Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-12

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Occur dsAlene, Idaho, Sept. ia
partial text of the president 5 Couer
d 'Alenc address follows:
cit was with the most earnest de-
| sire to get in touch with you and the
rest of ny fellow eountrymen that l
undertook this trip, for, my fellow
eountrymen,N we are facing a decision
now in which we cannot afford to
make mistake. We must not let our
selves be deceived as to the gravity of
| that decision, or as to the implications
OF that decision. 1t will mean great
deal now, but it will mean indefinite
| ly more in the future, and America
has to do at this moment nothing less
than prove to the world whether she
has meant what she said in the past.
l must confess that | have been
amazed that there are some men in re-
| sponsible positions who are opposed
to the ratification of the treaty of
peace altogether. =
''The settlement of this treaty can
not be maintained without the concert
ed action of all the great governments
of the world. AT this moment the only
people who are dealing with the bolshe-
visit government in Russia are the Ger
mons. They are fraternizing with the
few who exercise control in that dis
tracted country. They are making all
their plans, that the financing of Rus
sia and the commerce of Russia and
the development of Russia shall be as
soon as possible in the hands of Ger
mans and just 50 soon as she can swing
that great power, that is also her road
to the east and to the domination Of
the world. If you do not guarantee the
titles that you are setting up in these
treaties, you leave the whole ground
fallow in which again to SOW the drag
on S teeth with the harvest of ormed
men.
"That, my fellow citizens, is what
article x, that you hear so much talk
ed about, in the covenant of the lea
que of nations, does. 1t guarantees the
land titles of the world and if you do
not guarantee the land titles of the
world, there cannot be the ordered So
ciety in which men can live. AM
erica is absolutely necessary to the
peace of the world. Germany realizes
that, and want to tell you now and
here-I wish i could proclaim it in
tones so loud that they would reach
the world-Germany wants us to stay
out of this treaty. Not under any de-
ception. Not under the deception that
we will turn in sympathy towards her.
Not under the delusion that we would
seek in any direct or conscious way to
serve Germany; but with the knowl-
edge that the guarantees will not be
sufficient without America, and that
inasmuch as Germany is out of the ar
rangement, it will be very useful to
Germany to have America out of the
arrangement. Because, Germany knows
that if America is out of the arrange
ment, America will lose the confidence
and cooperation Of all the other ma
tions of the world and, fearing Ameri-
ca IS strength, she wants to see America
alienated from the peoples from whom
she has been alienated. 1t isa perfectly
reasonable program. She wants to see
America isolated She is isolated. She
wants tosee one great nation left ont
of this combination which she never
would again dare face. Evidences are
not lacking, nay, evidences are abound
ing that pro-German propaganda has
started up in this country, coincident-
ally with the opposition to the adoption
Of this treaty. | want those who have
any kind of sympathy with the pur-
poses with which we went into the ar
now to reflect upon this proposition:
Are we going to prove the enemy of
the rest of the world, just when we
have proved their savior? The thing is
intolerable The thing is impossible.
America has never been unfaithful and
she never will be unfaithful.
"Do not mistake the signs Of the
times, my fellow countrymen, and do
not think that America is immune. The
poison that has spread all through that
pitiful nation Of Russia is spreading all
through Europe. There is not states