Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-09-12
LEAGUE CERTAIN
WILSON DECLARES
PRESIDENT IN THE OPENING
SPEECHES OF HIS TOUR
VOICES HIGH HOPE.
WORLD WAITS r
Future Free From War If A,1e
Carries Out Her Pledges
Says Executive.
(By Mt. Clemo~e


TRAIN, st. Louis. - DislIay4As .
high confidence that his fellow citi-
zens in the great majority agree with
him in his desire to end war forever,
and that they will see to it that the
peace treaty with its league of nations
inclusion is ratified by the senate,
| President Wilson is making a success
full way across the country on the
long journey he has undertaken for
the purpose Of laying before the plain
| people report of his work in Paris
and explaining to them just what the
| league means Thus far in his travels,
he has everywhere met with warm
greetings.
People Want No More War.
He feels, and does not hesitate to
say so when chatting with his travel
ing companions, 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 lie struck
his keynote when he said in his first
address, in Columbus, Ohio:
This treaty was not intended mere
| ly to end this single war. 1t is meant
as a notice to every government who
in the future will attempt this thing
! (what Germany attempted), that man
kind will unite to inflict the same
| punishment. 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 collected around that table
was of their people, of the sufferings
they had gone through, of the losses
they had incurred, of that great throb-
bling heart which was so depressed,
so forlorn, so sad in every memory 1t
had of the five tragical years that
have gone by. Let us never forget
those years, my fellow countrymen;
let us never forget the purpose, high
and disinterestod, with which America
lent it's strength, not for its own glory
but for the defense of mankind.
Treaty Intended to Prevent War.
"As I said, this treaty was not in
tended merely to end this war. It
was intended to prevent any similar
war. l wonder if some of the oppon-
ents of the league Of nations have
forgotten the promises we made our
people before we went to that peace
table. We had taken by processes of
law the flower of our youth from
every countryside, from every house
hold, and we told those mothers and
fathers and sisters and wives and
sweethearts that we were taking those
men to fight a war which would end
business of that sort, and if we do
NO Il n
that human concert Of action can do
to end it, we are Of all men the most
unfaithful--the most unfaithful to
those households bowed in grief and
yet lifted with the feeling that the lad
laid down his life for great thing,
and, among other things, in order that
other lads might never have to do the
same thing.
"That is what the league Of nations
is for-to end this war justly and then
not merely to serve notice on govern
ments which would contemplate the
same things Germany contemplated
that they will do so at their peril, but
also concerning the combination OF
power which will prove to them that
they will do it at their peril
Only Way to Prevent Recurrence.
"The league of nations is the only
thing that can prevent the recurrence
of this dreadful catastrophe and re-
deem our promises"
A league of nations would have pre-
vented the late conflict, the president
asserted, explaining:
Il did not meet a single public man
who did not admit these things: That
Germany would not have gone into
this war if she thought Great Britain
was going into 1t, and that she most
certainly would never have gone into
it had she dreamed America was 60
ing into it. And they all admit that a
notice beforehand that the greatest
powers of the world would combine to
prevent this sort of thing would pre-
vent it absolutely"
Redemption for Weak Nations.
He pointed out other important feat
ures of the peace treaty, how it was
the redemption of weak nations, CIV
ing them freedom which otherwise
they never could have won; how 1t
says, Those people have a right to
live their own lives under govern
ments which they themselves choose"
and how THAT is the American prin-
ciple and l was glad to fight for it,"
That was the very heart of the treaty,
he said.
In conclusion, the president said he
felt certain the treaty will be accept
ed, and was only impatient of the
delay. He added; do you realize, my
fellow citizens, that the whole world
is waiting on America? The only
country in the world that is trusted
today is the United States, and the
world is waiting to see if its trust is
justified"
Mr. Wilson's Indianapolis speech
was like the one at Columbus, an ex-
PLANTATION of the league, an appeal for
its ratification, and a prediction that
1t was sure to come into being.