The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-29
WILSON CALLS TO
PIONEERS BLOOD
AS ANCESTOR MOVED FORWARD
WITHOUT FEAR, so MUST
THEIR SONS.
NEVADA GREETS CHIEF
Reno Audience Appiauds Appeal For
League Of MISUNDERSTANDING Sees
oid-Time Mining Lands as He Be-
gins His Journey Eastward.


Aboard President Wilson's Srecia
Frain through the regions made ia
nous by the pioneers of Wes;er1
America President Wilson passed 81
HE beginning of his h0meWard tourney
from the Pacific Coast.
And TO the descendants Of these pio.
beers he pointed out in his addresses
hat in the same way Us the forWar,
moving men and women of 40 has
blazed the trail which opened ur our
land 50 the forward looking men and
WGmen IF 1919 must blaze the way
which shall lead all the world to peace
and justice, Just as those brave souls
Of - had gone ahead. never fearing
what was in the next canyon ahead Of
| them. We must 60 ahead now, the
| President pointed out, confident that
in our leadership of the world through
the League Of Nations, we will find
| The right way that will bring them III
to the promised land.
From Los Angeles 10 Sacramento
| and then through the territory which
Bret Hare immortaltged in his short
stories, Tie presidential train moved
until ii reached Reno, the first sched-
'lled stop on the eastward route. P0-
Ger Flats, Dutch Flats and the other
old mining camps which lIarte 80
hreeZily told of, all were seen by Mr..
Wilson on his journey and he related
10 his COMPANIONS what he remeln-
hered of The stories concerning them.
Thousands Cheer Wilson.
The President delivered a brief talk
at Sacramento from the train Mat
form. bur al Reno he was met and
cheered by many thousands, and the
inhabitants proudly asserted that the
Town held more people than 1t had
ever known since the Jeftries-Johnson
prize fight Of ancient history, and here
he gave his formal talk nf the day.
He said he was eNhilimteh to tind
himself in one Of the last remaining
frontier communities Of the nation, he.
ranse the people We're still forward
looking. The critics of the League OF
Nations have their eyes over their
shoulders They are looking backward
and therefore, they are stumbling.
They are always striking their feet
against obstacles which others see and
which do not lie in the path Of prog
reSS Of civilization.
The President cOntrasted the pres.
ent peace conference with the last
great so-called peace conference that
which was held in Vienna In 1916.
The ancient conference. he said, was
one where small coterie of aut0crats
were able to determine the fortunes Of
their people without consulting them,
whereas the conference of 1910 was
devoted to establishing the rights Of
all peoples 10 their own type of gov.
prnment
Just before the conference Of 1915, |
TIE President said. there had been
signs Of the breaking up of the old Or
der Of things though there were but
100000 people subject TO the crown
of Great Britain.
Autocracy Overthrow.
In America they had thrown off al. |
Iegance to that crown and had defied !
the British Government on the ground
that nobody at distance had right !
to govern them and that nobody had |
right TO govern them whom they did |
not choose to be their government. |
That was the beginning Of the cOndi-
lions which have eliminated in to-
days situation The President point |
ad out that in every automatically |
Governed nation In the world up unh. !
l9l1 there had been revolutions. That /
S, in every autocratic nation save /
iermany and one of Germahy's prime
IDEAS in starting the war was to re-
establish the idea of absolute autnc-
Hcy, bnl The rest Of the world would
lot stand for that. he asserted, and
therefore, America came in to rid the
world forever Of the autOcratic idea.
And having pledged herself so to do,
le said, size would see the Job through
| consider lhis 10 he The greatest
barter and it Is the greatest char
en- of human liberty ever adopt.
Vi. II was not written essentially at
NriS. Ii was written at Chateau
Thiery and in BelIeau Wood and in
he Argnnne. !
Our men did not fight over there
With the purpose of coming back and
citing the same thing happen again.
They did not come back with any fear
II their hearts that their public men
uuId 70 back nn them and not seq the
hing through they went over expect.
NJ thai jhp business should be fin.
she'd and ii shall he finished.
I)n Nnlt rAOltJ 70 tI,oF t1,, r,aA A., |
ORIG deems america indispensable 10
h" lnlarantep of future peace and Of
restoration If normal life upon
'If"h tNMrc peace depends? The
."HId docs That they know our pow
+ ih"} i1ow oar wealth, they know
ur mdoIoltahlc spirit, and when we
NJ our name 10 the bond then Europe
III begin 10 be- quiet. men will seek
70 peaceful solution of normal indus
y and normal life Men will take
(pc again and cease TO think of the
evolutionary things they can d. ami
gin 10 thin. Of the constructive
liftSs they can do and this will be tho
use i'll America as well as In EuroDe
he President explained away the oft
'peated objections TO the League, the
hantung matter, Article X, and the
1e>tiOn Of whether Great Britain has
ore votes thar we have, which no
aclared untrue.
He said what WAS needed was TO
ear the deck Of these criticistHs
hich had nothing to them and look
'rward to fulfilIment Of the & s-
ny Of America. The whole world. he