The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-05
WILSON TELLING
THINGS CITIZENS
OUGHT TO KNOW
EXECUTIVE SAYS At COLUMBUS
HE ~ GLAD TO GIVE ANERl-
CANS PEACE FACTS
MAKES PLEA FOR LEAGUE
Declares He Too Belongs to the "Old
Revolutionary Party" and That
Paris Pact IS American Doctrine
Defends labor Section as Promising
Splendid Kesults-Ohi0 City Gives
Him Magnificent Ovation.

Him Magnificent Ovation.
Columbus. Ohio, sept. A.-President !
Wilson. opening his country wide speak
ing tour for the peace treaty, declared
in an address here today that his pur.
pose was to go out and report to my
fellow countrymen.
THE only people I owe any report,
said the president, "are you and the
other citizens of the United States
The president said it also seemed "in.
creasingly necessary" that he should
make such a report because he had
read many speeches about the treaty
and was unable to gather from them
much of what the treaty contained.
Speaking to a crowd which jammed
Memorial Hall, whose seating capacity
was estimated at 4,O00 the presidents
declarations frequently were interrupted
by cheers. The meeting was presided
over by pr W. O. Thompson, president
of the Ohio state University, and the
president was introduced by former GOV.
James T.. Campbell as the first citizen
of the big round world
Glad TO Make Report
Mr.. Wilson began by saying that he
had "chafed at the confinement OF
Washington and was glad to get out
to make his report TO the people. In
the first place, the president said, the
treaty undertook TO punish Germany, but
that there was no thought to over
whelmingly crush any great people.
Restraint had been exercised he,
said, and there was provision for max.
ing the reparation no greater than Ger
many could pay
Mr.. Wilson said he had been aston.
ished at statements made about the
treaty and was convinced many of them
were made 10y men who had not read
it or else had failed to comprehend its
meaning.
The League Of Nations the president
declared was formed in fulfillment Of
the promise that the United states was
fighting this war to end business Of
that sort forever. Not to establish the
league. he said. would be "unfaithfuT
to those who had died.
"lf we do not do this thing" he de
clared we have neglected the central
covenant we promised our people. The
League of Nations is the only thing
that can prevent the recurrence Of this
catastrophe
Besides this, the president continued.
the treaty tears away the chains of
oppression and gives small national.
ties the right to live their own lives.
Glad to Fight for Justice
That" ne said was the American
position, and I was glad to fight for it,
Italy. the president continued. had
presented to the conference q contrary
proposal in her request for Ffume
Though there were only scattered Ital
ian settlements there, ne declared, Italy
wanted Fiume for strategic and mill
tary purposes. If there were a League
of Nations. he asserted, Italy would not
need that foothold.
ia rather have everybody on my
side" he continued, than be armed tc
the teeth"
Referring to the criticism that the
treaty violated American traditions Mr.
Wilson said he was proud that he. too
belonged 10 the old revolutionary
school" and that ne was following the
purposes and the vision which the
fathers had seen.
"This treaty is an attempt to righ
the wrongs OF Europe said the presl
dent, land in my humble opinion, it Is
Il measurable success" He used the
word measurable he added, because
racial lines were not always distinct anC
could not be drawn with absolute pre-
cision on a map.
This was why, he said, some Of the
boundary lines were left TO be decided
later by the people themselves. TIT
treaty he declared was shot through
with the American principles of tn
choice of the governed
The treaty also contains, the pres
dent continued, "a Magma Charta o
labor" which would set up an inter
national labor organization. This Ia
Dor organization, he said, would holt
its first meeting in Washington il
October. whether the treaty IS rat
fled by them or not
Defends Labor Section
The labor section, Mr.. Wilson said
provided what should have been pre-
vided long ago 1t fulfilled the tard
realization of statesmen, he said. tina
there could be no good government o
peace unless the people themselves ar
satisfied.
BY regulation of labor conditions tn
world over and by similar provision
like those to regulate the opium trad
and extend the Red Cross. Mr.. WI
son said the treaty draws the nobl
Impulses of the world together an
makes a team of them
That's what's in this treaty n
continued. did anyone ever tell yo
that before" he asked his hearers.
The president appealed to his heai
sro if flnv would not read the treat