Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-07
President Speaks To I5.-
900 In Reed S Home
Town
GREAT OVATION
GIVEN PRESIDENT
League Ends Military
Clan Forever, He Tells
His Hearers

KANSAS CITY, Setember ST.
(By Associated Press President
Wilson appealed to the Kansas City
crowd today to support the peace
treaty as a charter for a new order
or world affairs.
Making his thild speech for the
treaty in Missouri, TO capacity
audience, President Wilson spoke IN
convention HAN estimated to accom-
modate 5000. Kansas ~lty is Ihe
home of Senator. Reed, bitter tre4fy
opponent.
When the President, accompanied
by Mrs. Wilson, appeared on the
platform OF the vast auditorium the
crowd, each of whom had a small
American nag, arose and cneered 1or
more than two minutes.
I President Wilson had been cheefed
as the presidential party paraded
through tour mlles If the ciy's
streets to Convention Han.
MI Wilson was introduced by b.
A. Parsons, president of the Kansas
, CITY Chamber of Commerce.
In his address The President COW
cred many OF the same points of the
treaty he had discussed IN previous
addresses. He sala he had come to
report to the people direct about
one of the greatest documen.s
human history. Inc treaty, be de-
clared, was "shot through with
American principles, put there by
the common consent of the world.
From Americas Heart.
One of the things America had had
in heart throughout her troubled ex-
Istence, said the President, was that
arDlrration and consultat on should
be substituted Tor force. This was ae-
complished, he declared, by tina
League of Nations covenant.
Nine months discussion of any in
ternatlonal controversy would be as
sured by the covenant, he said.
stating that this principle had been
written in thirty arbitration treaties,
"all of which were confirmed by the
United States Senate" The principle
of the League he said, had been
adopted by the United States.
The boycott imposed on covenant
breakers was emphasized by the
president as constituting a measure
more effective than military force.
The most exclusive" thing that
could happen to a nation, he contin-
ued, was ito be read out of decent
society"
Effective disarmament would be
accomplished under the covenant,
Mr.. Wilson predicted, declaring it
was ridiculous to talk of the League
as tending to war when sits whole
essence" is arbitration and peace.
End of Military Clan.
The League, he declared, would
mean the end of the military cian''
throughout the world forever. /,
There is no other way to dispense
with great ornaments without an
agreement by the great nations of
the world said Mr.. Wilson. ~and
here is the agreement.
Autocracy would perish with mill
tarism, added the President and the
intrigue which had terrorized Europe
for generation would be ended. He
declared that "democracies will soon
er or later have to destroy that kind
of government, "and if we don't dc
it now, the job will still be before
US" This task, he continued, must
be carried to the extent that no mi
nority anywhere could control the
majority.
"The men who now control the af,
fairs of Russia" said Mr.. Wilsm8.
represent nobody but themselves.
They have no kind of a mandate.
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