The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-07-18
LEAGUE ONLY GAN
PREVENT new WAR.
President Wilson Presents
Treaty OF Peace to Senate
ONLY HOPE FOR MANKIND
Address Lasted 40 Minutes-Eoth Sen.
ators And Galleries Listened With
Deepest Attention - Compro- .
misses Not OF Vital Nature.

misses Not OF Vital Nature.
Washington.-Pre Wilson laid
before the Senate the peace treaty
with Germany.
His address, which required 40 min
utes for delivery was devoted almost
wholly to the League of Nations.
American isolation" the President
said, "ended 20 years ago at the close
Of the war with Spain. Fear Of Amer
lean motives now also had ended" he
declared.
There can be no question Of our
ceasing to be world power" said
Mr.. Wilson. "The only question is
whether we can refuse the moral lead
ership that is offered US, whether we
shall accept or reject the confidence
of the world"
The war and the Peace Conference,
In his, opinion, the President said, had
already answered that question, "and
nothing but our mistaken action can
alter it,
After the end of the great war the
President said, every enlightened
judgment demanded that at whatever
cost Of independent action every Gov
eminent that took thought for it's peo-
pie or for justice or for ordered free
dom should lend itself to a new pur-
pose and utterly destroy the old order
Of international politics."
Statesmen might see difficulties in
accomplishing this purpose, the Pres
ident continued, but the people could
see none and could brook no denial
The League of Nations, he added, was
mot merely an instrument to adjust
and remedy old wrongs under a new
treaty Of peace; it was the only hope
for mankind"
1t had not been easy, the President
said, ito graft the new order of ideas
on the old, and some Of the fruits Of
the grating may, fear, for time be
bitter.
But, with very few exceptions" he
added, "the men who sat with us at
the peace table desired as sincerely
as we did to get away from the bad
influence, the illegitimate purpose, the
demoralizing ambitions, the interna-
tional counsels and the expedients out
Of which the sinister designs of Ger
many had sprung as a natural
growth"
Accepted BY Most Practical.
''The fact that the covenant of the
league was the first substantive part
Of the treaty to be worked out and
agreed upon" the President said,
'while all else was in solution, helped
to make the formulation of the rest
easier"
Mr.. Wilson said the agreement on
the covenant had given the conferees
o feeling that their work was to be
permanent and that the most prac-
tical among them were at last the
most ready to refer to the League of
Nations the superintendent of all in
terests which did not admit of imme-
diate determination, of all administra-
tive problems which were to require
Q continuing oversight"
What had seemed counsel of
perfection" said the President, mad
come to seem plain counsel of neces-
sity. The League of Nations was the
practical statesman's hope of success
In many Of the most difficult things
he was attempting"
my services and all the informa-
ton possess" said Mr.. Wilson, will
be at your disposal and at the disposal
Of your Committee on Foreign Rela.
lions at any time, either inforamlly or
In session, as you prefer; and hope
that you will not hesitate to make use
Of them"
American isolation, the President
asserted, was ended 20 years ago
when the war with Spain put the
nation in partial control of Cuba and
the Philippines.
"But we have not exploited them"
he continued. I'VE have been their
friends and have sought to serve them.
There can be no question of
our ceasing to be world power. The
only question is whether we can re.
fuse the moral leadership that is Of
fered us, whether we shall accept or
reject the confidence of the world.
Our Destiny Disclosed.
"The stage is set, the destiny dis
closed. 1t has come about by no plan
Of our conceiying, but by the hand of
God, who has led us into this way. We
cannot turn back. We can only go
forward, with lifted eyes and fresh
ened spirit, to follow the vision"