Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-09-12
THE PRESIDENT IN OPENING
SPEECHES OF TOUR VOICES
HIGH HOPE.
"W0RLD WAITS FOR US"
Future Free From War II America
Carries Out Her Pledges,
Says Executive.
(By Mount Clemens News Bureau.)

desire TO end war forever, and
that they viii see to it ne peace
treaty with it's league of nations in
clusion is ratified by the senate, Pres
ident Wilson is making a successful
way across the country on a journey
he has undertaken for the purpose OF
laying before the plain people a re-
port of his work in Paris and explain
ing to them just what the league
means.
Thus far in his travels, he has
everywhere met with warm greetings,
both in the great halls where he has
spoken formally and in the little
cross-road hamlets where his train
has halted at times and he has ex-
changed words with the villagers who
pressed forward to greet him. he
feels. and does not hesitate to say
so when chatting with his travelling
companions, that the American people
want no more of wal 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 his first
address, in Columbus, Ohio: "Ih1s
treaty was not intended merely to end
this single war, it is meant as a no.
tice to every government who in the
future will attempt this thing (what
Germany attempted) that mankind
will unite to inflict the same punish
ment. There is no national triumph
to be recorded in this treaty.
"There is no glory sought for any
particular nation. The thought of the
statesmen collected around tina table
was of their people, of the sufferings
they had gone through, of the losses
they had incurred, of that great throb-
bling heart which was so. depressed,
so forlorn. so sad in every memory it
had of the five tragical years that
have gone by. Let US never forget
those years, my fellow-countrymen ;
let us never forget the purpose, high
and disinterested, with which Ameri-
ca lent it's strength, not for its own
glory, but for the defense of man.
kind.
GAS l said, this treaty was not in
tended merely to end this war. II
was intended to prevent any similar
war. / wonder if some of the oppon-
ents of the league of nations have
forgotten the promises we made our
| people before we went to that peace
table. We had taken by processes of
law the flower of our youth from
every countryside, from every house
hold. And we told those mothers and
fathers and sisters and wives and
sweethearts that we were taking these
men to fight a wal which would end
business of that sort, and if we do
not end it, if we do not do the best
that human concert of action can do
to end it, we are of all men the most
unfaithful-the most unfaithful to the
loving hearts who suffered in this
war, the most unfaithful to those
heads bowed. in grief and yet lifted
with the feeling that the Lao laid down
his life for a great thing, and, among
other things, in order that other lads
might never have to do the same
thing.
THAT is what the league of ma
| tions is for-to end this wal justly
and then not merely to serve notice
on governments which would contem
| plate the same things Germany con-
templated that they will do so at their
peril, but also concerning the combi-
nation of power which will prove to
them that they will do it at their
peril. 1t is idle to~say the world will
combine against you; but it is per
suasive to say the world is combined
against you. The league of nations
is the only thing that can prevent the
recurrence of this dreadful catas-
trophe and redeem u promises"
A league of nations would have pre-
vented the late conflict, the presi-
dent asserted, explaining, Il did not
meet a single public nan who did no.
| admit these things; that Germany
would not have gone inso this war il
she thought Great Britain was going
into II, and that she most certainly
would never have gone into it had
she dreamed America was going into
it. And they all admit that a notice
/ DG1OIe udnu lldl Tx SACdbCSl POWCi
of the world would combine to prevent
this sort of thing would prevent il
absolutely"
Applause and cheers greeted eacf
declaration of the president that wars
might be avoided in future by the op
erations Of the league.
He pointed out other important fea
lures OF the peace treaty, how 1t wa
the redemption of weak nations, Civ
ing them freedom which otherwise
they never could have won; how i
says, Those people have a right t.
live their own lives under government
which they themselves choose ant
how shat is the American principle
and l was glad to fight for it," Tha
was the very heart of the treaty, h
said.