The Nevada County picayune., 1919-07-17
STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO BE OF
 GREATEST NECESSITY.
AN INSTRUMENT OF PEACE
Says Most Skeptlcal of Paris Cor. ferees Had Become Convinced of League Plan as the Best
 Solution.
PRAISE FOR U. S. SOLDIERS

Washington. --- lItSlutHt W llSbH in presenting the peace treaty with Germany to the Senate declared that "a league of free nations had be- come a practical necessity 10 which to turn "as an indispensable .nstru- mentality for the maintenance of the new order it has been the1r purpose to set up in the world"
 The most skeptical" of the peace conferees at Paris. the president said, had turned more and more to the league as discussion progressed in seeking solution of the problems that arose in framing the terms of the treaty itself
 The presidents address. in part, follows:
 "Gentlemen of the Senate: The treaty of peace with Germany was signed at Versailles on the twenty eighth of June 1 avail myself of the earliest opportunity to lay the treaty before you for ratification and to in- form you with regard to the work Of the conference by which that treaty was formulated.
 '"rhe treaty constitutes nothing less than world settlement. t would not be possible for me either to summarize or to construe it's man Hold provisions in an address which must of necessity be something less oil the information possess will be at your disposal and at the disposal of your committee on foreign relations nt any time. either informally or in session as you may prefer, and l hope that you will not hesitate 10 make use of them. l shall at this time prior to your own study of the document. attempt only general characterization of It's scope and pur. pose.
 "The United States entered the war upon a different footing from eY- cry other nation except our asso- ciates on this side of the sea We en- tered it. not because our material in terests were directly threatened or because any special treaty obligations 10 which we were parties have been violated. but only because we saw the supremacy. and even the validity of right everywhere put in jeopardy and free government likely to be every where imperrilled by the intolerable aggression of a power which respect. ed neither right nor obligation and whose very system of government nouted the rights of the citizens as against the autocratic authority of his governors And In the settle ments of the peace we have sought no special reparation for ourselves, but only the restoration of right and the assurance of liberty everywhere that the effects of the settlement as the distmterested champions of right and we interested ourselves Tn the terms of the peace in no other capacity"
 in praise of the American soldier the president said
 And they were fit men to carry such a hope and make good the as surance if forecast Finer men nev- or went into battle, and their officers were worthy of them This Is not the occasion upon which to utter q eulogy of the armies America sent lo France, hut perhaps. since l am speaking of their mission, ] ma" speak ilso of The pride l shared With every American who saNe or dealt with them there
 They were the sort of men America would wish to be represent ed hy. the sort of men every Ameri, can would wish to claim as fellow countrymen and comrades in a great cause They were terrible in battle, and gentle and helpful cut of it, re- memaeriue the mothers and the si3- ters. The wives and the little children al home They were free men under arms net forgetting their ideals of dntv in the midst of tasks of yio- leuee am proud 10 have had the privilege of being associated with them and of calling myself their lead. CT"
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