Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-28

or reservation. His message, given
out here by Secretary Tumulty,
said:
Severe on Germany
MY w-countrymen: trhe
treaty of peace has been signed. II
it is ratified and acted upon in full
, and sincere execution of it's terms,
it will furnish the charter for a
new order of affairs in the world.
! 1t is a severe treaty in the duties
and penalties it imposes upon Ger
many, but it is severe only because
great wrongs done by Germany are
to be righted and repaired; it inn
poses nothing that Germany cannot
/ do; and she can regain her rightful
standing in the world by the prompt
and honorable fulfllmen of its
/ terms.
Libcrate Great Peoples
! And it is much more than a
! treaty of peace with Germany. 1t
liberates great peoples who have
never before been able to find the
kiway to liberty. 1t ends, once for all,
4 an old and intolerable order under
which small groups of selfish men
could use the peoples of great en-
pires to serve their ambition for
| power and dominion. 1t associates
the free governments of the world
in permanent league in which they
are pledged to use their united
power to maintain peace by main
tanning right and justice. 1t makes
| international laws reality, supported
by imperative sanctions. 1t does
away with the right of conquest and
rejects the policy of annexation and
/ substitutes new order under which
! backward nations populations
| which have not yet come to politi-
cal consciousness and peoples who
are ready for independence but not
yet quite prepared to dispense with
protection and guidance - shall no
more be subjected to the domina-
ton and exploitation of a. stronger
nation, but shall be put under the
| friendly direction and afforded the
! helpful assistance of governments
/ which undertake to be responsible
! to the opinion of mankind in the
execution of their task by accepting
the direction of the League of Ma
! tions.
Furnishes Guarantees
/ 1T recognizes the inalienable
rights of nationality, the rights of
minorities and the sanctity of re-
/ Dgious belief and practice. 1t lays
the basis for conventions which shall
; free the commercial intercourse of
the world from unjust and vexa-
| tious restrictions and FOR every sort
OF international cooperation that
viii serve to cleanse the life of the
world and facilitate it's common ac-
tion in beneticent service of every
kind. 1t furnishes guarantees such
as were never given or even contem-
plated for the fair treatment of all
who labor at the daily tasks of the
world.
New Order of Affairs
! 1t is for this reason that have
spoken of it as a great charter for
| new order of affairs. There is
ground here for deep satisfaction,
| universal reinsurance and confident
| hope.
| Official Washington took the sign
| ing of the Peace Treaty quietly in
marked contrast to the riotous dem
onstrations which greeted the an
nouncement of the signing of the
| armistice.
Congress was wholly without DEM
onstration. In the Senate President
! Wilson's address to the American
| people was read by Senator Hitch
| cock. senior Democrat, of the Foreign
Relations Committee, but it passed
without comment. Ths House was
not in session at the moment, not as
sembling until noon. The Marine
Band. serenading Congress on the
| Capitol plaza was the only sign of
celebration. Throughout the city
! there were no demonstrations what
ever by the many in the street.
| Although there was considerable
| comment on the Presidents address
in private talks among Senators, few
| made an expression for publication.
Senator Knox, Republican. Pennsyl-
vania, and a former Secretary of
State, who opposed the league cove
nantf declined to talk.
The House received the Presidents
! address with more of a show of cele-
bration than did the Senate. Pre-
sented by Democratic Floor Leader
| Clark the address was read from the
Speakers desk, while the House stood
and punctuated it with applause and
| cheers. Loud yells from the Demo-
cratic side greeted the announcement
of the signature Woodrow Wilson"