The Newark journal., 1919-09-18
PRESIDENT IN Ets opEn,Mo
SPEECHES OF TOUR VOICES
HIGH HOPES.
WORLD WAITS FOR US"
Future Sure To Be Free From War
" America Carries Out Her
Pledges, Says Chief
Executive.
BY Mount clemens News Bureau

" liz Sisal HAJoTlty agree with
aim in his desire to end war forever.
End that they will see to II that the
peace treaty with its League of Ma.
lions, inclusion is ratified by the Sen.
ate, President Wilson is making a
fuccessful way across the country on
the long journey he has undertaken
Tor the purpose of laying before the
plain people report of his work in
Paris and explaining to them tust
what the League means.
Thus far In his travels he has ev.
.rywhere met with warm greetings.
both in the great halls where he has
spoken formally and in the littre
cross-road hamlets where his train
has halted at times and he has ex.
Changed words with the villagers who
pressed forward to greet him. He
feels, and does not hesitate to say so
when chatting with his travelling COM
panions, that theI American people
want no more OF war and want to be-
come part of the League so that there
may be no more war He struck his
keynote when he said In his first adj
dress, in Columbus, o.:
This treaty was not intended
merely to end this single war. II Is
meant as a notice to every govern.
ment who in the future will attemrt
This thing (what Germany attempted)
that mankind will unite to inf1iet the
same punishment There is no M.
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treaty. There is no glory sought fos
any particular nation The thought Of
the statesmen collected around that
table was of their people, of the SUI
ferings they had gone through, OF the
losses they had incurred. of that great
thrcbbfng heart, which was SO forIorn,
so sad in every memory II had of tho
FIVE trasical years that have gone by.
Let US never forget those years. my
fellow-countrymen; let us never for.
get the purpose, high and distinter
ested, with which America lent it5
strength, not for its own glory by
the defense OF mankind.
AS | said, this treaty was not In.
tended merely to end this war. II
vas intended to prevent any similar
war. | wonder IL some OF the oppo.
nents OF the league of Nations have
forgotten the promises We made our
people before we went TO that peace
table. We had taken by process of
law the flower Of our youth from ev-
cry countryside, from every house
hold, and we told those mothers and
fathers and sisters and wives AMI
sweethearts that we were taking
those man to fight a war which would
do not end II. IL we do not do the
| best that human concert of action can
| do to end It. we are Of all men the
most unfaithful-the most unfaithful
TO the loving hearts who suffered in
this war, 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
hat other lads might never have to
| do the same thing.
That Is what the League of Ma
and then not merely to serve notice.
on governments which could contem.
| plate the same things Germany con-
templated that they will do so at
their peril. But also concerning the
combination of power which will
prove to them that they will do 1t at
their peril. II is idle to say tho
worlds will combine against you; but
Il IS persuasive to say the worlds Is
combined against you. The League
Of Nations is the only thing that can
prevent the recurrence OF this dread
ful catastrophe and redeem our prom
Uses"
A League Of Nations would have
prevented the late conflict. the Presi.
dent asserted, explaining:
"I did not meet a single public
man who did not admit three things:
That Germany would not have gone
into this war If she thought Great
Britain was going into it, and that
she most certainly would never have
gone into it had she dreamed America
was going into 1t, and they all admit
that a nation beforehand knowing
that the greatest powers of the world
would combine to prevent this sort VI
thing would prevent il absolutely"
Applause and cheers greeted each
declaration Of the President that wars
right be avoided in future Wy the ope-
rations of the League.
He pointed out other important
features of the peace treaty-how K
was the redemption of weak nations,
giving them freedom which otherwise
they never could have won Flow il
says: These people have a right 10
live their own lives under govern
ments which they themselves choose"
and how THAT is the American prin-
ciple and was glad to fight for It."
That was the very heart of the treaty,
he said.
He drew attention to the section