The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-07
MAKES RUSSIA TEXT
FOR PLEA FOR PEACE
Wilson Tells of Passions IN
Ioosened in Europe.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Sept. 6.-PreSident
Wilson in his address here Tonight said
The world is desperately In need
of the settled conditions of peace
and &c cannot wait much longer.
1t is waiting upon us. That is the
thought, that is the burdensome
thought upon my heart tonight. that
that world Is waiting for the ver-
dict OF the nation to which II looked
for leadership and which it. thought
would be the last that would ask
the world to wait.
The world is not at peace.
suppose that It is difficult for one
who has not had some touch of the
hot passion of the other side of the
sea to realize how all the passions
that have been slumbering for ages
have been uncovered and released
by the tragedy of this war.
And now all of this is released
and uncovered and men glare at
one another and say, "Now we are
free and what shall we do with our
freedom"
What happened in Russia was not
a sudden and accidental thing. The
people of Russia were maddened with
the suppression of CZarism. When at
last the chance came to throw off
those chains, they threw them off. at
first with hearts full of confidence
and hope, and then they found out
that they had been again deceived.
There was no assembly chosen to
frame constitution for them, or
rather there was an assembly chosen
to choose a constitution for them and
II was suppressed and dispersed, and
q little group OF men just as selfish,
just as ruthless, Just as pitiless as
the Gar himelf, assumed control and
exercised their power by terror and
not by right.
And in other parts of Europe the
poison spread. The poison of dis
order, the poison CT velot, the poison
of chaos. And do you honestly think,
my fellow citizens, that none of that
poison has got in the veins of this
free people. Do you not know that
the world is all now one single whis-
pering gallery? These antennae of
the wireless telegraph are the symbols
of our age.
Millions ITO Spread Disorder.
"All the impulses of mankind are
thrown out upon the air and reach to
the ends of the earth. With the
tongue and the telegraph all the sug-
gestions of disorder are spread
through the world And money COM
ing from nobody knows where Is de-
posted by the millions in capitals,
like Stockholm, to- be used for the
propaganda of disorder and discon-
tent, and dissolution throughout the
world, and men look you calmly In
the face in America and say they
are for that sort of revolution, when
that sort of revolution means Gov
eminent by terror, Government by
force, not Government by vote.
1t is the negation of everything
that IL American, but it is spread
ing and so long as disorder con-
tinues, so long as the world Is kept
waiting for the answer to the ques-
ton of the kind of peace we are go
ing TO have and what kind OF guar
antees there are to be behind that
peace. that poison will steadily
spread, more and more rapidly un-
I'll II may be that even this beloved
land of ours will be discontinued
and distorted by II.
That is what is concerning me, my
fellow countrymen. / know the
splendid steadiness of the American
people, but, my fellow citizens. the
whole world needs that steadiness,
and the American people are the
make weight in the fortunes of man
kind How long are we going to de-
bate into which scale we will throw
that magnificent equipoise that be-
longs to us? How long shall we be
kept waiting for the answer whether
the world may trust us or despise us?
They have looked to us for leadership.
They have looked to us for ex-
ample. They have built their peace
upon the basis of our suggestions.
That great volume that contains
the Treaty of Peace is drawn along
the specifications laid down by the
American Government and now the