The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-09-11
.PRO.GERMAN AGAIN
ACTIVE WILSON SAYS
SEES SIGNS OF THE MONSTER
FIGHTING AGAINST TREATY.
Declares Treaty is Laboring Mans i'll
Sense that it is Drawn up for
Benefit OF Common People.

chaos was hoping there would b
mo steadying hand" placed on the
worlds affairs.
81 want to tell you," said the Pres
ident. that within the last two weeks
tho pro-German element in the Unit
eu states again has lifted its head"
This element saw chance, he said
by keeping their nation out of the
league of nations, to make possible
again what Germany had tried TO dc
in the great war. 1t was a clean-cut
issue, Mr.. Wilson declared, between
this new order and the old German
order.
Laboring Mans Treaty.
Declaring the peace treaty provis-
ion for an international labor con-
ference would give labor a new bill.
of rights, the President declared the
treaty was "laboring mans treaty.
in the sense that it was a treaty
drawn Up for the benz lit Of the COM
mon people.
The political settlements themsel-
YES, said the President, were made Tor
the people concerned. He asserted
that the document laid down forev-
er the principle that no territory
ever should be governed except as
the people who lived there wanted IL
governed.
That is an absolute reversal OF
history" said the President, "and it's
all in the league of nations
High taxes, a large standing army
and a military government in spirit
would be required, he said, if the
United States were to follow the ad-
vice of some men, and "stand b.
herself"
What Happened to Europe.
Asking his hearers to suppose for
moment that the land titles o.
South Dakota were to be upset and
every farm line moved ten feet, Mr..
Wilson said that was somewhat like
what happened in Europe, and
central author'.y was necessary t.
stablize conditions and prevent
strife.
Your choice" said Mr.. Wilson,
is between the league of nations
and Germanism. I have told you
what l mean by Germanism-having
chip on your shoulder"
When the President added THAI
sometimes he had been called an
idealist,' someone shouted good
and the crowd cheered.
How to Cause Trouble.
THE certain way" to have trou-
Dle between capital and labor, said
the President, was for them to re-
fuse to discuss their differences.
He said he could not understand
how a man could refuse to discuss
his case unless he was wrong. The
same rule, he declared to differences
between nations.
America could stay out of the lea
que, said the President, but it would
be at the expense of the peace of the
world.
America is necessary" he added,
Ito the peace OF the world. And the
peace and confidence of the world are
necessary to America"
Presidents st. Louis Speech.
Governor Norbeck and my FELLOW
citizens:
Il must admit that every time
lace great audience of my fellow
countrymen on this trip am file.
win leeling oil peculiar solemnity
because | believe, my fellow country
men, lnat We have come TO one OF the
turning points in the history OF tnL
worIu. And what |, as an American,
covet tor this great country Is lna.
on every great occasion When man
kinds fortunes are hung i'll the bal
ance, America may have the diStinc-
Llon OF leading the way. / want TO
remind you, my fellow countrymen,
that that war was not an accident.
That war did not just happen. Their
Was some sudden cause which
brought OIL the conrlagrallon. On the
contrary, Germany had been prepar-
ing tor that war for generations.
Germany had been preparing every
resource and perfecting every skill,
developing every invention which
would enable her TO master the Eu-
ropean world and to dominate tn,
rest OF the world.
Everybody Looking On.
Everybody had been looking oil.
Everybody had known. For example,
it was known in every war office il.
Europe and in the War Department
in Washington that the Germans not
only had vast supply of great field
guns, but that they had ammunition
enough for every one of those gum
to exhaust the gun. And yet we were
living in fools paradise. We thought
Germany meant what she said, Il
she was armed for defense and that
she never would use that great store
of guns against her fellow men.
Why my friends, it was foredained
the minute Germany conceived t.
purposes, that she should do the thing
which she did in 1914.
Now | have brought back FROM
Europe with me, my fellow citizens.
a treaty in which Germany is di
armed and in which al. the other n%-
tiopp nr tba Uo,ld aprSa nayar IN p0