The Nevada County picayune., 1919-09-25
PRESIDENT IN HIS opgN,No SPEEcHEs OF TOUR VOICES
 HIGH HOPES.
"W0RLD WAITS FOR US"
pu>seS Svrs To Ds Prss Prom Wa v America Carrtss Out Her Pledges, Says chisS
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AH in nis oSelr0 - end war forever, snd that they will sec to 1t that the peace treaty with its League of Ma lions, inclusion Is ratified by the Sen. ate. President Wilson is making q successful way across the country on tho long journey he has undertaken for the purpose of laying before the plain people report of his work in Paris and explaining to them just what the League means.
 Thus far In his travels he has ev. erywhere met with warm greetings. both in the great halls where he has spoken formally and in the little oross-road hamlets where his train has halted at times and he has ex. changed words with the villagers who pressed forward to greet him Ha feels, and does not hesitate to say so when chatting with his travelling com panions, that the American people want no more of war and want to be. come part of the League so that there may be no more war. He struck his keynote when he said in hls first ad. dress, in Columbus, O.:
 This treaty was not intended merely to end this single war. It is meant as notice to every govern ment who in the future will attempt this thing (what Germany attempted) that mankind will unite to inflict the same punishment. There Is no na 'ional triumph to be recorded in this treaty. There is no glory sought fo. any particular nation The thought of the statesmen collected around that table was of their people, of the suf ferings they had gone through, of the losses they had incurred. of that grea. 1 throbbing heart, which was so forlorn 20 sad in every memory 1t had of the five tragical years that have gone by Let us never forget those years, my fellow w-countrymen; let us never for | get the purpose, high and distlnter ested, with which America lent it strer 9th, not for its own glory D. 1 the defense of mankind.
 "As I said, this treaty was not in l tended merely 10 end this war l. Was intended to prevent any similar war. I wonder If some of the oppo | nents of the League of Nations have forgotten the promises we made ou: people before we vt to that peace table. We had taken by process oi law the flower of our youth from e7. l cry countryside, from every house hold, and we told those mothers an. fathers and sisters and wives an : eweethearts that ws were taking those mon to fight war which would end business of that sort, and if VI do not end 1t, If we do not do the best that human concert of action can do to end 1t. we are of all men the most unfaithful-the most unf thfu' 10 the loving hearts who suffered In this war, the most unfaithful to those households bowed in grief and yet lifted with the feeling that the lal isid down his lifo for great thing snd, among other things, in order that other lads might never have to i do the same thing.
 That Is what the League of Nh ion Is for-to end this war justly and then not merely to serve notic on governments which could conten, plate the same things Germany cor templated that they will do so their peril. But also concerning ts
 combination of power which vii prove to them that they will do it a' their peril. It Is idle 10 say in worlds will combine against you br 1 it Is persuasive to say the worlds I l combined against you The LeaSu of Nations is the only thing that ca proven; the recurrence of this dreai ful catastrophe and redeem our proE. 1 ises.
 A League of Nations would have prever' d the lcte conflict. the Pres dent as red, explaining:
 'I did not meet single publ man who did not admit three things, That Germany would not have goa* into this war if she thought Grea i Britain was going into it, and th. she most certainly would never hay" gone into it had she dreamed Americ 2 was going into 1t, and they all admi that nation beforehand knowia I that the greatest powers or the Worl i would combine to prevent this sor: '' thing would prevent it absolutely"
 Applause and ehe<rs greeted each l declaration of tho President that wars might be avoided in future " the ope- rations of the League.
 He pointed out sihsr importan. features oe the peace treaty-how Y vas the redemption sf wsok nation., swing then freedom which otherwise they never could have won How t Asys: These people have a right 10 five thefr own lives under govern ments which they themselves choose" and how That Ia the American pria- eiple and .was glad to light for 1t !" That was the very heart of the treaty, bs said.