The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-09-19
;kMrkicA'S PLEDGE
SACRED--W|LSON
PRECEDENT SAYS our PkoMise
TO TRY 70 PREVENT FUTURE
WARS shOuLD d KEPT.
ONLY HOPE IS IN WORLD LEAGUE
says Germany Would Not Haws Dared
eanded Against Aggression.
(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau.)

(By Mt. Clemens News Bureau.)
st. Louis-Displaying a high con-
6dence that his fellow citizens IN the
great majority agree with him in his
desire to end war forever, and that
the peace treaty with its League OF
Nations inclusion is ratified by the
senate, President Wilson IL making q
successful way across the country on
the long journey he has undertaken
for the purpose of laying before the
plain people q report Of his work In
Paris and explaining to them just
what the League means.
Thus far in his travels he has every
where met With warm greetings. both
n tho great halls where he mas
spoken formally and In the little cross
road hamlets where his train has
halted at times and he has exchanged
words with the villagers who pressed
forward to greet him. He feels, AND
does % hesitate to a so wnen
chatting with his travelling compan-
tons, that the American people want
no more OF wal and want to become
part of the League 50 that there MAY
be no more war. He struck his key
note when he said in his first address,
IN Columbus. Ohio:
This treaty was not intended mere
~ TO end this single war. II 10 meant
~ q notice to every government who
n the future will attempt this thing
(what Germany attsmptsd) that man
kind will unite to inflict the same pun.
ishment. There 10 no national
triumph to be recorded In this treaty.
There is no glory sought for any par
ticular nation. The thought OF the
statesmen collected around that table
was Of their people, Of the sunerlngs
they had gone through. OF the losses
they had incurred, Of that great throo-
bling heart which was so depressed,
so forlorn, so sad In every memory II
had OF the FIVE tragical years NAT
have gone by. Let us never forget
those years. my fellow cOuntrymen;
let us never forget the purpose, hlgh
aud disinterested, with which America
lent it's strength, not for it's own glory
but for the defense OF mankind.
LAS | said, this treaty was no.
meant merely to end this war. 1t Is
intended to prevent any similar war:
wonder IL some Of the opponents OF
the League of Nations have forgotten
the promises we made our people De
fore we went to that peace table! we
had taken by process OF Ia" TIE
flower of our youth from every couh-
aryside. from every household, n we
told those mothers and tatners anu
sisters and wives and sWee'ieafts
thai we were taking those men 10
fight a war which would end business
Of that sort, and II We do not enc H.
IL we do not do the best that human
a~oncert of action can do % end II, we
are of all men the most unfalthlui-
the most unfaithful to the LOVING
hearts who suffered in this wal, the
most unfsithful to those ~househoios
bowed In grief and yet lifted with the
seeling that the lad laid down MS ilts
for a great thing, and, among oths!
filings. in order that other LADS misn'
never have to do the same thfng.
"That Is what the League OF Nv
,tons IA for-to end this war justly
ard then not merely TO serve nouce
an Governments which could contem'
nlate that they will do 30 at their peril
hut also concerning the combination
~ mower which will prove to tpem
that they will do it At their peril -
idle to say the worlds VIII conD.e
against you; but it is persuas1vs 70
say the world is comb1n9Q aSs1ns'
Toh: The League NSuXps
il the only thing that cen. pyevent %s
recurrence Of ihis arseafu Sa1aselosne
sgd Tedeem our promises"
L,eague Of Nations wouio naVe
-.,.ntsd the late cQufict, the presi-
3ent asserted, explaining:
~ Ala not meet q single public man
-,. Aid not admit these things; tnat
Casnsnv would not have gone INTO
W. war il she thought Great Britain
Going into 4 and b GER
49, would never have gone into IL
80 aha dreamed America was gong
;rtc e. And they all admit tnst q
@.S beforehand that the greatest
ko oH = ~ the world would combine 10
this sort OF thing would pre-
vent it absolutely .r.s,ed
X~sc,aration Of the presi-
eacn hat wars might be avoid
oen' the future by operations
~ the League. He poirfea out ou
,m nortant features o. the ~
Traatv' how it was the redempuon Q.
.naaI nations, giving Them Ireeosm
,,H;ch otherwise they never cou,o
Saxs won: how it says "inese peopie
nas , right to live their own live
nase governments which they them
ua,.,es choose,'. and how that is the
maScon principle and ] was glad 10
eah, for IT., and that was the very
hsart ri the Treaty, he said.
Ie drew attention to The section OF
~ Traaty which is q magma Charta
- 1 Iabor." which shall dispose OF the
hours conditions and remunerations
of labor. ..u
.which ought to nave come long ago.
hen statesmen will realize that no
nation is fortunate which I. not hap
NV whose people are not contented.
posntad In their lives and fortunate
N the circumstances Of their livss".
IN conclusion the president said he
,.,t certain the Treaty will be accept
$50. nulv imnAffnnt az thA d.