Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-09-18

i LouF SitIHe. lne game OF the Ameri.
can people? Not at all.
THE American people play Their
game. They played It then thew sent
their sons abroad to the number Of
100000 and these boys valiantly nm
held the traditions and honor OF this
country.
That was the American people,s
game. but 1t is not the American neo.
pies game to safeguard the territorial
acquisitions of England or of France
or of Italy or of. Japan. And that ia
the game that Mr.. Wilson speaks OF
and that Mr.. Wilson plays today.
Nov, the American people never
have been cutters. They never have
in any contest, either In their own be-
half or in the behalf Of humanity quit
the game. They have ever seen it
through. Mr.. Wilson began his game at
Paris, and let's see who quit in that
game and who 1t was that forgot the
American rule.
You remember, just as did, that
he had certain celestial phrases, GER
tain tdealistic statements and certain
specified principles upon which he
went across the water to play his
game, and, my friends, might say to
you something that we learned long,
long ago in the West. In our unregen-
Grated day. before we were as civilized
as you are here in this great state,
there was a saying that ripened into
proverb: Never sit in the other fell
lows game The trouble with Mr..
Wilson is that he has been sitting in
the other fellows game. And he gat
there just exactly what e man always
gets who sits In another fellows game.
Armaments Not Reduced.
"He started off, as you recall, with
open covenants of peace openly ar
rived at You and l echoed the senti-
ment. All America applauded. Who
quit. Who was the gutter?
1--WE indorsed vociferously the free
dom of the seas and the British lion
growled. Who quit?
HE talked OF removal of oil eco
nomical barriers and I'VE all Welded a
ready assent. But economic. barriers
were forgotten. The American people
didn't quit. Somebody else quit.
HE talked, my friends, of adequate
guarantees given and that ornaments
would be reduced. No ornaments
were ended. None will be reduced, adj
mittedly, under the League of Nations.
Self determination Forgotten.
told ne a
every arbitrary power that can sep
arately and securely disturb the peace
of the world. He never mentioned
it again in Paris. The American peo-
pie didn't quit. Somebody else did.
He said. my friends, self-determination
self-determination for all the peoples
of the earth, and every one of us be-
3leved in that doctrine. We all huz-
zaed and we said: we will stand
behind you four square for self-de-
termination but he left it. The Amer
lean people didn't quit. Who quit?
@He sald there can be no league or
alliance or special covenants and un-
derstandings within the general and
common family of the League of Ma
tons, and then Clemenceau made a
grimace and then we had an offensive
and defensive alliance with France
brought to us. The American people
didn't quit because they We're behind
him In his statement. Somebody else
was the gutter.
"He said to us as he went abroad
that no people can be forced to live
under sovereignty under which 1t
does not wish to live. But Japan. with
an immobile countenance. shook her
head and the American people didn't
quit, but somebody else quit"
Cheer for American Troops.
Senator Johnson provoked demon
stration when he referred to the Amer
lean forces finally stopping the great
German drive on Paris.
'They required no League Of Nations
to do it," he exclaimed. II have heard
of men placing themselves in the hands
Of their creditors, but have never yet
heard of a man placing himself in the
hands of his debtors. There is just one
going. solvent national concern in ali
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this world, and 1t is your country and
my country. Why does the greatest
solvent national concern on earth have
to enter into partnership with four
bankrupts?
Just think Of 1t, my friends. in the
assembly of the League of Nations, tile
United States, your country and mine.
the most powerful on the face of the
earth. the richest in all the world, is
given one vote to Great Britain's six
votes.
..My friends, do you realize what the
president was up against? / think I
do. and he did not. His good intentions
did not protect him from the European
diplomacy. He used beautiful phrases
while they sat with their pockets bulg-
ing with the contracts signed. sealed
and delivered for carving the world.
When they got all through lie had his
beautiful phrases and they had the
countries and the peoples for whom
they had bargained long before we en-
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