The Prescott daily news., 1919-09-06
LEAGUE CERTAIN WILSON DECLARES r"solpENT IN HIS oPgNtNa ePEscHEs OF TOUR voIcEa
 HIGH HOPES. WORLD WAITS FOR US" ru'ure Sure To Be Free From War It America csrrIss Out Her
 Pledges. Says Chief
 Executive.
WORLD WAITS FOR US"
By Mount oIemen. New. sur.,..

r. s' oiemohs News Bureau.
 oe Louis, Sept. 5.--Dsplayinr a n'sn confidence that his feilow-oiti- sens in the great majority agree with nm In his desire to end war foraver snd that they will sec to fl that th. peace treaty with its League of N.. uons, Inclusion Is ratified by the Sen. ate. President Wilson is making successful way across the country on the long journey he has undertaken TOT the purpose of laying before the plain people report of his work in Paris and explaining to them lust what the League means.
 Thus far in his travels he has ev. eWwhere met with warm greetings. beth In the great halls where he has spoken formally and in the little oross-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 80 when chatting with his travelling con- panions, that the AmericaH people want no more of war 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 ad. dress, in Columbus, O..
 This treaty was not intended merely to end this single war. It Is
 meant as notice to every govern ment who in the future will attempt this thing (what Germany attempted) that mankind will unite to infiot tho same punishment There is no na. | tional triumph to be recorded in this treaty There is no glory sought for any particular nation. The thought of the statesmen collected around that table was of their people, of the sui. ferings they had gone through, of tho losses they had incurred, of that great throbbing heart. which was 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-ccuntrymen; let us never for get the purpose, high and distinter' ested, with which America lent its strength, not for its own glory by the defense of mankind.
 "As I said, this treaty was not in. | tended merely to end this war. It vas intended to prevent any similar war. wonder if some of the opp nents of the League of Nations have | forgotten the promises we made our people before we went to that peace
 table. We had taken by process of law the flower of our youth from ev. cry countryside. from every house hold. and we told those mothers and fathers and sisters and wives ana sweetbearts that we were taking those men to fight war which would end business of that sort, and if wa 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 households bowed in grief and get lifted with the feeling that the lad
 laid down his life for great thir }. and. among other things, in order that other lads might never have to do the same thing
 "That is what the League of Na- uon is for-to end this war justly and then not merely to serve notice on governments which could cohtem, rlate the same things Germany con iemplated that they will do so al their peril But also concerning the combination of power which will prove to them that they will do it Ut their peril It Is idle to say tho worlds will combine against you; but | if is persuasive to say the worlds fa combined against you. The League of Nations is the only thing that can prevent the recurrence of this drsai- ful catastrophe and redeem our prom. ises."
 A League of Nations would have prevented the late conflict, the Presi' dent asserted, explaining:
 q did not meet a single public man who did not admit three things: That Germany would not have gone into this war if she thought Great Britain was going into it. and that she most certainly would never have gone into it had she dreamed America was going into 1t, and they all admit that a nation befe hand knowing that the greatest powers of the world would combine to prevent this sort If thing would prevent it absolutsly." Applause and cheers srest]d each seclaration of the presidsnt that wars might be avoided in future VI the ors.