Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-19
WILSON CALLS
COVENANT Good
BUSINESS MOVE
Warns Against Building Up
Distrust of the Z. S.
Abroad.
IMMEDIATE NEED
OF WORLD is PEACE
on Must Settle Difficulties Which
Caused War or Have War
Again, He
Says.

| San Francisco, Sept. l8.--Accept-
ance of the peace treaty as a good
business proposition was urged by
President Wilson today in an address
to San Francisco business men.
He asserted that to refuse mem
bership in the league of nations
would be to isolate the United States,
and to build up a distrust abroad
which would be detrimental alike to
the nations political and commercial
! interests.
His remarks were frequently ap-
! plauded by the audience of 1900 men.
Solution Of many domestic ques-
tions. said the president, awaited rati-
fication of the treaty. Until there
was peace, he declared the nation
! could not reorganiZe a single ele-
ment" of it's economic status. He add
ed that there were many reforms
| necessary because there must be
reconsideration" Of the whole econo-
mic structure Of the country.
AS long as uncertainty about peace
continued, he said, and the business
of the country had mo condition that
we can count on" there would be the
partial paralysis that is characteris-
tic Of panic" Mr. Wilson also dis
cussed at length the arbitration and
boycott provisions of the league
covenant declaring that had there
been anything approaching such an
arrangement i'll 1914, Germany new
er would have begun the war
Detailing the cost of the war in
money and in battle deaths, Mr.. Will
son said all this sacrifice was made
because the world never had had the
courage to set up such a system of
| arbitration and discussion as the
LEAGUE covenant proposed.
"The men who do not look forward
now are of no other service to the
nation" the president said. "The
immediate need Of this country and of
the world is peace, not only settled
peace, but peace upon a definite and
well understood foundation, support
ed by such covenants as men can de-
pend upon. supported by such pur-
poses as will permit of concert of
action throughout all the free people
Of the world.
81 don't believe that we even now
stop to consider how remarkable the
peace conference which did not meet
to consider the interests and advan-
tages of the strong nations. The
heart of this treaty is that it gives
liberty and independence to peonle
who never could have got it for
themselves.
"You have only to take the for
muls of the war in order to see
what was the matter. The formula of
nan-Germanism was Brennan to
Bagdad.'
Germany was looking for the line
of least resistance to establish her
power; and unless. gentlemen, the
world makes that line of absolute
resistance. this war will have to be
FOUGHT over.
"You must settle the difficulties
which gave occasion to the war, or
you must expec+ war again.
The big Four
81 am not saying that Germany
was the only aggressor and intriguer
hut I am saving that there was the
field where Law the danger of the
| world in regard to peace.
81 was glad, after / inaugurated it.
that I drew together the little body
that was called the big four It was
very simple council of friends. The
intimacies of this little room where
the center of the whole peace con-
ference, and they were the intimacies
of men who believed the same things
and thought the same thoughts.
81 want to remind you how the
permanency of neace is at the heart
of this treaty. This is not merely a
treaty of peace with GERMANY it is
nothing less than a world settlement
and at the center of it stands this
covenant for the future. which we call
the covenant of the league of ma
tions. The covenant Of the league
of nations is the instrumentality for
the maintenance of peace.
"My fellow citizens. l believe in
divine providence. If I did not I
would go crazy. If thought the dir
ection Of the disordered affairs of
this world depended upon our finite
endeavor. I should not know how to
reason my way to sanity But do not
believe there is any body Of men,
however they concert their mower or
their influence. that can defeat this
great enterprise, which is the enter
prise of divine mercy and peace and
good will"