The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-09-26
WILSON ADDRESSES
NEVADANs At RENO
PRESENTS ARGUMENTS FOR THE
ADOPTION OF THE WORLD
COVENANT OF NATIONS.
Declares That at Versailles the Cycle
of Liberty Had Been Completed
by Application Of Monroe Doc
trine TO the Whole World.

Reno. Nevada. Contras ~ the
peace conference AT Versailles with the
congress of Vienna, President Wilson
declared. on September -. that the
Vienna peace effort had failed because
all the governments represented there
were in the hands of "a small corerie
of autocrats."
At Versailles. said the president. the
league of nations covenant was drawn
up by great democracies 50 that au-
tocracies never again could enslave
1.-The peoples of the world.
One of the purposes of the vienna
/ conference. Mr.. Wilson asserted, was
| TO form such union "a would hold IN
| check the growing tide of democracy.
| The chief concern of the delegates
who sat at Versailles, he added, was
to accomplish exactly the opposite,
Speaking in theatre here to a
crowd of about 1000, the president
frequently was interrupted by ap-
plause. BY an electrical device his
words were carried to three other
theatres holding 1000 persons each.
In his reference to the congress of
Vienna, the president said that the eff
fort there made to stifle re7oiution
and democracy had been un successful
in every nation but Germany.
1t was the invocation of the Mon
roe doctrine. he said, that broke the
| . owls, nffa,.f N
whelm South America and added that
at Versailles the cycle of liberty had
been completed by application OF the
Monroe doctrine to the whole world.
Servants of the People.
Unlike the Vienna congress, contln'
ued the president, the conference al
Versailles was maze up of men who
knew they were the servants and moi
the masters of the people. AS the peo
pies servants, he said, they had car
ried out their promise of permanent
peace.
This treaty was not written, essen
TALLY speaking. in Paris he said. II
was written at Chateau Thierry, IL
Belleau Wood and in the Argonne.
"Our men did not fight with thu
purpose of coming back and having
the same thing happen again. The,
fought with the purpose of seeing TIL
thing through and we are going to Sc
it through"
Tribute to Frontier Spirit.
Paying a tribute to the frontie
spirit of the west, the president sal
it was at the frontier that was foun
the forward-looking people. Too man
who oppose the treaty, he asserted
were looking over their shoulders.
Referring to the ''insub| tdinate res
lessness" prevailing in Europe an
Asia, Mr.. Wilson ass rted that Il
world not only desired peace, but mu
! have it. America only could guara
tee such a peace, Asking his heare
whether they had not heard Of Orga
izations in America 1.-The purpose
which is nothing less than to owe
throw the government ITSELF" he a
uVu THAT IL was thpoitoht W sNihSih
also that unrest be quoted.
Repeating his previous declaration
in support of article X and other ii
\ puted points of the treaty, the pre-
dent said the people had been di
III gently msinformed about the confer
w of the document
He lauded the labor and mandate
features of the treaty, saying it &C
~, tituted "a great guarantee of just
~ and liberty"
rio The president also discussed the ,
nh lection that the British empire wo,
FOR have an unequal representation in
league assembly, saying that the fl
expressed on that score was n "bu
boo" He also explained the Sh
in tung provision of the treaty, and s;
, . the league furnished China her b
t, hope of regaining control of the p
q, vince.
al, Discussing the withdrawal featr
thu Mr.. Wilson said he didn't want to
H, into the league with fear he mi
our not be able to get out, but wanted
ess go in with the hope of staying in ,
he helping all he could.
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