The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-23
WILSON CONTRASTS
vienna CONGRESS
WITH PARIS PACT

President Shows Enthusiastic
Reno Audience That Each
Conference Had Totally Diff
ferent Plan For Meeting.
RENO, New Sept. 2s.-contrastlns
the peace conference at Versailles with
the congress at Vienna, President W.T.
son declared III an address here last
night that the Vienna peace effort bad
Jailed because all the governments rep
resented there was in the hands Of "a
SHali eoterte Of autoerats."
AZ versailles, said the president the
league OF nations covenant WAS drawn
Up by great den1ocraeies SO thai az
never again could enslave fhe
people Of the world. "0
2 OF the purposes Of the Vienna
SonIefenee, ar. Wilson asserted, was 10
lgIth such a union as would hold IN
Sneck the growing tide Of democracy
me enief concern OF the delegates Who
SAT At Versailles, he added vas IL
accomplish exactly the opposite.
speaklns in a theater here to a
EroWd 81 about 1000, the president
frequently was interrupted BY apblsusa
by an, electrical device his words were
carried to three other theaters holdipp
L4l0 persons each.
The president was welcomed 10 Reno
ny crowds which cheefed him at the
railway station and along the sbort
automobile ride through the princinsi
streets. Gov. Boyle presided All the
meeting and Mr.. Wilson was Introduced
py Charles Chandler, q Republican law
yer' who said he denied the right of
"a prominent senator" to commit the
nSpuOHcan party TO opposition Of the
continued good Republican doctrines;
Crowd Cheers.
The crowd rose and cheered wbsn the
president was, introduced and there was
mahmen s Mr. o1andler mentioned her
IN his reference to the congress of
Vienna, the president said that the eff
iort there made to stifle revolution and
democracy had been unsuccessful In
every nation but Germany.
II was the invocation of the Monroe
doctrine, he said, that broke the back
none OF autoefacy's effort to rwh
south America, and added that al Yer
sallles the cycle of liberty had been
completed by application Of the Nom
roe doctrine to the whole world,
Unlike the Vienna congress. con.
tlnued the president, the conference at
versailles was made up Of men who
khew they were the servants and not
lne masters o? the people, and as the
peoples servants, he said. they had car
peace.
This treaty was not written, essen
TALLY speaking, In Paris he said. at
was written at Chateau Thierry, In
beileau Wood and In the Argonne.
Our men did not fight with the
purpose OF coming back and, having the
same thing happen again. They fought
with the purpose OF seeing the thing
through
Paying a tribute to the frontier spirit
OF the West, the president said It was
at the frontier that was found the for
ward.looking people. TOO many who
oppose the treaty, he asserted, were
looking over their shoulders.
Referring to the "insubordlnate rest
lessness" prevailing in Europe and
Asia, Mr., Wilson asserted that the
world not only desired peace but must
Up To America.
America only, he said, could guaran-
zee such peace, Asking his hearers
whether they had not heard Of organ
which is nothing less than 10 over.
turn the government itself" he added
that 1t was important to America also
that unrest be quieted.
Repeating his previous declarations
In support OF Article 10 and other dis
puted points of the treaty, the presi-
dent said the people had been "dlli-
gently misinformed about the contents
OF the document" He iauded the Ia
Dor and mandatory features Of the
treaty, saying Il constituted "a great
guarantee Of justice and liberty"
The president also. said the fear that
the British empire would have an un.
equal representation In the league as
sembly was a "bugaboo." He also ex-
plained the s%hAntung provision Of the
treaty, and said the league furnished
China her best opportunity of regain
Ing control Of the province.
II was at the instance Of the tinted
States, said MIR. Wilson. that Japan
| promised TO return the Shantung rights
to China. and international law was so
"revolutloniSed' by Article II Of the
covenant that the great powers would
be IN 9 position to secure fulfillment OF
that promise.
The president said IN part:
"A man In the East recently said,
explaining the fact that We were able
TO train the great army so rapidly, that
| was always easier to train an Amer
lean because you had to train him to
~ RAt0 VAaR NVHSN ohtu NiuN 4 . aIu NIi1
been true Of America and the move
ment OF the population has been one
way, any turning tide. always an
advancing spirit. Men are ready to go
forward, and take up any front TO adj
vance the interest that people need and
desire, Therefore II "a with d spirit
Of enthusiasm that l find myself In this
state,
Looking Forward.
And II is more delightful In this
aspect because the subject l have come
to speak Is the forward looking sub
ject.
Some OF the critics Of the league of
nations have their eyes over their
shoulders; they are looking backward.
| think that Is the reason they are
stumbling AZ the time, Very few Of
victlon this doctrine contains or what
It's origin Is. | want to set the stage
for the people to let you see what was
meant TO he accomplished and what II
was that It accomplished. Perhaps l
can start with something over a hun
| called peace Conference was held back
In the year of 1915, II I remember cor
rectly.
The conference OF Vienna wal In
tended "a. check the revolutionary spirit
OF the time, That was intended to
but throughout the world. The British
| representatives at that conference were
alarmed because they heard 1t whis-
pered that European governments were
proposing TO extend their power to the
Western hemisphere to the Americas.
and the prime minister of Great
Britain suggested to Mr., Rush, the
American ambassador at the court OF
Great Britain that he put II In the ear
Of Mr., Monroe, who was then president,
that this thing was afoot, that 1t might
DO profitable to say something about
1t,