El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-04
TREATY WILL
WIN WILSON
Is Unable to Gather From
Many Speeches What It
Really Contains.

That's what's in this treaty" he
continued. Did anyone ever tell you
that before?"
Asks His Version Be Accepted.
The president appealed to his hear
ers if they would not read the treaty
themselves. to at least accept the ac-
count Of its contents as given BY those
who made II.
Mr.. Wilson said he had heard a
great deal about the selfishness Of
u other nations. but that there really
4 was a concert Of feeling at Versailles.
I'VE were under Instructions" said
the president, land we didn't dare
come home without fulfilling those
instructions. If 1 couldn't have
I did bring back I never would have
/ come back"
The president said It was not his
/ purpose during the trip to debate"
I the treaty, but to expound it.
Text OF the Address.
] The president spoke as follows:
! 'Ar. Chairman. Gov Campbell and my
! fellow citizens:
! 1t is with very profound pleasure
that I find myself face TO face with
/ you, I have for a long time chafed
Z at the confinement OF Washington 1
have for long time wished to ful-
Z iii the purpose with which my heart
I was fun when I returned TO our be-
loved country, namely, to 90 out and
report to my fellowcountrymen con-
corning those affairs of the world
which now need to be settled.
The only people I owe any report
10 are you and the other citizens Of
the United States, and IL has become
Increasingly necessary. apparently,
that / should report to you. After all
the various angles at which you have
heard the treaty held up perhaps you
would like to know what is in the
. 49, Hr~ I . = 3 - l.
ing some OF the speeches that I have
read to form any conception OF that
great document
Document Unique in History.
II IS document unique in the his
tory OF the world Tor many reasons
and think cannot do you a better
service or the peace Of the world a
better service than by pointing out
to you just what this treaty contains
and what IL seeks to do.
in the first place, my fellow
countrymen. Il seeks to punish
one of the greatest wrongs ever
done in history, the wrong which
Germany sought TO do to the
world and to civilization. and
there ought to be no weak uur-
pose with regard to the appiien-
ton Of the punishment. She at
tempted nm intolernbIe thing, and
she must be made 10 pay for the
attempt.
g
but they are not unjust I can tes-
tity that the men associated with me
al the peace conference in Paris had
II IN tneiu hearts to do justice and not
Nlong, put they knew perhaps with
a more vivid sense OF what had hap
pened than we could possibly know
on this side OF the water the many
solemn covenants which Germany had /
disregarded. the long preparation she
lad made to overwhelm her nefghbors.
the utter disregard which she had
SHOWN for human rights, for the
rights OF women and children and
those who were helpless They had
seen their lands devastated by an en-
envy that devoted itself not only 10
the effort OF victory, but TO the effort
OF terror, seeking to terrify the peo-
PIE whom they fought, and ] wish 10
testlly that they exercised restraint /
IN the terms OF this treaty. They did !
not wish TO overwhelm any great ma I
ton. and they had no purpose IN
overwhelming the German people. but
they did think that Il ought to be /
burned into the consciousness OF men /
Forever that no people ought 10 per- /
nit It's government TO do what the I
German government did.
German People to Blame.
IN the last analysis, my fellow /
eountrymen. as we in America would /
be the first 20 claim a people are re
sponsible for the acts OF their govern I
menI II their government purposes /
things that are wrong. they ought to /
take measures and see to II that pur- |
pose is not executed.
Germany was self governed. Her
rulers had not concealed the purposes !
that they had in mind, but thew had
deceived their people as 10 the char !
acter OF the methods they were going
% use and believe from what I can
learn that there is an awakened con-
seriousness in Germany itself OF the
deep iniquity OF the thing that was
attempted
When the Austrian delegates came
before the peace conference, they in Z
50 many words spoke OF the origina- {
ton OF the war as a crime and ad- /
mitted IN our presence that Il was
thing intolerable to contemplate. Z
They knew in their hearts that II had
done them the deepest conceivable /
wrong; that It had put their people
ana the people OF Germany at the
throughout this treaty every term
that was applied to Germany was
meant not 10 humiliats Germany but
70 rectify the wrong that she had
done And IL you viii look even into
the severe terms OF reparatfon for
there was no indemnity-no indem-
nifty OF any sort was claimed-merefy
reparation. merely paying for the
destruction done. merely making good
the losses so far as the losses could
De maze EoOus Wnicl she had IN
justly inflicted. not upon the govern
ments-tor the reparation Is not TO
90 to the governments-but upon
the people whose rights she had trod-
den upon with absolute absence Of
everything that even resembled pity. |
There is no indemnity in this treaty. (
but there Is reparation and even in /
the terms Of reparation a method Is
devised by which the reparation shall I
be adjusted TO Germany's ability to 4
pay It
Astonished ut some Statements.
4 am astonished at some OF the 4
statements I see made about this
treaty and the truth Is that they are
the treaty or who, II they have read
It, have not comprehended its MEAN
ing.
There IS a method OF adjustment
in the treaty by which the reparation
shall not be pressed beyond the point
which Germany can pay. but she will
be pressed to the utmost point that
she can pay. which Is Just. which Is
righteous It would be intolerabie II
there had been anything else. for. my
fellow citizens. this treaty is not
meant merely to end this single war;
It Is meant as a notice 10 every gov
eminent which in the future will at
tempt this thing. that mankind viii
unite 70 inflict the same punishment.
There Is no national triumph
sought to he recorded in this
treaty. There IS no glory sought
for any particular nation. The
thought Of the stntement col
Iected around that table YVES OF
their people. Of the sufferings
that they had gone through, Of