The Nevada County picayune., 1919-09-25
"W0RLD WAITS FOR US"
Future Sure To Be Free From War f America Carries Out Her Pledges, Says Chief
 Executive.
Dy Mount Clemens News Bureau.

sno that they will sec to 1t that the peace treaty with it's League of Ma tons, inclusion is ratified by the Sen. ate. President Wilson Is making successful way across the country on the long journey he has undertaken for the purpose of laying before the plain people report of his work in Paris and explaining to them just what the League means.
 Thus far in his travels he has ev. anywhere met with warm greetings, both in the great halls where he has spoken formally and in the little cross-road hamlets where his train has halted at times apd he has ex. changed words with the villagers who pressed forward to greet him. Ills feels, and does not hesitate to say so when chatting with his travelling com panions, that the American people want no more of war and want to be. come part of the League so that there may be no more war He struck his keynote when he said in his first ad. dress, in Columbus, O.:
 This treaty was not intended merely to end this single war. It Is meant as notice to every govern. ment who in the future will attempt this thing (what Germany attempted) that mankind will unite to inf1ict the same punishment. There Is no m tional triumph to be recorded in this treaty. There is no glory sought 10,
  the statesmen collected around tna, table was of their people, of the sui. ferings they had gone through, of the losses they had incurred, of that great throbbing heart, which was so forlorn SO sad in every memory 1t had of the five tragical years that have gone by Let us never forget those years, my fellow-countrymen; let us never for get the purpose, high and distinter ested. with which America lent it strength, not for it's own glory by the defense of mankind
 "As I said, this treaty was not in tended merely to end this war IL Nas intended to prevent any similar war I wonder If some of the oppp nents of tho League of Nations have forgotten the promises we made our people before we went to that peace table. We had taken by process of law the flower of our youth from ev. cry countrywide. from every house hold, and we told those mother and fathers and sisters and wives anI eweethearts that we wers taking those men to light a war which would end business of that sort, and If ws do not end 1t. if we do not do the best that human concert of action caa do to end 1t, we arc of all men the most unfaithful-the most unf Nhful to the loving hearts who suffered ID this war, the most unfaithful to those households bowed In grief and yet lifted with the feeling that the lad laid down his life for a great thing snd, among other things, in order that other lads might never have to do the same thing.
 That is what the League of Ma. lion Is for-to end this war justly and then not merely to serve notice on governments which could contem plate the same things Germany CT templated that they will do so q; their peril But also concerning t,r combination of power which will l prove 10 them that they will do 1t at their peril It is idle to say the worlds will combine against you; but ii is persuasive to say the worlds + combined against you. The League of Nations Is the only thing tha, can proven; the recurrence of this dreal l ful catastrophe and redeem our prom i ises."
 League of Nations would have prevented the late conflict, the Prest. dent asserted, explaining:
 "i did not meet a single public man who did not admit three things: ] That Germany would not have gone into this war if she thought Groa, Britain was going into it, and that she most certainly would never hara i zone into 1t had she dreamed hmerie2 was going into It. and they all admit that nation beforehand knowin < 1 that the greatest powers of the worii would combine to prevent this sor; If thing would prevent it absolutely
 Applause and cheers greeted each declaration of the President that wars might be avoided In future " the ope- rations of the League.
 He pointed out other importan. features of the peace treaty-how f was the redemption of weak nations, siving them freedom which otherwise they never could have won. How it says: These people have a right to live their own lives under govern meats which they thsmsslvss choose" and how That is the Amsriean prfa- cipis and was glad to light for it." That vas the very heart of tAs troAiy, bA said.