Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-09-12
PRESIDENT m OPENING SPEECH.
Es OF TOUR VOICES HIGH
HOPES.
WORLD WAITS FOR US
Future Free From War IF America
Carries Out Tier Pledges,
Says Executive
"By Mt. Clemens News Bureau ~

y,
they Will sec TO il that the peace treaty
with lis League of Nations inclusion
Ia ratified by the Senate. President
wilson is making Il successful way
across The country on the long tourney
ne las undertaken for the purpose of
laying before the plain people Il re-
port Of his work in Paris and explain-
ing 10 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-roaI
lamlets where his train has halted M
times and he has exchanged words
with the villagers who pressed for
ward To greet him. He feels, and does
not hesitate to say SO when chatting
with his travelling companions, that
the American people want no more OF
war ana want to become part of the
League so that there may he no more
war. Ee struck his keynote when he
said in his first address, in Columbus
Ohio:
This treaty was not intended mere
~ TO end this single war. II Is meant
as notice TO every government who
In the future will attempt this thing
(what Germany attempted that man
lshnent. There is no national triumph
to be recorded in this treaty. There
Is no glory sought for any particular
nation. The thought Of the statesmen
collected around that table was of
their people, of the SufreriEcs they had
gone through, of the losses they had
incurred, of that great throbbing heart
which was so depressed, so foriorn, so
sad IN every memory 1t had Of the five
tragical years that have gone by. Let
us never forget those years. my fell
low-countrynen let us never forget
the purpose, high and diSinterested,
with which America lent its strength,
not for its own glory but for the de-
Tense of mankind.
AS ! said, this treaty was not in
tended merely to end this war. II was
intended to prevent any similar war
i wonder II some Of the opponents of
the League Of Nations have forgotten
the promises we made our people be-.
fore we went TO that peace table. We
had taken by process Of law the flower
az our youth from every countrysidr
from every household. and we told
those mothers and fathers and sisters
ana wives and SweelheartS that we
were taking those men to light n var
which would end business Of that sort.
and if we do not end il, if we do not
do The best that human concert of ac-
Ton can do 10 end ii. we are Of all
men the most unfaithful-thc most I'M
faithful! TO The loving hearts who Suf-
Tered in this war, the most unfaithful
Ia 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.
"rhut is what Ire League of M
lions is for-tO end this war iustIy
and then not merely to serve notice on
governments which could Contemplate
the same thing Germany contemplated
that they Will do so at their peril. but
also concerning the combination of
power which Will prove 10 them that
they will do il at their peril II is
ideal TO say that the world will COM
bIne against you; but is it perSuave
TO say the world is combined against
YOU. The League of Nations is the
only thing that can prevent the recur-
renee Of this dreadful catastrophe and
redeem our promises"
a League OF Nations would have
prevented the late conflict, the Presi-
dent asserted, explaining:
u did not meet q 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
il had she dreamed America was going
into 1t. And they all admit that n ma.
ton before hand thar the greatest now
crs Of the world would combine 10 pre-.
vent this sort Of thing would prevent
il absolutely"
Gcclnration Of the President that wars
might be avoided in future hy the Oh.
erations OF the League
He pointed out other importan; fen.
lures OF the peace trcaty-how il was
the redemption Of weak nations. Civ
log them freedom which otherwise
they never could have won: how II
says these people have right To live
their own lives under governments
which they themselves choose" and
how chat is the American princiDle
and j was glad to fight for It" that
was the very heart of the treaty. he
said.
He drew attention TO the section of
the treaty which is magma charta OF
| labor" which shall dispose OF The
hours, conditions and remunera tons
OF labor. at forecasts the day." he
said, (which ought TO have come long
ago, when statesmen Will realize that
no nation is fortunate which is not
| happy, whose people are not content.
ed, coDtented in their lives and for.
tunate in the circumstances of their
lives"
IN conclusion, the President said he
felt certain the treaty will be accent
| ed. and was only impatient of the de.
! lay. 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