The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-03-06

new YORK, March 4,-PreSldent Will
son told the American people in an
address here tonight on the eve of his
return to Paris that he was going
back to the peace conference to battle
with renewed vigor for creation of n
League of Nations.
"The first thing am going to tell
the people on the other side of the
water is that an overwhelming ma
jority of the American people is in
favor Of the League of Nations" said
the president.
Speaking after former President
Taft had expounded the main features
of the proposed covenant of nations,
Mr.. Wilson told the vast audience,
which filled the Metropolitan Opera
House, his opinion of opponents of
the league plan in America.
"No party has the right to appro-
pirate this issue, and no party will in
the long run dare oppose it," he as
serted.
Asserting that the League of Ma
tions is ''meant as notice to all out
law nations that the great peoples Of
the world will no longer tolerate inter-
national crimes" the president said
that Europe is bit sick at heart at
this very moment, because it is seen
that statesmen have mad no vision and
that the only vision has been the vision
of the people
"And am amazed-not alarmed,
but amazed--that there should be in
some quarters such n comprehensive
ignorance of the state of the world.
Those gentlemen do not know what
the mind of man is just now. Every
! ody else does.
81 do not know where they have
been closeted; | do not know by what
influences they have been blinded;
but | do know that they have been
separated from the general currents
of the thought of mankind
"And | want to utter this solemn
warning not in the way of u threat;
the forces of the world do not threat
en-, they operate. The great tides of
the world do not give notice that
they are going to rise and run; they
rise in their majesty and overwhelm-
ing might, and those who stand in the
way are overwhelmed. Now the heart
of the wopld is awake, and the heart
of the world must be satisfied"
Americas soldiers, he said, went
overseas feeling they were sacredly
bound to the retaliation of these
ideals which their president had enun-
ciated when the United States went
into the war
"There is another thing" said the
president, (which critics of the league
had not observed.
"They not only have not observed
the temper of the world, but they have
not even observed the temper of those
splendid boys in khaki that they sent
across the seas
OF George Washington's warning of
entangling alliances, President Wilson
said that "the thing that he longed for
was just what we are now about to
supply an arrangement which will dis
entangle all the alliances in the whole
world"
The president said critics of the
league do not make any impression ON
me" because "the sentiment OF the
country 10 DTOOl SuSh
ness and such selfshness at that"
In closing, the president said that
America could look forward with con-
fdence to the future for he had heard
cheering news since he came to this
side of the water about the progress
that is being made in Paris towards
the discussion and Qualification OF n
great many difficult matters and he
believed settlements will begin to be
made rather rapidly from this time on
at those conferences.
Governor Smith introduced Mr.. Taft
as the man "who had worn the purple
of the president of the United States
with grace and honor"
The president smiled broadly when
Mr.. Taft referred to the resolution in
troduced in the senate last light by
Senator Lodge, proposing rejection OF
the league of nations constitution rs
now drawn.
"If the president insists, as ! hope
he will" said Mr. Taft, that the
league be incorporated in the peace
treaty, and brings 1t back, then the
responsibility for postponing peace is
with the body that refuses to ratify it,
Referring to the argument against
league that participation by the U
s. would be in opposition to the prin'
ciples laid down by George Washing
ton, Mr.. Taft declared he believed that
Washington, if he lived today would
he zone of the most earnest and press
ing for the covenant"
Washington's attack on "entanglinp
% alliances" he said, was an attack OF
defensive and offensive alliances with
one nation against another
The rank and file Of the American
people are standing firmly behind Pres
ident Wilson, declared Governor Smiti
in presenting "the world leader of to
day-the president Of the United
States.
Mr.. Wilson was cheered for three
minutes, while the band played :"