The Benson signal., 1919-07-19
SAYS WORLDS HEART WOULD
BE BROKEN If LEAGUE
is REJECTED.
U. S. TURNED THE WAR
PAYS GLOWING TRIBUTE TO
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
ABROAD.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Washington, July 11.-President Will
son, in presenting the peace treaty
with Germany to the Senate, declared
that "a league Of free nations had be-
come a practical necessity" to which
the trainers of the treaty felt obliged
to turn "as an indispensable instru-
mentality for the maintenance of the
new order it has been their purpose to
set up in the world"
The President declared that:
The treaty would be scrap of paper
without the League of Nations.
The people demand the league and
will brook no denial.
Americas material aid to Europe
will be Indispensable in days to come.
If the league should be rejected, the
worlds heart would be broken.
America is the friend of all nations.
America has just reached her ma
jOrity as a world power.
Americas isolation ended twenty
years ago.
Moral leadership of the world is Of
fered America the question is whether
we accept or reject it.
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to the world.
The treaty squares with the four
teen points as well as with the prac-
tical needs of the situation.
1t is not exactly the sort of treaty
the United States would have written.
"We have sought no special repara-
tion for ourselves, but only the reSto-
ration of right and the assurance of
liberty everywhere.
Americas fighting made victory
certain.
The President began his speech by
outlining how American troops, to
whom he paid warm tribute as 'men
terrible in battle, but gentle and help
full out of it, turned the tide of the
war.
Coming to the making of peace, Will
son reviewed in every detail the many
complex questions presented and the
difficulties growing out of a DISPOSE
ton in some quarters to cling to the
old order.
"Old entanglements," he said, "stood
in the way of peace. 1t was not easy
he added, ito graft the new order of
ideas on the old, and some of the fruits
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be bitter"
But on the whole, the President de-
clared, Europe welcomed American
participation in the peace-making as
eagerly as it welcomed our armies and
accomplished American principles Of
peace.
He asserted emphatically that the
treaty is thoroughly consistent with
the principles he laid down in the four
teen points, and at the same time
meets the practical needs of the sit
uatiOn.
1--WE were welcomed as disinterested
friends" said the President. 1T was
recognized that our material aid would
be indispensable in the days to come
when industry and credit must be
brought back to their normal opera
ton, . and it was taken for grant
ed, 1 am proud to say, that we would
play the helpful friend"
In view of all this, the President
said, the question is put Squarely up
to the United States whether it will
try to resume it's old policy of iSOla-
ton or will continue, through the
League of Nations the task of main
tanning 'the new order set up in the
world, the world of civilized men,"
The United States, the President
said, has reached it's majority as a
world power.
He limited, it was believed, at ac-
ceptance of mandatory by the United
States when he said that weak peo-
plies everywhere stand ready to give
US any authority among them that will
assure them a friendly oversight and
direction"
The President announced that he
later will present the treaty of de-
fense, under which American aid is
pledged to France against unprovOked
German aggression.
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
nant of the league was the first sub
stantial part of the treaty to be
worked out and agreed upon," the
President said, while all else was in
solution, helped to make the formu-
lation of the rest easier"
Mr.. Wilson said the agreement on
the covenant had given the conferees
feeling that their work was to be
permanent and that the most practical
among them 'were at last the most
ready to refer to the League of Ma
tions the superintendent of all inter
ests which did not admit of immediate
determination, of all administrative
problems which were to require a con-
tinuing oversight"
"What had seemed a counsel of per-
fection," said the President, "had come
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