Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-09-17
PRESIDENT SAYS OUR PROMISE
TO Try 10 PREVENT FUTURE
WARS SHOULD BE KEPT.
ON ! HOPE IS nj uoRLD D LEAGUE
Says Germany Mould Not Have Dared
10 Strike H Nations Had Been
Banded Against Aggression.
tBy nc Clemens News gureau.)

SQ6Slre 90 END war forever, anu enf1s
the peace treaty with its League OF
Nations inclusion is ratified by the
senate, President Wilson is making 8
successful way across the country on
the long journey he has undertaken
for the purpose Of laying before the
plain people a report Of his work In
Paris and explaining to them just
what the League means.
Thus far in his travels he has every
where met with warm greetings, both
In the great halls where he has
spoken formally and in the little Cross
road hamlets where his train has
halted at times and he has exchanged
words with the villagers who pressed
I forward to greet him. He feels, and
does not hesitate to say so when
chatting with his travelling compan-
ions, that the American people want
NO more OF war and want to become
part OF the League so that there may
be no more war. He struck his key
note when he said ID his first address,
ia Columbus, Ohio:
& ssThis treaty was not intended mere
{ II to end this single war. 1t is meant
as d notice to every government who
Sd the future will attempt this thing
fwhat Germany attempted that maE-
kind will unite to inhict the same pun
tshment. There is no national
triumph to be recorded in this treaty.
There Is no glory sought for any par
ticular nation. The thought Of the
statesmen coIlectd around that table
was OF their people, Of the sufferlngs
i they had gone through, OF the losses
they had incurred, Of that great throb-
hing heart which was SO depressed,
SO forlorn, so sad in every memory It
had OF the Eve tragical years that
hare gore BY. Let us never forget
those years. my fellow coumtrymen;
let as never forget the purpose, hign
8ud disinterested, with which America
leut It's strength, not for its own glory
int for the defense OF mankind.
AS said, this treaty was not
meastt merely 10 end this war. u IS
Sinteuded to prevent any similar war:
81 wonder il come Of the opponents OF
tie sague De Nations have forgotten
the promises We made our people Dc
SSsSora we went to that peace tapleI We
had takec by process OF law the
lover of our youth from every coun-
ryside, from every household, ana We
{ told those mothers and fathers and
sisters and wives and sWeethearts
thaf we were taking those men TO
! firht q war which would end business
of that sort, and II we 40 NOT emo lt,
I if We do not do the best that human
Z concert of action can do to end II, we
ara of all men the most unfaithfui-
tha most unfaithful to the loving
baarts who suffered In this war, the
most unfaithful Ito those househoids
howad in grief and yet lifted with the
feeling that the lad laid down nus NE
for 4 great thing, and, among otner
+h;nps IN order that other lads might
never have to do the same tnlns
.That is what the League Oh va
tions is for-to end this war justly
and then not merely to serve nouce
an governments which could contem'
niate that they will do so at their peril
b,t also concerning the comblnaGon
Of mower which will prove to them
that they will do it at their peril. II is
Z M ;dIa 70 saw the worlds will combine
against you; but it is persuasive W V.
say the world is combined agamse
von: The League OF Nat1ons
is the only thing that can prevent tue
Occurrence of this dreadful catastrophe
and redeem our promises.
4 League Of Nations would nave
,ravented the late conflict, the pres''
dent asserted, explaining: ,
"T did not meet single public man
,,o aid not admit these things; that
carrany would not have gone into
this war il she thought Great Britain
-as Going into it, and she most Ger
tainly would never nave gone ln.o a ~
had she dreamed America was gong
into it. And they all ADMIT tnat .
not,ce beforehand that the greatess
). nowars of the world would comoine GO
psuant pt this sort of thing would pre-
vent It absolutely. ~ sroatad
~ declaration Of the presi
sset 49, that wars might be avoid
a as n the future by operations
90 .,a - LEAGUE. He pointed out Other
3,,,y%oyfaNt Ic6bUA0S ~
Treaty.. how It was the reoemptloa "
noeT 80 nations, giving them freedom
,se;ch w otherwise they never couii
haye won; how It says "!nese peop1'
hsye h a right to live their own hveE
,,naer n governments which they them
sasvas % choose, and how that IL TN
smerican principle and I was glad tt
atA sspt for it,, and that was the ver7
hsart Of the Treaty. he said.
Ia drew attention to the section o
.ha treaty which is Magma Chart'
- Iabor." which shall dispose OF tn
So,,rs M conditions and remuneration
" .1t forecasts the day. he sai'
.vhieh ought to have come long age
hen statesmen will realize that n
ration Is fortunate which is not hap
nv whose people are not contented
cno.tsnted in their lives and fortunat
~ .he circumstances Of their lives"
IN conclusion the president said h
ia certain the Treaty Will be accept