But suppose we are parties. Then is it the council of the league that is forcing war upon us? The war is ours anyhow. We are in 1 airplln ct Xuhnra if i. ry for congress, if it wants to steal somebody's territory or prevent somebody from stealing our terri tory to go to war. No, it is not the council Of the league that brings us into war at that trme. In such circumstances, it is the unfortunate circumstances which have arisen in some matters of aggression. And l want to say that Article X is the very heart of the covenant of the league, because all the great wrongs of the world have had their root in the seizure of territory or the control of the political independence 
 speak the feeling of the people of the United States when l say that having seen one great wrong like that attempted and having prevented it, we are ready to prevent it again" : SOME RESULTS OF OPPOSITION Speaking of some of the results of the opposition to the league, the President declared:
 } q am profoundly puzzled to know what may come of the opposition to the league of nations. l know , one of the results and that is to raise the hope in the minds of the German people that after all, they can separate us from those who were our associates in the war. know that pro-German propaganda, which had heretofore never dared raise its head has now again bodily l raised its head and is active all over : the United States. These are dis turbing and Illuminating circum- stances.
 q am not accusing some of the , honorable men whose objections am trying to answer, with trying to draw near to Germany. That is not my point. But am saying that what they are attempting to do is exactly , what Germany desires, and that it , would touch the honor of the United States very much if, at the end of this great struggle, we should seek to take the position which our ene- , mics desire and our friends deplore." The Juneau Empire.
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