Arizona republican., 1919-03-05

NEW YORK, March 4.-Presdent Wilson told the American people in an address here on the eve of his return 10 Paris that he was going back to the peace conference to battle with re- newed vigor for the creation of a league of nations.
 "The first thing that l am going to tell the people on the other side of the water is that an overwhelming major ty of the American people is in faVor of the league of nations,' said the president.
 Speaking after former President Taft had expounded the main features of the proposed covenant of nations, MT. Wilson told the vast audience, which filled the Metropolitan Opera House, his opinions of opponents of the league plan in America.
 "No party has the right 10 sppropri- ate this issue, and no party will in the long run dare to oppose it, he said.
 Asserting that the league of nations S meant as a notice to all outlaw na lions that the great peoples of the world will no longer tolerate interna- tional crimes, the president said that Europe is a bit sick at heart at this very moment because 1t IS seen that statesmen have had no vision and that the only vision has been the vision of the people.
 "And l am amazed-not alarmed, but amazed-that there should be in some quarters such comprehensive ignor- ance of the state of the world" con- tinued Mr. Wilson. Those gentlemen do not know what the mind Of man is just now. Everybody else does.
 They Have Been Blinded
 "l do not know where they have been eloseted; ] do not know by what in- fluenees they have been blinded; but l do know thatSthey have been sepa- rated from the general currents of the thought of mankind.
 "And 1 want to utter this solemn warning. not m the way of a threat; the forces of the world do not threaten, they operate. The great ideas of the world do not give evidence that they are going to rise and run; they rise m their majesty and overwhelming in might, and those who stand in the way are overwhelmed. Now the heart of the world is awake, and the heart of the world must be satisfied"
 Americas soldiers, he said, went overseas feeling they were saeredly bound 10 the realization of these ideals which their president had enun- eiated when the United States went into the war.
 There is another thing" the presi- dent said, "that critics of the league had not observed.
 "They not only have not observed the tempers of the world, but they have not even observed the temper of those splendid boys in khaki that they sen; across the seas" he asserted.
 Of George Washington's warning of entangling alliances, President Wilson said that "the thing that he longed for was just what we are now about tc supply; an arrangement which will dis entsngle all the alliances in the world. ,
 The president said criticisms of the league "de not make any impression on me, because the sentiment of the country is proof against such narrow. ness and selfshness as that"
 America to Be Proud
 In closing, the president said Amer. iea could look forward with confidenc, to the future, for he had heard cheerinc news since he came to this side of tht water about the progress that is beins made m Paris toward the discuss or and elarifieation of a great many diff, cult matters, and he believed settle nents would begin to be made rather rapidly from this time on at these con .ferences.
 Declaring that while abroad he hac heard cries for the league of nation, from lips of people who had no particu lar notion of how if was to be done, sthe president said; 1t was inconeeiv able that we should disappoint then and we shall not"
 "The day will come when men il America will look back with swelling hearts and rising pride that they shout have been privileged to make the sac rifiee which it was necessary to make in order to combine their might am their moral power with the cause o justice for men of every kind, every where,' he said.
 God give us the strength and Visio 10 do it wise,y. God give US the privi lege of knowing that we did it withou counting the cost, and because W