The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-10
WORLD LEAGUE
NECESSARY TO
MAINTAIN new
ORDER. WILSON
Formation of Nation Society
Gives Peace Conferees AS
surance of Permanence De-
clares President in Address.
GIVES SENATE TREATY
(By Associated Press)

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WASHINGTON. J"'v 10 -N--~-'-
! Wilson today laid the peace treaty
with Germany D,4~.
out attempt to explain its SPECIFIC
terms. His address, which required
forty minutes for delivery. was de-
voted almost wholly to the league Of
nations.
| American isolation, the president
said, ended twenty years ago at the
close of the war with Spain. Fear
| of American motives now also had
ended, he declared.
| There can be no question of our
| ceasing to be a world power" said
the president. The only question Is
whether we can refuse the moral
leadership that is offered, whether we
! shall accept or reject the confidence
of the world"
The war and the peace conference,
in his opinion, the president said, had
already answered that question "and
nothing but our mistaken action can
| alter it."
People Demand Change
After the end of the great war" the
president said, every enlightened
judgment demanded that, at what
ever cost of independent action, every
government that took thought for it's
people. or for justice, or for ordered
freedom, should lend itself to a new
purpose and utterly destroy the old
order of international politics.
Statesmen might see difficulties in
accomplishing this purpose, the presi-
dent continued, but the people could
see none and could brook no denial.
The League Of Nations he added was
not merely an instrument to adjust
1NIx Ill
treaty Of peace, 1t was the only hope
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League Indispensable
/ In presenting the treaty the presi-
dent declared that "a league of free
nations had become practical neces-
sity," which trainers Of the treaty felt
obliged to term "as an indispensable
instrumentality for the maintenance
Of the new order it has been their
purpose to set up in their world"
The most skepucal of the peace con-
ferees at Paris, the president said.
had turned more and more to the
} league as discussion progressed in
seeking solution Of the problems that
arose in framing the terms Of the
treaty itself.
, THE fact that the covenant of the
league was the first substantive part
|
agreed upon" the president said,
while all else was in solution, helped
to make the formulation of the rest
easier"
! Assures Permanenee.
Mr. Wilson said the agreement to
the covenant had given the conferees
: a feeling that their work was to be
t permanent and that the most practical
among them "were at last the most
: ready to refer to the league Of ma
: tions the superintendence Of all inter
ests which did not admit Of immediate
determination, Of all administrative
problems which we're to require con-
tinuing oversight"
What had seemed council Of per-
fection," said the president. had come
to seem a plain council Of necessity
The league of nations was the practi-
cal stateman's hope Of success In
many of the most difficult things he
was attempting"
When the president entered the
senate chamber. escorted by commit
tee of senators, the crowded galleries
rose and cheered for a minute in dis
y regard of the senate rules. The pres
ident mounting to the vice-president's
. seat, spoke briefly with Vice-Presi-
, dent Marshall as the cheering con-
tinued, punctuated with rebel yells.
: Sees World Settlement
At the start of his address the pres
ident declared the treaty constitutes
nothing less than world settlement
He said it would not be possible for
& him to summarize or construe its man
; fold provisions in a limited address,
: and therefore he would attempt only a
general characterization Of it's scope
! and purpose. He asserted his services
4 and all information he possessed were
> at the disposal of the senate commit
tee on foreign relations at any time.
Mr.. Wilson said he would attempt
. to tell the senate the part it seemed
l necessary for him and his colleagues
to play as representatives of the Unit
y ed States That part was dictated
Z Z by the role America had played in the
i war and by the expectations that had
1 been created in the minds Of the
people with whom we had associated
ourselves in that great struggle" he
said.
Assurance Of Liberty.
After pointing out that the United
States entered the war on a different
footing than the European nations
8 the president asserted the only thing
a sought by this country in the settle.
Il ment was "the right and assurance
l. OF liberty everywhere.
e How the arrival Of American troops
raised the morale of the nations hght
<, ing Germany and its allies was re
Il lated by the president. Saying II was
It not the time to eulogize the army oi
o America, Mr.. Wilson paid a tribute
n to the soldiers and spoke Of the pride
d they aroused in him.
IS Speaking of the difficulties in the
j. way of arriving at a settlement, Presi
al dent Wilson asserted old entangle
II ments of every kind stood in the wa.
IS and it was not easy to graft the new
E order Of ideas on the old.
4 Some of the fruits of the grating